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# CometChat CLI
> Authenticate against the CometChat dashboard, provision app credentials, toggle features, and manage the AI agent skills — all from your terminal, with JSON output for scripting and CI.
CometChat ships two complementary command-line tools:
| Tool | Package | What it does |
| --------------------------------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Credentials CLI** (`cometchat`) | `@cometchat/skills-cli` | Dashboard authentication + app-credential provisioning + feature toggles |
| **Skills installer** | `@cometchat/skills` | Install, list, and verify the [AI Agent Skills](/agent-skills) |
Despite its package name, `@cometchat/skills-cli` is the **credentials** tool —
it doesn't install skills. It provides a `cometchat` command, so the CLI's own
messages (for example *"Run `cometchat auth login`"*) use that short form. This
page runs it through `npx`; `cometchat auth login` and
`npx @cometchat/skills-cli auth login` are the same command. The skills
themselves are installed by `@cometchat/skills`.
The credentials CLI is **standalone** — use it on its own, in a script, or in CI.
It's a pure dashboard/API client: it authenticates, fetches your app credentials
(App ID / Region / Auth Key), and writes a neutral `.cometchat/config.json`. By
design it does **not** detect your framework, write env files, or generate code,
so it stays framework-agnostic and works with any stack. The
[agent skills](/agent-skills) are one consumer that can run it for you — but the
CLI doesn't require them.
Both run through `npx` with no global install, and most commands accept `--json`
for machine-readable output (the exceptions are `config set` and `config path`,
which print plain text).
## Prerequisites
* **Node.js 18+** — both CLIs run through `npx`.
* A **CometChat account** — [sign up free](https://app.cometchat.com). `auth login` opens the dashboard in your browser to authenticate.
***
## Credentials CLI — `@cometchat/skills-cli`
Its only job is authenticating against the CometChat dashboard and fetching your
**App ID / Region / Auth Key**, then writing a neutral `.cometchat/config.json`
that any tool — your own scripts, a CI job, or the agent skills — can read.
### Quick start
```bash theme={null}
# 1. Authenticate against the dashboard (opens your browser)
npx @cometchat/skills-cli auth login
# 2. List the apps on your account
npx @cometchat/skills-cli provision list --json
# 3. Select an app, fetch its creds, write .cometchat/config.json
npx @cometchat/skills-cli provision run
# 4. Inspect the local config you just wrote
npx @cometchat/skills-cli config show --json
```
### Authenticate
```bash theme={null}
npx @cometchat/skills-cli auth login
```
Opens your browser at the CometChat dashboard for device authentication and
stores the bearer token in your OS keychain (falling back to a `chmod 600` file).
| Command | Purpose |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| `auth login` | Sign in via the dashboard (device auth) |
| `auth status` | Show whether you're signed in |
| `auth me` | Print the authenticated account |
| `auth logout` | Clear the stored token |
| `auth signup` | Create a CometChat account |
### Provision credentials
```bash theme={null}
npx @cometchat/skills-cli provision run
```
Fetches the app's **App ID / Region / Auth Key** and writes a neutral
`.cometchat/config.json`, then prints the selected app (`✓ App ()`)
and the config path. Add `--json` to get the credentials as JSON instead. It
writes **no** framework env file — read `config.json` and set your framework's
env vars (`.env` / `VITE_` / `NEXT_PUBLIC_` …) yourself, or let the agent skills
do it.
Which app it uses depends on how many your account has:
* **One app** — it uses that app.
* **Several apps** — it lists them and asks you to pick one, or to enter `n` to
create a new app. This needs an interactive terminal; in a script, use
`provision list` and then `provision use --app-id `.
* **No apps** — it exits with an error. Create one first with
`provision create --name `.
| Command | Purpose |
| -------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| `provision run` | Select an app (see above), fetch its creds, write config |
| `provision list` | List the apps on your account |
| `provision create --name ` | Create a new app (`--name` required) |
| `provision use --app-id ` | Select a specific app by id |
Create a new app non-interactively — `--name` is required, `--region` and
`--industry` are optional:
```bash theme={null}
npx @cometchat/skills-cli provision create --name "My Chat" --region us
```
The config file `provision` writes:
```json theme={null}
{
"$schema": "https://cometchat.com/schemas/config.json",
"version": 1,
"appId": "…",
"region": "us",
"authKey": "…",
"appName": "My Chat",
"plan": "…",
"industry": "…"
}
```
`.cometchat/config.json` contains your **Auth Key**. The CLI writes it readable
by your user only (`chmod 600`) and adds it to `.gitignore` for you. If the file
is **already tracked** by git, the CLI warns you — a `.gitignore` entry doesn't
untrack it, so run `git rm --cached .cometchat/config.json` and commit. The Auth
Key is for **development only**; in production, mint a per-user **auth token** on
your backend and log in with `loginWithAuthToken()` instead of shipping the Auth
Key to a client.
