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Top 10 CLI Tools to Level-Up Claude Code

Shrijal Acharya on April 06, 2026

I've been using Claude Code more than any other AI agents recently. And when it's the tool you use the most, it just makes sense to make that work...

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Debajyati Dey • Apr 8

you missed one - or maybe two - qsv, jq and tennis. Oh they are 3 now. expected at least two of them to be in the list.

However, still a great list anyway.

Shrijal Acharya Composio • Apr 8

I haven’t heard of or used qsv or tennis. But I do have jq installed, which I first learned about through Primeagen streams. Thanks for mentioning it, Deb :)

Debajyati Dey • Apr 8

Me too. I first saw jq in Primeagen streams

Shrijal Acharya Composio • Apr 6

What do you think of these? Lmk your choices or anything I've missed including in this blog

Bhaskar Prajapati • Apr 6

I think the tool is supposed to be exa. that's the replacement to ls in linux

Shrijal Acharya Composio • Apr 6

You're correct. But exa is no longer maintained. eza is the maintained fork of eza. hope that helps

Shrijal Acharya Composio • Apr 6

Here's the link to eza: github.com/eza-community/eza

Nabin Bhardwaj • Apr 6

thanks for sharing tmux

Shrijal Acharya Composio • Apr 6

Athreya aka Maneshwar • Apr 7

How about

ajeetdsouza / zoxide

A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

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zoxide

zoxide is a smarter cd command, inspired by z and autojump.

It remembers which directories you use most frequently, so you can "jump" to them in just a few keystrokes.
zoxide works on all major shells.

Getting started • Installation • Configuration • Integrations

Getting started

z foo              # cd into highest ranked directory matching foo
z foo bar          # cd into highest ranked directory matching foo and bar
z foo /            # cd into a subdirectory starting with foo
z ~/foo            # z also works like a regular cd command
z foo/             # cd into relative path
z ..               # cd one level up
z -                # cd into previous directory

zi

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Shrijal Acharya Composio • Apr 7

Zoxide is top notch. I use it like a cd replacement most of the time. Not fully replacing cd the way the docs suggest, but yeah, I end up using z for most of the time anyway

I didn’t give it a full section though, just mentioned it in the “A few more nice ones” bit with fd, yazi, bat, and the rest. Thanks Athreya, good call on that 🙌

Athreya aka Maneshwar • Apr 7