Getting agents used to using `--force` to bypass prompts seems like a bad idea. `--force` is for when the action failed (or would fail) for some reason and you want it to definitely happen this time.

I think `--yes` or `--yes-do-the-dangerous-thing` is leagues better.

Is it me or are all these articles about using AI effectively and building for AI just, you know, things that we should have been doing all along?

It feels like most of the “rules” are “don’t be an ass to your consumer”.

I think every CLI is agent native when invoked from claude or any coding agents.

I was really suprised today. We at adaptive [1], is an access management platform to access psql, mysql, vms, k8s etc. When you use `adaptive connect <db-name>` it would connect create just-in-time tunnel and connect the user to the database. You cannot do traditional psql operation etc. That design is by choice.

Today I was trying to invoke it via claude, and, god damn, it found a way to connect. It create a pseudo shell in python, pass the queries and treat our cli like a tool. This would have been humanly not possible. Partly because, you would like about risks, good practice/bad practice, would be scared to execute and write code like that, and it just did it and acheived the goal.

[1] https://adaptive.live

I dont want "agent-native CLIs" to proliferate because I'd rather we design CLIs for human use and programmatic (automation) use first. Agents are good at vomiting json between tool calls, I am not, and never will be.

Too many tools stray so wildly from UNIX principles. If we design for agents first we will likely see more and more of this.

Non-x link: https://trevinsays.com/p/10-principles-for-agent-native-clis