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Building a CLI Tool That Developers Actually Love

Design principles and implementation patterns for developer CLI tools, covering argument parsing, output formatting, and progressive disclosure.

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Building a CLI Tool That Developers Actually Love

Design Principles

1. Progressive Disclosure

Default behavior should work without flags. Advanced options are discoverable via --help.

2. Predictable Behavior

Same input = same output. No surprises. No "smart" defaults that change based on context.

3. Composability

Output should be pipeable. Support --json for machine-readable output. Don't print decorations to stderr.

4. Speed

CLI tools should start in <100ms. If you nee

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Building a CLI Tool That Developers Actually Love

Design principles and implementation patterns for developer CLI tools, covering argument parsing, output formatting, and progressive disclosure.

Building a CLI Tool That Developers Actually Love

Design Principles

1. Progressive Disclosure

Default behavior should work without flags. Advanced options are discoverable via --help.

2. Predictable Behavior

Same input = same output. No surprises. No "smart" defaults that change based on context.

3. Composability

Output should be pipeable. Support --json for machine-readable output. Don't print decorations to stderr.

4. Speed

CLI tools should start in <100ms. If you nee