appendix-ai-cli

appendix-ai-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-extension. It costs 428 tokens per session (3,560 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of appendix-ai-cli, MIT.

A guide to AI agents that work in the command line, the text-based terminal used to run development commands. These agents can understand natural-language requests, inspect codebases, and carry out multi-step coding work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for refactoring, generating tests, updating documentation, implementing described features, and comparing tools such as Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Aider, and GitHub Copilot CLI.
Why use it?
It helps you choose a terminal-based coding assistant for tasks that span many files and need direct, reviewable access to code and commands.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-extension/appendix-ai-cli
Any agent
npx skills add hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-extension --skill appendix-ai-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-extension

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00428 $0.03560
Opus 5 $0.00214 $0.01780
Sonnet 5 $0.00086 $0.00712
Haiku 4.5 $0.00043 $0.00356

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0a30184cd661, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

appendix-ai-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 3d ago.

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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 appendix-ai-cli — 3 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/appendix-ai-cli/SKILL.md · 340 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 340 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Appendix E - AI Agents on the CLI

Overview

AI CLI Agents represent a new class of tools that transform the developer's terminal from a command executor into an intelligent, collaborative workspace. These agents understand natural language, maintain context about entire codebases, and perform complex multi-step development tasks autonomously — from architectural refactoring to test generation to documentation.

The command-line interface is an ideal environment for AI agents: text-based, sandboxed, and structured. Unlike GUI agents that must interpret visual layouts, CLI agents work directly with code, files, and system commands, enabling precise and auditable automation.

Core Principle: Choose the CLI agent based on your workflow: Claude Code for architectural work, Gemini CLI for multimodal and cloud tasks, Aider for git-centric TDD, GitHub Copilot CLI for GitHub-integrated workflows.

When This Skill Applies

Activate this pattern when:

  • Performing large-scale refactoring across many files
  • Generating comprehensive test suites for existing code
  • Generating or updating technical documentation
  • Implementing features described in natural language
  • Integrating with CI/CD pipelines for automated code review
  • Comparing AI CLI tools for a team's development workflow
  • Setting up CLAUDE.md / GEMINI.md project memory files

CLI Agent Comparison

Agent Provider Core Strength Best For
Claude Code Anthropic Deep codebase understanding, architectural reasoning Large-scale refactoring, multi-file changes, architectural tasks
Gemini CLI Google Open-source, multimodal, large context window, Google Cloud integration Multimodal tasks, Google Cloud workflows, broad accessibility
Aider Open Source Git-centric, auto-commit, TDD workflow, model-agnostic Test-driven development, precise bug fixes, auditable changes
GitHub Copilot CLI GitHub/Microsoft Deep GitHub ecosystem integration, issue→PR workflow GitHub-integrated teams, automated issue resolution

Read the full file on GitHub · 340 lines

Changes

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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. 3d ago First seen · 340 lines · 428 tokens per session scan A 0a30184cd661

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appendix-ai-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-extension (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 428 tokens to every session and 3,560 once invoked, about $0.0021 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to appendix-ai-cli, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.