anti: Unified CLI Toolbox Specification

Overview

anti is a single binary CLI toolbox that quietly ignores the traditional Unix philosophy and crams a bunch of linux system and network essentials into an easy to use interface. It's a toolkit for the imposter, the hobbyist and anyone seeking to know just enough to be dangerous. Professionals and pursists, look away, nothing to see here.

If you're an engineer for whom "linux system admin" means always running the same 15 basic commands, anti may capture just enough essential functionality (the essential 50%) to become the fastest way to accelerate you in your efforts to pretend you know what you're doing.

It's strictly a pet, for fun, for hacking, it's a guilty pleasure. No warranties here.

anti is also an experiment in the effectiveness of collating an LLM’s averaged view of common unix software into a cohesive interface. Nearly every line of code, every design choice, every is shamelessly drawn from LLM’s view of "how people generally do this."

By its nature, this means anti is composed of strictly average code. (Average across the training set, average across decades of Unix tool design, average in performance. It may be less than average in terms of correctness, as this is heavily influenced by the author's ability to string correctly string together the generated functionality.

The theory: Combine enough "good-enough" functionality together into a harmonious interface and it may be possible to approach something genuinely useful, even if the internals are enough to make any seasoned professional grumpy.

Global CLI Structure

anti <domain> <command> [options]

Domains group related functionality. Commands perform specific actions. Options are consistent and kept minimal.

Domains and Commands

1. net (Networking)

net ping

anti net ping <host> [--count N] [--timeout S]

Lightweight ICMP ping.

net trace

anti net trace <host> [--tcp]

Traceroute using ICMP or TCP fallback.

net scan

anti net scan <host> [--ports 20-100] [--common]

Quick TCP port scanner.

net summary

anti net summary <host>

Runs ping, trace, DNS resolve, and scan sequentially. Outputs a compact health report.

net blitz

anti net blitz <host>

Combines summary with bandwidth and latency checks.

2. fs (Filesystem)

fs du

anti fs du <path> [--depth N] [--human]

Summarized directory sizes.

fs ls

anti fs ls <path> [--all] [--long]

Simplified directory listing.

fs find

anti fs find <path> <pattern> [--name|--ext]

Case-insensitive file search.

fs clean

anti fs clean <path>

Interactive cleaner: lists large files and directories for deletion.

fs summary

anti fs summary

Shows disk usage, mounts, and inode stats.

fs blitz

anti fs blitz

Scans for low disk space, largest files, and broken symlinks.

3. sys (System Information)

sys info

anti sys info

System summary including CPU, memory, uptime, disks, and network.

sys top

anti sys top

Basic live resource monitor.

sys mem

anti sys mem

Show memory usage snapshot.

sys blitz

anti sys blitz

One-shot system triage: CPU, memory, disk usage.

4. web (Web Utilities)

web fetch

anti web fetch <url> [--head] [--json]

Minimal HTTP client for GET and HEAD requests. No support for advanced features.

web tls

anti web tls <host>

Inspect TLS certificate expiry and chain.

web summary

anti web summary <url>

Fetch + DNS resolve + TLS check combined.

5. sec (Security Tools)

sec hash

anti sec hash <file> [--md5|--sha1|--sha256]

Generate basic file hashes.

sec audit

anti sec audit

Minimal security audit: open ports, SUID files, and sudoers.

sec blitz

anti sec blitz <host>

Quick host scan for open ports and TLS issues.

6. combo (Combined Workflows)

combo diagnose

anti combo diagnose <host>

Runs net summary, web summary, and sys info together.

combo triage

anti combo triage

Interactive guided diagnosis of common issues.

combo blitz

anti combo blitz <host>

Ping host, check disk space, list top processes, and output a summary.

Global Options

• --json - Output machine-readable JSON
• --quiet - Suppress non-essential output
• --verbose - Enable detailed output
• --no-color - Disable colored output
• --help - Show help for any command

Planned (Post-MVP)

anti tui

Interactive terminal UI for exploring anti functionality.

anti serve

Serves a local web UI for browser-based usage.

Design Principles

• Consistent and minimal options across commands
• Results cached between commands to avoid retyping inputs
• Partial implementations covering the most common use cases
• Single static binary for portability