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Liner is an open-source toolkit for building curated AI context bundles called mixtapes.

A mixtape is a folder with a recipe, a curator synthesis, extracted sources, optional working notes, and a compiled MIXTAPE.md file. It gives an AI system job-specific source context that can move between tools.

What Liner Is For

Use Liner when source choice changes the quality of the AI’s work. It fits focused jobs like reviewing a native iOS flow, comparing API migration patterns, preparing a hiring rubric, or grounding a strategy review in a specific body of evidence.

Liner helps you:

• frame the job-to-be-done
• gather and evaluate source material
• write a synthesis the AI should inherit
• fetch source content into local Markdown files
• package the folder for reuse or sharing

The Core Workflow

1. Create a project folder with liner init or the terminal UI.
2. Add sources to tape.yaml.
3. Write the curator synthesis in synthesis.md.
4. Compile the mixtape.
5. Give MIXTAPE.md and sources/ to your AI tool.

$npx linersh

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Key Ideas

Tape: the small YAML recipe. It lists metadata and source entries.

Mixtape: the full project folder. It contains the tape, synthesis, extracted sources, working notes, and compiled output.

Synthesis: the curator’s distilled framing. This is copied into the top of MIXTAPE.md.

Sources: web pages, YouTube transcripts, or local files that Liner fetches and stores as Markdown.

Next

Start with Install, then walk through Build a Mixtape.