cli-anything-iterm2

cli-anything-iterm2 is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HKUDS/CLI-Anything. It costs 195 tokens per session (1,278 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cli-anything-iterm2-ctl, Apache-2.0.

A command-line interface for controlling iTerm2, the macOS terminal application, through its Python API. It can work with windows, tabs, split panes, terminal sessions, tmux, layouts, dialogs, and preferences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to send text to iTerm2, read current output and scrollback, manage terminal layouts, run tmux workflows, broadcast to panes, and inspect or change settings.
Why use it?
It lets a coding agent inspect and control live terminal sessions instead of only running isolated shell commands.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hkuds/cli-anything/cli-anything-iterm2
Any agent
npx skills add HKUDS/CLI-Anything --skill cli-anything-iterm2
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 1,278 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00195 $0.01278
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.00639
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00128

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7b7f74ff61cf, 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-iterm2 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to cli-anything-iterm2-ctl — 2 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/cli-anything-iterm2/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

cli-anything-iterm2

Stateful CLI harness for iTerm2. Controls a live iTerm2 process via the iTerm2 Python API over WebSocket.

Prerequisites

  1. macOS + iTerm2 running: brew install --cask iterm2
  2. Python API enabled: iTerm2 → Preferences → General → Magic → Enable Python API
  3. Install: pip install cli-anything-iterm2 (or pip install -e . from source)

Basic Syntax

cli-anything-iterm2 [--json] <group> <command> [OPTIONS] [ARGS]

Always use --json for machine-readable output (required for agent use).

Command Groups

Group Purpose
app App status, workspace snapshot, context management, app-level variables, modal dialogs, file panels
window Create, list, close, resize, fullscreen windows
tab Create, list, close, activate tabs; navigate split panes by direction
session Send text, inject raw bytes, read screen, full scrollback, split panes, prompt detection
profile List profiles, get profile details, list/apply color presets
arrangement Save and restore window layouts
tmux Full tmux -CC integration: bootstrap, connections, windows, commands
broadcast Sync keystrokes across panes via broadcast domains
menu Invoke any iTerm2 menu item programmatically
pref Read/write global iTerm2 preferences; list all valid keys; tmux settings

Orienting in an Existing Workspace

Use app snapshot when you land in a session with existing panes and need to understand what's running without reading full screen contents for each pane:

cli-anything-iterm2 --json app snapshot

Returns name, current directory, foreground process, user.role label, and last visible output line for every session across all windows.

Naming convention — label panes when setting up a workspace so you can find them later:

cli-anything-iterm2 session set-var user.role "api-server"
cli-anything-iterm2 session set-var user.role "log-tail"
cli-anything-iterm2 session set-var user.role "editor"

app snapshot will surface these roles alongside process and path, giving you a full picture in one call.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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 · 101 lines · 195 tokens per session scan A 7b7f74ff61cf

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cli-anything-iterm2 is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/CLI-Anything (48,809 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 195 tokens to every session and 1,278 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to cli-anything-iterm2-ctl, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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