cli: Command for Claude Code

.claude/commands/add-command.md

add-command is a command for Claude Code from nylas/cli. It costs 28 tokens per session (804 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for adding parts to a Go command-line application or its connection to the Nylas email and calendar API.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding a CLI command, flag, API method, or domain type, then run the project's CI checks.
Why use it?
It provides project-specific steps and patterns so new commands, options, API methods, and data types fit the existing code structure.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

This is nylas/cli's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on cli itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything cli configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./bin/nylas {resource} --help.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nylas/cli. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nylas/cli/main/.claude/commands/add-command.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nylas/cli

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 804 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original 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 5.1 $0.00028 $0.00804
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00322
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00080

Measured 1mo ago against content hash feb5f79441e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-command scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 1mo ago.

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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/commands/add-command.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add CLI Component

Add commands, flags, API methods, or domain types following nylas CLI patterns.

API Reference: https://developer.nylas.com/docs/api/v3/


Scope

Task What to do
New command Full workflow below (domain → port → adapter → CLI → register)
New flag Add var + cmd.Flags().TypeVar() + test + doc update
New API method Steps 1-2 only (domain + adapter), skip CLI layer
New domain type Step 1 only, see references/domain-patterns.md

Quick Start

  1. Ask for: component type (command/flag/method/type), name, operations needed
  2. Follow patterns in references/ directory
  3. Run make ci to verify

Reference Files

File When to Read
references/domain-patterns.md Creating new domain types
references/adapter-patterns.md Implementing API methods
references/cli-patterns.md Building CLI commands

Read reference files ONLY when working on that specific layer.


Steps

1. Domain Layer (if new types needed)

  • Create internal/domain/{resource}.go
  • Add tests to internal/domain/domain_test_basic.go

2. Adapter Layer (if new API methods needed)

  • Update internal/ports/nylas.go with interface methods
  • Create internal/adapters/nylas/{resource}.go
  • Update internal/adapters/nylas/mock_{resource}.go

3. CLI Layer

  • Create internal/cli/{resource}/ directory
  • Add: {resource}.go, list.go, show.go, create.go, helpers.go
  • Add tests: {resource}_test.go

4. Registration

  • Update cmd/nylas/main.go to add the command

5. Verify

make ci

Common Patterns

  • Context: 30s timeout for API calls
  • Format flag: --format with table, json, yaml
  • Spinner: Use pterm spinner for long operations
  • Errors: Wrap with fmt.Errorf("context: %w", err)

For Full CRUD Commands

When creating a complete resource with list, show, create, update, delete:

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

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. 1mo ago First seen · 119 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A feb5f79441e7

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add-command is a command published in the GitHub repository nylas/cli (76 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 804 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.