The plain-English version
Conventional streams used to receive input and produce program output.
Why it matters
They let small command-line tools compose through pipes and redirection. That contract matters for automation.
Let’s make it click
A converter reads records from standard input and emits machine-readable results to standard output.
Vibe Bro’s heads-up
Mixing progress chatter into a JSON output stream can make downstream parsing fail.
The docs behind it
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Editorial review · October 28, 2026
Supported: Node documents the separate stdin/stdout streams and piped I/O behavior. The instruction to keep data output composable is original CLI design guidance.