CLI Design

by vm0-ai

CLI Design is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by vm0-ai in vm0.

1.2K stars69 forkson vm0-ai/vm0Added 2026/08/20Repository updated 2026/08/20

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Install CLI Design

Copy CLI Design 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/vm0-ai/vm0/tree/main/.claude/skills/cli-design ~/.claude/skills/cli-design

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/vm0-ai/vm0.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/cli-design/SKILL.md in vm0-ai/vm0
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/cli-design
Collection: One of 9 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What CLI Design does

CLI Design provides design patterns and conventions for a consistent command-line interface. Use it when writing new CLI commands, reviewing CLI code, or fixing inconsistencies.

CLI Design is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. CLI Design comes from a repository tagged agentic-workflow, ai-agent, ai-runtime, ai-sandbox and claude-code.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Atomic Command — each command does one operation, agents compose them freely
TTY & Non-TTY — every command works in both interactive and programmatic modes
Guided Flow — output always guides to the next action (success → next step, error → remediation, empty → creation)

Frequently asked about CLI Design

What else does vm0-ai publish alongside CLI Design?
CLI Design is one of 9 skills that DirSkills catalogs from vm0-ai/vm0, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include CCState Patterns and Best Practices, Code Quality and Commit. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way CLI Design does, and is maintained by vm0-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the vm0-ai/vm0 page.
How does CLI Design compare to other Quality skills?
CLI Design ranks #754 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Design against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.