clis.dev

CLIs are the action layer for AI agents. They let agents inspect systems, make changes, and verify the result.

clis.dev · API · Why CLIs? · Submit a CLI

Why

Agents do not need more dashboards. They need tools.

CLIs are compact, scriptable, composable, and already sit in front of real systems: GitHub, Kubernetes, cloud providers, databases, CMSs, CI, media pipelines, and business software.

clis.dev is a directory of those tools, organized so humans and agents can actually find them.

Stack

Plain PHP + SQLite.

No framework. No build step. Hard cutover deploys.

Run locally

php/scripts/apply-runtime.php
cd php
php -S localhost:4322 index.php

Runtime DB:

data/clis.sqlite

The repo does not ship a database snapshot. php/scripts/apply-runtime.php creates the local schema, baseline categories, and a small maintained set of canonical entries.

Optional env:

export CLIS_ANALYTICS_SALT='random-secret'
export GITHUB_TOKEN='<token>'

API

curl https://clis.dev/api/clis
curl "https://clis.dev/api/search?q=github%20cli"
curl "https://clis.dev/api/clis?official=1"
curl https://clis.dev/llms.txt
curl https://clis.dev/llms-full.txt

Submit a CLI

Submit missing tools here:

https://github.com/victorcheeney/clis/issues/new?template=submit-cli.yml

Reviewed manually.

Contributing

Issues for missing CLIs. PRs for code/data/docs.

Security

See SECURITY.md.

License

MIT