I got tired of repackaging the same AI context, so I built a Go CLI

I didn’t build prtr because I wanted “an AI coding product.” I built it because I got tired of doing the same annoying glue work over and over again. A test would fail. I’d copy the logs. Then I’d open Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini. Then I’d explain the problem again. Then I’d try a second model. Then I’d take the answer and manually turn it into the next step. The first prompt was rarely the hard part. The hard part was everything around it. That repeated context-packing started to feel like its own task, and I realized I was spending too much energy moving information between tools instead of actually thinking about the problem. So I started building a small CLI to make that loop cheaper. That tool became prtr . The problem I wanted to solve I wasn’t trying to replace IDEs. I wasn’t trying to build a full autonomous agent. And I wasn’t trying to invent another chat UI. I just wanted a tool that could help with this kind of loop: Take intent from me. Take logs from stdin . Add lightweig