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One Yandex 360 toolkit — four ways to use it. Drive Tracker, Wiki, and Forms from a CLI, an MCP server, a Python SDK, or a Claude Code plugin. Built for AI agents first — pleasant for humans too.

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ycli in action
  • 🧩 One SDK, four surfaces — write logic once, use it as a CLI, an MCP server, a Python library, or a Claude Code plugin.
  • 🤖 Agent-native — the MCP server exposes read and write tracker_*, wiki_*, forms_* tools, one per SDK/CLI operation, plus a cross-cutting status tool (counts in Coverage), with honest annotations (reads are marked read-only; writes declare whether they are destructive/idempotent); ycli mcp start --read-only serves a reads-only view for cautious deployments, and --toolsets core serves a curated everyday profile when a host limits how many tools it accepts.
  • 🛡️ Trustworthy — typed pydantic models, the real Yandex API quirks handled for you, and a test suite kept at 100% coverage.
  • ⚡ Zero-friction start — uv add yandex-cli, ycli auth login, go.

Install

uv add yandex-cli            # CLI + Python SDK
uv add 'yandex-cli[mcp]'     # …plus the MCP server (`ycli mcp start`)

Run it without installing, or install it as a standalone tool:

uvx yandex-cli --help                 # one-off, no install
uv tool install yandex-cli            # persistent CLI
uv tool install 'yandex-cli[mcp]'     # …with the MCP server

pip install yandex-cli works too. The CLI ships as both yandex-cli and the short ycli.

Using an AI harness (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, opencode, Docker)? See Install in your harness.

The SDK's ServiceAccountAuth (IAM tokens minted from a Yandex Cloud service-account key) needs the service-account extra: uv add 'yandex-cli[service-account]'.

Quick start

Pick the surface that fits how you work.

CLI
uv add yandex-cli
ycli --help
ycli tracker issues get TRACKER-1
ycli wiki pages get onboarding

Output formats — a global --format / -o picks how results print (the global options work before or after the subcommand: ycli -o json tracker issues get K = ycli tracker issues get K -o json; a command that declares an option of its own, like forms answers export --format, keeps it):

ycli tracker issues get TRACKER-1            # auto: a pretty table on a TTY…
ycli tracker issues get TRACKER-1 | jq .     # …and raw JSON when piped (agent/script-safe)
ycli -o yaml wiki pages get onboarding       # or: -o json | -o yaml | -o pretty
ycli --jq .summary tracker issues get TRACKER-1   # filter the JSON with jq; a string prints bare

--jq EXPR runs a jq program over the command's JSON result and prints like jq -r: a string comes out raw, anything else as one compact JSON value per line. It cannot be combined with -o yaml / -o pretty, and it needs the jq Python package (a dependency; it has no build for Windows on ARM).

Deleting asks first. A command that destroys data (every delete, clear, abort…) asks DELETE <url> — this deletes data. Continue? on stderr when you are at a terminal, and exits 1 if you decline. In a script, a pipe or CI there is no one to ask, so it fails with exit 2 until you pass --yes / -y: ycli tracker boards delete 7 --yes. Reads and ordinary writes never ask.

Preview a write. --dry-run sends nothing for any write: it prints the request instead (method, URL, body; never your token), through the same -o / --jq output, and exits 0. Reads still run, so a command that reads and then writes shows its first write only: ycli tracker boards delete 7 --dry-run. (The two commands that ask the API itself to validate a request, forms filling submit and wiki pages move, call that --validate-only.)

MCP server (read/write)

Run it over stdio (needs the mcp extra):

ycli mcp start               # full read/write tool set (honest annotations)
ycli mcp start --read-only   # reads-only view for cautious deployments

Serving all 322 tools costs a large tools/list and some hosts cap a request (VS Code allows 128 tools), so pick what the session needs:

Flag Serves
--toolsets tracker,wiki only those services (tracker, wiki, forms); default all
--toolsets core a curated everyday profile of about 40 tools (issues, comments, transitions, worklog, wiki pages and search, form reads)
--tools a,b / --exclude-tools a,b add or hide single tools by name (unknown names fail at start)
--read-only no write tools; always wins over the flags above
--tool-search lists a search tool and a call proxy instead of the tools; use it with a large set

status_get is always served. The listing omits output schemas and doctest examples (results still carry structuredContent), which cuts tools/list from about 1.9 MB to about 0.5 MB for the full set.

List the tool names a given set of flags exposes without running the server:

ycli mcp methods --toolsets core --read-only

Point an MCP client at it — no prior install needed via uvx (tools are namespaced tracker_*, wiki_*, forms_*):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yandex": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "yandex-cli[mcp]", "ycli", "mcp", "start"],
      "env": {
        "YANDEX_ID_OAUTH_TOKEN": "...",
        "YANDEX_ID_ORGANIZATION_ID": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}
Python SDK
from ycli.yandex.tracker.client import TrackerClient

tracker = TrackerClient(oauth_token="…", organization_id="…")
issue = tracker.issues.get("TRACKER-1")
print(issue.summary)
Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add bim-ba/ycli
/plugin install yandex-360@ycli

Teaches an agent to drive Yandex 360 through ycli — including the real API quirks. See plugins/yandex-360/.

