cli-anything-hermes

A guide for building, improving, testing, or validating a command-line interface for a graphical application or source repository. It adapts the CLI-Anything method for Hermes Agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect a local project or GitHub repository and create a Python command-line harness with commands, backend code, and tests. It uses terminal work, code execution, and task delegation as needed.
Why use it?
It provides a defined process for exposing software functions through a tested terminal tool, even when the original software has a graphical interface.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,017 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 $0.00053 $0.01017
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00508
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00102

Measured yesterday against content hash 04579318cfae, 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-hermes 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/install.ps1, scripts/install.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

hermes-skill/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLI-Anything for Hermes Agent

Use this skill when the user wants Hermes Agent to act like the CLI-Anything builder.

Before implementation, use the full methodology source of truth when available:

  1. If this skill is being used from inside the CLI-Anything repository, read ../cli-anything-plugin/HARNESS.md first.
  2. If that local file is unavailable, clone or download cli-anything-plugin from https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything/tree/main/cli-anything-plugin, then use HARNESS.md and the resources around it from that folder.
  3. Only if both local and network retrieval fail, follow the condensed rules below.

Inputs

Accept either:

  • A local source path such as ./gimp or /path/to/software
  • A GitHub repository URL

Derive the software name from the local directory name after cloning if needed.

Hermes Tool Bindings

Hermes agents build harnesses by combining these built-in tools:

Tool Role in Harness Workflow
terminal Run shell commands, install packages, execute CLI tools, run tests
execute_code Generate and write Python files (Click CLI, backend modules, tests)
delegate_task Parallelize analysis or generation subtasks
read_file / write_file Read and write harness source files
patch Make targeted edits to generated code

Consult the Hermes Agent documentation for the exact tool invocation syntax.

Modes

Build

Use when the user wants a new harness.

Produce this structure:

<software>/
└── agent-harness/
    ├── <SOFTWARE>.md
    ├── setup.py
    └── cli_anything/
        └── <software>/
            ├── README.md
            ├── __init__.py
            ├── __main__.py
            ├── <software>_cli.py
            ├── core/
            ├── utils/
            └── tests/

Implement a stateful Click CLI with:

  • one-shot subcommands
  • REPL mode as the default when no subcommand is given
  • --json machine-readable output
  • session state with undo/redo where the target software supports it

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. yesterday First seen · 133 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 04579318cfae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cli-anything-hermes is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/CLI-Anything (48,669 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,017 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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