Design, implement, and review CLI tools with compliance auditing.
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This Skill addresses the challenges of designing, implementing, and reviewing command-line interface (CLI) tools to ensure they are user-friendly, composable, and adhere to best practices.
cli_audit.py) to automatically check CLI adherence to conventions.Use the cli-craft skill to design a new CLI tool for managing user profiles.
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Best practices for designing a user-friendly command-line interface involve adhering to human-first UX, ensuring UNIX composability, and following conventions for discoverable help, argument parsing, and stdout/stderr separation. These guidelines make CLI tools intuitive and easy to integrate into automated workflows.
You ensure your CLI tool follows standard exit codes and output stream conventions by applying established design patterns for safe defaults and error handling, separating stdout from stderr, and running an automated audit script to check compliance with UNIX composability standards.
You audit an existing CLI for adherence to scripting and UX conventions by running the included `cli_audit.py` script, which automatically checks your command-line tool's compliance with help message formats, exit codes, and output stream behaviors.
Yes, you need Python3 installed in your environment to run the included automated audit script and utilize the templates provided for implementing and reviewing your command-line interface design.
UNIX composability is the principle of designing command-line tools to work together through standard input and output streams. It matters for CLIs because it enables seamless integration into automated workflows and scripting pipelines, ensuring robust and predictable execution.
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archibateAudit command-line interfaces for help, flag, and ANSI conventions.
selfagencyEnforce UNIX and POSIX CLI conventions for argument parsing, exit codes, and stdout/stderr separation.
ReidondReviews completed dev tasks for code quality issues and documentation gaps.