opencli: Universal AI-Native CLI Runtime — Turn Any Website or App into a Standardized Command-Line Interface

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opencli (3,992 GitHub stars, TypeScript) transforms any website, Electron app, or local binary into a standardized command-line interface built for AI agent runtimes. It positions as an MCP alternative for cases where direct CLI access is more token-efficient than schema injection — the agent calls a CLI rather than ingesting a full tool schema. The project is explicitly built for AI runtimes as first-class consumers, not human developers, signaling a new category of infrastructure optimized for agent-native tool access.