add-command

A development guide for adding commands to todoist-cli, a command-line program for working with Todoist. It describes the supporting changes needed in API mocks, status messages, and permissions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding an SDK endpoint, creating a new CLI command, extending a command group, or deciding whether an API method should be treated as read-only.
Why use it?
It helps prevent a new command from being incomplete, incorrectly displayed, or accidentally blocked or allowed under read-only authentication.

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/doist/todoist-cli/add-command
Any agent
npx skills add Doist/todoist-cli --skill add-command
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Doist/todoist-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,707 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00037 $0.02707
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01354
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00541
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00271

Measured 2d ago against content hash 39f7465788c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/add-command/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adding a New CLI Command or Subcommand

Follow this checklist when adding new commands. Each step references the exact file to modify.

1. Mock API (src/__tests__/helpers/mock-api.ts)

Add a mock for each new SDK method in createMockApi(). Place it in the correct entity group.

  • List/read methods: .mockResolvedValue({ results: [], nextCursor: null }) or appropriate empty default
  • Mutation methods: vi.fn() (no default return needed)

2. Spinner Messages (src/lib/api/core.ts)

Add an entry to API_SPINNER_MESSAGES for each new SDK method.

Color convention:

  • blue — read/fetch operations
  • green — create/join operations
  • yellow — update/delete/archive mutations

3. Read-Only Permissions (src/lib/permissions.ts)

If the new command uses a read-only SDK method (e.g., getXxx, listXxx), add it to the KNOWN_SAFE_API_METHODS set. This set uses a default-deny approach: any method not listed is treated as mutating and will be blocked when the CLI is authenticated with a read-only OAuth token (td auth login --read-only).

  • Read-only methods (fetch/list/view): add to KNOWN_SAFE_API_METHODS
  • Mutating methods (add/update/delete/archive/move): do NOT add — they are blocked by default, which is the correct behavior

4. Agent-Friendly Design Checklist

Every new command should satisfy these properties. They ensure the CLI works well for both humans and AI agents. See 7 Principles for Agent-Friendly CLIs for background.

  1. Non-interactive by default — All input via flags, positional args, or --stdin. Never use readline, prompt(), or block waiting for TTY input. When a required argument is missing, call cmd.help() and return — don't prompt.

  2. Structured, parseable output — Data commands must support --json (and --ndjson for lists). Results go to stdout, diagnostics to stderr. Spinners auto-suppress when !process.stdout.isTTY (see src/lib/spinner.ts). Exit code 0 on success, non-zero on failure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 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. 2d ago First seen · 212 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 39f7465788c4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

add-command is a skill published in the GitHub repository Doist/todoist-cli (300 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,707 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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.

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