@polyant-ai/cli

polyant-cli is the transport between a local coding agent and a Polyant instance. It resolves a target and its credential, forwards requests to the management API, and reports results with stable exit codes.

It wraps the management API's routes as commands, but stops short of the request bodies: a structured payload arrives as --file <path|-> and is forwarded as given. The engine owns those schemas, and duplicating them here would guarantee drift. What the CLI does own is everything around the call — resolving the target and the credential, recapping a write before it happens, and turning the answer into an exit code.

The selected target serves interactive API documentation at /api/docs and the raw OpenAPI contract at /api/openapi.json. Some request body schemas are not yet published there; use the route documentation or engine source for those payloads instead of guessing them.

Install

Requires Node 20 or newer (engines enforces it). The CLI is distributed from this repository over https, and nowhere else: there is no npm registry package. Each release is a v<version> tag with a GitHub Release.

On your PATH, globally

Install the release tarball attached to the GitHub Release:

npm install -g https://github.com/polyant-ai/polyant-cli/releases/download/v0.9.1/polyant-ai-cli-0.9.1.tgz

Then polyant-cli --version works in any shell. The tarball carries the compiled dist/. Installing the git URL globally (npm install -g git+https://…) does not work: npm prepares a git dependency with the global flag still set, so the build tools never reach the clone and the install fails with tsc: command not found. Bear in mind the trade a global install makes: one version talks to every instance, including ones whose API has moved on — see Compatibility.

Per project

The CLI's version should follow the API version of the instance it talks to, so a project that scripts against one instance can pin the release tag as a dev dependency:

npm install -D git+https://github.com/polyant-ai/polyant-cli.git#v0.9.1

This one compiles on install: prepare runs tsc, so dist/ is built for you and no committed build can go stale. Pin the tag rather than a branch, so the CLI does not move under the project on the next push. The executable lands in node_modules/.bin, which npm scripts and npx already have on their PATH:

npx polyant-cli --version

Inside package.json scripts, plain polyant-cli works with no prefix:

{ "scripts": { "agents": "polyant-cli agent list" } }

From a local clone

For working on the CLI itself, or installing an unreleased revision:

git clone https://github.com/polyant-ai/polyant-cli.git && cd polyant-cli && npm install && npm run build

npm install already builds through prepare; the explicit npm run build is there for the rebuild after each edit. Then pick one:

npm link

Links polyant-cli onto your PATH pointing at the clone, so a npm run build is enough to pick up a change — no reinstall. This is the one to use while developing.

npm i -g .

Installs a copy instead: a snapshot that does not follow your edits.

If neither appeals, or npm link wants permissions you would rather not give it, an alias needs nothing installed at all:

alias polyant-cli='node /absolute/path/to/polyant-cli/dist/bin.js'

Check it landed

polyant-cli --version

Prints the package version and the Node version. If the command is not found after a global install, the bin directory under npm prefix -g has to be on your PATH.

Compatibility

The CLI talks to the engine's management API, so its version has to follow the instance's. There is no negotiation: a route the engine has not shipped answers 404, which the CLI reports as a usage error.

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