Cheat sheet
Twenty commands cover most of what anyone does with clika-cli. Every one of them is documented in full on the page linked in the last column.
| # | Command | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | clika-cli --base-url https://platform.clika.io login --api-key | Log in once and save the deployment and credential to a profile. The bare --api-key prompts, so the secret never reaches your shell history. More |
| 2 | clika-cli auth me | Show which account the current credential belongs to. More |
| 3 | clika-cli --profile onprem devices list | Run any command against a second deployment, using its saved profile. More |
| 4 | clika-cli devices list --status online | See which devices are up right now. More |
| 5 | clika-cli devices get jetson-01 | Inspect one device in full, by name rather than UUID. More |
| 6 | clika-cli devices exec jetson-01 'nvidia-smi' | Run a command on a device and get its output and exit code back. More |
| 7 | clika-cli devices push jetson-01 ./run.sh /opt/clika/run.sh --permissions 0755 | Copy a local file onto a device. More |
| 8 | clika-cli devices files-fetch jetson-01 /var/log/agent.log ./agent.log | Pull a file back off a device, checksum verified. More |
| 9 | clika-cli devices connect jetson-01 | Open an SSH session to a device without looking up its address. More |
| 10 | clika-cli apply -f benchmark.yaml | Create or update whatever a YAML file names, idempotently for definitions. More |
| 11 | clika-cli benchmarks watch nightly-llm-sweep | Follow a benchmark to completion and exit non-zero if any leg failed. The CI gate. More |
| 12 | clika-cli benchmarks results nightly-llm-sweep -o json | Read a benchmark group's measured metrics, in a form a script can parse. More |
| 13 | clika-cli jobs list --status failed | Find the jobs that went wrong. More |
| 14 | clika-cli jobs execution-log <job> | Read what actually happened on the device during a job. More |
| 15 | clika-cli artifacts upload ./model.onnx --type model --version v2 | Put a file in the artifact library, resumably, however large it is. More |
| 16 | clika-cli artifacts download imagenet-val ./data/ | Stream an artifact back out to a local path. More |
| 17 | clika-cli export JobDefinition llm-latency > config.yaml | Bring a definition authored in the dashboard into your repository. More |
| 18 | clika-cli events tail --types job_completed | Follow the platform's durable event feed live, resumable from a cursor. More |
| 19 | clika-cli mcp --toolset device-ops | Serve the platform to an AI assistant as a curated set of tools. More |
| 20 | clika-cli self-update | Pull the CLI build this deployment publishes, checksum and signature verified. More |
Flags worth knowing
| Flag | Effect |
|---|---|
-o json | JSON instead of a table, pagination envelope included, for piping into jq. |
--profile <name> | Address a different deployment. |
-y | Answer confirmation prompts with yes. Required for a destructive delete in a script. |
--insecure-tls | Skip certificate verification, for an on-premise stack with a throwaway certificate authority. |
--dry-run | On apply, print the requests instead of sending them. |
--raw | On a generated command, print the response body byte for byte. |
When you do not know the command
clika-cli --help
clika-cli devices --help
clika-cli tools --tag devices
clika-cli help credentials
The first two walk the tree, tools lists every operation by tool name, and help <topic> prints the built-in prose guides. See the complete command index for every top-level command and the page that documents it.