CLI Battle Royal 🥊💻

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            ⚔️  three models enter  •  one wins  ⚔️

Three CLIs. Three LLMs. Same inputs. No excuses.

So I took 3 different CLI tools (each backed by a different LLM) for a quick test drive to see how they behave in a real, day-to-day dev workflow.

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What I Tested (Setup & Goals)

1. Latest CLI versions + latest available models
2. Out-of-the-box experience — minimal setup, minimal glue code
3. Same exact inputs for everyone
   • identical UI image
   • identical prompt

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Why I’m Doing This

I’m building my own daily setup and I like to periodically sanity-check what’s out there:

• which tools uncover new capabilities
• which ones introduce pitfalls
• what I should plan for in my own workflows

This is an early, preliminary test.
I’ll keep iterating and adding branches based on:

• audience demand
• new tools / model releases
• features people request

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The Contenders

CLI	LLM	Link
Claude Code	Claude (Anthropic)	anthropics/claude-code
Codex CLI	GPT-X-Codex (OpenAI)	openai/codex
Gemini CLI	Gemini (Google)	google-gemini/gemini-cli

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Battles

#	Battle	Description	Code	Video
001	React Native UI	Build a mobile app from a UI screenshot	View	Coming Soon

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How to Navigate

cli-battle-royal/
├── README.md           # You are here
└── battles/
    └── 001-react-native-ui/
        ├── README.md   # Battle details
        ├── input/      # What each CLI was given
        ├── artifacts/  # Screenshots of results
        ├── claude/     # Claude Code output
        ├── codex/      # Codex CLI output
        └── gemini/     # Gemini CLI output

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License / Usage

All code in this repo is free to use for non-commercial purposes, as long as you give acknowledgment:

Credit required:

• Yossi Elkrief
• GitHub: MaTriXy (mention/profile link)

Commercial usage:
If you want to use any of this commercially (directly or inside a commercial product), please sponsor my GitHub first.

✅ Non-commercial use: allowed with attribution
💼 Commercial use: requires sponsorship + attribution

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Attribution Example

If you’re using code from this repo, include something like:

“Based on CLI Battle Royale by Yossi Elkrief (GitHub: MaTriXy).”

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Author

Built by Yossi Elkrief — GitHub: MaTriXy