CLI Chat

CLI Chat is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by diegosouzapw in OmniRoute.

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Install CLI Chat

Copy CLI Chat into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/tree/release/v3.8.50/skills/cli-chat ~/.claude/skills/cli-chat

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/cli-chat/SKILL.md in diegosouzapw/OmniRoute
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/cli-chat
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What CLI Chat does

CLI Chat sends chat completions, streams responses, and starts an interactive REPL session from the command line. Use it to work with OmniRoute providers, combo routing, and system prompt configuration.

CLI Chat is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. CLI Chat comes from a repository tagged a2a, ai-agents, ai-gateway, anthropic and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Overview

Send chat completions, stream responses, and start an interactive REPL session from the CLI. Supports all OmniRoute providers, combo routing, and system prompt configuration.

Quick install

npm install -g omniroute   # or: npx omniroute
omniroute --version

Subcommands

`chat [prompt]`

Flags:

--file <path>
--stdin
-s, --system <prompt>
-m, --model <id>
--max-tokens <n>
--temperature <t>
--top-p <p>
--reasoning-effort <level>
--thinking-budget <tokens>
--combo <name>
--responses-api
--stream
--no-history

Example:

omniroute chat [prompt]

`repl`

Flags:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about CLI Chat

What else does diegosouzapw publish alongside CLI Chat?
CLI Chat is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from diegosouzapw/OmniRoute, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include CLI Backup Sync, CLI Batches and CLI Compression. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way CLI Chat does, and is maintained by diegosouzapw in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the diegosouzapw/OmniRoute page.
How does CLI Chat compare to other AI Engineering skills?
CLI Chat ranks #107 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of CLI Chat against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.