diff --git a/src/client/lazy-app/Compress/Options/index.tsx b/src/client/lazy-app/Compress/Options/index.tsx
index 5208775d..5cd27d3b 100644
--- a/src/client/lazy-app/Compress/Options/index.tsx
+++ b/src/client/lazy-app/Compress/Options/index.tsx
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import 'add-css:./style.css';
 import { cleanSet, cleanMerge } from '../../util/clean-modify';
 
 import type { SourceImage, OutputType } from '..';
+import type SnackBarElement from 'shared/initial-app/custom-els/snack-bar';
 import {
   EncoderOptions,
   EncoderState,
@@ -19,8 +20,11 @@ import Select from './Select';
 import { Options as QuantOptionsComponent } from 'features/processors/quantize/client';
 import { Options as ResizeOptionsComponent } from 'features/processors/resize/client';
 
+import { generateCliInvocation } from '../../util/cli-invocation-generator';
+
 interface Props {
   index: 0 | 1;
+  showSnack: SnackBarElement['showSnackbar'];
   mobileView: boolean;
   source?: SourceImage;
   encoderState?: EncoderState;
@@ -106,6 +110,22 @@ export default class Options extends Component<Props, State> {
     this.props.onEncoderOptionsChange(this.props.index, newOptions);
   };
 
+  private onCreateCLIInvocation = () => {
+    if (!this.props.encoderState) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    try {
+      const cliInvocation = generateCliInvocation(
+        this.props.encoderState,
+        this.props.processorState,
+      );
+      navigator.clipboard.writeText(cliInvocation);
+    } catch (e) {
+      this.props.showSnack(e);
+    }
+  };
+
   render(
     { source, encoderState, processorState }: Props,
     { supportedEncoderMap }: State,
@@ -125,7 +145,9 @@ export default class Options extends Component<Props, State> {
         <Expander>
           {!encoderState ? null : (
             <div>
-              <h3 class={style.optionsTitle}>Edit</h3>
+              <h3 class={style.optionsTitle}>
+                <button onClick={this.onCreateCLIInvocation}>CLI</button>Edit
+              </h3>
               <label class={style.sectionEnabler}>
                 Resize
                 <Toggle
diff --git a/src/client/lazy-app/Compress/index.tsx b/src/client/lazy-app/Compress/index.tsx
index 455c7b3e..426aff91 100644
--- a/src/client/lazy-app/Compress/index.tsx
+++ b/src/client/lazy-app/Compress/index.tsx
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ export default class Compress extends Component<Props, State> {
   }
 
   render(
-    { onBack }: Props,
+    { onBack, showSnack }: Props,
     {
       loading,
       sides,
@@ -839,6 +839,7 @@ export default class Compress extends Component<Props, State> {
     const options = sides.map((side, index) => (
       <Options
         index={index as 0 | 1}
+        showSnack={showSnack}
         source={source}
         mobileView={mobileView}
         processorState={side.latestSettings.processorState}
diff --git a/src/client/lazy-app/util/cli-invocation-generator.ts b/src/client/lazy-app/util/cli-invocation-generator.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2d902865
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/lazy-app/util/cli-invocation-generator.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright 2020 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import { EncoderState, ProcessorState } from '../feature-meta';
+
+// Maps our encoder.type values to CLI parameter names
+const typeMap = new Map<string, string>([
+  ['avif', '--avif'],
+  ['jxl', '--jxl'],
+  ['mozJPEG', '--mozjpeg'],
+  ['oxiPNG', '--oxipng'],
+  ['webP', '--webp'],
+  ['wp2', '--wp2'],
+]);
+
+// Same as JSON.stringify, but with single quotes around the entire value
+// so that shells don’t do weird stuff.
+function cliJson<T>(v: T): string {
+  return "'" + JSON.stringify(v) + "'";
+}
+
+export function generateCliInvocation(
+  encoder: EncoderState,
+  processor: ProcessorState,
+): string {
+  if (!typeMap.has(encoder.type)) {
+    throw Error(`Encoder ${encoder.type} is unsupported in the CLI`);
+  }
+  return [
+    'npx',
+    '@squoosh/cli',
+    ...(processor.resize.enabled
+      ? ['--resize', cliJson(processor.resize)]
+      : []),
+    ...(processor.quantize.enabled
+      ? ['--quant', cliJson(processor.quantize)]
+      : []),
+    typeMap.get(encoder.type)!,
+    cliJson(encoder.options),
+  ].join(' ');
+}