Show HN: AI-clean – strip unwanted formatting from text copied out of AI CLIs
AI-clean is a tool designed to remove unwanted formatting from text copied from various AI command line interfaces. It operates locally without any telemetry, ensuring that no data leaves the user's machine. The tool is easy to use, requiring only one command and no configuration.
- ▪AI-clean is a Pure Go tool that cleans output from AI CLIs.
- ▪It removes borders, padding, and hard-wrapped lines from the copied text.
- ▪The tool runs locally and does not send any data to external servers.
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| Original publisher | ai-clean |
| Canonical URL | https://ai-clean.dev |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:32:23 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-04-28T13:39:31.944Z |
| Last seen | 2026-04-28T13:39:31.944Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | DAApApG6xH86 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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v1 · Pure Go · No telemetry Clean the chrome out of your AI CLI output. Paste output from Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Cursor, or Gemini CLI — borders, padding, and hard-wrapped lines disappear. One command. Zero config. Runs locally — nothing leaves your machine. Install the CLI Star on GitHub Try it live ↓ No install needed for the demo 100% client-side WASM MIT licensed
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