The CLI directory for the agent era
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for any service
CLIs are the interface layer AI agents use to interact with the world. We index them so you can find the right one.
216 CLIs · 2 agent-ready · Why CLIs matter →
Or skip the search — let your agent find CLIs · curl clis.dev/api/clis
Command-line JSON processor. Slice, filter, map, transform. The awk for JSON.
Terminal JSON viewer and processor — interactive and scriptable
Portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML, and properties processor
Make JSON greppable — transforms JSON into discrete assignments to grep through
Like awk, sed, cut, join for name-indexed data like CSV, TSV, JSON
Terminal spreadsheet. Explore CSV, JSON, SQLite, and more data sources.
Select, put, delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML, CSV with one tool
Suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV files
Why CLIs?
The interface layer for AI agents
AI agents don't click buttons — they run commands. A single CLI call uses ~200 tokens. The equivalent MCP server dumps 55,000 tokens into your context window. That's a 275x difference →