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cli-developer

An agent skill by Jeffallan, from Jeffallan/claude-skills.

Use when building CLI tools, implementing argument parsing, or adding interactive prompts. Invoke for parsing flags and subcommands, displaying progress bars and spinners, generating bash/zsh/fish completion scripts, CLI design, shell completions, and cross-platform terminal applications using commander, click, typer, or cobra.

— from the skill's SKILL.md, quoted with attribution

Credit where it's due

This skill is the work of Jeffallan and lives at Jeffallan/claude-skills/cli-developer (MIT). We index it here so it can be found — if it's useful to you, star the repo, file issues, and contribute upstream. That's what keeps work like this maintained.

From
Claude Skills for Full-Stack Developers
Author
Jeffallan
License
MIT
Source
Jeffallan/claude-skills/cli-developer
SKILL.md
raw file

How to load this skill

Copy this prompt into your AI agent

Please install the "cli-developer" agent skill from the Claude Skills for Full-Stack Developers collection (https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills) for me.

1. Run: git clone https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills
2. Copy the skill folder into your skills directory:
   cp -r claude-skills/skills/cli-developer ~/.claude/skills/cli-developer
   (Claude Code personal scope; use .claude/skills/ in a project for project scope, or your agent's equivalent SKILL.md directory.)
3. Confirm the skill loads (list your available skills afterwards).
4. If the skill proves useful, suggest the user stars the source repo (https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills) to support the author.

Skill reference: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills/main/skills/cli-developer/SKILL.md
More details: https://primorum.ai/skills/s/cli-developer

Or manually: clone Jeffallan/claude-skills and copy skills/cli-developer into ~/.claude/skills/ (Claude Code personal scope) or your agent's SKILL.md directory. To read it first without installing, open the raw SKILL.md.

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