cli-for-agents

cli-for-agents is a skill for Cursor from heyAyushh/stacc. It costs 77 tokens per session (815 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines for designing command-line tools (CLIs) that coding agents can run from a terminal without human assistance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing CLI commands, flags, help pages, pipelines, dry runs, repeatable operations, and automated terminal workflows.
Why use it?
It removes common obstacles such as required menus, unclear help text, slow discovery, and errors that do not explain how to recover.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when building or reviewing CLI commands, flags, help pages, pipelines, dry runs, repeatable operations, and automated terminal workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/heyayushh/stacc/cli-for-agents
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 heyAyushh/stacc --skill cli-for-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heyAyushh/stacc

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 815 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 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 5.1 $0.00077 $0.00815
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00326
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00081

Measured 1mo ago against content hash eacb34e9985b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cli-for-agents 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 1mo 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.

.cursor/skills/cli-for-agents/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLI for agents

Human-oriented CLIs often block agents: interactive prompts, huge upfront docs, and help text without copy-pasteable examples. Prefer patterns that work headlessly and compose in pipelines.

Non-interactive first

  • Every input should be expressible as a flag or flag value. Do not require arrow keys, menus, or timed prompts.
  • If flags are missing, then fall back to interactive mode—not the other way around.

Bad: mycli deploy → ? Which environment? (use arrow keys) Good: mycli deploy --env staging

Discoverability without dumping context

  • Agents discover subcommands incrementally: mycli, then mycli deploy --help. Do not print the entire manual on every run.
  • Let each subcommand own its documentation so unused commands stay out of context.
  • If the CLI needs extensive agent guidance, keep the default skill/help thin and point to versioned, CLI-served instructions. See references/agent-browser-runtime-skills.md.

--help that works

  • Every subcommand has --help.
  • Every --help includes Examples with real invocations. Examples do more than prose for pattern-matching.
Options:
  --env     Target environment (staging, production)
  --tag     Image tag (default: latest)
  --force   Skip confirmation

Examples:
  mycli deploy --env staging
  mycli deploy --env production --tag v1.2.3
  mycli deploy --env staging --force

stdin, flags, and pipelines

  • Accept stdin where it makes sense (e.g. cat config.json | mycli config import --stdin).
  • Avoid odd positional ordering and avoid falling back to interactive prompts for missing values.
  • Support chaining: mycli deploy --env staging --tag $(mycli build --output tag-only).

Fail fast with actionable errors

  • On missing required flags: exit immediately with a clear message and a correct example invocation, not a hang.
Error: No image tag specified.
  mycli deploy --env staging --tag <image-tag>
  Available tags: mycli build list --output tags

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 90 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A eacb34e9985b

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cli-for-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository heyAyushh/stacc (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 815 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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