cli-anything

cli-anything is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (3,068 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for CLI-Anything, a project that creates command-line controls for graphical applications with accessible source code. A command-line interface lets an agent control software through typed commands instead of clicking its screens.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to follow the seven-phase generation process, create Click-based command tools with JSON output and interactive modes, and produce pytest test suites.
Why use it?
It describes a repeatable way to make GUI applications controllable by coding agents and testable in automated workflows.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions OpenCode.

Part of the cc-skills plugin — 183 skills, 1 hook, 2 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it to follow the seven-phase generation process, create Click-based command tools…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/cli-anything
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.

Any agent
npx skills add terrylica/cc-skills --skill cli-anything
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 183 skills, 1 hook, 2 plugins.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin cli-anything/plugin install cli-anything after adding the marketplace above.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,068 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00033 $0.03068
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01534
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00614
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00307

Measured 7d ago against content hash a3dca906a16b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 7d 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.

plugins/cli-anything/skills/cli-anything/SKILL.md · 348 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 348 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLI-Anything Reference

Auto-generates production-ready, agent-controllable CLI interfaces for any GUI application with accessible source code. A 7-phase pipeline maps GUI actions to backend APIs and emits Click-based harnesses with --json output mode, interactive REPL, and pytest test suites.

Source: https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything License: MIT | Python: 3.10+ | Tests: 1,508 passing across 11 apps


Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

Installation

Method 1: Claude Code Marketplace (recommended)

/plugin marketplace add HKUDS/CLI-Anything
/plugin install cli-anything

Method 2: Manual Claude Code

git clone https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything.git
cp -r CLI-Anything/cli-anything-plugin ~/.claude/plugins/cli-anything
# Reload in Claude Code:
/reload-plugins

Method 3: OpenCode — global

git clone https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything.git
cp CLI-Anything/opencode-commands/*.md ~/.config/opencode/commands/
cp CLI-Anything/cli-anything-plugin/HARNESS.md ~/.config/opencode/commands/

Method 4: OpenCode — project-level

cp CLI-Anything/opencode-commands/*.md .opencode/commands/
cp CLI-Anything/cli-anything-plugin/HARNESS.md .opencode/commands/

Generating a New CLI Harness

# From local source path
/cli-anything ./gimp

# From GitHub URL (auto-cloned)
/cli-anything https://github.com/blender/blender

# Claude Code variant (plugin command)
/cli-anything ./inkscape

# OpenCode variant
/cli-anything ./libreoffice

All Commands

Command Platform Purpose
/cli-anything <path-or-url> Claude Code Build full 7-phase harness
/cli-anything:refine <path> [focus] Claude Code Expand with gap analysis
/cli-anything:test <path-or-url> Claude Code Run tests + update TEST.md
/cli-anything:validate <path-or-url> Claude Code Verify HARNESS.md standards
/cli-anything:list [--path dir] [--depth n] [--json] Claude Code Discover installed CLI-Anything tools
/cli-anything ./gimp OpenCode Build harness
/cli-anything-refine ./gimp OpenCode Refine harness
/cli-anything-test ./gimp OpenCode Run tests
/cli-anything-validate ./gimp OpenCode Validate standards
/cli-anything-list OpenCode List installed tools

Read the full file on GitHub · 348 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 348 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A a3dca906a16b

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cli-anything is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (62 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 3,068 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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