agent-ready-cli-audit

agent-ready-cli-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paraskakis/skills. It costs 121 tokens per session (3,225 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for auditing whether an existing command-line tool is easy for coding agents to use. A CLI is a program controlled by typed commands in a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess how well a CLI supports discovery, login, inspection, planning, actions, verification, and recovery.
Why use it?
It replaces guesses with evidence from documentation, source files, help output, and safe read-only tests, then identifies the most important gaps.

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/paraskakis/skills/agent-ready-cli-audit
Any agent
npx skills add paraskakis/skills --skill agent-ready-cli-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paraskakis/skills

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.

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README.md
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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,225 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00121 $0.03225
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01613
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00645
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00323

Measured 4d ago against content hash e0ed2d82cefe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-ready-cli-audit 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 4d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

3. **Find the install path**: identify the documented one-line install (brew, npm/npx, pipx/uvx, curl script, releases page) and whether it would work in a clean environment.
cli/agent-ready-cli-audit/SKILL.md · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent-Ready CLI Audit

Overview

Use this skill to evaluate an existing CLI against the Agent-Ready CLI Checklist.

Audit mode is evidence-first. Inspect docs/code and run the CLI where possible. Do not replace missing evidence with imagined best practices.

The audit asks:

Would a coding agent get stuck trying to discover, authenticate, inspect, plan, act, verify, and recover?

Included References

  • references/agent-ready-cli-checklist-v2.md — canonical checklist and scoring rubric. Use it as the source of truth for scoring.

Scope and Routing

Triggering is defined in the frontmatter description. In scope: evidence-based review of an existing CLI, repo, or docs. Out of scope: greenfield command design (use agent-ready-cli-spec) and implementation (use agent-ready-cli-build).

Inputs

Input Required Notes
Target CLI Yes Installed command name, repo path, npm/PyPI/Homebrew package name, or docs URL — any one is enough.
Focus workflows No Specific workflows the user cares about most.
Safe environment No Whether mutating commands may be exercised. Default: no — read-only commands only.
Credentials No Env var names for auth'd commands. Never ask the user to paste secrets into the conversation; ask for names of env vars already set in the shell.

The target can arrive as a command name, a path on disk, a package name, a docs URL, or a GitHub repo. Never go looking on disk and report what you found there.

Gather inputs once, then run unattended. If the target CLI is named in the request, skip questions entirely — proceed straight to Step 0 with the table's defaults for everything else.

Only if the target is missing, ask once, like a person. Do not announce that a directory is empty, do not cite these instructions:

Which CLI should I look at? A command name, a repo path, a package name, or a docs URL — whatever you've got.

Also: is it safe to run commands that change things, or should I stick to read-only? (Read-only is my default.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 254 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A e0ed2d82cefe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-ready-cli-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository paraskakis/skills (41 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 3,225 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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