CLI-Anything turns software and services into command-line interfaces that AI agents can use to perform tasks and produce artifacts. It is intended for people building or using agent workflows with tools such as coding assistants, design software, and other applications. The catalogue entries are skills, commands, a plugin, and a rule for working with CLI-Anything.
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.
npx skills add HKUDS/CLI-Anything --skill cli-anything-chromadbgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-AnythingWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 5.1 | $0.00047 | $0.00696 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00348 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00139 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00070 |
Grade A, and why
cli-anything-chromadb 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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
cli-anything-chromadb
A stateless command-line interface for ChromaDB vector database, built on the HTTP API v2. Designed for AI agents and power users who need to manage collections, documents, and run semantic queries without a browser UI.
Installation
This CLI is installed as part of the cli-anything-chromadb package:
pip install cli-anything-chromadb
Prerequisites:
- Python 3.10+
- ChromaDB server running at localhost:8000 (or specify via --host)
Usage
Basic Commands
# Show help
cli-anything-chromadb --help
# Start interactive REPL mode
cli-anything-chromadb
# Check server health
cli-anything-chromadb --json server heartbeat
# List all collections
cli-anything-chromadb --json collection list
# Semantic search
cli-anything-chromadb --json query search --collection hub_knowledge --text "How to deploy"
REPL Mode
When invoked without a subcommand, the CLI enters an interactive REPL session:
cli-anything-chromadb
# Enter commands interactively with tab-completion and history
Command Groups
server
Server health and version commands.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
heartbeat |
Check ChromaDB server health |
version |
Get ChromaDB server version |
collection
Manage ChromaDB collections.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
list |
List all collections |
create --name NAME |
Create a new collection |
delete --name NAME |
Delete a collection |
info NAME |
Get collection info |
document
Manage documents in collections.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
add --collection C --id ID --document TEXT |
Add document(s) |
get --collection C |
Get documents |
delete --collection C --id ID |
Delete document(s) |
count --collection C |
Count documents |
query
Semantic search against collections.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
search --collection C --text T |
Semantic search |
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 117 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 98eb0bca8a23
cli-anything-chromadb is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/CLI-Anything (49,039 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 696 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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