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AI friendly project actions CLI.

5 starsTypeScript

Kadai –> AI friendly, discoverable project tools

by billybat·Feb 26, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidShip ItSolve My Problem

Script discovery via MCP lets AI agents auto-discover team actions; Ink TUI for interactive actions is clever.

Strengths
  • •MCP integration means AI agents (Claude, etc.) auto-discover actions without manual prompt engineering
  • •Multi-runtime support (bash, Python, TypeScript, Ink) covers most team use cases
  • •Frontmatter metadata is simple and readable; avoids needing separate config files
Weaknesses
  • •Solves a narrow problem: 'team scripts as code'; dozens of script runners exist (just / task / make)
  • •No integration with version control or RBAC; permission model unclear for shared team repos
Target Audience

Full-stack developers, DevOps engineers, teams integrating AI agents into workflows

Similar To

just · task · make

Post Description

I kept building this for basically every project I built, so decided to make a standard version.

tl;dr: - add actions to .kadai/actions in your repo - run `bunx kadai` - get a little CLI menu to run your actions

actions are also 'AI friendly', meaning there's an .mcp.json setup that points to kadai so AI's can discover any actions you add to kadai

basically you can share scripts/actions across your team and also expose them to AI at the same time

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