CLI Overview

Complete inventory of all 16 NIKI CLI commands.

NIKI CLI Command Overview

NIKI ships with 16 top-level CLI commands organized into 4 logical categories:

1. Pipeline & Task Execution

• niki run <task>: Execute an end-to-end multi-agent coding task.
• niki status: Display status, current stage, and verdict of the active or latest task.
• niki report [id]: Render the markdown decision trail report.
• niki dashboard [id]: Launch or locate the visual HTML diff & review dashboard.

2. Configuration, Auth & Diagnostics

• niki config: Initialize or validate configuration files and export JSON schemas.
• niki auth: Manage secure credentials stored in the OS keyring (login, logout, status).
• niki providers: Health check all configured LLM provider connections.
• niki doctor: Complete system diagnostic suite across dependencies, containers, and permissions.
• niki recommend: AI-assisted model recommendation based on cost/reasoning tradeoffs.

3. Autonomous Agents & Memory

• niki goal: Autonomous long-running goal runner with self-healing and drift recovery.
• niki memory: Inspect, query, tag, or prune hierarchical cross-session project memory.
• niki research <query>: Autonomous web search & cited technical summary generator.

4. Interactive TUI, Benchmarking & Verification

• niki chat: Interactive terminal chat interface with streaming markdown and slash commands.
• niki smoke: End-to-end smoke testing harness for pipeline verification.
• niki eval: Benchmark NIKI on seeded defect datasets.
• niki verify: Visual screenshot regression testing and manifest tracking.