Assista CLI

Developer tooling for Odoo: environment diagnostics, project scaffolding, and module generation.

uv tool install assista-cli      # or: pipx install assista-cli
cd ~/my-odoo-project
assista init
assista doctor

Supports Odoo 12.0 – 19.0. Default target: 19.0.

Why

Odoo tells you it crashed. It does not tell you that your psycopg2 was built for python 3.11 while your venv is 3.12, that your PostgreSQL role lacks CREATEDB, or that your wkhtmltopdf is the unpatched build that silently drops report footers.

assista doctor answers "will my project run, and if not, exactly why" — and every failure it reports ends in a command you can run.

Commands

assista doctor                      # diagnose everything, 38 checks across 4 tiers
assista doctor --db mydb            # include per-database checks
assista doctor --format json        # versioned contract, for CI and editors
assista doctor --explain <check-id> # what a check means

assista init                        # adopt an existing checkout
assista create myproject            # new project: source + venv + odoo.conf

assista env resolve -V 19.0 -p 3.12 # exact dependencies Odoo declares
assista env create -V 13.0          # per-version venv, correct python
assista env sync                    # reconcile against Odoo's pins
assista env list / remove

assista source pull -V 19.0         # shallow clone, shared between projects
assista source list / update

assista module create sale_ext      # models, views, security, tests, i18n, README
assista module create --owl         # with an OWL component
assista module install / upgrade

assista run                         # start the server
assista run --watch --db mydb       # restart on .py, upgrade one module on .xml
assista shell                       # interactive ORM shell

assista db list                     # databases with size and Odoo version
assista db dump / duplicate / drop / neutralize

assista test sale_ext --db mydb     # run module tests
assista doctor --compare prod.json  # diff two environments
assista --install-completion        # shell completion

Note: odoo-bin db only exists from Odoo 16.0. On 12.0-15.0 the db commands refuse with the version that added them and what to use instead, rather than passing through a raw odoo-bin usage error.

What makes it useful

Dependency expectations are derived, never hand-maintained. Odoo's own requirements.txt encodes python-conditional pins as PEP 508 markers. assista evaluates them against your interpreter, so it knows Odoo 19 wants werkzeug==2.0.2 on python 3.10 and 3.0.1 on 3.12 — and stays correct through future Odoo releases with no updates from us.

Checks nothing else performs:

Version-correct scaffolding. Generated modules use <list> from 17.0, and group_ids / privilege_id from 19.0 — using the old names raises at install. Every generated module is validated in CI: python compiles, XML parses, the manifest is a valid literal, and every declared file exists.

Safe by default. db drop requires typing the database name; --yes is not accepted. Generated odoo.conf gets a random master password at mode 600 and binds to localhost. --dev warns when combined with a non-local bind, because a traceback then exposes an interactive python console.

Version support

Requirements

• Python 3.10+ (the CLI runs in its own isolated environment)
• uv for environment provisioning
• PostgreSQL client (psql, pg_dump) for database work

Development

uv venv --python 3.12 && uv pip install -e ".[dev]"
uv run pytest -q

Licence

LGPL-3.0-or-later