CLI first, how orbit rows extend your preferred AI tools.

Orbit Rows started with a simple idea: make store data and spreadsheets easier to manage through everyday instructions or an uploaded file.

OrbitRows is a proof of concept that turns plain-language requests into structured data operations. A request like “Reduce prices by 5%, but never below cost” is broken down into what should change, which records to target, and which rules to respect. The goal is to let people manage their data without writing SQL or editing records one by one.

Before it even had a name, I imagined a WordPress extension. Store owners would update their content through an AI chat. A familiar conversation, connected to the work they repeat every day.

As development progressed, the problem became broader.

Beyond importing and exporting

Import and export tools already cover many common store updates.

What interested me was the logic behind the changes: understanding an instruction, identifying the relevant data, and determining which operations to apply.

That problem extends across stores, spreadsheets, and other sources of organized information.

It also raised a product question:

Where should this capability live to be useful in someone’s daily workflow?

Why I’m proposing CLI first

My proposed direction is to deliver Orbit Rows as a command-line interface, or CLI.

That would give compatible AI tools a way to call it directly. Skills or plugins could help those assistants understand when and how to use it.

Someone working in Claude, Codex, or another assistant capable of running commands could access Orbit Rows from that same environment.

The intended workflow is simple:

1. Describe the task in your preferred AI tool.
2. The assistant calls Orbit Rows to handle the data operation.
3. The result comes back into the same conversation.

For example:

Reduce prices by 5% for products in this category.

The CLI would sit underneath that interaction. Users could keep working through the chat they already know.

A tool that fits into your workflow

For people already using AI in their daily work, this approach could reduce context switching and the effort of learning another application.

More broadly, I believe software should offer interfaces that let people connect it to their AI workflows. A CLI is one practical way to make that possible.

That is the direction I want for Orbit Rows: making data management available inside the tools people already choose to work with.