Skills (Claude Code plugin)

Skill Use for
yandex-360 Entry point — install + auth, pick a surface (CLI/MCP/SDK), route to a domain
yandex-360-tracker Issues, epics, comments, transitions, links, worklog, changelog
yandex-360-wiki Wiki pages, page tree, comments, attachments, YFM authoring
yandex-360-forms Forms, questions/schema, responses, publishing

The skills encode the read/write commands and the gnarly Yandex API quirks (epic-vs-parent, transition discovery, permanent wiki slugs, fields= rules, Forms host/header traps, answers pagination).

Configure

ycli reads two values from the environment (or a .env file — cp .env.example .env):

YANDEX_ID_OAUTH_TOKEN=...        # a Yandex OAuth token with Tracker/Wiki/Forms access
YANDEX_ID_ORGANIZATION_ID=...    # your Yandex 360 organization id

ycli sends the org id as X-Org-Id for every service (HTTP header names are case-insensitive per RFC 9110, so one casing serves all).

Optional settings follow the YCLI__<GROUP>__<SETTING> pattern; ycli rejects an invalid value at startup and names the variable:

Variable Default Meaning
YCLI__HTTP__TIMEOUT_SECONDS 30 Per-request timeout, seconds (> 0)
YCLI__HTTP__RETRIES 3 Retries for idempotent requests on 429/5xx (≥ 0)
YCLI__HTTP__MAX_ITEMS 500 Item cap for listings without --limit/--all (> 0)
YCLI__LOGGING__LEVEL WARNING DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR or CRITICAL; -v means INFO (every HTTP request), -vv means DEBUG
YCLI__LOGGING__FORMAT text text or json (one object per line); logs always go to stderr

Get your credentials

Yandex issues OAuth tokens only through a registered application, so it's a one-time app registration plus one command.

1. Register an OAuth app at oauth.yandex.ru and grant it the Tracker, Wiki, and Forms permissions (read and write — the CLI and the MCP server both write; the read scopes alone suffice only if you run the MCP server with ycli mcp start --read-only). Put the ClientID — and the Client secret if you want the headless flow — in your .env (ycli reads it from there):

YANDEX_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID=...        # from your app
YANDEX_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET=...    # optional — enables the headless device flow

2. Log in. ycli auth login gets a token, detects your organization, and writes both into .env:

ycli auth login
  • client id + secret → the device flow: ycli prints a code and a https://ya.ru/device link; approve there and it captures the token — no redirect, works over SSH.
  • only the client id (or --implicit) → the browser flow: ycli opens the Yandex authorize page; approve, then copy the token it displays and paste it back.

Check it any time with ycli auth status: it shows whose token it is (from Yandex ID), your organization (its name needs the optional directory:read_organization scope; without it you get the id and a note) and whether each service accepts the token. ycli tracker auth status (or wiki, forms) probes just that one service. Both exit non-zero when a service rejects the token.

Prefer to do it by hand?

Headless (device flow):

# 1. start the flow — returns a user_code + verification_url
curl -s -X POST https://oauth.yandex.ru/device/code -d "client_id=$YANDEX_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID"
# 2. open https://ya.ru/device, enter the user_code, approve
# 3. exchange the device_code for the token
curl -s -X POST https://oauth.yandex.ru/token \
  -d grant_type=device_code -d "code=<device_code>" \
  -d "client_id=$YANDEX_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID" -d "client_secret=$YANDEX_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET"

Browser (implicit): open https://oauth.yandex.ru/authorize?response_type=token&client_id=<ClientID> in a logged-in browser, approve, and copy the token from the page. (Plain curl can't — implicit needs an interactive browser session.)

Organization id: tracker.yandex.ru/admin/orgs → your organization → copy the identifier.

Exit codes

A failed ycli command exits with a code that says what kind of failure it was, so a script can branch without parsing the message.

Code Meaning When
0 ok the command succeeded
1 failure any other failure: a 4xx the API rejected, an unmapped error, a declined confirmation
2 usage a bad command line or an invalid YCLI__… setting
3 not found the API answered 404 (or the token cannot see the object)
4 auth 401 / 403, or no credentials set
5 rate limited the API answered 429 and the retries ran out (the hint shows Retry-After)
6 transient a 5xx, a timeout or a lost connection: worth retrying later

Coverage

ycli wraps 334 operations across 62 resources of the Tracker, Wiki, and Forms REST API — every one reachable from the Python SDK and the CLI, plus 322 MCP tools (321 domain-scoped + 1 cross-cutting: status) for agents.

