The CLI directory for the agent era
Find the best CLI
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
Download videos from YouTube and 1000+ sites. Feature-rich fork of youtube-dl
Complete solution for recording, converting, and streaming audio and video
Generate terminal GIFs with a simple scripting language
Create, edit, compose, or convert digital images from the command line
Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger — organize your music collection
Extract streams from websites and pipe them to a video player
Swiss Army knife of sound processing — convert, apply effects, record audio
Spotify in the terminal. Search, play, queue — power CLI using web cookies for auth.
Grep the GIF. Search and filter GIF files from the command line.
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 →