cli-hub

Package manager for CLI-Anything — a framework that auto-generates stateful CLI interfaces for GUI applications, making them agent-native.

Browse, install, and manage 40+ CLI harnesses for software like GIMP, Blender, Inkscape, LibreOffice, Audacity, OBS Studio, and more — all from your terminal.

Web Hub: clianything.cc

Install

pip install cli-anything-hub

Usage

# Browse all available CLIs, grouped by category
cli-hub list

# Filter by category (image, 3d, video, audio, office, ai, ...)
cli-hub list -c image

# Search by name, description, or category
cli-hub search "3d modeling"

# Show details for a CLI
cli-hub info gimp

# Install a CLI harness
cli-hub install gimp

# Update a CLI to the latest version
cli-hub update gimp

# Uninstall a CLI
cli-hub uninstall gimp

Preview Viewer

cli-hub also includes the generic preview consumer for preview-capable harnesses.

Use this split:

• cli-anything-<software> preview ... creates or updates preview state
• cli-hub previews ... inspects or opens that existing preview state

Canonical viewer commands:

# Inspect an existing preview bundle or live session
cli-hub previews inspect /path/to/bundle-or-session

# Render HTML for a bundle or live session
cli-hub previews html /path/to/bundle-or-session -o page.html

# Watch a live session over localhost
cli-hub previews watch /path/to/session --open --poll-ms 1500

# Open a bundle or live session directly in a browser
cli-hub previews open /path/to/bundle-or-session

For live sessions, cli-hub previews reads:

• session.json for the current head
• trajectory.json for the command-to-preview history
• the current bundle manifest and artifacts

This command group never renders or publishes previews by itself.

What gets installed

Each CLI harness is a standalone Python package that wraps a real application (GIMP, Blender, etc.) with a stateful command-line interface. Every harness supports:

• REPL mode: cli-anything-gimp launches an interactive session
• One-shot commands: cli-anything-gimp project create --name my-project
• JSON output: cli-anything-gimp --json project list for machine-readable output
• Undo/redo: Stateful project management with full operation history

For AI agents

cli-hub is designed to be agent-friendly. AI coding agents can:

1. pip install cli-anything-hub to get the package manager
2. cli-hub search <keyword> or cli-hub list --json to discover tools
3. cli-hub install <name> to install what they need
4. Use --json output for structured data parsing
5. For preview-capable harnesses, call cli-anything-<software> preview ... --json first, then inspect returned bundle/session paths with cli-hub previews ...

Available categories

3D, AI, Audio, Communication, Database, Design, DevOps, Diagrams, Game, GameDev, Generation, Graphics, Image, Music, Network, Office, OSINT, Project Management, Search, Streaming, Testing, Video, Web

JSON output

All listing commands support --json for machine-readable output:

cli-hub list --json
cli-hub search blender --json

Analytics

cli-hub sends anonymous usage events to help track adoption. The default provider is PostHog, while the legacy Umami path remains available via CLI_HUB_ANALYTICS_PROVIDER=umami. No personal data is collected.

Opt out:

export CLI_HUB_NO_ANALYTICS=1

Links

• Web Hub: clianything.cc
• Repository: github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything
• Live Catalog: SKILL.md