Show HN: Aclif – Agent CLI framework: one grammar, canonical names across SaaS
Aclif launched an agent CLI framework giving AI agents one grammar and canonical names to operate SaaS platforms like Salesforce and ServiceNow.
Aclif is an npm-distributed CLI framework that provides AI agents a single tool abstracting multiple SaaS providers with one grammar, one JSON envelope and canonical names mapped across platforms such as Salesforce and ServiceNow. It loads command definitions lazily to avoid standing context cost, offers credential-free introspection flags like --schema and --dry-run, and declares mutability, blast radius, reversibility and idempotency on every command for policy checks and auditing. An embeddable runtime lets host applications supply credentials, identity and policy per request, and workflows can run predefined command strings without inference.
- One grammar and canonical names across SaaS providers
- Lazy command loading keeps agent context size constant
- Every command declares mutability, blast radius and reversibility
- Errors name the failing command and a corrective fix
- Host-supplied credentials and policy separate design from run time
- Vendors
- Aclif
- Products
- Aclif CLISalesforceServiceNow
- Organizations
- Aclif
From the original article
7 min read at aclif.ai
aclif salesforce data query --query "SELECT Id FROM Account LIMIT 3" --dry-run aclif servicenow data query --table incident --query "active=true^priority=1" --dry-run tool on the list occupies the agent's context on every turn.
By chris_marino · aclif.ai
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