A command-line guide and setup for managing local development projects and their running services. It covers project workspaces, environment settings, logs, DNS and TLS, and agent integrations.

Use it to initialize projects, start or stop services, restart them, view logs, inspect environments, open shells, manage workspaces, and check setup health.

It provides one prescribed interface for starting, stopping, inspecting, and configuring local services instead of using disconnected commands.

hack-cli — Skill by hack-dance

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/hack-dance/hack/hack-cli

Any agent

npx skills add hack-dance/hack --skill hack-cli

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hack-dance/hack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,590 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00066	$0.03590
Opus 5	$0.00033	$0.01795
Sonnet 5	$0.00013	$0.00718
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00359

Measured yesterday against content hash f0ee995ea615, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hack-cli 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.

.codex/skills/hack-cli/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hack CLI

Use hack as the primary interface for local-first development.

Integration freshness

These instructions were generated by hack CLI v3.5.0; treat cached rules from another version as potentially stale.
At session start, audit project and global integrations with hack setup sync --all-scopes --check.
If anything is stale, missing, or deprecated, run hack setup sync --all-scopes, then reload the agent session so cached instructions are replaced.
Never copy or hand-edit generated Hack rules to refresh them; update the CLI and run the sync command.
Content revision: 1319d93c89c3 (version alone is not a freshness guarantee).

Product boundary

Supported v3 surface: project init, up/down/restart, open, logs, env, host exec/shell, sessions, doctor, and daemon.
Removed surfaces: hosted auth/account/org/team flows, web dashboard, built-in GitHub workflows, and built-in Linear sync.
Experimental and unsupported: remote/gateway/node/dispatch commands. They are hidden from default help (list with hack help --all) and warn on use; do not use them unless explicitly requested.

Operating rules

Prefer hack over raw docker / docker compose for project workflows.
Do not start/stop services from Docker Desktop UI for hack-managed projects.
Treat .hack/.internal and .hack/.branch as hack-managed artifacts; do not hand-edit generated files there.
Use --json for machine-readable output when available; hack up/down/restart/doctor --json emit an {ok, data | error: {code, message}} envelope with stable E_* error codes.
Scripted/agent runs: pass --no-interactive (or set HACK_NO_INTERACTIVE=1) so commands never block on prompts — they apply documented defaults or fail fast with E_INTERACTIVE_REQUIRED.
Use MCP only when shell access is unavailable.
If runtime state looks wrong, run hack doctor, then hack doctor --fix before manual repair.

Core objects

Project: a repo with .hack/ config + compose file.
Service: a compose service (e.g. api, web, worker).
Instance: a running project; branch instances are separate copies started with --branch.

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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.

yesterday First seen · 213 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A f0ee995ea615

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hack-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository hack-dance/hack (8 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 3,590 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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