clickup-cli
A CLI for the ClickUp API, optimized for AI agents and human users.
Covers all ~130 endpoints across 28 resource groups and 4 utility commands.
Why?
ClickUp's API responses are massive. A single task list query returns deeply nested JSON — statuses, assignees, priorities, custom fields, checklists, dependencies — easily 12,000+ tokens for just 5 tasks. For AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) operating within context windows, this is a serious problem: a few API calls can consume most of an agent's available context.
clickup-cli solves this with token-efficient output by default:
Full API JSON for 5 tasks: ~12,000 tokens (450 lines)
clickup-cli table output: ~150 tokens (7 lines)
Reduction: ~98%The CLI flattens nested objects, selects only essential fields, and renders compact tables. Agents get the information they need without drowning in JSON. When you need the full response, --output json is always available.
Beyond token efficiency, the clickup-cli CLI (or clkup for short) gives AI agents a simple, predictable interface to ClickUp: clickup-cli <resource> <action> [ID] [flags]. No SDK, no auth boilerplate, no JSON parsing — just shell commands with structured output.
