Best CLI AI tools
Command-line tools and terminal-first workflows that both developers and agents can script. The 15 highest-ranked of the 26 apps tagged CLI in the Onei AI catalogue.
Everything tagged CLI: apps, skills and MCP servers
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Anthropic
Anthropic's agentic coding tool — a terminal-native agent that reads your codebase, edits files, runs tests, and opens PRs.
Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent, Developers · Editor's pick
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Meta
Meta's terminal coding agent for long-horizon work in large repositories, running the Muse Spark 1.2 model with parallel subagents and a replayable event log.
Also: Coding Agent, Developers, Terminal · Editor's pick
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Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal — 500+ models at provider cost, task-specific modes, parallel agents in isolated git worktrees.
Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent, Open Source · Editor's pick
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Agentic AI Foundation
Open-source AI agent from the Agentic AI Foundation — a native desktop app, CLI and API that runs tasks locally with 70+ MCP extensions.
Also: Coding Agent, Developers, MCP · Editor's pick
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Abhishek Iyer
A local, keyboard-driven diff viewer built for the huge changes coding agents produce - and it remembers what you have already seen.
Also: Coding Agent, Local-First, Open Source · Editor's pick
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Mario Zechner
Minimal, MIT-licensed terminal coding agent that adapts to your workflow via TypeScript extensions.
Also: Coding Agent, Developers, Open Source · Editor's pick
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Publish Studio
A macOS script runner where you and your coding agent drive the same terminal processes — menu bar, CLI and a built-in MCP server over one local socket.
Also: Coding Agent, Local-First, Terminal
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Vercel Labs
Vercel Labs' tiny open-source coding agent: a ~6MB Zig binary that cold-starts in microseconds and embeds anywhere.
Also: Coding Agent, Developers, MCP
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Ad-supported coding agent suite — CLI, parallel desktop workspaces, cloud IDE and a prompt-to-deploy web builder, with no subscription or API key.
Also: Coding Agent · 1 bookmark
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Local-first converter that turns PDFs, Office files, scans and web pages into clean Markdown and JSON.
Also: Local-First
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AWS
Amazon Q Developer (formerly CodeWhisperer) is AWS's AI coding assistant; its IDE plugins end support in April 2027 in favour of Kiro.
Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent
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Continue
Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal; acquired by Cursor in 2026 and no longer maintained.
Also: Open Source
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Prompt One, Inc.
Open-source CLI framework that gives AI agents one command grammar across Salesforce, ServiceNow, DocuSign and Google Workspace, loading each schema only when asked.
Also: Developers, Open Source
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Human-curated marketplace for Claude agent skills, with free and paid SKILL.md packages reachable from the web, an MCP server, a CLI and a JSON API.
Also: Coding Agent, Developers, MCP
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Open-source local inference server that profiles your hardware, picks models that fit, and points your coding agent at them — free, private and offline.
Also: Coding Agent, Open Source
How this list is ranked
Ranked by editorial weight (0–100), plus 5 points per bookmark up to 10, plus or minus up to 20 for the average review rating; ties go to featured apps, then the most recently updated. Discontinued apps are never ranked.