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 knowledge-researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-AnythingWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hkuds/cli-anything/knowledge-research)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hkuds/cli-anything/knowledge-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hkuds/cli-anything/knowledge-research/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hkuds/cli-anything/knowledge-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hkuds/cli-anything/knowledge-research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00054 | $0.03079 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00022 | $0.01232 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00616 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00308 |
Grade A, and why
cli-hub-matrix-knowledge-research 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Knowledge / Office / Research Matrix (S2 — v2 capability-based)
Scenario S2. Strongest coverage in the current ecosystem: search, reference management, notes, synthesis, documents, and diagrams all have first-party harnesses; Python/native fallbacks fill the rest.
Schema: docs/cli-matrix/matrix_registry.schema.md. Matrix plan: docs/cli-matrix/cli-matrix-plan.md.
Install
cli-hub matrix install knowledge-research
cli-hub matrix info knowledge-research
cli-hub matrix preflight knowledge-research --json
Provider selection constraints
- Use preflight as an availability report, not as a provider selector.
- Treat provider order as documentation order only.
- Choose from user requirements, output quality bar, offline needs, credential state, install cost, and provider notes.
- Escalate to paid or metered APIs only when credentials are already present or the user explicitly consents.
Offline context? Filter to offline: true providers.
Preflight
Run cli-hub matrix preflight knowledge-research --json first. Use the manual block below for extra probes or older cli-hub versions.
cli-hub list --json
python - <<'PY'
import importlib.util
for m in ("pyzotero","bibtexparser","trafilatura","readability","httpx","playwright",
"python_docx","openpyxl","pptx","reportlab","pypdf","pdfplumber","weasyprint",
"langchain","llama_index","haystack"):
print(m, importlib.util.find_spec(m) is not None)
PY
for b in pandoc qpdf pdftk exiftool latexmk tex dot mermaid plantuml hugo mkdocs jekyll; do
command -v "$b" >/dev/null && echo "$b: yes" || echo "$b: no"
done
for e in OPENAI_API_KEY ANTHROPIC_API_KEY GOOGLE_API_KEY PERPLEXITY_API_KEY TAVILY_API_KEY \
SERPAPI_API_KEY BRAVE_API_KEY FIRECRAWL_API_KEY \
NOTION_API_KEY SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY WORDPRESS_TOKEN GHOST_ADMIN_KEY; do
[ -n "${!e}" ] && echo "$e: set" || echo "$e: unset"
done
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 242 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 52e005e3170f
cli-hub-matrix-knowledge-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/CLI-Anything (53,078 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 3,079 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.
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