pinch-cli

<div align="center"> <h1>pinch</h1> <p><strong>Build tools for AI agents. No experience required.</strong></p>

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Pinch lets you create tools that AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can use. Describe what you want, AI writes the code, and Pinch handles everything else — testing, deploying, hosting.

You don't need to be a developer. If you can describe what a tool should do in plain English, you can build one.

Anything you'd want an AI to do for you:

• Generate invoices, reports, or documents
• Look up data from APIs (weather, stocks, etc.)
• Manage tasks, notes, or projects
• Create party invitations
• Process and analyze data
• ...anything you can describe

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You need Node.js installed on your computer. If you don't have it:

1. Go to nodejs.org
2. Download the LTS version (the big green button)
3. Run the installer
4. Open your terminal (Terminal on Mac, Command Prompt on Windows)
5. Type node --version and press Enter — you should see a version number

Open your terminal and run:

npx pinch-cli init my-first-tool

> What's happening? npx downloads and runs Pinch. init means "create a new project." my-first-tool is the name.

You'll be asked a few questions:

1. Description — What does your tool do? (e.g., "Generates greeting messages")
2. Category — Pick one from the list
3. Template — Start with Hello World for your first time

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