Let Claude Use Real Apps: CLI-Anything, the Free Open-Source Tool for Blender, GIMP and More
Claude can't click buttons, so this tool builds it a set of commands for the app instead. How to install it in Claude Code, the apps it already covers, a first prompt to try, and the catch
CLI-Anything is a free, open-source tool (Apache-2.0, 53,000+ GitHub stars) that turns desktop software into something Claude can drive. It reads an app's code and writes a command-line tool for it, so Claude can edit a photo in GIMP, build a scene in Blender or convert a document in LibreOffice by running commands, and the real app does the work.
Here's what it covers, how to set it up in Claude Code, a prompt to start with, and the catch.
Apps it already covers
- Images and design: GIMP, Inkscape, Draw.io.
- 3D and games: Blender, FreeCAD, Godot.
- Audio and video: Audacity, OBS Studio, Kdenlive, Shotcut.
- Documents and research: LibreOffice, Zotero, Calibre.
- AI tools: ComfyUI, Ollama. About 48 ready-made command sets in total on CLI-Hub.
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