arc-canteen 0.1.16

Arc Canteen CLI — track your project's progress and submit to Arc.

arc-canteen CLI

The CLI for you to build your next great project on Arc!

More about Arc here: https://docs.arc.io/arc-chain

• Use arc-canteen context | claude in order to pipe App Kits, Arc Sample Apps and Arc / Circle docs into your build. More here: https://github.com/the-canteen-dev/context-arc
• Use our testnet RPC once you log in: https://arc-node.thecanteenapp.com/
• Make yourself known as an Arc + Canteen builder to the Circle + Canteen teams! This CLI enables Canteen, Arc and Circle to provide you prizes, support and (maybe even) investment as you keep on building!

Make sure you rotate your key regularly if you're having trouble logging in: arc-canteen rotate-rpc-key

Installation

uv tool install arc-canteen

This places the binary at ~/.local/bin/arc-canteen. (pipx install arc-canteen or pip install arc-canteen also work.)

Upgrade

uv tool upgrade arc-canteen

Commands

Top-level

Command	Description
arc-canteen	Show your dashboard (default when no subcommand given)
arc-canteen login	Authenticate with GitHub and set up your profile
arc-canteen logout	Clear your local credentials
arc-canteen status	Show your dashboard
arc-canteen push	Push any queued local events to the server
arc-canteen ls [traction|product|all]	List all updates
arc-canteen history [traction|product|all]	Alias for ls
arc-canteen profile-edit	Shortcut for arc-canteen profile edit
arc-canteen update-traction	Shortcut for arc-canteen update traction
arc-canteen update-product	Shortcut for arc-canteen update product
arc-canteen submit-puzzle	Submit your answer to the current puzzle
arc-canteen submit-showcase	Submit your project as a candidate for the Arc Showcase
arc-canteen wallet	Show your funded testnet wallet (created and funded with $5 USDC on first run)
arc-canteen rpc <method> [params]	JSON-RPC call to the configured Arc chain
arc-canteen rpc-url [--export]	Print the JSON-RPC URL with your token embedded
arc-canteen rotate-rpc-key	Mint a fresh token, update config.yaml + $RPC, invalidate the old one
arc-canteen shell-init	Print rc snippet that auto-loads $RPC in every shell
arc-canteen context	Dump agent context (AGENTS.md + paths to docs and samples)
arc-canteen context sync	Clone/pull developer docs + samples from context-arc

arc-canteen profile

Command	Description
arc-canteen profile	View your profile
arc-canteen profile edit	Edit your Discord handle, Telegram, and email

arc-canteen update

Command	Description
arc-canteen update	Show recent updates
arc-canteen update traction	Submit a traction update
arc-canteen update product	Submit a product update

Agent context

arc-canteen context sync clones the-canteen-dev/context-arc into ~/.arc-canteen/context/. That repo bundles developer docs for Arc + Circle plus 5 sample codebases (as submodules). Subsequent sync invocations git pull --recurse-submodules.

arc-canteen context prints AGENTS.md plus a flat path manifest — pipe-friendly:

arc-canteen context | claude          # or aider / cody / cursor
arc-canteen context --paths           # just the paths, no entry-point content
arc-canteen context --full            # also inline every .md / .yaml

JSON-RPC

Use arc-canteen rpc <method> [params_json] to make authenticated JSON-RPC calls against the chain configured in ~/.arc-canteen/settings.yaml.

arc-canteen rpc eth_blockNumber                          # → 0x27a766a
arc-canteen rpc eth_chainId                              # → 0x4cef52
arc-canteen rpc eth_getBalance '["0xabc...", "latest"]'  # → 0x1bc16d674...
arc-canteen rpc eth_call '[{"to":"0xabc","data":"0x70a08231"}, "latest"]'
arc-canteen rpc eth_sendRawTransaction '["0xf86c..."]'
arc-canteen rpc eth_blockNumber --raw                    # full envelope

The proxy enforces a method allowlist; calls to disallowed methods return method '<x>' not allowed by the proxy.

Auto-load $RPC

arc-canteen login writes export RPC='<url>' to ~/.arc-canteen/env. To make every new shell pick it up, install one line:

arc-canteen shell-init >> ~/.bashrc      # or ~/.zshrc

After that, $RPC is set in every shell with no per-session step.

Rotating your key

arc-canteen rotate-rpc-key

Mints a fresh token (re-auth via your stored GitHub credential — no browser step), rewrites ~/.arc-canteen/config.yaml and ~/.arc-canteen/env, and invalidates the old token server-side. Update anything that hard-coded the old URL (a project .env, a CI secret) with the new one.

Tokens are good for 90 days; the dashboard nudges you as that approaches. arc-canteen logout also invalidates the token server-side.

Local state

• ~/.arc-canteen/config.yaml — auth (token + when it was issued) + profile + cached updates
• ~/.arc-canteen/settings.yaml — chain + event_name
• ~/.arc-canteen/queue.yaml — append-only event queue (synced to server)
• ~/.arc-canteen/env — export RPC='…'; sourced by your shell rc

Server

The CLI talks to https://arc-cli-server.thecanteenapp.com. The server is intentionally idempotent — re-sending an event that already landed is harmless, so the local queue can be replayed at any time.