A checklist for connecting new commands to a command-line program's entry point, the code that receives and routes user commands.

Adding command files, importing and invoking them from the main CLI entry file, parsing options, and updating command help.

It prevents a common bug where a command is implemented but users cannot run it because routing or help text was omitted.

cli-wiring — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by DanWahlin

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.

Any agent

npx skills add DanWahlin/ai-agent-board --skill cli-wiring

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DanWahlin/ai-agent-board

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 481 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 91% 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00481
Opus 5	$0.00000	$0.00241
Sonnet 5	$0.00000	$0.00096
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00048

Measured 9d ago against content hash 931fdb23ad9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cli-wiring 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 9d 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

91% identical to cli-wiring — 4 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.

.squad/templates/skills/cli-wiring/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Skill: CLI Command Wiring

Bug class: Commands implemented in packages/squad-cli/src/cli/commands/ but never routed in cli-entry.ts.

Checklist — Adding a New CLI Command

Create command file in packages/squad-cli/src/cli/commands/<name>.ts
- Export a run<Name>(cwd, options) async function (or class with static methods for utility modules)

Add routing block in packages/squad-cli/src/cli-entry.ts inside main():

if (cmd === '<name>') {
  const { run<Name> } = await import('./cli/commands/<name>.js');
  // parse args, call function
  await run<Name>(process.cwd(), options);
  return;
}

Add help text in the help section of cli-entry.ts (search for Commands:):

console.log(`  ${BOLD}<name>${RESET}     <description>`);
console.log(`             Usage: <name> [flags]`);

Verify both exist — the recurring bug is doing step 1 but missing steps 2-3.

Wiring Patterns by Command Type

Type	Example	How to wire
Standard command	`export.ts`, `build.ts`	`run*()` function, parse flags from `args`
Placeholder command	`loop`, `hire`	Inline in cli-entry.ts, prints pending message
Utility/check module	`rc-tunnel.ts`, `copilot-bridge.ts`	Wire as diagnostic check (e.g., `isDevtunnelAvailable()`)
Subcommand of another	`init-remote.ts`	Already used inside parent + standalone alias

Common Import Pattern

import { BOLD, RESET, DIM, RED, GREEN, YELLOW } from './cli/core/output.js';

Use dynamic await import() for command modules to keep startup fast (lazy loading).

History

#237 / PR #244: 4 commands wired (rc, copilot-bridge, init-remote, rc-tunnel). aspire, link, loop, hire were already present.

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.

9d ago First seen · 48 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 931fdb23ad9c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cli-wiring is a skill published in the GitHub repository DanWahlin/ai-agent-board (57 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 481 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to cli-wiring, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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