cli-chat

cli-chat is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alrcatraz/astra-aigate. It costs 36 tokens per session (414 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cli-chat, MIT.

A command-line tool for sending prompts to AI services, streaming replies, and chatting in an interactive terminal session. It can use different OmniRoute providers and routing combinations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to send one-off prompts, pass input from a file or standard input, stream output, save streamed replies, or continue an interactive session.
Why use it?
It lets developers work with AI from scripts or a terminal without building a separate chat interface. Options control the model, instructions, response length, and whether conversation history is kept.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/alrcatraz/astra-aigate/cli-chat
Any agent
npx skills add alrcatraz/astra-aigate --skill cli-chat
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alrcatraz/astra-aigate

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 414 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00036 $0.00414
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00207
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00041

Measured 4d ago against content hash f10cc2b18169, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cli-chat 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to cli-chat — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/cli-chat/SKILL.md · 79 lines

What it actually says

Overview

Send chat completions, stream responses, and start an interactive REPL session from the CLI. Supports all OmniRoute providers, combo routing, and system prompt configuration.

Quick install

npm install -g omniroute   # or: npx omniroute
omniroute --version

Subcommands

chat [prompt]

Flags:

  • --file <path>
  • --stdin
  • -s, --system <prompt>
  • -m, --model <id>
  • --max-tokens <n>
  • --temperature <t>
  • --top-p <p>
  • --reasoning-effort <level>
  • --thinking-budget <tokens>
  • --combo <name>
  • --responses-api
  • --stream
  • --no-history

Example:

omniroute chat [prompt]

repl

Flags:

  • -m, --model <id>
  • --combo <name>
  • -s, --system <prompt>
  • --resume <session>

Example:

omniroute repl

stream [prompt]

Flags:

  • --file <path>
  • --stdin
  • -m, --model <id>
  • -s, --system <prompt>
  • --combo <name>
  • --max-tokens <n>
  • --responses-api
  • --raw
  • --debug
  • --save <path>

Example:

omniroute stream [prompt]
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. 4d ago First seen · 79 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A f10cc2b18169

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cli-chat is a skill published in the GitHub repository alrcatraz/astra-aigate (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 414 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to cli-chat, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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