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Ask HN: What are your favorite CLIs to use as LLM tools?

A developer is building agentic coding skills and asks the Hacker News community which command-line interfaces (CLIs) they find most useful as tools for LLM agents, citing the Jira CLI and GitLab CLI as examples.

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| |||||||||||| 1 point by | I've recently been getting into building out skills for agentic coding. The two main ones I have built out are using the jira CLI[0] and the gitlab CLI[1]. Both work well for what I want to use them for (interacting with issues and with MRs). What have been the CLIs that you have found to be the most useful to use with agents? Have you found any that an agent has been able to compose in interesting ways? [0] https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/jira-cli [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli | ||||||||||| |

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