unix-cli-best-practices
unix-cli-best-practices is an agent skill published by flutter. It lives in the flutter/agent-plugins repository, which has 3,108 GitHub stars and is licensed under BSD-3-Clause; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Provides safe, portable, and efficient command-line patterns for macOS/BSD Unix tools and modern alternatives, covering common use cases like fast searching, text processing, and parallel execution.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads flutter/agent-plugins’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add flutter/agent-plugins
Maintenance
Safe, portable, and efficient command-line patterns for macOS/BSD Unix tools (grep, find, sed, awk, xargs, mdfind, pbcopy, open) and modern alternatives (ripgrep, fd). Covers common shell scripting and one-liner use cases including fast searching, text processing, codebase navigation, and parallel execution.
Common questions about unix-cli-best-practices
- What does unix-cli-best-practices do?
- Provides safe, portable, and efficient command-line patterns for macOS/BSD Unix tools and modern alternatives, covering common use cases like fast searching, text processing, and parallel execution.
- How do I install unix-cli-best-practices?
- Run npx skills add flutter/agent-plugins. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes unix-cli-best-practices?
- flutter.
- Is unix-cli-best-practices maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 3,108 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-21. The repository declares the BSD-3-Clause licence.