Shell Completer

--- name: shell-completer description: Generate shell completion scripts for your CLI tools. Supports bash, zsh, and fish.

Shell Completer

Generate shell completion scripts for CLI tools. Inspired by zeroclaw completions command.

Setup

No dependencies required.

Usage

Generate completions for a tool

{baseDir}/completer.sh my-cli-tool --bash
{baseDir}/completer.sh my-cli-tool --zsh
{baseDir}/completer.sh --fish my-cli-tool

Generate from package.json scripts

{baseDir}/completer.sh --from-package

Auto-detect shell

{baseDir}/completer.sh my-cli-tool

Install completions

{baseDir}/completer.sh my-cli-tool --install

Output

# Generated completions can be:
# 1. Printed to stdout
{baseDir}/completer.sh my-tool

# 2. Saved to file
{baseDir}/completer.sh my-tool --output ~/.completions/_my-tool

# 3. Auto-installed
{baseDir}/completer.sh my-tool --install

Generated Script Example

#!/bin/bash
# Completion for my-cli-tool

_my_cli_tool_complete() {
    local cur prev opts
    COMPREPLY=()
    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
    prev="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}"
    opts="--help --version --config --verbose --quiet"
    
    if [[ ${cur} == -* ]]; then
        COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts}" -- ${cur}) )
        return 0
    fi
}

complete -F _my_cli_tool_complete my-cli-tool

When to Use

• Adding completions to new CLI tools
• Updating completions after CLI changes
• Setting up new development environments
• Creating completion scripts for custom tools