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Clidex — AI skill for Claude Code

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CLI tool discovery for AI agents.

How to install Clidex

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open syshin0116/clidex and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Clidex does

CLI tool discovery for AI agents. Search, compare, and install 5,000+ command-line tools with structured YAML/JSON output.

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README

CLI tool discovery for AI agents

Search, compare, and install 4,951+ command-line tools with structured YAML/JSON output.

Quickstart

# Install
cargo install clidex            # or: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/syshin0116/clidex/main/install.sh | sh

# Search (auto-downloads index on first run)
clidex "json processor"         # Pretty output in terminal, YAML in pipes
clidex "json processor" --json  # JSON output
clidex info jq                  # Detailed tool info
clidex compare jq dasel yq      # Side-by-side comparison

Why Clidex?

AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI can run terminal commands, but they don't know which tools exist beyond the basics. An agent uses `grep` when `ripgrep` is 10x faster, or `find` when `fd` is simpler.

**Clidex bridges this gap.** It's a local CLI that returns structured metadata about CLI tools: what they do, how to install them, and where to find docs. No web search API calls, no HTML parsing, and no cost. It is a fast local lookup.

clidex demo