fire-best-practices

What problem does it solve?

It helps you avoid common usability and configuration pitfalls when turning Python code into command-line interfaces using Google’s Fire, so your CLI remains predictable and easy to operate.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Consistent entry-point naming: Ensures Fire invocation from main.py includes an explicit top-level name for clearer help output and a better user experience.
• Configurable function parameters: Encourages exposing important configuration as function parameters with sensible defaults, optionally pulled from environment variables.
• Use case: When creating a CLI wrapper for a project task (like running a maintenance job), you can expose flags as parameters with environment-backed defaults and a clean exposed command name.

Quick Start

Use this skill when writing a Fire-based main.py CLI so your commands have explicit names and your configurable options are exposed as function parameters with sensible defaults.