Command line tools
Programs you run by typing commands in a terminal instead of clicking in a window. This page lists 51 command line tools; the latest additions are Astryx, DeepTutor and agent-browser. Open any project to see what it lets you do, what its creator says you need and its original source.
Projects to explore
- Stroq Check AI coding agent sessions for leaked keys
Stroq scans your recent Claude Code and Codex sessions for keys that left your machine.
- Claude SEO Run full website SEO audits inside Claude Code
Give it a website and get a prioritized SEO action plan, including AI search readiness.
- open-code-review Get line-by-line review comments on your code changes
Get AI review comments pinned to specific lines of your Git changes before a colleague looks at them.
- OpenCode let an AI agent read, plan and edit code in your terminal
Ask an AI agent to explore your codebase, plan changes and write code from your terminal or a desktop app.
- claude-code Run an AI coding agent in your terminal on your own codebase
Anthropic’s coding agent for the terminal.
- Cline Run an open coding agent in your editor, terminal or as an SDK
An open-source coding agent available in five shapes from one engine: a VS Code extension, a JetBrains plugin, a terminal tool that also runs headless for automation, a desktop app, and a software development kit for building your own agents on top.
- Scrapling Collect data from websites with Python
Pull text, links and data from web pages or whole sites into files.
- Rakazo Run a persistent AI teammate on your devices
Run an assistant with memory and browser, file, terminal, or desktop tools.
- prompts.chat Find and share ready-made prompts for AI chatbots
Browse and copy community prompts that work with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and others.
- kimi-k3-in-c Run a 2.78-trillion-parameter model on 8 GB of RAM
Get text answers from the huge Kimi K3 AI model using one CPU and no graphics card.
- FreeToken Run large open AI models on your gaming PC
Run big open-weight AI models on your own gaming PC and chat with them.
- big-arrow-on-the-screen Point users to Mac controls with bigarrow
Let a coding agent draw a big arrow with a sign over any Mac window to show you which button to click.
- Spec Kit Turn a written spec into plans, tasks and code
Spec Kit gives your AI coding agent a step-by-step process to build a feature, fix a bug or assess an idea.
- ARTEMIS Have an AI agent use and test Android apps from plain instructions
Type a task in plain English and watch an AI agent tap through apps on a real Android phone or emulator.
- Graphify Map a codebase and its docs into a graph you can query
An add-on for AI coding assistants that maps code, docs, PDFs and images into a graph you can ask questions about instead of searching files.
- Headroom Shrink what your AI agent reads so it uses fewer tokens
Compress logs, tool output and files before they reach the AI model, so each request uses fewer tokens.
- CLI-Anything Turn any piece of software into a tool an AI agent can drive
CLI-Anything is a registry and toolkit for generating command-line interfaces that let AI agents operate software that was not originally built with agents in mind, from design tools to specialized desktop applications.
- DeepTutor Study your own documents with a personal AI tutor
Read documents with page-by-page citations, practice daily and get video lessons from an AI tutor.
- BrewUI Install and update Homebrew packages without the terminal
Homebrew’s own macOS app for people who would rather click than type.
- iFixAi Get a scorecard of where your AI agent breaks its rules
Point it at your AI agent and get a graded report of risky behavior, like misusing tools or leaking data.
- jakubkrehel/skills Review and polish app interfaces with your AI agent
Have an AI agent review screens, fix accessibility, refine type and colors, and build pages from designs.
- nanochat Train a small GPT-2 level chatbot and talk to it
Train your own small chatbot from scratch on a GPU server, then chat with it in the terminal.
- firstmate Talk to one coding agent and have it run several others for you
A shell tool that puts a single agent — the first mate — in front of a crew of autonomous coding agents.
- Ledge Run the shell commands and code saved in your Markdown notes
Ledge is a notes app that runs the code inside your notes: put your cursor in a fenced block (a code snippet in a Markdown file), press ⌘↩, and the output streams in underneath.
- Moli Extract web pages for AI agents with Moli
Let an AI agent fetch web pages as Markdown, search the web and automate browser tasks without installing Chrome.
- browser Load and control web pages for AI agents with less memory
Open web pages without a screen, turn them into markdown or data, and drive them from scripts or an AI agent.
