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
Corrects your previous console command. Type "fuck" after a typo and it fixes it. Pure magic.
Simplified, community-driven man pages. Practical examples instead of walls of text.
Minimal, blazing-fast, infinitely customizable prompt. Works with any shell.
Magical shell history — sync, search, and analyze across machines
Write glamorous shell scripts — spinners, inputs, confirms, file pickers
Jump around — tracks your most used directories and lets you cd with fuzzy matching
A cd command that learns — navigate directories from the command line instantly
Interactive cheatsheet tool. Browse cheatsheets and execute commands.
Create and view interactive cheatsheets for commands from the command line
Very fast tldr client written in Rust — simplified man pages
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 →