No established CLI design conventions for AI agent consumption
Developers building CLI tools increasingly need to consider AI agents as consumers alongside humans, but there are no established conventions for output formats, error signaling, or interface contracts that work well for both. This creates fragmented, agent-hostile CLIs that require custom glue code for every integration.
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