Agent-native package manager

Make every tool
agent-native

Wrap any CLI into an agent-friendly interface with middleware hooks. No MCP server, no schema bloat, no protocol overhead.

$ curl -fsSL https://anycli.dev/install.sh | sh

How it works

Four commands. That's it.

Install a tool, authenticate, and start using it. AnyCLI downloads the binary, wraps it with middleware hooks, and creates a PATH shim.

Install AnyCLI

One-line install. No dependencies.

curl -fsSL ... | sh

Add a tool

Downloads the binary and creates an agent-friendly wrapper.

anycli install gh

Authenticate

Store credentials once. Injected automatically on every call.

anycli auth gh

Just use it

Transparent shim. Before/after hooks run automatically.

gh pr list

Middleware pipeline

Before & after hooks, declaratively

JSON rules intercept every call. Inject auth, normalize output, transform flags. No code required.

$ gh pr list --state open

shim ~/.anycli/bin/gh intercepts call
load ~/.anycli/registry/gh.json
hook before inject-auth set GH_TOKEN from credentials
exec /usr/local/bin/gh pr list --state open
hook after ensure-json wrap output as JSON
exit 0

CLI vs MCP

The numbers speak for themselves

Benchmarked on identical GitHub tasks with Claude Sonnet. CLI wins on every metric.

CLI (AnyCLI)

Tokens per task 1,365

Success rate 100%

Monthly cost (10K ops) $3.20

Schema overhead 0 tokens

LLM familiarity Native

MCP

Tokens per task 44,026

Success rate 72%

Monthly cost (10K ops) $55.20

Schema overhead ~55,000 tokens

LLM familiarity Learned per-session

Features

Agent-native by design

Everything an agent needs, nothing it doesn't.

Busybox-style shims

Single binary, symlinked per tool. Transparent PATH interception with zero overhead.

JSON rule engine

Declarative before/after hooks. No scripts, no code. Just JSON rules with conditions.

Credential injection

Store tokens once. Before hooks inject them as env vars on every call automatically.

Binary downloads

Install tools from GitHub Releases. Handles OS/arch detection, tar.gz and zip extraction.

--json everywhere

After hooks normalize output to JSON. Agents parse structured data, not human-readable text.

Zero dependencies

Single Go binary. No runtime, no Docker, no Node.js. Works on macOS and Linux.

Ready to make your tools agent-native?

Install AnyCLI in 10 seconds. Open source, MIT licensed.