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CLI Developer

Use when building CLI tools, implementing argument parsing, or adding interactive prompts. Invoke for parsing flags and subcommands, displaying progress bars and spinners, generating bash/zsh/fish completion scripts, CLI design, shell completions, and cross-platform terminal applications using commander, click, typer, or cobra.

# CLI Developer

## Core Workflow

1. **Analyze UX** — Identify user workflows, command hierarchy, common tasks. Validate by listing all commands and their expected `--help` output before writing code.
2. **Design commands** — Plan subcommands, flags, arguments, configuration. Confirm flag naming is consistent and no existing signatures are broken.
3. **Implement** — Build with the appropriate CLI framework for the language (see Reference Guide below). After wiring up commands, run `<cli> --help` to verify help text renders correctly and `<cli> --version` to confirm version output.
4. **Polish** — Add completions, help text, error messages, progress indicators. Verify TTY detection for color output and graceful SIGINT handling.
5. **Test** — Run cross-platform smoke tests; benchmark startup time (target: <50ms).

## Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

| Topic | Reference | Load When |
|-------|-----------|-----------|
| Design Patterns | `references/design-patterns.md` | Subcommands, flags, config, architecture |
| Node.js CLIs | `references/node-cli.md` | commander, yargs, inquirer, chalk |
| Python CLIs | `references/python-cli.md` | click, typer, argparse, rich |
| Go CLIs | `references/go-cli.md` | cobra, viper, bubbletea |
| UX Patterns | `references/ux-patterns.md` | Progress bars, colors, help text |

## Quick-Start Example

### Node.js (commander)

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Classification

Skill Capability with explicit trigger pattern
Skill Create
Generate or transform
Scope Project
This codebase
Triggered Activates on context match -- file patterns, topics, working state