### Manage config
Read and edit the local `.cometchat/config.json` (credential/app state only):
| Command | Purpose |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `config init [--app-id ] [--region ] [--auth-key ]` | Create or update the config from the given values — no dashboard login needed |
| `config get ` | Read a single value |
| `config set ` | Write a single value |
| `config show` | Print the full config |
| `config path` | Print the config file location |
`config show` prints the **Auth Key** in clear text, with or without `--json`,
and so do `config get authKey` and `provision run --json`. Avoid running them
while screen-sharing or anywhere the output is logged.
### Toggle features
Enable or disable app features from the terminal. These commands call the
dashboard, so run `auth login` first:
| Command | Purpose |
| ------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------- |
| `features list` | List available features and their state |
| `features enable ` | Turn a feature on |
| `features disable ` | Turn a feature off |
| `features ai-key ` | Set the app's OpenAI key that AI features need |
Every `features` command targets the app in `.cometchat/config.json`. Pass
`--app-id ` to target a different app:
```bash theme={null}
npx @cometchat/skills-cli features list --app-id "$COMETCHAT_APP_ID" --json
```
AI features need an OpenAI key before they can run. The key is a required
argument — pass it from an environment variable so it doesn't land in your shell
history:
```bash theme={null}
npx @cometchat/skills-cli features ai-key "$OPENAI_API_KEY"
```
***
## Skills CLI — `@cometchat/skills`
Installs and manages the [AI Agent Skills](/agent-skills) that let your coding
agent build with CometChat.
```bash theme={null}
npx @cometchat/skills add
```
| Command | Purpose |
| -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `detect` | Probe the current project (framework, UI Kit, version conflicts) |
| `add [--ide ] [--no-mcp]` | Install the skills for an AI agent (default: Claude Code) and connect the CometChat Docs MCP (`--no-mcp` skips it) |
| `list` | List the skills this pack ships |
| `info ` | Show a skill's triggers + compatibility |
| `verify [tier]` | Run the skill quality gates |
| `catalog` | Refresh the component catalog from the installed UI Kit |
| `doctor` | Environment health check |
`add` doesn't prompt: with no `--ide` it installs for Claude Code. See
[Agent Skills](/agent-skills) for the supported agents and their `--ide` values,
`--global`, and the prompt-driven workflow.
***
## Scripting and CI
`auth login` is interactive: it opens a browser and waits for you to approve the
sign-in, so on a CI runner it times out (`TIMEOUT`). In CI, skip the dashboard
login and write the config straight from your pipeline secrets with
`config init`, which needs no login:
```bash theme={null}
# Write .cometchat/config.json from CI secrets, then install the skills for Claude Code
npx @cometchat/skills-cli config init --app-id "$COMETCHAT_APP_ID" --region "$COMETCHAT_REGION" --auth-key "$COMETCHAT_AUTH_KEY"
npx @cometchat/skills add --ide claude
```
Don't add `--json` to `config init` in CI — its JSON output includes the Auth
Key, which would end up in your build logs. Store the App ID, Region, and Auth
Key as masked CI secrets.
The commands that call the dashboard — `provision` and `features` — need
`auth login`, so run them from your own machine rather than in CI. Everywhere
else, most commands support `--json` (the exceptions are `config set` and
`config path`, which print plain text).
Commands **exit non-zero on failure** and surface dashboard errors verbatim (for
example `ACCESS_DENIED`, `EXPIRED`, `TIMEOUT`, `ABORTED`), so a broken auth or
provisioning step fails the CI job loudly instead of continuing with empty
credentials.
## Next steps
Install the skills and build CometChat from natural-language prompts
Connect CometChat to any Model Context Protocol–compatible agent
The manual React UI Kit setup, credentials and all
The manual Angular UI Kit setup, credentials and all
Open the CometChat dashboard