DevCLI — AI skill for Claude Code

DevCLI 🤖

A Cursor-like AI coding assistant in your terminal, powered by Claude.

[](https://www.npmjs.com/package/devcli-ai) [](https://nodejs.org) [](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

DevCLI brings the power of Anthropic's Claude agent SDK directly to your terminal — with an interactive chat mode, one-shot queries, and three permission modes (`agent`, `ask`, `plan`) inspired by tools like Cursor.

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✨ Features

• agent mode — Full agentic loop: Claude can read files, edit code, and run commands
• ask mode — Read-only exploration: answers questions without touching your files
• plan mode — Explores your codebase and proposes a plan, no edits applied
• Interactive chat — Streaming multi-turn conversation with slash command support
• One-shot queries — Fire a single prompt and get a result, great for scripting
• Secure key storage — API key stored in ~/.config/devcli/config.json (never in your project)

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📦 Installation

npm install -g devcli-ai

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🔑 Setup

You'll need a free Anthropic API key from [console.anthropic.com](https://console.anthropic.com).

devcli config set-key

You'll be prompted to enter your key. It gets saved securely to `~/.config/devcli/config.json` with owner-only file permissions (`0600`).

Alternatively, set it as an environment variable:

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

Verify everything is working:

devcli doctor

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🚀 Usage

Interactive chat session

devcli chat                  # agent mode (default)
devcli chat --mode ask       # read-only mode
devcli chat --mode plan      # planning mode
devcli chat --verbose        # show agent loop internals

One-shot query

devcli talk "Explain what this project does"