- ai-job-search Turn job postings into tailored CVs and interview preparation
AI Job Search uses Claude Code to evaluate postings, tailor CVs, write cover letters, and prepare for interviews.
- Worktrunk Give every parallel coding agent its own Git working copy
A command-line tool for Git worktrees, aimed at people running several AI coding agents at once.
- Astryx Build React app screens from ready-made accessible components
Build React app interfaces with 150+ ready-made components and themes.
- Playwright Let tests, scripts or AI agents click through websites for you
Have tests, scripts or an AI agent open web pages, click, type and check results in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit.
- rea Ask AI to explain an app without its source code
REA lets an AI assistant investigate an app, website, or program file and report what it finds with evidence.
- OpenRig Run Claude Code and Codex together as one agent team
OpenRig turns a pile of AI coding-assistant windows into an organized team: you describe the team in a YAML settings file, start it with one command, and it runs Claude Code, Codex and Pi with roles, shared context and owned tasks.
- mvt Scan a phone for forensic traces of spyware infection
The Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) is a set of command-line tools for gathering forensic evidence from Android and iOS devices that may help identify a spyware infection.
- n8n Wire AI agents into 1,500 apps on a visual canvas
A platform for building automations and AI agents by dragging steps onto a canvas and connecting them, with the option to drop into JavaScript or Python for the parts a visual editor handles badly.
- Nasiko Put one gateway in front of every AI agent you run
Nasiko is a self-hosted control-plane server that sits in front of every AI agent you run and handles the operational questions that pile up once you have more than a couple: which agent is allowed to call which other agent, what did that call cost, and why did it fail.
- SkillSpector Check AI agent skills for risks before installing
SkillSpector scans AI agent skills for vulnerabilities and malicious patterns, for developers who want to know whether a skill is safe before installing it.
- Ollama Chat with AI models on your own computer
Ollama lets you choose an AI model and chat with it on your own computer.
- Agent-Reach Let your AI assistant read Reddit, YouTube and X for you
Let your AI assistant read web pages, YouTube subtitles, GitHub repositories, RSS feeds and, with your own logins, posts on X, Reddit and Xiaohongshu.
- CLIProxyAPI Use CLI coding accounts through OpenAI-style APIs
Connect your CLI coding accounts to one local proxy and use them from any OpenAI, Gemini or Claude compatible client or SDK.
- Ruflo Add agent teams, memory and a control console to Claude Code
Add a layer to Claude Code or Codex that splits tasks across teams of specialized agents and remembers past work.
- Orca Run several coding agents side by side and compare them
A desktop app that runs more than one AI coding agent at a time, each in its own separate copy of your project, so you can send the same request to all of them and keep the answer you like best.
- Treg Give an AI agent pay-per-call access to thousands of paid tools
Treg is a marketplace and proxy for AI-agent tools such as SEO data, company lookups, scraping and image generation, with over 3,000 endpoints across 60-plus providers.
- TradingAgents Simulate a trading firm's AI team analyzing a stock
Have a team of AI agents research a stock and debate a trading decision.
- BrowserSkill Let a coding agent use the browser you are already signed into
A command-line tool and browser extension that connect an AI coding agent to your everyday browser, so it can work on sites you are already logged into instead of needing its own test accounts.
- Strix Test app vulnerabilities and get repair guidance
Test running apps for security flaws with this tool for developers and security teams, producing exploit evidence and repair guidance.
- agent-browser Let your AI agent browse and click through websites
Give an AI agent a real browser it can control with short commands: open pages, read them, click and fill forms.
- agent-desktop Let AI agents read and click desktop apps
For developers building computer-use agents: agent-desktop lets an AI agent read and operate desktop apps on Mac, Windows or Linux from a command line.
- vercel-labs/skills Find and install reusable instructions for coding agents
Find and install reusable instructions for coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, or create a skill for a repeated task.
- wshobson/agents add 94 ready-made coding plugins to Claude Code, Codex or Cursor
Install specialist helpers for code review, testing, security and Python or JavaScript work into your AI coding tool.
- XERJ Let your coding assistant search your files instead of reading them all
Let an AI coding assistant search your code, docs, logs and PDFs locally for the exact passage it needs.
- Idol Turn one picture of an object into a 3D Gaussian splat
Idol turns one photo, render or generated image of an object into a 3D Gaussian splat file.
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