CLI-Anything

Turn any software into a CLI your agent can drive

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Agent-native CLIs for any app, by HKUDS

Agents are good at shells and bad at GUIs. CLI-Anything closes that gap: it generates a CLI harness for an application so a coding agent can operate it through commands with structured JSON output, then preview and iterate on the result. Browse and install community CLIs with pip install cli-anything-hub, then cli-hub install <name>. About 53.5k GitHub stars as of October 2026, Apache-2.0, with an arXiv tech report.

Features

Generates CLI harnesses for desktop and pro apps
JSON plus human-readable output for agents
CLI-Hub registry to browse and install community CLIs
Demos across 18 apps, from CAD to subtitles
Works with Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, nanobot, Pi
Apache-2.0, Python 3.10+

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