{"slug": "ask-hn-how-do-you-design-clis-for-agents", "title": "Ask HN: How do you design CLIs for agents?", "summary": "A Hacker News user asked how developers design command-line interfaces for AI agents, seeking practical design choices that matter when building tools for agent use.", "body_md": "Hacker News\nnew\n|\npast\n|\ncomments\n|\nask\n|\nshow\n|\njobs\n|\nsubmit\nlogin\nAsk HN: How do you design CLIs for agents?\n2 points\nby\nvokneruk\n28 minutes ago\n|\nhide\n|\npast\n|\nfavorite\n|\ndiscuss\nFor people building tools that AI agents use through the command line: what design choices ended up mattering in practice?\nhelp\nGuidelines\n|\nFAQ\n|\nLists\n|\nAPI\n|\nSecurity\n|\nLegal\n|\nApply to YC\n|\nContact\nSearch:", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-design-clis-for-agents", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535762", "published_at": "2026-06-15 02:11:27+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-15 02:42:17.590033+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-design-clis-for-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-design-clis-for-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-design-clis-for-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-do-you-design-clis-for-agents.jsonld"}}