cli-patterns

SKILL.md

Patterns for building CLI tools that AI assistants and power users can chain, parse, and rely on.

Build CLIs for agentic workflows - AI assistants and power users who chain commands, parse output programmatically, and expect predictable behavior.

| Self-documenting | --help is comprehensive and always current | LLMs discover capabilities without external docs | | Predictable | Same patterns across all commands | Learn once, use everywhere | | Composable | Unix philosophy - do one thing well | Tools chain together naturally |

Patterns for building production-quality CLI tools with predictable behavior, parseable output, and agentic workflows. Triggers: cli tool, command line tool, build cli, cli patterns, agentic cli, cli design, typer cli, click cli. Source: 0xdarkmatter/claude-mods.

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