CLI Overview

Complete inventory of all 28 NIKI CLI commands.

NIKI CLI Command Overview

NIKI v0.11.0 has 30+ top-level commands organized into four logical categories:

niki run <description>: Execute a coding task; the description is required.
niki status [id]: Print task status, revision count, branch, artifact path, and report path.
niki report [id]: Print a task’s report.md.
niki dashboard [--task <id>]: Generate dashboard.html and print its path; it does not open a browser.
niki plan <description>: Run Planner-only plan mode and write plan.md without creating a branch.
niki audit [id]: Emit a possibly partial JSON compliance bundle.
niki smoke: Run a quick end-to-end pipeline check.
niki eval: Replay or live-run the seeded-defect harness; niki eval grade records maintainer judgments.

niki config init|schema: Create niki.toml or write niki.schema.json.
niki init: Initialize configuration; --interactive runs the wizard and --scan drafts AGENTS.md.
niki auth login|logout|status: Manage OS-keyring credential records.
niki providers check: Send health checks to configured providers; bare niki providers is invalid because check is required.
niki doctor: Inspect installation, config, credential sources, container tooling, image, and security settings.
niki recommend: Select models from static role pairings; it can additionally display observed spend from project history.

niki memory show|tags|query|preview|clear|store|recall: Inspect and manage project/user memory.
niki goal new|list|status|pause|resume|cancel|clear|run|check|env|fork: Manage autonomous goals.
niki research query "<query>": Return raw DuckDuckGo result titles, URLs, and snippets.
niki inspect: Print a deterministic repository manifest.
niki architecture build: Rebuild the deterministic project knowledge base.
niki index build|query: Build or query the advisory structural symbol index.
niki skills list|candidates|promote|retire|show|diff: Manage versioned project skills.

niki chat: Launch the interactive terminal chat surface.
niki commands list|show|expand: Inspect built-in and project slash-command definitions.
niki session list|show|checkpoints|undo|rewind: Inspect and rewind saved sessions.
niki resume <session-id>: Resume an interrupted agent session from a checkpoint.
niki acp: Run the Agent Client Protocol server over stdio.
niki voice: Record audio and transcribe it through a configured provider.
niki verify <description>: Capture a screenshot and append intent to verify-manifest.json; it does not diff images.