drydock-cli 1.7.3

Drydock — nautical CLI coding agent

DryDock

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Nautical CLI coding agent. Chart your course. Execute with precision.

DryDock is a command-line coding assistant that works with any LLM provider. It provides a conversational interface to your codebase, allowing you to use natural language to explore, modify, and interact with your projects through a powerful set of tools.

[!WARNING] DryDock works on Windows, but we officially support and target UNIX environments.

Install

pip install drydock-cli

Or with uv:

uv tool install drydock-cli

Features

• Interactive Chat: A conversational AI agent that understands your requests and breaks down complex tasks.
• Powerful Toolset: Read, write, and patch files. Execute shell commands. Search code with grep. Manage todos. Delegate to subagents.
• Project-Aware Context: DryDock automatically scans your project's file structure and Git status.
• Conda/Pip Support: Auto-approves pip install, conda install, pytest, and other dev commands.
• Bundled Skills: Ships with skills like create-presentation for PowerPoint generation.
• MCP Support: Connect Model Context Protocol servers for extended capabilities.
• Safety First: Tool execution approval with --dangerously-skip-permissions for full auto-approve.

Built-in Agents

• default: Standard agent that requires approval for tool executions.
• plan: Read-only agent for exploration and planning.
• accept-edits: Auto-approves file edits only.
• auto-approve: Auto-approves all tool executions.

drydock --agent plan

Quick Start

1. Navigate to your project directory and run:

   drydock
   

2. First run creates a config at ~/.drydock/config.toml and prompts for your API key.

3. Start chatting:

   > Can you find all TODO comments in this project?
   

Usage

Interactive Mode

drydock                        # Start interactive session
drydock "Fix the login bug"    # Start with a prompt
drydock --continue             # Resume last session
drydock --resume abc123        # Resume specific session

Keyboard shortcuts:

• Ctrl+C — Cancel current operation (double-tap to quit)
• Shift+Tab — Toggle auto-approve mode
• Ctrl+O — Toggle tool output
• Ctrl+G — Open external editor
• @ — File path autocompletion
• !command — Run shell command directly

Programmatic Mode

drydock --prompt "Analyze the codebase" --max-turns 5 --output json
drydock --dangerously-skip-permissions -p "Fix all lint errors"

Trust Folder System

DryDock includes a trust folder system. When you run DryDock in a directory with a .drydock folder, it asks you to confirm trust. Managed via ~/.drydock/trusted_folders.toml.

Configuration

DryDock is configured via config.toml. It looks first in ./.drydock/config.toml, then ~/.drydock/config.toml.

API Key

drydock --setup                              # Interactive setup
export MISTRAL_API_KEY="your_key"            # Or set env var

Keys are saved to ~/.drydock/.env.

Consultant Model

Set a smarter model for the /consult command:

# In ~/.drydock/config.toml
consultant_model = "gemini-2.5-pro"

The consultant provides read-only advice — it never calls tools. Use /consult <question> to ask it. The response appears in your conversation so the local model can see it.

Custom Agents

Create agent configs in ~/.drydock/agents/:

# ~/.drydock/agents/redteam.toml
active_model = "devstral-2"
system_prompt_id = "redteam"
disabled_tools = ["search_replace", "write_file"]

drydock --agent redteam

Custom Prompts

Create markdown files in ~/.drydock/prompts/:

system_prompt_id = "my_custom_prompt"

Skills

DryDock discovers skills from:

1. Custom paths in config.toml via skill_paths
2. Project .drydock/skills/ or .agents/skills/
3. Global ~/.drydock/skills/
4. Bundled skills (shipped with the package)

MCP Servers

[[mcp_servers]]
name = "fetch_server"
transport = "stdio"
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcp-server-fetch"]

Custom DryDock Home

export DRYDOCK_HOME="/path/to/custom/home"

This affects where DryDock looks for config.toml, .env, agents/, prompts/, skills/, and logs/.

Slash Commands

Type /help in the input for available commands. Create custom slash commands via the skills system.

Session Management

drydock --continue              # Continue last session
drydock --resume abc123         # Resume specific session
drydock --workdir /path/to/dir  # Set working directory

Resources

• CHANGELOG
• CONTRIBUTING
• ACP Setup — Editor/IDE integration

License

Copyright 2025 Mistral AI (original work) Copyright 2026 DryDock contributors (modifications)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for details.

DryDock is a fork of mistralai/mistral-vibe (Apache 2.0). See NOTICE for attribution.