What is cli-claude-code?

A skill that sends coding, editing, review, and reasoning tasks to Anthropic’s Claude Code command-line tool, with support for passing results between different AI systems.

It is for deep reasoning, precise code changes, reviews, and structured handoffs between AI tools.

It lets one AI delegate suitable work to Claude Code instead of handling every task alone.

cli-claude-code — Skill for Claude Code by MichelKerkmeester

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MichelKerkmeester/skilled-agent-harness_spec-driven-loops

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/michelkerkmeester/skilled-agent-harness_spec-driven-loops/cli-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

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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.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 7,491 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

high Excessive Agency · line 215
Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.

Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
medium Excessive Agency · line 256
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
medium Excessive Agency · line 288
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00028	$0.07491
Opus 5.5	$0.00011	$0.02996
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00006	$0.01498
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00749

Measured 8d ago against content hash a9d86e31d179, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cli-claude-code scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

ancestry = subprocess.check_output(['ps', '-o', 'command=', '-p', str(os.getppid())]).decode()

.hermes/skills/cli-claude-code/SKILL.md · 381 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 381 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Canonical source: .skilled/skills/cli-external-orchestration/cli-claude-code/. This is a generated markdown-only copy so Hermes can load the skill without scanning the canonical directory. Read references/, assets/ and scripts/ from the canonical path above.

Claude Code CLI Orchestrator - Cross-AI Task Delegation

CRITICAL — SELF-INVOCATION PROHIBITED

This skill dispatches to the Anthropic CLI binary (claude). If the agent currently reading this skill is itself running inside Claude Code (detection signals listed in §2), the skill MUST refuse to load and return the documented error message instead of generating any claude invocation.

A running CLI skill never dispatches itself. The cli-X skills are for cross-AI delegation only — never self-invocation.

Orchestrate Anthropic's Claude Code CLI from external AI assistants (OpenCode, Copilot, etc.) for tasks that benefit from deep extended thinking, surgical code editing, structured output with JSON schema validation, agent delegation, or persistent memory context.

Core Principle: The calling AI stays the conductor. Delegate to Claude Code for what it does best — deep reasoning, precise code editing, and structured analysis. Validate and integrate the output.

1. WHEN TO USE

Activation Triggers

Deep Reasoning — extended-thinking architectural decisions, multi-dimensional trade-off analysis, step-by-step algorithm design, root-cause analysis of subtle bugs.
Code Editing — surgical diff-based edits, pattern-preserving refactors, and multi-file coordinated changes.
Structured Output — --json-schema-validated output, machine-readable analysis, guaranteed-structure data extraction, pipeline integration.
Code Review — second-AI security audits, extended-thinking architecture review, cross-AI validation, pre-merge quality gates.
Agent-Delegated Tasks — specialized .claude/agents/*.md matches, --permission-mode plan read-only exploration, @ai-council planning, session continuity (--continue, --resume).
Background Processing — long-running offloaded analysis, parallel generation/docs, batch processing with --max-budget-usd cost control.

Read the full file on GitHub · 381 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 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.

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Subscribe to this mod's changes

cli-claude-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository MichelKerkmeester/skilled-agent-harness_spec-driven-loops (38 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 7,491 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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