devlift-cli

DevLift from the terminal, in the style of the AWS CLI:

devlift <group> <operation> [flags]

Every command is a fixed sequence of calls to the DevLift backend's REST API, the same endpoints the web dashboard uses. Nothing here talks to an LLM.

Install

pip install devlift-cli

Or, to keep it in its own environment and off your system Python:

pipx install devlift-cli

Upgrade with pip install -U devlift-cli (or pipx upgrade devlift-cli). Your profile and sign-in live in ~/.config/devlift and survive upgrades.

Then:

devlift configure --base-url <your DevLift backend> --default
devlift login
devlift whoami
devlift man

Requires Python 3.11 or newer. To remove it: pip uninstall devlift-cli (or pipx uninstall devlift-cli). That leaves ~/.config/devlift, so delete that too if you want your profiles and sign-in gone as well.

Several backends? devlift profile list, devlift profile use <name> and devlift profile show switch between them and say which one is active.

Manual

The full command reference ships inside the package: devlift man pages through it like man, and devlift manual s3 prints one section.

What it covers

• Resources: s3, sqs, dynamodb create / list / describe, s3 and sqs update.
• Services: eks create / edit / show / diff / deploy / status, kong route add / remove / rename, kong plugin add.
• Review lane: request submit / withdraw / discard / list / show, approval approve / request-changes / reject / revoke / list.
• Deployments: deployment list / status, queue list.
• Discovery: applications, environments, regions, resource groups, services, repositories, branches, languages.

Variables and secrets stay in the dashboard by design.

Scripting

• -o json prints only JSON on stdout (the default when stdout is not a terminal).
• --yes answers confirmations, --no-input fails instead of prompting.
• DEVLIFT_TOKEN skips the stored login. DEVLIFT_PROFILE, DEVLIFT_BASE_URL override the profile.
• Exit codes: 0 ok · 1 error · 2 not signed in · 3 bad input · 4 permission · 5 confirmation needed · 6 not found · 7 conflict.

Claude skill

skills/devlift/ teaches Claude (Claude Code or any Agent Skills host) to drive this CLI non-interactively. Install with:

ln -s "$(pwd)/skills/devlift" ~/.claude/skills/devlift      # personal
# or copy it into a project's .claude/skills/devlift

Development

Building, testing and cutting a release: see CONTRIBUTING.md in the source repository. It is deliberately not part of the published package.