CLI tools

Open-source personal AI assistant that runs on your own machine and talks to you over 20+ chat channels such as Telegram, Slack and iMessage. The openclaw CLI manages the gateway, channel pairing and plugins; switch models between Claude, Codex and local ones.

Command-line audio and video downloader supporting thousands of sites: pick formats and quality, grab subtitles and metadata, and merge or transcode with FFmpeg. The actively maintained fork of youtube-dl.

Converts PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, images, audio and more into Markdown that keeps headings, lists and tables, ready for LLMs to read and analyze. Maintained by Microsoft; requires Python 3.10+.

Download and run open models such as Gemma locally with one command. Provides a REST API and Python/JS libraries, and ollama launch can point Claude Code, Codex and other agents at local models.

Anthropic's terminal coding agent: understands your codebase, edits code, runs commands and handles git workflows, with plugins, MCP and a headless mode (claude -p). Sign in with a Claude account or set an API key.

OpenAI's coding agent that runs locally, written in Rust: reads and writes code and runs commands inside an OS-level sandbox. Sign in with a ChatGPT plan or use an API key.

Open-source browser agent project. Its browser-use CLI lets Claude Code, Codex and other agents drive your logged-in local Chrome with Python snippets, or connect to a cloud browser; also ships a Python agent library. The cloud browser needs an API key.

GitHub's official CLI: manage pull requests, issues, releases and Actions workflows from the terminal. Most commands support --json output that agents can parse, and an official agent skill is available. Run gh auth login first.

In-process analytical SQL database. Its CLI queries CSV, Parquet and JSON files directly with SQL, no import or server needed, so agents can sample and aggregate large files. Officially maintained.

Self-improving agent from Nous Research with built-in memory and a learning loop that turns experience into skills. Works with any model provider; the hermes command has a terminal UI, and a gateway connects it to Telegram, Slack and more and runs scheduled tasks.

Open-source terminal coding agent that switches freely between model providers. Includes a build agent that edits code, a read-only plan agent for analysis, subagents, and a desktop app. Formerly sst/opencode.

GitHub's official spec-driven development toolkit: the specify CLI sets up spec, plan and task workflows for Copilot, Claude Code, Codex and other agents so the spec comes before the code, plus bug-fix and idea-evaluation flows. Needs Python 3.11+ and uv.

Local LLM inference engine in plain C/C++ with a command-line chat and an OpenAI-compatible HTTP server; pulls and runs GGUF models straight from Hugging Face. Supports Apple Silicon, CUDA, Vulkan and other hardware, plus low-bit quantization.

Official shadcn/ui CLI: initializes projects and adds component source to your codebase on demand, with switchable presets. Since v4 it offers --dry-run and --diff so agents can preview changes, and it comes with an agent skill.

Minimal, extensible terminal AI agent that can write its own prompt templates, skills, extensions and themes. Offers print, JSON and RPC modes for scripting, plus a TypeScript SDK. Needs Node.js 22.19+.

Multi-agent investment research framework where fundamental, sentiment, news and technical analysts, bull and bear researchers, a trader and risk managers debate a stock and produce a report and rating. Covers US, Hong Kong and A-shares. Needs Python and an LLM API key; not investment advice.

OpenAI's open-source general-purpose speech recognition model. The whisper command transcribes many languages, translates foreign speech into English and writes subtitle files. Needs FFmpeg; faster with a GPU.

JavaScript, TypeScript and WebAssembly runtime with built-in formatting, linting, testing and compilation. Scripts get no file, network or environment access unless granted with --allow-* flags, making agent-generated scripts safer to run.

Google's official open-source terminal agent using Gemini models with a 1M-token context. Built-in Google Search, file and shell tools, plus MCP support. Personal Google accounts get a free quota.

Microsoft's cross-browser end-to-end testing framework: one API drives Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, npx playwright test runs tests in parallel and isolation, with auto-waiting and trace replay for debugging failures.

All-in-one JavaScript and TypeScript toolchain: a single bun binary is a Node.js-compatible runtime, package manager, test runner and script runner, with noticeably faster installs and test runs.

High-throughput LLM inference and serving engine: vllm serve starts an OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible server in one command. Supports 200+ model architectures from Hugging Face, quantization and distributed inference. Aimed mainly at NVIDIA, AMD and other GPUs.

Baidu PaddlePaddle's official OCR and document parsing tool: the paddleocr command reads text from images and parses PDFs and scans into Markdown or JSON, supporting 100+ languages with models that run locally.

Astral's extremely fast Python package and project manager written in Rust, replacing pip, pipx, poetry, pyenv and more. Supports lockfiles and multiple Python versions, and uvx runs Python tools without installing them.