🔗 Supercharging Claude code with the right (CLI) tools

I’ve been using Claude Code quite a bit lately, and I got curious – what if I asked it directly which tools would make it more productive? Not the usual suspects like ripgrep, jq or git, but tools it wishes it had access to, tools that would genuinely extend its capabilities.

So I did exactly that. I asked Claude Code: “What are the most valuable CLI tools I could install for you, outside of the ones you already have?” The answer was surprisingly thoughtful and insightful, so I figured I’d share it here along with my own commentary. Here are 10 tools, ranked by how useful they’d be for an AI coding assistant.