# vrksh > Unix tools for AI pipelines. One static Go binary. ## Tools - vrk assert - pipeline condition check - jq conditions, --contains, --matches - vrk bare - symlink creator - use vrksh tools without the vrk prefix - vrk base - encoding converter - base64, base64url, hex, base32 - vrk chunk - token-aware text splitter - JSONL chunks within a token budget - vrk coax - retry wrapper - --times, --backoff, --on, --until - vrk completions - shell completion script generator - bash, zsh, fish - vrk digest - universal hasher - sha256/md5/sha512, --hmac, --compare - vrk emit - structured logger - wraps stdin lines as JSONL log records - vrk epoch - timestamp converter - unix/ISO, relative time - vrk grab - URL fetcher - clean markdown, plain text, or raw HTML. - vrk jsonl - JSON array to JSONL converter - --collect, --json - vrk jwt - JWT inspector - decode, --claim, --expired, --valid. - vrk kv - key-value store - SQLite-backed, namespaces, TTL, atomic counters. - vrk links - hyperlink extractor - markdown, HTML, bare URLs to JSONL - vrk mask - secret redactor - entropy + pattern-based, streaming - vrk moniker - memorable name generator - run IDs, job labels, temp dirs - vrk pct - percent encoder/decoder - RFC 3986, --encode, --decode, --form - vrk plain - markdown stripper - removes syntax, keeps prose - vrk prompt - LLM prompt - Anthropic/OpenAI, --schema, --retry, --explain. - vrk recase - naming convention converter - snake, camel, kebab, pascal, title - vrk sip - stream sampler - --first, --count, --every, --sample - vrk slug - URL/filename slug generator - --separator, --max, --json - vrk sse - SSE stream parser - text/event-stream to JSONL - vrk throttle - rate limiter for pipes - --rate N/s or N/m - vrk tok - Count tokens. Gate pipelines before they fail. - vrk urlinfo - URL parser - scheme, host, port, path, query, --field - vrk uuid - UUID generator - v4/v7, --count, --json - vrk validate - JSONL schema validator - --schema, --strict, --fix, --json ## Full reference For complete flag documentation, exit codes, and compose patterns: https://vrk.sh/skills.md