Use Cases

  • CLI documentation — build docs for a command-line tool showing real invocations with actual output
  • Installation guides — beautifully show how to install an R or Python package, a Homebrew formula, or any tool
  • Shell tutorials — teach bash/zsh concepts (pipes, redirection, loops) where seeing the prompt and typed commands is the point
  • TUI tutorials — create interactive walkthroughs for fullscreen apps like htop, vim, or lazygit
  • DevOps runbooks — show a realistic sequence of kubectl, docker, or terraform commands with state persisting across steps
  • Database workflow demos — connect to SQLite/DuckDB/psql, create tables, insert data, query it in one persistent session
  • Dotfiles & environment setup guides — show the full flow of configuring a development environment
  • Security/CTF writeups — step through an exploit or analysis with colored tool output (nmap, gobuster, etc.)
  • Data pipeline walkthroughs — show curl, jq, csvkit, duckdb chains where each step builds on the previous
  • Git workflow tutorials — demonstrate branching, merging, rebasing with actual repo state carrying across cells
  • Comparing tools side-by-side — show the same task in different shells with appropriate colorschemes and chrome styles
  • Technical books and courses — anywhere you’d show “type this, see that” sequences with faithful terminal rendering
  • API exploration guides — curl a REST API, pipe through jq, use the result in the next request