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title: "Agent-Aware CLI Design Guidelines - Air Market"
description: "You're building a command-line tool, and these days it won't only be humans typing at it - coding agents will call it too. This is guidance on designing and building a CLI that works for both. Reach…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/agent-aware-cli"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Agent-Aware CLI Design Guidelines

Skill by [Google Cloud Platform](/@googlecloudplatform)

# Agent-Aware CLI Design Guidelines

Build a command-line tool that people and coding agents can both drive

## What this does

You're building a command-line tool, and these days it won't only be humans typing at it - coding agents will call it too. This is guidance on designing and building a CLI that works for both. Reach for it when you're starting a CLI or want to bring an existing one up to good practice.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Design a CLI that agents can actually use
- Apply command-line best practices to my tool
- Build a CLI in Go with Cobra and Viper

## Information

**Agent-Aware CLI Design Guidelines at a glance**

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| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Google Cloud Platform](/@googlecloudplatform) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 9 KB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-creative-studio](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-creative-studio/tree/ffa4b28d2bc87f0aaaece0165a25b868aef8071d/experiments/mcp-genmedia/skills/agent-aware-cli) |
| GitHub stars | 1,192 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Agent-Aware CLI Design Guidelines and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Agent-Aware CLI Design Guidelines's check was run against**

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| Commit | ffa4b28d2bc87f0aaaece0165a25b868aef8071d |
| Content hash | 7e5445707113109e74b8865ab05431580edf0d437d27495cdf037d04ec6257a3 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-creative-studio/blob/ffa4b28d2bc87f0aaaece0165a25b868aef8071d/experiments/mcp-genmedia/skills/agent-aware-cli/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Agent-Aware CLI Design Guidelines](/security/agent-aware-cli)

## About Agent-Aware CLI Design Guidelines

A guide to designing and implementing command-line interfaces that are equally usable by human developers and by automated coding agents, rather than built for one and awkward for the other.

It comes into play when you want to build a CLI, apply CLI best practices to something you already have, or work in Go with Cobra and Viper.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Agent-Aware CLI Design Guidelines safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Agent-Aware CLI Design Guidelines and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit ffa4b28d2bc8, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/agent-aware-cli.

### How do I install Agent-Aware CLI Design Guidelines?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/agent-aware-cli on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-creative-studio/tree/ffa4b28d2bc87f0aaaece0165a25b868aef8071d/experiments/mcp-genmedia/skills/agent-aware-cli. Install from that link, not the branch.

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- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by Google Cloud Platform](/@googlecloudplatform)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/agent-aware-cli>