alt Hacker NewsI'm all in on agent-first CLIs. The CLIs I've been building have still been easier to use for me as a human than the average CLI tool. It isn't like CLIs tools have famously simple or consistent arguments from tool to tool anyway.
I find it so much more successful to have an agent interact with a CLI than an API or MCP. I can just ask: query my dev DB for an ideal URL to test a new page. It'll find the right users, resources, etc and create an excellent test URL to quickly validate the behavior of my changes. I can have it get the latest spec from Confluence, or find the latest PR build for a workitem.
If you have an API, you should really look at providing a CLI for it too.
Plugging my tools/examples:
- https://github.com/pseudosavant/confluence-fetch