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Exemplar 10 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

Shopify CLIShopify CLI is a command-line tool that helps developers create Shopify apps, themes, and custom storefront...83.8 Redocly CLIRedocly CLI is an open-source command-line tool for working with OpenAPI descriptions, developer portals, a...81.2 Scalar CLIThe Scalar CLI is a command-line interface for managing OpenAPI files, generating documentation, running mo...76.4 AWS Copilot CLIAWS Copilot is an open source command line interface that simplifies building, releasing, and operating pro...76.0 Stoplight CLIThe Stoplight CLI enables programmatic linting of API descriptions and pushing analysis results to the Stop...74.1 Microsoft Entra PowerShellThe Microsoft Entra PowerShell module provides cmdlets for managing Microsoft Entra resources programmatica...71.3 Medusa CLI (create-medusa-app)Command-line tooling for scaffolding new Medusa projects, generating modules and migrations, running the se...69.8 .NET CLICross-platform command-line interface for developing, building, running, and publishing .NET applications. ...67.4 calicoctl CLIcalicoctl is the command-line tool that enables operators and automation systems to create, read, update, a...67.3 SQL Server PowerShell ModulePowerShell cmdlets for managing SQL Server instances, databases, and resources from the command line.67.0

Strong 12 Solid coverage with minor gaps

Modal CLIThe `modal` command-line interface for deploying apps, running functions, tailing logs, managing volumes/se...66.1 Linode CLIThe Linode CLI is a command-line interface that wraps the Linode API v4, allowing developers and system adm...65.8 Buf CLIThe Buf CLI is a local Protobuf development toolchain providing linting, breaking change detection, code ge...64.9 Composio CLI APICLI integration endpoints62.6 Cisco Intersight Cli APIThe cli API from Cisco Intersight — 2 operation(s) for cli.60.1 tessl.io CLI APIEndpoints used by the Tessl CLI.57.9 DataHub CLICommand line tool for interacting with DataHub. The datahub CLI allows you to perform common operations inc...57.4 Swagger Codegen CLIThe Swagger Codegen command-line interface for generating code artifacts locally. Available as a JAR file a...56.5 Boltz CLI APIThe CLI API from Boltz — 1 operation(s) for cli.56.4 Codag Cli APIThe Cli API from Codag — 2 operation(s) for cli.56.1 Check CLIThe Check Command-Line Interface is a Python-based CLI installed via the uv package manager that exposes 27...56.0 Rover CLIRover is the command-line interface for managing and maintaining graphs with Apollo GraphOS. It supports pu...55.5

Developing 40 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Thin 50 Limited public surface area

