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CLI-Anything: Turning Desktop Software into Tools Your AI Agent Can Actually Use

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If you have used an AI coding agent like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor for more than a week, you have probably noticed something: agents are great in a terminal and pretty bad everywhere else. Ask an agent to refactor a Python module and it does fine. Ask it to cut a video in Shotcut, add a layer i…

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  1. 2026-10-20 04:52 · DEV Community — AI
    CLI-Anything: Turning Desktop Software into Tools Your AI Agent Can Actually Use

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