Yep! Only (potential) downside to --bare is it runs in print mode; can't kick off an interactive session with it. The flags I listed above are a close approximation.
Anthropic had something about API-only in the description a couple months back, but they've been waking all those back for months since the fable access rollback fallout
I have some wrappers but the only one I really use is a variant of that pinned to haiku for quick questions.