cli-anything

cli-anything is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HKUDS/CLI-Anything. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,701 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for building a command-line interface around a graphical application or source-code repository. It adapts the CLI-Anything approach for Reasonix while keeping the generated Python interface format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build, refine, test, or validate a Python command-line harness from a local software folder or GitHub repository.
Why use it?
It gives Reasonix a defined process for turning software that normally requires a graphical interface into commands an agent can run and test.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

▶ CLI-Anything Just Brought Claude Code Into The Future Chase AI · about cli-anything · on YouTube →
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/reasonix-skill
Any agent
npx skills add HKUDS/CLI-Anything --skill reasonix-skill
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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hkuds/cli-anything/reasonix-skill.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hkuds/cli-anything/reasonix-skill)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hkuds/cli-anything/reasonix-skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hkuds/cli-anything/reasonix-skill.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,701 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 $0.00052 $0.01701
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00851
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00170

Measured 4d ago against content hash 206ef23e98ca, 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 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.

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.

reasonix-skill/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLI-Anything for Reasonix

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

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

  1. If the current workspace is the CLI-Anything repository, read cli-anything-plugin/HARNESS.md.
  2. If Reasonix is running from this adapter directory, also check ../cli-anything-plugin/HARNESS.md.
  3. If neither local file is available, 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.
  4. Only if local and network retrieval both 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.

Reasonix Tool Bindings

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

Reasonix Tool Role in Harness Workflow
bash Run shell commands, install packages, execute CLI tools, run tests, clone repos
write_file Generate Python files (Click CLI, backend modules, tests, setup.py)
edit_file Make targeted edits to generated code (single replacement)
multi_edit Apply multiple atomic edits to a single file in one pass
read_file Read target software source files, existing harness code, test results
grep Search for patterns across the target software codebase (APIs, CLI tools, data models)
glob Find files matching patterns in the source tree (*.py, *.xml, *.json, etc.)
ls List directory contents to understand project structure
mcp__codegraph__search / mcp__codegraph__context Optional code graph analysis when CodeGraph is enabled (Reasonix strips the codegraph_ raw prefix, so the model-visible names omit it)
web_fetch Fetch documentation, API references, or remote files from the web

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 4d ago First seen · 165 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 206ef23e98ca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cli-anything is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/CLI-Anything (48,809 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,701 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes.

obra/superpowers · 21 tokens

brainstorming

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

obra/superpowers · 37 tokens

auto-perf-optimize

Run agent-driven VS Code performance or memory investigations. Use when asked to launch Code OSS, automate a VS Code scenario, run the Chat memory smoke runner, capture renderer heap snapshots, take workflow screenshots, compare run summaries, or drive a repeatable scenario before heap-snapshot analysis.

microsoft/vscode · 62 tokens

chat-perf

Run chat perf benchmarks and memory leak checks against the local dev build or any published VS Code version. Use when investigating chat rendering regressions, validating perf-sensitive changes to chat UI, or checking for memory leaks in the chat response pipeline.

microsoft/vscode · 51 tokens

chat-pet-sprite-creation

Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions under src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/media/chatPet.

microsoft/vscode · 53 tokens

cpu-profile-analysis

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating…

microsoft/vscode · 71 tokens