CLI-Anything turns software and services into command-line interfaces that AI agents can use to perform tasks and produce artifacts. It is intended for people building or using agent workflows with tools such as coding assistants, design software, and other applications. The catalogue entries are skills, commands, a plugin, and a rule for working with CLI-Anything.
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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-AnythingWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/hkuds/cli-anything/cli-anything-generator)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/hkuds/cli-anything/cli-anything-generator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/hkuds/cli-anything/cli-anything-generator/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/hkuds/cli-anything/cli-anything-generator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/hkuds/cli-anything/cli-anything-generator.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.00360 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00144 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00072 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00036 |
Grade A, and why
cli-anything-generator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
CLI-Anything Generator Rule
When building, refining, testing, validating, or listing CLI-Anything harnesses — or when /cli-anything* is used — apply these rules:
- Resolve
PLUGIN_ROOTbefore reading methodology:- Read
%USERPROFILE%\.cursor\cli-anything-generator.rootor~/.cursor/cli-anything-generator.root - Else
{plugins}/local/cli-anything/PLUGIN_ROOT.txt(default plugins dir or$CURSOR_PLUGINS_HOME) - Use absolute paths only; never workspace-relative
./HARNESS.md
- Read
- Read
{PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/HARNESS.mdand the matchingreferences/commands/*.md. - Prefer slash commands
/cli-anything,/cli-anything-refine,/cli-anything-test,/cli-anything-validate,/cli-anything-list. - Persist progress at
{software-root}/agent-harness/.cli-anything-progress.json. Createagent-harness/when tracking starts. Do not advance a phase until the previous iscompleted. Resume non-terminal runs. - Keep generated harness format identical to Claude Code / Codex outputs.
- Consumer Hub/skills (
cli-hub-meta-skill,skills/cli-anything-*) are separate from this generator.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 27 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 768fe3bb6bd7
cli-anything-generator is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/CLI-Anything (53,078 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 360 tokens. 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.
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