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cli-for-agent
Design and review guidance for building CLIs meant to be driven by coding agents — non-interactive flags, layered --help, stdin/pipelines, fast errors, idempotency, --dry-run.
What it actually does
- A single skill encoding patterns for CLIs meant to be driven by coding agents: non-interactive flags first, layered
--helpwith examples, stdin and pipelines, fast actionable errors, idempotency,--dry-run, and predictable command structure.
When to use it — and when not to
Use it when
- Building or refactoring a CLI, writing subcommand help, or reviewing whether an existing tool will block agents — interactive prompts, missing examples, ambiguous errors.
Not for
- The CLI you're building isn't meant to be driven by an agent — this is specifically about agent-friendliness, not general CLI UX.
Agent compatibility
- Cursor
Confirmed means the skill’s own source or vendor states it works with that agent. Portable means it only reaches that agent through the shared SKILL.md format and a directory convention — real, but a weaker claim. An agent with no entry here isn’t known to be unsupported; it simply isn’t documented either way, so nothing is claimed. Full model on Agent Skills Compatibility.
More from cursor/plugins
Other skills from the same source.
- cursor-sdkIntegration guidance for building on the Cursor TypeScript SDK (@cursor/sdk) — invocation patterns, runtime choice, auth, streaming, MCP, and error handling.
- orchestrateFans a large task out across parallel Cursor cloud agents via the Cursor SDK — planners publish tasks, workers hand off, a script reconciles the tree from disk and git.
- continual-learningAutomatically and incrementally keeps AGENTS.md up to date, mining new session transcripts on a cadence and updating matching bullets in place rather than rewriting the file.
- agent-compatibilityScores how well a repo holds up under agent workflows — startup, validation, and docs reliability — by pairing a published CLI scan with three focused review agents.
- create-pluginMeta-workflow for scaffolding a marketplace-ready Cursor plugin — manifest, skills, rules, agents, and commands together — plus a pre-submission quality check.
Evidence and provenance
Maintained by Cursor (official). Primary source: cursor/plugins, last checked against this page’s claims on . This page summarizes and analyzes that source — it isn’t a copy of its SKILL.md or README, and installation happens at the source, not here.
Topic: Development.