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title: '**CLI tools**'
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  **CLI tools** are command-line-interface tools — software you operate by
  typing commands in a terminal rather than through a graphical interface. In
  the channel's material, the term refers to the recent wave of AI coding agents
  that run in the command line, such as Claude Code, alongside Devon.
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# \*\*CLI tools\*\*

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## Definition

**CLI tools** are command-line-interface tools — software you operate by typing commands in a terminal rather than through a graphical interface. In the channel's material, the term refers to the recent wave of AI coding agents that run in the command line, such as Claude Code, alongside Devon.

In this channel's material, **CLI tools** come up in the context of the recent wave of AI coding agents. Scott Wu frames the wave of CLI tools — tools like Claude Code that run in a terminal — as part of the same shift that produced Devon: agents that work autonomously for stretches of 10–20 minutes at a time, a smooth lengthening of the leash from earlier capabilities like tab completion[^e8655330-4d35-560a-9033-baf07ebccdb0]. He also ties this wave to the strategic bets being made by companies such as **Cognition**, **Anthropic**, and **OpenAI** on where AI software engineering goes next[^e8655330-4d35-560a-9033-baf07ebccdb0].