Quickstart

1. Generate one continuation

basemode "Once upon a time there was a" -m gpt-4o-mini -M 200

basemode prints your prefix dimmed, then streams continuation tokens.

2. Generate parallel branches

basemode "Once upon a time there was a" -n 3

This opens a live panel and streams all branches concurrently.

3. Inspect strategy behavior

basemode "Once upon a time" --show-strategy
basemode strategies
basemode info claude-sonnet-4-6

4. Save your default model

basemode default claude-sonnet-4-6
basemode default

You can now omit --model.

5. Pipe text from stdin

cat chapter1.txt | basemode --model groq/llama-3.3-70b-versatile

See CLI Reference for all commands and options.