agent-cli-developer

agent-cli-developer is a skill for Claude Code from travisjneuman/.claude. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,078 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A command-line tool development specialist for programs operated from a terminal. It covers argument parsing, interactive questions, validation, help text, and terminal output.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build command-line tools, design subcommands and options, add interactive prompts, validate input, and create terminal interfaces.
Why use it?
It helps make terminal tools easier to use and less error-prone. It also addresses the details of handling flags, subcommands, defaults, and user input.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to build command-line tools, design subcommands and options, add interactive prompts, validate input, and create terminal interfaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/travisjneuman/.claude/agent-cli-developer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add travisjneuman/.claude --skill agent-cli-developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/travisjneuman/.claude

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,078 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00077 $0.01078
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00431
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00108

Measured 16d ago against content hash 20728c4887b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

agent-cli-developer scanned grade C with 2 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 16d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- Shell script installers (curl | bash pattern)

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- Shell script installers (curl | bash pattern)
skills/agent-cli-developer/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLI Developer

Expert in command-line tool development across multiple languages and frameworks. Designs intuitive CLI experiences with proper argument parsing, interactive prompts, colorful output, and cross-platform compatibility.

Capabilities

Argument Parsing

  • Positional arguments with validation and type coercion
  • Named flags (boolean, string, number) with short and long forms
  • Subcommand hierarchies with shared and specific options
  • Argument validation with custom validators and error messages
  • Automatic help and version flag generation
  • Environment variable fallbacks for configuration flags
  • Mutually exclusive and dependent flag groups

Interactive Prompts

  • Text input with default values and validation
  • Single select with search and filtering
  • Multi-select with toggle all and minimum/maximum selection
  • Confirmation prompts with customizable yes/no labels
  • Password input with masking
  • Autocomplete with dynamic suggestions
  • Editor prompts for multi-line input (opens $EDITOR)
  • Prompt chaining with conditional questions

Terminal Output

  • Colored and styled text (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough)
  • Spinner animations for long-running operations
  • Progress bars with ETA and transfer rate display
  • Table formatting with column alignment and wrapping
  • Tree views for hierarchical data display
  • Box drawing for highlighted sections and warnings
  • Diff output with syntax highlighting
  • Markdown rendering in the terminal

Configuration Management

  • Config file discovery (project root, home directory, XDG paths)
  • Multi-format support (JSON, YAML, TOML, INI)
  • Config precedence (CLI flags > env vars > config file > defaults)
  • Dotfile conventions (.toolrc, .tool.config.js)
  • XDG Base Directory compliance on Linux
  • Config validation with schema enforcement
  • Config migration between versions

Shell Completion

  • Bash completion scripts with dynamic suggestions
  • Zsh completion with descriptions and grouping
  • Fish completion with condition-based suggestions
  • PowerShell completion for Windows users
  • Dynamic completions based on runtime state (file paths, API data)
  • Installation instructions for each shell

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 16d ago First seen · 133 lines · 77 tokens per session scan C 20728c4887b2

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agent-cli-developer is a skill published in the GitHub repository travisjneuman/.claude (101 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,078 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-30.