Cookbooks

mere.run guide is the offline cookbook reader built into the CLI. It prints Markdown by default and can emit JSON for agents or tools.

mere.run guide --list
mere.run guide image generate
mere.run guide music generate --model music-acestep
mere.run guide video generate --json

The cookbooks are packaged with the CLI binary, so installed copies can read them without internet access. They are meant for practical use: what the command does, which model to install, which flags matter, prompting patterns, examples, iteration tips, troubleshooting, and source links.

Available Topics

Creative and runtime workflows:

• image generate
• image validate
• text chat
• text code
• text embed
• text anonymize
• speech synthesize
• speech transcribe
• speech profile
• vision caption
• vision inspect
• vision ground
• vision segment
• vision track
• vision track-live
• vision ocr
• music generate
• video generate
• video export-latents
• api serve
• status

Operational workflows:

• model list
• model capabilities
• model info
• model pull
• model remove
• model repair-manifests
• setup
• agent onboard
• agent install-pi
• agent start

Model-Focused Guides

Some topics support model focus. The CLI validates that the requested model is covered by the guide before printing:

mere.run guide image generate --model image-zimage-nano
mere.run guide text chat --model text-chat-gemma4
mere.run guide speech transcribe --model speech-asr-parakeet

If the model does not belong to the topic, the command prints a validation error with the supported model ids.

Agent Usage

Agents should keep their own prompt context small:

1. Run mere.run guide --list to find the topic.
2. Run mere.run guide <command path> before coaching a creative or advanced workflow.
3. Use --json when the agent needs a structured payload with topic metadata and Markdown content.

The guide command is the canonical source for per-command usage advice; skills should route to it instead of duplicating cookbook content.