The Pipelex Cookbook

The Pipelex Cookbook holds Pipelex's example methods. Each one is a package that runs by its address on the hosted Pipelex API, github.com/Pipelex/pipelex-cookbook/<method>@<release>, so there is nothing to clone and nothing to install before you try it. Each method's page gives its address at the cookbook's latest release.

Every method has its own page in the cookbook, and every page shows the same ways to use it: in your chatbot through the Pipelex MCP, in your coding agent through the Pipelex plugin, in your code through the TypeScript or Python SDK or over HTTP, as a web app made from the method-app template, and how to make it yours by copying it, changing it and saving it to your account. The list of methods on the cookbook's front page links to each page, and the page for Gantt chart extraction is a good one to start with. From your terminal, pipelex run method <address> --hosted runs any of them on the hosted Pipelex API once pipelex login has saved your key (see Running on the Hosted API).

The cookbook also has recipes, each of which takes one way of using a method further on a real case, such as a FastAPI endpoint, a Next.js server action or a web app you deploy. Its tutorial teaches you to write methods in MTHDS by hand and to run them on your own machine.

The methods Pipelex publishes as reusable building blocks, such as invoice extraction and table extraction, live in the method library instead, and they run by their address in the same way.

This documentation explains each part of Pipelex once, as a reference, and the cookbook shows each of them working on a real method. If you have not used Pipelex yet, the Quick Start sets up the Pipelex plugin and the Pipelex MCP that the cookbook's pages rely on.