cli-wiring

cli-wiring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from github/gh-aw. It costs 0 tokens per session (491 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for connecting newly implemented commands to a command-line program, including argument handling and help text.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps add command routing, expose usage instructions, parse options, and verify that a command can actually be run.
Why use it?
A command can exist in the source code but remain unusable if the main command entry point does not route to it. The checklist catches that missing connection.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

GitHub Agentic Workflows is a GitHub CLI extension that lets developers define AI-assisted repository automation in Markdown and run it through GitHub Actions. It is intended for tasks requiring interpretation or reasoning, such as issue triage, pull-request review, CI investigation, documentation maintenance, and dependency analysis. The catalogue entries provide skills and agents for working with these workflows.

github/gh-aw · 5,091 stars · on GitHub

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/github/gh-aw/cli-wiring
Any agent
npx skills add github/gh-aw --skill cli-wiring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/gh-aw

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 491 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 $0.00000 $0.00491
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00246
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00049

Measured yesterday against content hash ac2a5034c5b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.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

  1. 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)
  2. 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;
    }
    
  3. 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]`);
    
  4. 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, cast (alias: 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, cast (née 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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 48 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A ac2a5034c5b9

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cli-wiring is a skill published in the GitHub repository github/gh-aw (5,091 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 491 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 2026-09-03.