cli-anything SKILL.md skillA
cli-anything from coco-research/coco is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add coco-research/coco/cli-anything@git:20260804.63068d7Pins git:20260804.63068d7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- coco-research/coco
- Path
skills/cli-anything/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260804.63068d7, committed Aug 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 11, 2026
- Size
- 3,462 bytes
- Repository stars
- 796
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Wrap any command-line tool into a JSON-emitting agent skill. Use when you want to make a CLI reliably callable and parseable by an AI agent — introspect its --help, define a structured-output (--json) contract and a stable error contract, then generate a SKILL.md wrapper with verified examples. Triggers on "wrap this CLI", "make X agent-usable", "generate a skill for this command", "turn a tool into an agent skill".
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
<!-- Methodology adapted from HKUDS/CLI-Anything (https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything) — Apache-2.0. --> # cli-anything: wrap any CLI into an agent skill Turn any command-line tool into something an AI agent can call reliably and parse. The output is a thin, well-documented wrapper contract — never a reimplementation of the tool. Use the real tool; document how to drive it. ## When to use You have a CLI (your own, or a third-party binary) and you want an agent to invoke it predictably, read structured results, and recover from errors. This skill produces a `SKILL.md` wrapper that encodes that contract. ## Step 1 — Introspect the CLI (do not guess) Enumerate the real surface before writing anything: - Run `<tool> --help` and `<tool> <subcommand> --help` for each subcommand. - Capture: subcommands, flags (required vs optional), positional args, exit codes, and the output format (human text vs structured). - If `--help` is thin, read the source or man page. Every claim in the wrapper must trace to observed behavior. ## Step 2 — Define the output contract …
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How to install
mdr add coco-research/coco/cli-anything@sha256:49b64ea733d7ede6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260804.63068d7, 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 4 versions of this file, between Jun 11, 2026 and Aug 4, 2026, about one every 18 days.
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| git:20260804.63068d7 latest | 2026-08-04 | 63068d7 | 3,462 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.1479e32 | 2026-08-02 | 1479e32 | 3,464 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.2d9c432 | 2026-07-18 | 2d9c432 | 3,451 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.b0a47dd | 2026-06-11 | b0a47dd | 3,443 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3462 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
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- 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
coco-research/coco · 796 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vtm52yrwc6cro6r3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coco-research/coco/cli-anything GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/49b64ea733d7ede6f3302201c7f3fae5b2f31374e754e684ec802d86fc70a47d
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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