How to use the AnyGen CLI Skill agent skill

What does the AnyGen CLI Skill make the agent do?

The skill gives an agent working knowledge of the cli-anything-anygen command-line interface. The source describes the tool as a stateful interface for the AnyGen OpenAPI, designed for AI agents and power users.

With the skill loaded, the agent can create generation tasks from a prompt, check or wait for task progress, download the generated file, thumbnail images, and manage local project and session state with undo and redo.

The skill also tells the agent to request machine-readable JSON output and to follow basic rules: check return codes, parse stderr on failure, use absolute paths, and verify that output files exist after exporting.

• Create generation tasks from natural-language prompts (task create, or task run for the full create, poll and download workflow)
• Check status without blocking (task status) or wait until completion (task poll)
• Download the generated file or a thumbnail for a completed task
• Keep a local list of task records (task list) and use session history, undo and redo
• Upload reference files to get a file token (file upload)

Install the AnyGen CLI Skill in Claude

Download the skill ZIP from this page. You can then install it in one of two ways.

Option 1: unzip it into your personal skills folder, ~/.claude/skills/, or into a project's .claude/skills/ folder if you want the skill only for that project.

Option 2: in the Claude apps, open Settings, go to Capabilities, and upload the ZIP under Skills.

• Personal install: unzip into ~/.claude/skills/
• Project install: unzip into the project's .claude/skills/ folder
• Claude apps: Settings → Capabilities → Skills, then upload the ZIP

Install the cli-anything-anygen command-line tool

The skill needs the command-line tool itself. The source installs it as a pip package named cli-anything-anygen. You need Python 3.10 or newer, and anygen must already be installed on your system.

Once installed, run the help command to confirm the tool is available. The source notes that running the CLI with no subcommand opens an interactive REPL session.

• Python 3.10 or newer is required
• anygen must be installed on the system
• The package is cli-anything-anygen

Add your AnyGen API key

The tool cannot generate anything without an AnyGen account and API key. Store the key with the config command group. The source lists config set, get, delete and path. It does not name the configuration key, so check the package README (which the source says is included) for the exact setting name.

To see where the configuration file is stored, use config path.

• config set sets a value
• config get shows one value or all values
• config delete removes a value
• config path shows the config file location

How do you trigger the skill with a natural request?

You do not need to type commands yourself. Once the skill is installed, ask the agent in plain language for the kind of output you want, and say that it should use AnyGen. The agent should then use the CLI, which the skill describes.

Good requests name the output type, the topic and any reference files. The skill covers slides, documents, websites and diagrams, so state which one you want.

• Make a 10-slide deck on quarterly sales results using AnyGen
• Use AnyGen to generate a one-page document summarising this project brief
• Create a simple website for our workshop using AnyGen and save the file locally
• Generate a diagram of our data pipeline with AnyGen and download it when it is ready

Example: a scripted command workflow

When you or an agent run the CLI directly, use --json before the subcommand to get structured output. Create a project file first, then query it.

The source also shows an interactive REPL, where undo and redo are available for command history.

• Human-readable output is the default; --json switches to structured output
• Undo and redo keep up to 50 levels of history in a session
• Projects are saved and loaded as JSON files