Cloudflare has launched 'cf', a new AI agent-friendly CLI tool that goes beyond the limitations of its existing tool, Wrangler, to control all 3,000+ of its APIs.
Imagine this: You wake up in the morning and say to your AI agent, “Set up security for my website today, deploy a new Worker (serverless application), and monitor it.” Previously, a developer would have had to manually type dozens of commands to accomplish such complex tasks, but now we live in an era where AI can handle the work itself.
| Cloudflare recently unveiled ‘cf’, an entirely new command-line interface (CLI) in step with this “agentic era.” This is a symbolic event that signals a transformation in how we interact with technology, moving beyond just a simple tool update. [Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API | Cloudflare Blog](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-cf-cli-launch/) |
Why It Matters
Behind every smartphone app or website we use, there is a need for countless servers and configurations. This is what we call cloud technology, and developers have traditionally used a CLI tool called ‘Wrangler’ to manage these settings. However, the situation has completely changed.
Statistics show that 48% of Cloudflare’s API usage last week came from AI agents, not humans. Cloudflare launches cf, an agentic CLI covering its entire … Just a year ago, this figure was in the single digits, but now we are in an era where AI touches web infrastructure before—and more often than—humans. Cloudflare launches cf, an agentic CLI covering its entire … Cloudflare created this new tool for a simple reason: they needed to provide an environment where AI can work smarter and more conveniently.
The Explainer
‘cf’ is designed to handle almost every feature of Cloudflare at once.
To put it simply, if the existing tool, Wrangler, was a “small utensil kit” specialized for certain dishes, ‘cf’ is like a “full kitchen system with all the ingredients and tools” for the massive restaurant that is Cloudflare. AI can now cook whatever it wants much more freely in this vast kitchen.
| What specific technology is involved? Cloudflare has open-sourced a technology called ‘Forge’. [Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API | Cloudflare Blog](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-cf-cli-launch/) It acts like an “automated chef manufacturer.” It reads OpenAPI schemas—the complex rules for how machines communicate with each other—and automatically creates the necessary commands. [Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API | Noise](https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/28/introducing-cf-the-agentic-cli-for-the-entire-cloudflare-api/) |
| As a result, the supported functions have jumped from about 280 in the existing Wrangler to over 3,000. [Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API | Noise](https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/28/introducing-cf-the-agentic-cli-for-the-entire-cloudflare-api/) The decision to adopt JSON as the default format—which is easy for machines to understand and process, rather than tables intended for human eyes—was made entirely with AI in mind. [Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API | daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-cf-the-agentic-cli-for-the-entire-cloudflare-api-2x4miixan) |
Where We Stand
Currently, ‘cf’ is available in an open beta or technology premier format for anyone to try. Cloudflare Agent: Day 2 - by Aaron Lee Cloudflare launches cf, an agentic CLI covering its entire …
However, this tool is designed for AI to control the system directly via commands, rather than for humans to click through on a screen. Therefore, it is expected that technical experts who develop or operate AI-based automation solutions will see real benefits before general users do.
What’s Next
The arrival of ‘cf’ suggests that more IT companies will rush to release interfaces dedicated to AI agents.
| Developers will no longer just be people who write code directly; they will act as “AI conductors,” instructing AI on what tasks to perform and how to perform them. We are heading toward a world where AI, capable of freely handling over 3,000 APIs, makes our digital environment faster and safer, and ‘cf’ is throwing the door wide open. [Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API | Cloudflare Blog](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-cf-cli-launch/) |
References
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[Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API Cloudflare Blog](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-cf-cli-launch/) -
[Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API Noise](https://noise.getoto.net/2026/09/28/introducing-cf-the-agentic-cli-for-the-entire-cloudflare-api/) -
[Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-cf-the-agentic-cli-for-the-entire-cloudflare-api-2x4miixan) -
[Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare Cloudflare Blog](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cf-cli-local-explorer/) - Cloudflare’s cf CLI: Agentic Design Patterns for Command-Line Tools - DEV Community
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[Cloudflare CLI for AI Agents Composio](https://composio.dev/toolkits/cloudflare/framework/cli) - r/CloudFlare on Reddit: Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
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[Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879577) - Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API …
- Cloudflare overhauls its Wrangler CLI because its primary …
- A better graphical interface
- Integration of over 3,000 APIs and optimization for AI agents
- Simplified user account management
- Manually programming every command
- Automatically generating it from OpenAPI schemas using the Forge SDK generator
- Through contributions from an external open-source community
- HTML table
- JSON
- Text-based report