net-mesh-cli 0.27.0b1

net-mesh — unified command-line interface for the Net mesh

net-mesh-cli

net-mesh — the unified command-line interface for the NET mesh.

The non-interactive counterpart to net-deck: a one-shot tool for operator scripts, CI pipelines, daemon authoring, and ad-hoc cluster inspection. Same SDK underneath, same signed admin chain, no TUI.

Install

# pip
pip install net-mesh-cli

# uv
uv tool install net-mesh-cli

The wheel bundles the Rust net-mesh binary directly (built with maturin's bindings = "bin" mode) — pip install / uv tool install puts it on your $PATH with no compilation step and no Python shim layer.

Wheels are published for linux (glibc + musl, x86_64 + aarch64), macOS (x86_64 + aarch64), and Windows (x86_64 + aarch64). A source distribution is also published for any platform pip can't find a wheel for — that path needs a Rust toolchain.

Run

net-mesh --help

Subcommand surface

Subcommand	What it does
version	SDK version + build metadata.
identity	Generate / inspect / fingerprint operator identity files.
admin	Signed admin-chain commits — drain, cordon, maintenance, drop-replicas, etc.
ice	Break-glass ICE — simulate then commit force-drain / evict / restart / cutover.
snapshot	One-shot MeshOsSnapshot reads (and --watch for streaming).
audit	Read-only queries against the RedEX-committed audit ledger.
log tail	Substrate log stream (--follow, --daemon, --level).
failures tail	Substrate failure stream — same shape as log tail.
cap	Capability advertisement + discovery.
peer	Peer + NAT-traversal helpers.
daemon	Per-daemon listing from the local snapshot.
netdb	NetDB local KV adapter — Cortex-backed tasks + memories.
subnet	Hierarchical subnet inspection (show, ls, tree).
gateway	SubnetGateway stats + export-table operator surface.
channel	ChannelConfigRegistry inspection (visibility, ls).
aggregator	AggregatorDaemon inspection + remote query.
completion	Emit a shell-completion script (bash / zsh / fish / powershell).
man	Emit the troff(1) man page on stdout.

Global flags

Applied to every subcommand; environment-variable fallbacks in brackets:

• --config <path> [NET_MESH_CONFIG] — profile file (default $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/net-mesh/config.toml).
• --profile <name> [NET_MESH_PROFILE] — named profile within the config file.
• --output (json|yaml|ndjson|table|text) — auto-detects table/text on TTY and json/ndjson off-TTY.
• --quiet / -q — suppress stderr diagnostics.
• --verbose / -v — -v info, -vv debug, -vvv trace. NET_MESH_LOG= env-filter overrides.
• --no-color [NO_COLOR] — disable ANSI in table / text output.
• --timeout <dur> — global per-call timeout (e.g. 500ms, 1h30m). Default 30s.

Config + identity

The profile file is optional — every flag has a sensible default. When present, it lives at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/net-mesh/config.toml (or the platform equivalent) and looks like:

[default]
identity        = "~/.config/net-mesh/identity.toml"
endpoint        = "in-process"
default_timeout_ms = 30000

[profiles.prod]
identity   = "~/.config/net-mesh/ops-identity.toml"
node_addr  = "10.0.0.4:7700"
node_pubkey = "abcd…"      # 64 hex
psk_hex     = "1234…"      # 64 hex

Operator identity files are authored by net-mesh identity generate — ed25519 seed + public key + SHA-256 fingerprint, the same format the deck loads from the maintenance node. Every signed admin / ice command picks the identity up from the active profile (or --identity).

Exit codes

Typed via ExitCodeKind. Scripts can match on the discriminator:

• 0 — success
• 2 — usage / parse error
• 3 — config / identity load failure
• 4 — substrate refused the action (auth, ICE threshold, etc.)
• 5 — timeout
• 6 — transport error

License

Apache-2.0.