Cisco NX-API CLIAPI that accepts show commands and configuration commands in CLI format.39.2 Jsonify APIJsonify API as documented publicly: 8 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangeli...38.9 AWS CLIThe AWS CLI v2 is the official command-line interface for Amazon Web Services, providing unified access to ...38.1 W&B CLICommand-line interface bundled with the wandb Python package for login, sweep orchestration, artifact manag...38.1 Lingo.dev CLIOpen-source command-line tool that localizes JSON, YAML, Markdown, CSV, and PO files in one command, tracki...37.9 Virtualitics AI Platform (VAIP) Developer ExperienceThe developer surface of the Virtualitics AI Platform. Developers author AI Apps in Python with the Virtual...37.9 Veritas Cluster Server Command Line InterfaceCommand-line tools for cluster administration and monitoring.37.4 VxVM Command Line APICommand-line interface and scripting API for Veritas Volume Manager operations.37.4 Promptfoo CLIThe Promptfoo CLI is the primary entry point for running prompt and model evaluations from the command line...36.0 Oracle EPM AutomateCommand-line utility for automating Oracle EPM Cloud administration tasks. EPM Automate enables service adm...35.9 Apache CordovaApache Cordova provides a JavaScript plugin API for accessing native device capabilities (camera, GPS, file...35.1 Union CLI & SDKThe union and pyflyte command-line tools plus the Flytekit and Union Python SDKs - the primary, fully-docum...35.1 GraphQL Inspector CLICommand-line tool for comparing two GraphQL schemas and generating a detailed list of breaking, non-breakin...34.7 Redpanda rpk CLI Surfacerpk is the Redpanda command-line tool, wrapping the Kafka, Admin, Schema Registry, and Cloud APIs into oper...34.7 Bitwarden Vault Management APILocal Bitwarden CLI HTTP API for managing personal vault items, folders, sends, collections, organizations,...34.5 Arctic APIArctic API as documented publicly: 16 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangeli...34.3 cert-manager CLI (cmctl)cmctl is the command-line tool for managing cert-manager resources. It provides commands for checking certi...34.3 BlitzWorks APIBlitzWorks API as documented publicly: 5 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evang...34.1 Machine0 Control PlaneThe machine0 control plane for creating, managing, snapshotting and connecting to persistent cloud VMs. Exp...33.6 Datavant Tokenization (Datavant Connect)Datavant's privacy-preserving tokenization technology lets organizations link patient records across datase...33.2 Claudeers APIClaudeers API as documented publicly: 34 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evang...32.8 Context7 CLIThe Context7 CLI (ctx7) is a command-line tool for querying the Context7 index from the terminal. It provid...32.8 GripForge APIGripForge API as documented publicly: 34 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evang...32.8 Planet Python SDKOfficial Python SDK (planet on PyPI) and CLI for working with all Planet APIs, including async clients for ...32.7 @spree/cliCommand-line tool for managing Spree Commerce projects - scaffolding new apps, running the dev server, mana...32.6 create-spree-appOne-line project generator for new Spree Commerce installations - mirrors create-next-app and create-medusa...32.6 spree_extension (Extension Generator CLI)CLI tool for generating and managing Spree Commerce extensions - scaffolds the gemspec, engine, migrations,...32.6 AgentAtlas APIAgentAtlas API as documented publicly: 7 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evang...32.5 SuperRare Rare Protocol CLICommand-line interface and SDK for deploying ERC-721 NFT collections, minting tokens, managing reserve-pric...32.1 Notation CLINotation is the command-line tool that implements the Notary Project specifications for signing and verifyi...31.6 Trivy CLIThe primary interface for Trivy is its command-line tool, which scans container images, filesystems, Git re...31.6 Thunder Compute CLI (tnr)The tnr command-line interface is the primary developer surface for Thunder Compute, wrapping the REST API ...31.4 MockoonMockoon ships as a desktop application, a CLI, and a serverless package for designing and running mock REST...31.2 Wasmer CLIThe wasmer command-line client (wasmer login, publish, deploy, run, ssh) - a first-class consumer of the Re...31.0 flowctl CLICommand-line tool for authoring, drafting, testing, and publishing Flow catalogs (captures, collections, de...30.8 Primitive CLI APIBrowser-assisted CLI authentication30.3 RisingWave Cloud CLIThe RisingWave Cloud CLI (rwc) provides infrastructure management for RisingWave Cloud, including cluster p...29.7 Triplit CLICommand-line interface tool for scaffolding Triplit projects, running the local full-stack development envi...29.5 Sejda ConsoleCommand-line shell over the Sejda SDK for running PDF tasks (merge, split, etc.) from a terminal or scripts...29.2 Qodo Command/CLITerminal runtime for building, running, and managing AI agents across the SDLC, installed via npm (@qodo/co...28.8 Blacksmith Testbox CLICommand-line interface (beta) that lets coding agents run CI against local changes instantly - blacksmith t...28.7 Foliyo APIFoliyo API as documented publicly: 2 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelis...28.3 QName AI WHOIS REST APIApproval-gated REST API for WHOIS/RDAP lookups: GET /api/whois/{domain} (single), POST /api/whois/batch (ba...27.4 Semgrep CLIOpen-source command-line static analysis engine. Runs locally and in CI to scan code with community and cus...27.4 Copernicus Marine Toolbox APIThe Copernicus Marine Toolbox provides the officially supported programmatic interface to the Copernicus Ma...27.2 PlanetScale CLIThe PlanetScale CLI (pscale) is a command-line tool that brings PlanetScale database management to the term...27.2 Renovate CLIThe open source Renovate CLI is a Node.js application distributed via npm and as Docker images on Docker Hu...26.8 score-composescore-compose is the reference Score implementation that translates Score YAML workload specifications into...26.7 score-k8sscore-k8s is the reference Score implementation that translates Score YAML workload specifications into Kub...26.7 Nx CLIThe Nx command-line interface — the primary surface for running, caching, and orchestrating tasks across a ...26.5

