Show HN: Clify – generate a CLI from any API docs, use it as agent tooling

Category: devtools

Tags: cli-generator, api-tooling, agent-tools, code-generation, developer-productivity

Score: 7.8/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 7, Documentation: 9, Utility: 7)

Clify is a Claude Code plugin that automatically generates a full-featured CLI from any API documentation URL, supporting OpenAPI specs, HTML, or Markdown. It's interesting because it creates self-updating CLI repos with zero dependencies, includes agent tooling with structured error taxonomy, and maintains a knowledge system that preserves learned patterns across regenerations.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, ai-agent developers

Repository: https://github.com/derrickko/clify · JavaScript · MIT

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