silicon-cli 1.0.11

Silicon CLI — create, run, and manage your silicon instances.

silicon-cli

This is the single source for the installable silicon command. The PyPI package is named silicon-cli, and the code lives here in this silicon-cli repo.

The command manages silicon instances on a machine: create them from the silicon-stemcell base, start/stop them under an auto-restart watchdog, stream logs, and back them up to Glass. It reads the same ~/.silicon/registry.json, so existing installs carry over unchanged.

Install

pip install silicon-cli

(Zero runtime dependencies — stdlib only.)

Commands

silicon                      Show status or list instances
silicon new [dir]            Create a new Silicon (hydrate from stemcell)
silicon new .                Hydrate the current folder into a runnable silicon
silicon start <target>       Start silicon(s). target = name, *, all, 1,2,4, or name,name
silicon stop [--full] <target>  Stop silicon(s). target = name, *, all, 1,2,4, or name,name
silicon restart <target>     Restart silicon(s). target = name, *, all, 1,2,4, or name,name
silicon agent <start|stop|status> [name]   Manage the per-silicon glass agent
silicon status [name]        Show instance status
silicon browser [name]       Open a headed browser for login
silicon browser-profile setup <token>  Create a Steel browser profile through Glass
silicon browser-profile finish <token> <session_id> [before_ids_csv]  Finish profile setup
silicon debug [name]         Tail a running instance's logs
silicon attach [path]        Register an existing silicon directory
silicon pull [api_token]     Pull a Glass team or silicon into local folders
silicon push [name] [now|stop]   Daily 23:59 GMT backups to Glass (now = one-shot, stop = end loop)
silicon backup [name] [now|stop] Alias for silicon push
silicon update <target>      Update silicon(s) from the latest stemcell
silicon list                 List all instances
silicon script update        Update this CLI itself
silicon help                 Show help

Configuration (env vars)

Var	Default	Purpose
SILICON_HOME	~/.silicon	registry + CLI state
GLASS_SERVER_URL	https://glass.teamofsilicons.com	Glass sync server (pull/push)
SILICON_STEMCELL_REPO	unlikefraction/silicon-stemcell	base for new
SILICON_GLASS_CLI_REPO	unlikefraction/glass	glass backup CLI
SILICON_PYTHON	python3	interpreter used to run a silicon's main.py
SILICON_INTERFACE_CLI_PACKAGE	@teamofsilicons/silicon-interface-cli	npm package used to install the Silicon Interface CLI
SILICON_INTERFACE_CLI_TARBALL	versioned npm tarball	fallback package URL if registry metadata is briefly unavailable
SILICON_INTERFACE_CLI_SOURCE	(empty)	local package dir or silicon-interface.mjs path for dev installs
SILICON_INTERFACE_CLI_SKIP	(empty)	set to 1 to skip interface CLI setup
SILICON_INTERFACE_DAEMON_SKIP	(empty)	set to 1 to install the CLI without starting its listener daemon

Silicon Interface CLI

silicon new, silicon install, and silicon pull also set up the Silicon Interface CLI in the silicon folder when Node 22+ is available. When a Glass .glass.json is present, setup also starts the background listener daemon so the silicon receives live conversation frames without polling.

silicon pull is token-native. Generate a team setup token from Glass > Silicons > Team setup token, then run:

silicon pull
# paste the token when prompted

# or, less private because it lands in shell history:
silicon pull sct_live_...

The command validates the token with Glass, mints one local silicon API key per team silicon, creates one folder per silicon, hydrates the stemcell, writes .glass.json, .env, and env.py, registers each instance, starts each Silicon Interface daemon, and starts each silicon process.

During team pull, setup asks for the default brain/fallback settings once. You can apply those settings to every silicon, or select specific silicons that need different settings and answer the brain prompt for those silicons only. Older per-silicon scs_live_... tokens still pull just that one silicon.

Provider API keys for voice, browser profiles, billing, and architecture generation are configured on the Glass backend. After the silicon API token is validated, silicon pull reads the team's provider-key metadata from Glass and automatically marks the pulled silicon(s) to use Glass-managed keys when every provider is available. Plaintext secrets are never returned to the CLI. A Glass-pulled silicon only stores its Glass API token plus a local marker that provider keys come from Glass.

The local wrappers are written to:

<silicon>/.silicon-interface/bin/si
<silicon>/.silicon-interface/bin/silicon-interface
<silicon>/.silicon-interface/inbox.jsonl
<silicon>/.silicon-interface/state.json

For Glass-pulled silicons, those wrappers automatically use the folder's .glass.json (server_url + api_key) for conversation API auth.

During local development, point SILICON_INTERFACE_CLI_SOURCE at the package:

SILICON_INTERFACE_CLI_SOURCE=../silicon-interface/packages/silicon-interface-cli silicon new ./ada

Backups

silicon push <name> now and silicon backup <name> now use the .backupsilicon manifest when the instance has one. The CLI archives those paths and uploads them to Glass via /api/v1/silicon-backups/ with the instance's .glass.json API key. If no manifest exists, the command falls back to the legacy glass push snapshot flow.

silicon push <name> starts the background loop. Scheduled manifest backups run daily at 23:59 GMT; now remains available for one-shot manual backups.

How it differs from the bash version

• Pure Python package with a silicon console entry point (installed in an isolated venv), instead of a single bash script.
• The auto-restart watchdog runs as silicon _watchdog (a detached supervisor process) rather than a backgrounded bash function — same crash-loop detection, .silicon.stop sentinel, and .silicon.pid/.silicon.log behavior.
• silicon script update reinstalls the package via pip from its recorded source.
• Everything (server, stemcell repo) is env-overridable.