cli-anything-generator

cli-anything-generator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HKUDS/CLI-Anything. It costs 104 tokens per session (816 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Cursor skill for creating command-line interfaces around graphical applications. Cursor is a code editor with AI features, and the skill provides commands for building, improving, testing, checking, and listing these interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a local application or repository to run the CLI-Anything build workflow, expand its coverage, test it, validate it, or list available harnesses.
Why use it?
It organizes the work into repeatable commands, so you do not have to design the build and validation process from scratch.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/hkuds/cli-anything/cli-anything-generator
Any agent
npx skills add HKUDS/CLI-Anything --skill cli-anything-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for cli-anything-generator

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 816 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 $0.00104 $0.00816
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00408
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00082

Measured 4d ago against content hash f32e8c22451c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cli-anything-generator 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 4d 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-plugin/skills/cli-anything-generator/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLI-Anything Generator (Cursor Plugin Skill)

This skill is packaged inside the Cursor plugin as a supporting entry point. The primary generator UX is the plugin slash commands.

Prefer Slash Commands

Goal Command
Full 7-phase build /cli-anything <path-or-repo>
Expand coverage /cli-anything-refine <path> [focus]
Run tests /cli-anything-test <path>
Validate checklist /cli-anything-validate <path>
List tools /cli-anything-list

If the user speaks naturally ("build a CLI for ./gimp"), run the same workflow as the matching command.

Consumer Path (Separate)

This skill is not the Hub consumer. For finding/installing published CLIs:

npx skills add HKUDS/CLI-Anything --skill cli-hub-meta-skill -g -y

Per-app skills live under the repo skills/ tree and install via npx skills add.

PLUGIN_ROOT and Methodology

  1. Resolve PLUGIN_ROOT via discovery pointer then stamp:
    • ~/.cursor/cli-anything-generator.root / %USERPROFILE%\.cursor\cli-anything-generator.root
    • {install}/PLUGIN_ROOT.txt
    • default ~/.cursor/plugins/local/cli-anything if references/HARNESS.md exists there
  2. Read {PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/HARNESS.md with an absolute path.
  3. Read the matching file under {PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/commands/.
  4. Use guides under {PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/guides/ on demand.
  5. Helper scripts: {PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/repl_skin.py, preview_bundle.py, skill_generator.py, templates/.

Path remapping (from HARNESS / plugin docs)

Document reference Installed plugin path
guides/... references/guides/...
cli-anything-plugin/repl_skin.py scripts/repl_skin.py
cli-anything-plugin/preview_bundle.py scripts/preview_bundle.py
cli-anything-plugin/skill_generator.py scripts/skill_generator.py
templates/SKILL.md.template scripts/templates/SKILL.md.template
docs/PREVIEW_PROTOCOL.md references/docs/PREVIEW_PROTOCOL.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 85 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A f32e8c22451c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cli-anything-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/CLI-Anything (48,809 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 816 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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