Have you ever wanted to turn your cool LLM prompts & tools, research notes, automation ideas, or even a simple “todo” list into an executable script? Inspired by a HackerNews post about executable Markdown, I’m happy to share gcli-mdrun, a smart little script that allows you to transform standard Markdown files into executable scripts powered by Gemini CLI.

This project allows you to create AI-driven automation, pipelines, and autonomous bots using mere Markdown text files. You can find the project on GitHub at https://github.com/glaforge/gcli-mdrun.

With Large Language Models loving to output Markdown responses, I’ve been wanting to display those Markdown snippets nicely in the console, when developing some LLM-powered apps and experiments. At first, I thought I could use a Markdown parser library, and implement some kind of output formatter to display the text nicely, taking advantage of ANSI color codes and formats. However it felt a bit over-engineered, so I thought “hey, why not just use some simple regular expressions!” (and now you’ll tell me I have a second problem with regexes)