Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to irahardianto/rugged-gemini. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/irahardianto/rugged-gemini/main/.gemini/skills/cli-development/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/irahardianto/rugged-geminiWrote 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/irahardianto/rugged-gemini/cli-development)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/irahardianto/rugged-gemini/cli-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/irahardianto/rugged-gemini/cli-development/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/irahardianto/rugged-gemini/cli-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/irahardianto/rugged-gemini/cli-development.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00025 | $0.00719 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00288 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00144 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00072 |
Grade A, and why
cli-development 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.
This is a copy
89% identical to cli-development — 6 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLI Development Principles
Guidelines for building fast, intuitive, cross-platform CLI tools.
When to Invoke
- Designing CLI tool architecture
- Implementing command hierarchies and argument parsing
- Adding shell completions and interactive features
- Cross-platform distribution planning
Architecture
Command Hierarchy
app <command> [subcommand] [flags] [args]
app task create --priority high "Deploy fix"
app task list --status active --format json
Design Principles
- Startup time < 100ms — lazy-load expensive dependencies.
- Sensible defaults — zero-config for common cases.
- Progressive disclosure — simple interface, advanced flags for power users.
- Machine-readable output —
--format jsonfor scripting. - Exit codes — 0 = success, 1 = error, 2 = usage error.
Argument Parsing Libraries
| Language | Library | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Go | cobra + pflag |
Most popular, auto-completions |
| Rust | clap (derive) |
Type-safe, auto-help |
| Python | click or typer |
Decorator-based, typer for type hints |
| Node.js | commander or yargs |
Mature, well-documented |
Error Handling
-
Helpful error messages — what went wrong, why, how to fix:
Error: config file not found at ~/.myapp/config.yaml Hint: run 'myapp init' to create a default config -
--verbose/--debugflags for diagnostic output. -
Never show stack traces by default — only with
--debug.
Shell Completions
Generate completions for bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell. Most CLI frameworks support this.
# Generate completions
myapp completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/myapp
myapp completion zsh > ~/.zsh/completions/_myapp
Cross-Platform
- Path handling — use
filepath.Join(Go),Path(Python), not string concat. - Line endings — handle
\r\non Windows. - Color support — detect terminal capabilities, respect
NO_COLORenv var. - Unicode — test with non-ASCII filenames and input.
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 · 90 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A fdab9b66500f
cli-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository irahardianto/rugged-gemini (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 719 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to cli-development, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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