AnyCLI

One CLI to authenticate them all.

AnyCLI wraps authenticated cloud service CLIs/APIs (GitHub, Cloudflare, AWS, GCP, etc.) into agent-friendly interfaces with automatic credential injection and middleware hooks.

Why?

LLMs are trained on billions of CLI examples. They already know git, curl, jq, docker, and thousands of other tools. MCP forces agents to learn new schemas from scratch, consuming 10-32x more tokens and costing 17x more per operation — with lower reliability.

CLI is the natural interface between agents and the world. Read the full rationale.

Principles

• --help is the schema — Agents read help text, not protocol definitions
• Structured output — --json by default for machine-readable results
• No interaction — All input via flags; agents can't type into prompts
• Composable — Pipes and stdin/stdout; every tool is a building block
• Predictable — Clear exit codes and error messages

Getting Started

curl -fsSL https://anycli.dev/install.sh | sh
any install gh
any auth gh --token ghp_xxx
gh pr list

Commands

any install <tool>       Install a CLI wrapper (downloads binary + creates shim)
any install <tool> --conflict-policy link   Wrap existing binary without downloading
any uninstall <tool>     Remove a wrapper
any list                 List available and installed wrappers
any exec <tool> [args]   Run a tool through the middleware pipeline
any auth <tool>          Configure authentication
any update               Update any to the latest version

License

Apache License 2.0