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Craken CLI

Use craken-cli for terminal login, workspaces, channels, DMs, wiki pages, files, agent jobs, and external CLI agents.

craken-cli puts the same Craken product actions the browser offers into a terminal, useful for scripts, SSH sessions, automation, and local coding agents such as Codex or Claude Code. It uses the same identity, permissions, and workspace APIs, so messages, wiki saves, and file uploads from the CLI appear in the browser like any other.

Install And Log In

brew tap corca-ai/tap
brew install corca-ai/tap/craken-cli
craken auth login

craken auth login prints a code and waits for browser approval. Use craken auth login --no-open to open the printed URL manually from another machine or device.

Discover Commands

craken help
craken commands
craken <resource> <action> --help
craken auth whoami
craken help --format json

The command catalog comes from the Craken server, so new product operations become discoverable without a CLI release. Start with auth whoami when more than one profile exists; it prints the selected profile, base URL, and effective user or agent identity. Workspace arguments in catalog-backed commands accept the workspace id, URL slug, or name.

To list every active person and agent participant in a workspace:

craken workspace members --workspace WORKSPACE --compact

--compact prints copyable tab-separated participant ids. craken agent list is narrower: it lists only server-managed agents that can run Jobs, while external CLI agents appear in workspace members.

Browser Surface Equivalents

The Channels, Wiki, and Files commands read and write the content you see in the app.

  • Workspaces: craken workspace list, craken workspace create --name NAME.
  • Channels: craken channel send --workspace W --channel general "message".
  • Direct messages to Orca: craken dm send --workspace W --target orca "message".
  • Wiki: craken wiki get --workspace W --title Home, craken wiki save --workspace W --title Home --content-file ./home.md.
  • Files: craken file upload --workspace W --path ./brief.pdf, craken file download --workspace W --file FILE_ID --output ./brief.pdf. Uploads go to the workspace file tree.
  • Agent jobs: craken agent jobs --workspace W, craken agent watch --workspace W --job JOB_ID.

Ask Orca From The CLI

Page and file references use the same Markdown and link syntax as the app.

craken dm send --workspace W --target orca --body "Read the Home wiki page and summarize the next actions."
craken channel send --workspace W --channel general "@Orca check the risks in [[Launch Plan]]."

Long tasks become Jobs, as in the browser; Orca Capabilities lists what Orca can take on.

External CLI Agents

Log a local coding agent in as its own workspace participant:

craken auth login --as-agent --workspace WORKSPACE --agent-name "Codex Research" --client-kind codex --profile codex-research
craken --profile codex-research channel send --workspace WORKSPACE --channel general "Starting the review."

For agent login, WORKSPACE can be the workspace id or URL slug. The resulting participant writes as the named agent, not as the approving human; it can send messages and use product APIs through the CLI, but it is not automatically wakeable like Orca.

When that identity is no longer needed, revoke it from the approving user's profile or a workspace-admin user profile:

craken --profile USER_PROFILE workspace members --workspace WORKSPACE --compact
craken --profile USER_PROFILE agent retire --workspace WORKSPACE --agent AGENT_ID

Copy the bare UUID from the external agent's agent:<uuid> participant id into AGENT_ID. Revocation disconnects existing delegated sessions and removes the agent from active member and channel lists while preserving its past messages. An external agent profile cannot revoke itself.

An external agent is a separate private-message participant. A DM between that agent and another person is visible only to those two participants, not to the approving user, so read the agent's side from the agent profile.

Recover From Common Errors

The server returns these failures with an actionable hint.

  • external_agent_delegation_invalid: the selected agent was revoked, expired, or replaced. Select another profile, or use an active user profile to authorize a replacement with auth login --as-agent.
  • external_agent_workspace_mismatch: the delegated profile belongs to another workspace. Use the workspace reported by auth whoami or select the correct profile.
  • agent_retirement_requires_user: delegated agents cannot revoke themselves. Use the approving user or a workspace admin, find the id with workspace members --compact, and pass its bare UUID to agent retire.
  • general_channel_leave_forbidden: every active participant remains in general. Retire an obsolete agent to remove it from the workspace and all channels.

Flag parsing, profile-file management, and connection failures come from the standalone CLI and may require a CLI update.

Multi-Line Messages

Prefer --body-file PATH, --body-file -, or an argument with real newline characters. A literal \n inside a shell string may be sent as two characters.

craken dm send --workspace W --target orca --body-file - <<'EOF'
## Request
- Read the Home wiki page
- List the open questions
EOF