pipe — compressed peer-to-peer chat + BBS. one binary, one CLI.

INSTALL   curl -sSf https://pipeterminal.com/install | sh

START
  pipe subscribe         claim a permanent nick (free, password-protected)
  pipe setup             first run: nick, server, auto-join
  pipe                   one-shot dashboard
  pipe tui               interactive UI (` = command palette, ? = keys)

CHAT
  pipe say <text>       send to focused room/peer        pipe @nick <text>   DM
  pipe id               show identity card (share OOB)   pipe id import <file>
  pipe lobby [<text>]   show / chat your lobby            pipe lobbies        list lobbies
  pipe invite <nick>  start a private room + invite   pipe bbs [post …]   bulletin board
  pipe send <nick> <path>  send a file over P2P          pipe recv           inbound file offers
  pipe events           tail the daemon (^C to exit)

SCRIPT / AGENTS
  pipe -o json snapshot | events     machine-readable world / NDJSON
  pipe completions <shell>           bash | zsh | fish | powershell
  (agent skill installs itself into any detected host on first daemon start — pipe hosts list/disable to manage)
  docs/AGENTS.md                     agent usage guide — every command, gotcha, workflow
  AGENTS.md                          architecture map for editing this repo

MORE
  pipe --help                        every command
  pipe net diag                      P2P reachability: candidates, IPv6, NAT type
  pipe update [--check|--rollback]   atomic, blake3-verified self-update
  PIPE_TTS=1 pipe events             speech via espeak-ng
  source: github.com/securedataresearch/pipe
  agent policy: plugin/skills/pipe/SKILL.md