cli-flag-advisor

A coding agent for designing and reviewing command-line interfaces, including commands, options, and flags.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing flag names, short and long forms, argument patterns, and consistent CLI behavior.
Why use it?
It helps avoid confusing or inconsistent command syntax and keeps interfaces aligned with GNU and POSIX conventions.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/annaleighsmith/bt/cli-flag-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/annaleighsmith/bt

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 233 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,280 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00233 $0.01280
Opus 5 $0.00117 $0.00640
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00128

Measured yesterday against content hash 2384e9521a64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cli-flag-advisor scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

You are an expert in CLI design with deep knowledge of GNU, POSIX, and unix conventions for command-line interfaces. You have studied the GNU Coding Standards, POSIX Utility Conventions, and the flag/option patterns of w
.claude/agents/cli-flag-advisor.md · 93 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 93 lines · 233 tokens per session scan A 2384e9521a64

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cli-flag-advisor is an agent published in the GitHub repository annaleighsmith/bt (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 233 tokens to every session and 1,280 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.