Wrapped cli-hub and a generated harness in declick, works, two notes

[ucsandman]

I build declick, a compiler that turns an OpenAPI spec, an MCP server, a SQLite file or any binary's --help into a small CLI with one output envelope and fixed exit codes. Different goal than this project. You generate a real CLI per app with an agent, I compile whatever surface already exists. So I tried pointing it at your stuff instead of competing with it.

Both worked first try.

pip install cli-anything-hub
declick add cli:cli-hub --name clihub
declick run clihub list --rows stdout --limit 6

cli-hub list prints 9,533 bytes. Through the adapter that read is 450 bytes, six rows plus a count of 176, and the rest is one --limit away. For an agent that difference is context it gets to keep. Mutating verbs (install, update, uninstall) go through a guard and every call lands in an audit log, which is the part I actually care about.

Then a generated harness:

declick run clihub install -- mermaid
declick add cli:cli-anything-mermaid --name mermaid
declick run mermaid project -- new --sample flowchart -o demo.mmd

Two things I hit, neither is a complaint, just what I found.

Nested Click groups. I read one level of --help, so diagram and project compile as verbs and the subcommand rides in as a positional after --. Flags still reach the child. Fine, but I can't validate them.

Session state lives in the process. project open then diagram set in two separate calls gives "No project is open", so a single shot agent can't chain them, only the REPL can. Worth flagging on the harness page for anyone writing agent loops instead of sitting in the REPL.

Small bug while I was there: cli-anything-mermaid diagram show with no project open raises RuntimeError and dumps a Python traceback instead of exiting with a message. Exit code is 1 so it is detectable, it just looks like a crash.

Not asking for anything. Figured the overlap was worth writing down since a few people asked me if these are the same thing. They aren't, and the registry works fine as an input.

declick: https://github.com/ucsandman/declick