Emerging 59 Early or largely undocumented

Wormhole CLICommand-line interface for interacting with Wormhole protocol operations including token transfers, NTT dep...26.1 Gram (by Speakeasy) APIGram (by Speakeasy) API as documented publicly: 11 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by...26.0 Perkoon Sessions APIThe anonymous REST surface under https://perkoon.com/api/v1 that every Perkoon client uses: POST /sessions ...25.9 Factory Droid CLITerminal-based interface for running Droids interactively or via Droid Exec for non-interactive CI/CD workf...25.7 Preview APIPreview API as documented publicly: 1 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangeli...25.7 Amp Coding AgentAmp is Sourcegraph's frontier coding agent, designed for pay-as-you-go use against leading AI models. It sh...25.5 src CLIsrc is Sourcegraph's command-line client for code search, code intelligence, batch changes, and administrat...25.5 Yarn CLIThe Yarn command-line interface — `yarn` — provides install, add, remove, up, run, exec, dlx, info, why, pa...25.3 Plasmic CLICommand-line tool (plasmicapp/cli) for authenticating against Plasmic and syncing generated code into a rep...25.1 Smithy CLIThe Smithy CLI is a command-line tool for building, validating, diffing, and transforming Smithy models. It...25.1 mailbox.org APImailbox.org API as documented publicly: 4 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evan...24.8 Sageox CLI APIIntegration endpoints for the `ox` CLI tool. Includes device flow authentication (code request → polling → ...24.7 OpenTofu CLIOpenTofu is a CLI-driven infrastructure-as-code tool forked from Terraform. The opentofu binary reads Hashi...24.6 ForgeCode API (Tailcall Inc)ForgeCode is the commercial CLI coding harness product from Tailcall Inc, positioned as an AI-enabled progr...24.4 PMTiles CLISingle-binary command-line tool for working with PMTiles archives. Supports show, tile, verify, extract, me...24.2 EigenCompute SDK & CLIEigenCompute lets developers run arbitrary code in any language, with the execution secured by restakers an...23.0 EigenLayer CLIOperator-facing command-line tool for keys, operator registration, delegation, AVS opt-in, and node-runner ...23.0 Lightpanda CLI / BinaryThe open-source command-line binary (AGPL-3.0, written in Zig). `lightpanda serve` starts the CDP-over-WebS...22.0 Chainguard chainctl CLIchainctl is the official command-line interface for the Chainguard platform. It provides commands for authe...21.9 Optic CLIThe Optic CLI provides OpenAPI diffing, linting and breaking-change detection from the command line, compar...21.8 Thunder Client CLIThe Thunder Client CLI (@thunderclient/cli) is a Node.js command-line tool for running Thunder Client reque...21.8 PromptfooPromptfoo is an open-source CLI and library for evaluating and red-teaming LLM applications. The docs descr...21.6 Better Auth CLIProject initialization and schema-migration CLI invoked with `npx @better-auth/cli` (or `npx auth init`). G...21.3 Evidence Framework (SQL + Markdown)The open-source core. SQL statements embedded in Markdown files run against configured data sources and ren...21.0 Tekton CLI (tkn)tkn is the official Tekton command-line tool wrapping the Kubernetes API for Tekton resources — start runs,...20.9 Qlty CLIThe free Qlty CLI is a polyglot, Rust-based command-line tool for universal linting, auto-formatting, secur...20.7 Qlty Cloud APIQlty Cloud is the hosted platform that analyzes pull requests, posts automated code review comments on newl...20.7 Qlty Coverage UploadCoverage publishing is performed by the Qlty CLI command qlty coverage publish, which uploads test coverage...20.7 Garden Core CLIOpen-source command-line tool and engine that turns a Garden project configuration into a graph