Show HN: Cloudwatch Insights tool for CLI users and agents
On building small CLI tools for myself – and now for my agents too. Walks through a recent one for querying CloudWatch Insights, and how I use Claude to analyze the logs it pulls down.
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Small tools, shared with agents: a CloudWatch Insights exampleMay 1, 2026I've always enjoyed making small tools for myself to improve daily life as a software developer. Most of the time they are CLI tools, since the command line is where I live most of my life. With the advent of agentic coding, this tendency of mine has multiplied. I'm writing more tools now. Agents are really good at writing small, self-contained tools, and you can kick one off from the Claude app on the phone as you sit on the loo. That's nice. But it has also multiplied in another way, because agents love to use CLI tools as much as I do. So I don't just build them for my own direct use; I also use them indirectly, through Claude Code (mostly). Some people would advocate the use of MCP for that type of integration.
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