Aclif is a framework for building command-line tools that AI agents use to reach SaaS platforms. One grammar and canonical names reach the same record by the same name on any provider, every command self-describes with schema, examples and safety metadata, and the runtime runs the same command from a shell, inside a tool call or behind a gateway. It is designed to avoid the context cost of publishing every API operation as a fixed MCP tool list.
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Expose a whole API without paying for every operation on every turn
Let the agent learn a command and its safety metadata before calling it
Run a query with --dry-run so the agent can check the call first
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