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Sep 13, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

CLI for AI Agents: Scenario Domains, Skills & Orchestratable Output

The article explains how to design CLIs for AI hosts like Cursor by organizing commands into lifecycle-based scenario domains, binding Skills that define trigger boundaries and workflows, and emitting structured JSON with next_command for orchestration, avoiding pitfalls like resource-path mirroring, verbose output, and missing workspace context.