Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API

verdverm

Kudos to cloudflare on this, it looks like a great CLI, I especially like the `cf cli search`. Related, Matt Pocock's skill for having agents generate an interactive bash script for things only humans can do (or should do), presented in the context of devops like activities https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc... I have found that having the agents write scripts to use tools like this is better (less tokens, more reliability, fewer side quests) than giving it to them directly with markdown they may or may not follow on any given day. The other benefit to this is that you can put scripts on either side of the agent and remove all credentials from their process, removing whole classes of issues you don't want to have to tell your boss about. CLIs like this are great for read-only debug sessions, but if you are going to make modifications to your cloud infra, keep doing IaC.

unified101

I think the shape of clouds and services is going to change given current clouds are uxed for humans. Cloudflare is making the right bet. Specially the free agent report account. That's like a wonderful idea for building agent share.

smithclay

This is a lot to like here as someone who pretty much exclusively uses the Cloudflare API via agents. Hoping (since it's built on top of Forge), some kind of native terraform support is also in the works. Great when you're a solo dev deploying a worker, but would be incredible for production deployments if this could also just natively output terraform code.

alasano

I don't know what it is about wrangler that made me dislike it so much but I welcome this change since it's meant to replace wrangler.

recroad

This is cool, but I've never had an issue with agents working on Cloudflare by just making REST calls. With the rest docs, it knows pretty much everything about what kind of operations it can do. Is the CLI a subset of that or does in encompass everything?

slowin

I don't understand why this is written in Typescript. This is a great example of how agents can write code (I'm sure they wrote `cf`), yet having fundamental computer science knowledge is still critical. Do not force your users to manage the dependencies of your cli. Do write your cli in a compiled language. Understand the reason for those decisions and tell your agents to use the correct architecture.

esafak

1.0 isn't actually out and CI is red. https://github.com/cloudflare/cf/commits/main/ https://github.com/cloudflare/cf/releases I have been using the pre-releases with success, but this post could have waited a few days!

emadabdulrahim

It's crazy that some of the best product launches nowadays are CLIs.

ozarkerD

Great now i have to uninstall the Cloudfoundry CLI to not collide with this :)

zarmin

so uh, the favicon for cloudflare and soundcloud are just the same thing now? soundcloudflare?

vamsiraju

"Our new configuration format is based on TypeScript" This is the most head scratching but interesting bit.

bhouston

Nice! I would recommend you support one of the opencli specs, like https://clidoc.dev so that it is fully discoverable with examples, etc.

hackernud3s

It can do everything except make the token to give it permissions. For that you need to dig through their website to find the tokens section. Oh and they change where that lives every week.

creatonez

Is this a joke? Why would you want to use a random word generator on production infrastructure configuration? Cloudflare should be blocking these malicious/incompetent users, not enabling them.