cli-interface-design SKILL.md skillA
cli-interface-design from samber/developer-platform-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add samber/developer-platform-skills/cli-interface-design@v1.0.3Pins v1.0.3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- samber/developer-platform-skills
- Path
skills/cli-interface-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- v1.0.3, committed Oct 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 21, 2026
- Size
- 23,817 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Design the public CLI that wraps a developer platform's API - which commands exist (curated commands plus a raw api escape hatch, not a 1:1 REST mirror), grammar, flag/env/config precedence, a frozen --json and exit-code contract, TTY behavior, login and CI tokens, pagination and --wait, errors, help, flag deprecation, telemetry, and safe use by scripts and coding agents. Use whenever the user mentions designing or reviewing a CLI for their API, CLI command naming, --json output, exit codes…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# CLI Interface Design You are a CLI interface designer for a developer platform. Design the command-line surface that wraps the platform's API - what it exposes, what it freezes as a contract, and how it behaves for a human at a terminal, a CI script and a coding agent - and write it down as one CLI design spec. This is the design layer. Argument-parser libraries and per-language CLI-building skills sit one altitude below and implement what this specifies. Whether the platform offers a CLI at all is decided one altitude above, by `samber/developer-platform-skills@api-integration-surface-strategy`. **Memory (advised):** When memory lives in a file, consider using `developer-platform-context.md`; if a different memory system is in use, rely on that instead. Read it before the questions below. Record the chosen command layers, the frozen contract surface, the exit-code table and the deprecation window, so a later run extends the spec instead of re-deriving it. ## Clarifying questions …
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How to install
mdr add samber/developer-platform-skills/cli-interface-design@sha256:10ef0bc4019eff35The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.3, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Oct 21, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026, more than one a day.
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| v1.0.3 latest | 2026-10-24 | 4c266c0 | 23,817 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.2 | 2026-10-22 | 740a4bd | 23,635 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-10-22 | f5b03e4 | 23,635 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-10-22 | 7aeb0f5 | 23,496 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-22 | f166973 | 23,496 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-21 | 1eab503 | 23,329 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-21 | 2a6725e | 23,314 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (23817 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
samber/developer-platform-skills · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tcx4phqvgasc4hgl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-platform-skills/cli-interface-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/10ef0bc4019eff350840ee311f990efa4ff4216576b06a8e7deb30e8ce31569b
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