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cli-design

Use this skill when building command-line interfaces, designing CLI argument parsers, writing help text, adding interactive prompts, managing config files, or distributing CLI tools. Triggers on argument parsing, subcommands, flags, positional arguments, stdin/stdout piping, shell completions, interactive menus, dotfile configuration, and packaging CLIs as npm/pip/cargo/go binaries.

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Updated 4/2/2026
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quick start

Installation and usage

Use this skill when building command-line interfaces, designing CLI argument parsers, writing help text, adding interactive prompts, managing config files, or distributing CLI tools. Triggers on argument parsing, subcommands, flags, positional arguments, stdin/stdout piping, shell completions, interactive menus, dotfile configuration, and packaging CLIs as npm/pip/cargo/go binaries.

Installation
$ install --globalskills.sh
Usage

Once installed, you can use this skill by running the following command in your terminal:

skills use cli-design