wwai CLI

Agent-friendly command-line client for the Woodwide AI API.

Install

Recommended (isolated install — works anywhere, no virtualenv needed):

uv tool install woodwide-cli
# or
pipx install woodwide-cli

Or as a regular package in an existing environment:

pip install woodwide-cli

Once installed, wwai is on your PATH:

wwai --help

Authentication

Provide your API key via any of these methods (first wins):

# 1. Flag
wwai --api-key sk_live_abc123 datasets list

# 2. Environment variable
export WOODWIDE_API_KEY=sk_live_abc123
wwai datasets list

# 3. Config file
wwai config set --api-key sk_live_abc123
wwai datasets list

Config is stored in ~/.wwai/config.json.

Commands

wwai config set       Save API key / base URL
wwai config show      Print current config (key redacted)

wwai datasets list      List datasets (supports --include-archived)
wwai datasets get       Get dataset details
wwai datasets create    Upload a CSV/Parquet file (multipart)
wwai datasets upload    Upload via signed URL (large files)
wwai datasets update    Update name/description
wwai datasets delete    Soft-delete a dataset
wwai datasets preview   Sample rows from the current version
wwai datasets lookup    Fetch rows by id column value
wwai datasets models    List models trained on this dataset
wwai datasets versions  List versions of a dataset
wwai datasets version   Get a specific dataset version

wwai models list        List models
wwai models get         Get model details
wwai models train       Train a new model
wwai models retrain     Retrain an existing model on new data
wwai models delete      Delete a model and all its versions
wwai models versions    List versions of a model
wwai models version     Get a specific model version

wwai infer sync         Synchronous file inference
wwai infer async        Async file inference
wwai infer batch        Async dataset inference (cached by default; --force-rerun to bypass)

wwai jobs list                List jobs
wwai jobs get                 Get job details
wwai jobs cancel              Cancel a job
wwai jobs retry               Retry a failed job
wwai jobs results             Get job results
wwai jobs wait                Poll until completion
wwai jobs dashboard-activity  Per-day counts + window aggregates

wwai org get          Get organization details

wwai api-keys list    List API keys
wwai api-keys get     Get API key details
wwai api-keys create  Create a new key (supports --scopes, --expires-at)
wwai api-keys update  Update name/scopes/expires_at
wwai api-keys revoke  Revoke a key (keeps audit trail)
wwai api-keys delete  Hard-delete a key (no audit trail)
wwai api-keys rotate  Rotate a key

Run wwai <command> --help for full options and examples on any command.

Output format

JSON by default (machine-readable). Use --format table for human-readable output:

wwai --format table datasets list

End-to-end lifecycle

Every ML workflow follows the same three-phase pattern:

1. Upload data  -->  2. Train a model  -->  3. Run inference to get results

Training and inference are async. They return a job_id which you poll until the job reaches a terminal status (succeeded or failed). The --wait flag automates this polling for you.

Phase 1: Upload a dataset

Upload a CSV or Parquet file. This creates a dataset and an ingestion job that processes the file into a queryable format.

wwai datasets create --file train.csv --name "sales-q4"

Output (JSON):

{
  "dataset": { "id": "DATASET_ID", "version_id": "VERSION_ID", "version_number": 1 },
  "job_id": "INGEST_JOB_ID",
  "status": "queued"
}

The dataset is ready once the ingest job succeeds. You can wait for it:

wwai jobs wait INGEST_JOB_ID

Phase 2: Train a model

Train a model on the dataset. You must specify the model type. prediction models require --label-column; other types do not.

wwai models train \
  --dataset DATASET_ID \
  --type prediction \
  --label-column revenue

Output (JSON):

{
  "model": { "id": "MODEL_ID", "version_id": "MV_ID", "version_number": 1 },
  "job_id": "TRAIN_JOB_ID",
  "status": "queued"
}

Training is async. You must wait for it to finish before running inference. Use --wait to block until done:

wwai models train \
  --dataset DATASET_ID \
  --type prediction \
  --label-column revenue \
  --wait

Or poll separately:

wwai jobs wait TRAIN_JOB_ID --timeout 600

The model is ready for inference once the training job status is succeeded.

Phase 3: Run inference to get results

Once a model is trained (status: ready), run inference to get predictions on new data. There are three modes:

Sync inference (small files, results returned immediately)

Upload a CSV and get results back in one call. Best for small inputs.

wwai infer sync MODEL_ID --file new_data.csv --output-type json

The response body contains the prediction results directly. No job polling needed.

Async file inference (large files)

Upload a file and get a job_id back immediately. Poll for results.

wwai infer async MODEL_ID --file large_data.csv --wait

Without --wait, you poll manually:

JOB_ID=$(wwai infer async MODEL_ID --file large_data.csv | jq -r '.job_id')
wwai jobs wait "$JOB_ID"
wwai jobs results "$JOB_ID"

jobs results returns a signed download URL for the results file:

{
  "job_type": "infer_batch",
  "inference_results_uri": "https://storage.googleapis.com/...signed-url..."
}

Batch inference (run on an existing dataset)

Reference a dataset already in the system instead of uploading a file. Best for large inputs that are already stored.

wwai infer batch MODEL_ID --dataset DATASET_ID --wait

Same result format as async -- poll the job, then fetch jobs results for the download URL.

Complete pipeline example

All three phases chained together:

# 1. Upload dataset and capture IDs
UPLOAD=$(wwai datasets create --file train.csv --name "sales-q4")
DATASET=$(echo "$UPLOAD" | jq -r '.dataset.id')
INGEST_JOB=$(echo "$UPLOAD" | jq -r '.job_id')

# Wait for ingestion to finish
wwai jobs wait "$INGEST_JOB"

# 2. Train model (--wait blocks until training succeeds)
TRAIN=$(wwai models train \
  --dataset "$DATASET" \
  --type prediction \
  --label-column revenue \
  --wait)
MODEL=$(echo "$TRAIN" | head -1 | jq -r '.model.id')

# 3. Run inference on new data
wwai infer sync "$MODEL" --file new_data.csv --output-type json

Anomaly detection example

Anomaly models don't need a label column. Inference returns anomalous row indices by default, or per-row scores with --anomaly-format per_row.

# Train
wwai models train --dataset "$DATASET" --type anomaly --wait

# Infer with per-row scores
wwai infer sync MODEL_ID --file transactions.csv --anomaly-format per_row --output-type json

Retraining a model

Create a new version of an existing model with fresh data. Reuses the original config (type, label column, etc.):

wwai models retrain MODEL_ID --dataset NEW_DATASET_ID --wait

Job exit codes

All --wait flags and wwai jobs wait use these exit codes:

Status updates are printed to stderr; final JSON goes to stdout. This means you can pipe stdout to jq while still seeing progress.

Model types

Environment variables