{"repo":"JustVugg/cli-use","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/JustVugg/cli-use","clone":"git clone https://github.com/JustVugg/cli-use.git","description":"Turn any MCP server into a CLI in one command.","language":"Python","stars":30,"topics":["agent-tools","ai-agents","automation","cli","command-line","developer-tools","mcp","model-context-protocol","productivity","python"],"license":"MIT","category":"cli-tools","readme_excerpt":"Turn any MCP server into a CLI in one command. Cut the token cost of AI agents by 60–80%, every call, forever. That's it. The filesystem MCP server is now a native CLI — usable by agents, scripts, humans, and anything that can subprocess.run . cli-use makes MCP usable from any shell — at a fraction of the tokens. Why this matters Every MCP tool call burns tokens on three things an agent shouldn't pay for: 1. Schema discovery — a verbose JSON schema per tool, loaded into context every session ( 200–500 tok each). 2. Request framing — JSON-RPC envelope + full argument JSON for every call. 3. Response parsing — the server answers in JSON content blocks even when the useful part is one line of text. Replace the whole chain with a terse CLI and you get native Unix composition and real savings. Measured against the real @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem (14 tools) session size MCP tokens cli-use tokens savings ---: ---: ---: ---: 1 call 2,118 440 79% 5 calls 2,425 565 77% 20 calls 3,577 1,033 71% 100 calls 9,721 3,529 64% Fixed discovery cost: 80% cheaper . Per-call I/O: 59% cheaper . Reproduce with python examples/real benchmark.py . The 30-second demo Every add also drops a Vercel-format SKILL.md in skills/ / and a pointer in AGENTS.md , so any agent working in that repo learns the CLI automatically — zero human prompting required. Daemon mode (optional) For interactive workflows, keep an MCP server hot in the background instead of paying the process-spawn tax on every call","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/JustVugg","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/JustVugg/cli-use/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}