of Build, D...20.6 SST FrameworkThe SST framework is an open source CLI and component library distributed via npm (`sst`) and as a Go-based...20.6 WgetGNU Wget is a free command-line utility for non-interactive downloading of files from the web using HTTP, H...20.4 Wget2GNU Wget2 is the next-generation successor to GNU Wget, built from scratch around libwget. It is multi-thre...20.4 DVC CLI and Python APIDVC ships as a CLI plus a Python API (`dvc.api`). It tracks data and model files via pointers stored in Git...20.0 Helium Wallet CLI (Rust)Reference Rust command-line wallet for managing Helium accounts, tokens, and hotspot operations on Solana. ...19.6 FastMCP CLIThe FastMCP CLI is a developer command-line tool for running, inspecting, installing, and debugging MCP ser...19.5 StormForge CLICommand-line interface for interacting with the StormForge platform to manage clusters, workloads, and opti...19.4 Kamal CLIThe Kamal CLI (`kamal`) is the primary command-line interface for packaging, shipping, and operating contai...19.3 Auggie CLIAuggie is Augment's command-line interface that brings the Augment agent, Context Engine, and tool integrat...18.3 Stack Auth CLIProject bootstrap CLI distributed as @stackframe/init-stack on npm, invoked with `npx @stackframe/init-stac...17.9 Nitric CLIThe Nitric command-line tool (nitric new, nitric start, nitric stack new, nitric up, nitric down) that scaf...17.8 pnpm CLIThe pnpm command-line interface for managing JavaScript/Node.js packages. Provides commands for installing,...17.2 ETWAnalyzer Command Line ToolC# command-line tool published by Siemens Healthineers for analyzing Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) captur...16.8 Copa CLIThe copa command line interface used to patch container images. The core subcommand `copa patch` accepts an...16.4 SpecLynx CLIA command-line interface for overlay operations, dereferencing, bundling, format conversion (JSON/YAML), an...16.0 Varnish Cache CLI APIThe Varnish Cache CLI management interface provides programmatic control over a running Varnish instance. I...15.8 Apache Sqoop CLIApache Sqoop provides a command-line interface for bulk data transfer between Hadoop and relational databas...15.4 Antimatter APIAntimatter API as documented publicly: 1 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evang...14.9 Cline CLIHeadless terminal version of the Cline agent.14.4 Angular CLIThe Angular CLI is the official command-line interface for creating, building, testing, and deploying Angul...13.7 NewmanNewman is the open source command-line companion for Postman that runs Postman collections from the CLI for...13.5 Nixpacks CLIThe Nixpacks command-line interface is the primary interface for generating build plans and producing Docke...13.5 create-onchain CLIBootstrap CLI (`npm create onchain`) that scaffolds a new OnchainKit application pre-wired with Wagmi, Viem...13.0 NUnit Console RunnerConsole runner for executing NUnit tests from the command line, enabling automation in build pipelines and ...12.9 ZoweZowe is an open source software framework that delivers modern interfaces to interact with z/OS, including ...12.7 Xh CLIxh is a friendly and fast command-line HTTP client written in Rust. It reimplements HTTPie's design with im...12.5 Kaniko CLIKaniko is a command-line tool distributed as the container image gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor that builds...12.4 Overture Maps Python CLIOpen-source Python command-line tool and library for downloading and querying Overture data. Maintained at ...12.2 Gretel Python Client SDKPython SDK and CLI (gretel-client) for interacting with Gretel APIs. Provides a high-level Gretel interface...11.9 Jest CLICommand-line interface for running Jest tests with various options.11.6

Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface

Goldsky CLICommand-line tool for deploying and managing subgraphs, Mirror pipelines, Turbo pipelines, and Compose appl...10.2 ORAS CLIGeneric command-line registry client used to push and pull OCI artifacts to and from any OCI-compliant cont...8.7 Functionize CLICommand-line interface used to trigger Functionize tests from CI/CD pipelines and to manage local test arte...8.6

Companies reaching this through an API (139)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “CLI” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

AgentAtlas Agentic AI Foundation agentui-ai Akash Network AlphaSense Amazon ECS Angular Antimatter Apache Cordova Apache JMeter Apache Sqoop Apollo GraphQL Arctic Artifact Share Augment Code Bazel Better Auth Bitwarden Blacksmith BlitzWorks Boltz Buf Calico Cert-Manager Chainguard Check Cisco Intersight Cisco Nexus Dashboard Claudeers Cloud Native Buildpacks Codag Coinbase OnchainKit Composio Context7 Copernicus Marine DataHub Dell Servers EigenLayer Estuary Flow Evals Evidence Factory FastMCP Foliyo Functionize Garden Goldsky Golioth Gram (by Speakeasy) Gretel

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GripForge Helium Network Helm hyreflow-ai intentdocs-com Jest Jsonify Knative Komodo Health Kyverno Letta Liblab Lightpanda Lingo.dev Linktree Linode mailbox.org Medusa Mercado Pago Microsoft .NET Microsoft Active Directory Microsoft SQL Server Modal Nixpacks Notary Project NUnit Nx Open Mainframe Project OpenHands OpenTofu Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Essbase Oracle Planning ORAS Overture Maps Foundation Planet Labs Planetscale Plasmic Preview Primitive Protomaps Qlty Qodo Red Hat 3scale Red Hat Satellite Redocly Redpanda Renovate RisingWave Roivant Sciences Ruby Programming Language and Popular API Gems Sageox Scalar Score Sejda Semgrep Shopify Siemens Healthineers Smithy Sourcegraph SpecLynx Spree Commerce SST Stack Auth Stainless Stoplight StormForge SuperRare Swagger Codegen Tailcall Tekton The Guild Thunder Compute Transcend Triplit Trivy Union.ai Varnish Cache Veritas Cluster Server Veritas Volume Manager Virtualitics Warp wasmCloud Wasmer Weights and Biases WordPress Wormhole Xh Yarn

Score breakdown

Frequency

62.8

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

1.7

spread across providers

Quality lift

31.4

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

8.5

strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

Developer Tools broader

Where this tag comes from

Api tag160

Provider tag135

Openapi tag23

Openapi op tag45

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 130 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged CLI, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers

130

of 135 in the catalog

Mean Kin Score

31.9

+7.8 vs catalog 24.1

Mean Agent Readiness

14.4

+0.3 vs catalog 14.1

Spread

1.2–74.7

median 28.2 · σ 15.1

How the 130 split by band

Exemplar 5Strong 8Developing 20Thin 40Emerging 54Minimal 3

Facet averages, against the whole catalog

Facet	This cohort	Catalog	Difference	Scored
Developer Ergonomics	47.3	24.5	+22.8	130
Operational Transparency	24	13.2	+10.8	130
Discoverability	62.6	59.1	+3.5	130
Access Clarity	33.4	30	+3.4	130
Contract Governance	11.5	9.7	+1.8	130
Contract Quality	17.1	18.6	-1.5	130

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes

Artifact	This cohort	Catalog	Difference
MCP server (any)	31%	18%	+13
MCP server (first-party)	34%	16%	+18
Agent Skills	0%	0%	0
OAuth scopes	8%	13%	-5
Security	95%	99%	-4
Arazzo workflows	1%	1%	0
Governance rules	32%	36%	-4

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score

1 Svix 74.7
2 Anysphere Cursor.com 73.4
3 Common Room 68.9
4 Fillo 67.5
5 Codebase 67.4
6 Okteto 65.3
7 Ploy 62.1
8 ClipUGC 61.2
9 Arena 59.6
10 ImageStep 59.5

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