The acai Command-line Interface helps you (or your agent, or script) perform common actions related to spec-driven development with Acai.

Primarily, it is used to push and pull specs and metadata to an acai server, and to read implementation status and notes from the server as well.

It works with our official hosted server, or your own self-hosted instance.

For Quickstart, docs and tutorials see https://acai.sh.

The CLI is available on NPM as a JavaScript bundle.

npm i -g @acai.sh/cli

If you don't have a JavaScript runtime, we have macOS and Linux releases available on GitHub.

You can install a standalone binary directly from a GitHub release asset. For example, on Linux x64:

curl -fL https://github.com/acai-sh/cli/releases/download/<version>/acai-linux-x64 -o acai
chmod +x acai
sudo mv acai /usr/local/bin/acai
acai --help

If you prefer a user-local install without sudo:

mkdir -p "$HOME/.local/bin"
curl -fL https://github.com/acai-sh/cli/releases/download/<version>/acai-linux-x64 -o "$HOME/.local/bin/acai"
chmod +x "$HOME/.local/bin/acai"
"$HOME/.local/bin/acai" --help

The CLI is written in TypeScript with bun and commander. It is aligned to the Acai.sh API using openapi-fetch and openapi-typescript.

The repo includes a .devcontainer.json so you can get up and running quickly. devpod cli is recommended but not required.

# from cli repo root
devpod up .

If you don't have devpod, you can open the repo in Zed/VSCode and click "open in devcontainer".

Apache 2.0. Contributors must sign a Contributor License Agreement. You are free to use, modify, and distribute this software, including for commercial purposes, under the terms of the license.

See our security checklist to understand how we protect this project and our users.