sanka-cli

sanka-cli is Sanka's single Python distribution. It installs one sanka executable and contains:

• the Apache-2.0 hosted command dispatcher, authentication, and output under sanka_cli;
• the embedded Apache-2.0 Sanka Extension SDK through sanka_extensions; and
• the AGPL-3.0-only local migration runtime under sanka.

Python 3.12 or newer is required.

Install

On macOS/Linux, use the Sanka installer, which manages Python for you:

curl -fLsS https://github.com/sankaHQ/sanka/releases/latest/download/install.sh -o /tmp/sanka-install.sh
sh /tmp/sanka-install.sh
sanka --help
sanka doctor

With uv installed, including on Windows, explicitly select the supported Python runtime:

uv tool install --python 3.12 sanka-cli
sanka --help

The macOS/Linux uv prerequisite is curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh; follow its printed shell setup instructions. Advanced pip users should use a Python 3.12+ virtual environment and python -m pip install sanka-cli. Bare pip can select an older system interpreter and report “No matching distribution found.” The installer first ships with CLI 0.2.11. See installation and recovery for Homebrew upgrades, PATH conflicts, and project environments.

For AI agents using MCP, connect to the hosted Sanka MCP server at https://mcp.sanka.com/mcp. No local MCP package is required.

Install the bundled sanka-cli skill into an AI coding harness:

sanka skill install claude
sanka skill install codex --scope project
sanka skill install --scope global

The command prompts for project or global scope when --scope is omitted. Without a harness argument, it installs into every detected Claude Code or Codex CLI. Existing matching installs are left unchanged; different content requires --force.

The base tool does not install framework migrations or provider drivers. Components are immutable GitHub release wheels selected through the extension manager:

sanka extension marketplace add https://github.com/sankaHQ/extensions.git --name sanka
sanka extension add sanka/drf-to-fastapi
sanka extension add sanka/markdown
sanka extension add sanka/sqlite

PyPI is not used as an extension fallback.

Local commands

sanka scan .
sanka plan .
sanka apply --plan-hash sha256:<hash-from-plan>
sanka test .
sanka verify .

On an interactive terminal, run sanka tui from your project to open the dashboard, or sanka scan . to open Scan directly. Use the sidebar and footer shortcuts for Plan → Apply → Test → Verify; review Plan's hash before Apply. Cloud / Account monitors hosted runs. See the TUI guide for configuration and shortcuts. Agents can use --json or --compact-dsl; pipes and CI keep non-interactive output.

Data migrations default to sanka.yaml:

source:
  type: markdown
  connection: ./content
target:
  type: sqlite
  connection: content.db

scan, marketplace management, extension installation, local planning, testing, and verification never require a Sanka API token. Hosted resources, workflows, AI, Custom Code, and explicitly cloud-selected migrations retain their existing authentication requirements. Add --json to local lifecycle commands for the stable sanka-cli/v1 response envelope.

Custom functions use sanka functions; the old sanka code group keeps its original function operations as a compatibility alias. Sanka Code migration commands remain scan, plan, apply, test, and verify.

--base-url also selects the API origin for the anonymous assessment. A full migration-service URL in SANKA_MIGRATE_API_BASE is retained as a fallback.

Hosted repository runs

sanka cloud uploads reviewed repository ZIPs, starts runs with an explicit credit cap, and reads status, receipts, and retained artifacts. When enabled by the operator, cloud repair makes one bounded patch attempt and cloud certify compares selected HTTP cases in a fresh worker. cloud certificate-verify verifies signed evidence online or with an explicitly trusted offline key ring. Every hosted command pins its workspace; paid operations require confirmation. See Hosted repository runs for inputs, pricing, verification scope, and revocation limits.

Extension trust

The manager verifies a trusted marketplace snapshot, manifest schema, component/runtime compatibility, exact wheel URL and SHA-256 digest, package metadata, entry points, and installed files. Project locks record the exact snapshot and artifact identities in .sanka/extensions.lock.

Code extensions use the sanka-extension/v1 subprocess protocol. Extension implementations load only in an isolated child environment and are proxied over sanka-connector/v1; provider code is never imported into the main CLI process. Hosted SaaS implementations remain private to the cloud runtime.

Python facade

from sanka import Sanka

Sanka.configure_system(...) creates a write-free endpoint descriptor. Sanka.migrate(...) creates or resumes a local lifecycle handle. Planning is destination-write-free, and apply requires the exact plan hash returned by plan.

SDK automation

The Python and Node sanka-sdk migration adapters invoke sanka <command> ... --json as a local subprocess. They do not call hosted execution for local commands, require an API token, auto-install this package, or replace its framework detection and safety defaults.

Hosted MCP

Configure an MCP client with the hosted server:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sanka": { "url": "https://mcp.sanka.com/mcp" }
  }
}

Connect your Sanka account when prompted. Hosted operations follow their normal permissions and usage pricing.

The local research MCP server and the mcp installation extra were removed in sanka-cli 0.2.9. Replace any command: "sanka", args: ["mcp"] configuration with the hosted URL above. The old command exits with a retirement message; it does not start a server or make a network request. Local migration commands and SDK adapters continue to use the CLI.

License

The distribution license expression is Apache-2.0 AND AGPL-3.0-only. Both license texts and the historical hosted CLI notice ship in the wheel and source archive. File-level SPDX identifiers are authoritative.

Compact lifecycle output

Use --compact-dsl instead of --json on scan, plan, apply, test, verify, and extension management commands when an agent needs a short result. The flags are mutually exclusive; --json retains its existing contract. Compact output starts with sanka-compact/v1 <command> <outcome> <migration_state> then emits one key=JSON-value per line. Strings use JSON escaping, including newlines and quotes. Failures, warnings, plan hashes, and limitations are retained. Legacy aliases are not repeated. With full artifacts available, generated file contents and route source code are replaced by explicit omission counts and file names. Read the returned artifact for those details; a compact summary is not a replacement for the full report. data.plan_hash becomes the plan_hash line; use that core hash for apply, not a nested extension hash. Successful scan/plan inventories replace descriptive serializer, view, OPTIONS, parity-note and fingerprint-evidence metadata with counts and artifact references. Identical core/extension scan fields appear once. Route decisions, adaptation reasons, hashes and diagnostics remain inline; metadata containing diagnostics also stays inline. Full --json output and saved artifacts are unchanged, and results without artifacts retain their details.

Keep the lifecycle: scan → plan → apply → test → verify. An applied scaffold with manual gaps is not complete. Test establishes generated scope; scenario verification checks HTTP and database parity within the supplied fixtures and cases.