Legend — operations ship on SDK + CLI, and the MCP server mirrors them with honest annotations: reads carry readOnlyHint, writes carry explicit destructive/idempotent hints, and ycli mcp start --read-only serves the reads-only view. In each table SDK and CLI mean the operation is wrapped on that surface; MCP is ✅ when the resource exposes at least one MCP tool. Resource and operation names link to the official Yandex API reference (yandex.ru/support/…/api-ref). These tables are generated from the code by scripts/gen_coverage.py — do not edit by hand.

Tracker

35 resources · 190 operations · 187 MCP tools

Issues & work items

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
issues get · search · count · create · update · move · suggest · scroll_clear ✅ ✅ ✅
comments list · get · add · edit · delete · react ✅ ✅ ✅
links list · search · add · delete ✅ ✅ ✅
transitions list · execute ✅ ✅ ✅
worklog list · search · global_list · create · edit · delete ✅ ✅ ✅
changelog list ✅ ✅ ✅
checklists get · create · edit · delete · clear ✅ ✅ ✅
attachments list · download · download_thumbnail · get · delete · upload · upload_temp ✅ ✅ ✅
remotelinks list · create · delete ✅ ✅ ✅

Agile boards

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
boards list · get · create · edit · delete ✅ ✅ ✅
sprints list · get · create · edit · delete · start · archive ✅ ✅ ✅
columns list · get · create · edit · delete ✅ ✅ ✅

Dictionaries

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
priorities list · create · edit ✅ ✅ ✅
statuses list · create · edit ✅ ✅ ✅
resolutions list · create · edit ✅ ✅ ✅
issuetypes list · create · edit ✅ ✅ ✅
linktypes list ✅ ✅ ✅

Fields, queues & structure

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
fields list · get · create · edit · category_create · category_edit ✅ ✅ ✅
localfields list · get · create · edit ✅ ✅ ✅
components list · create · edit · list_for_queue · get · delete · user_permissions · group_permissions ✅ ✅ ✅
queues list · get · tags · versions · fields · create · delete · restore · set_permissions · tag_remove · version_create · version_get · version_edit · version_delete · user_permissions · group_permissions ✅ ✅ ✅
workflows list · get · for_queue · create · edit · edit_action · delete ✅ ✅ ✅
projects list · get · queues · create · edit · delete ✅ ✅ ✅

Automation & bulk

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
macros list · get · create · edit · delete ✅ ✅ ✅
triggers list · get · create · edit · webhook_log ✅ ✅ ✅
autoactions get · create · logs · log_detail ✅ ✅ ✅
dashboards create · add_cycle_time_widget ✅ ✅ ✅
bulk update · move · transition · get · issues ✅ ✅ ✅
import task · comment · link · worklog · file · comment_file ✅ ✅ ✅
Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
entities create · get · edit · delete · search · history · permissions · set_permissions · direct_permissions · set_direct_permissions · bulk_update · bulk_status · create_report · comments_list · comments_relative · comments_get · comments_create · comments_edit · comments_delete · checklists_create · checklists_edit · checklists_edit_item · checklists_delete · checklists_delete_item · checklists_move · links_list · links_create · links_delete · attachments_list · attachments_get · attachment_download · attachments_attach · attachments_delete ✅ ✅ ✅
users get · list ✅ ✅ ✅
applications list ✅ ✅ ✅
filters get · create · edit · delete ✅ ✅ ✅
gaps create · search · delete ✅ ✅ ✅
me get ✅ ✅ ✅

Wiki

11 resources · 58 operations · 56 MCP tools

Pages

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
pages get_by_id · get · descendants · descendants_by_id · grids · create · update · delete · append_content · clone · move · revisions · backlinks ✅ ✅ ✅
resources list ✅ ✅ ✅
recovery restore ✅ ✅ ✅
search query ✅ ✅ ✅

Collaboration

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
comments list · thread · thread_get · create · delete ✅ ✅ ✅
attachments list · get · preview · download · download_by_url · delete · attach · upload ✅ ✅ ✅
access create · update · delete · clear ✅ ✅ ✅

Grids (dynamic tables)

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
grids get · create · update · delete · add_rows · remove_rows · move_rows · add_columns · remove_columns · move_columns · update_cells · clone · suggest_column · update_column · update_row ✅ ✅ ✅

Async & uploads

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
operations clone_get · gridclone_get · move_get ✅ ✅ ✅
uploadsessions create · get · upload_part · finish · abort · abort_all ✅ ✅ ✅

Identity

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
me get ✅ ✅ ✅

Forms

16 resources · 86 operations · 78 MCP tools

Surveys & questions

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
surveys list · get · create · modify · delete · publish · unpublish ✅ ✅ ✅
questions get · list · create · modify · delete · move ✅ ✅ ✅
conditions question_list · question_get · question_create · question_modify · question_delete · question_set_operator · page_list · page_get · page_create · page_modify · page_delete · page_set_operator · submit_list · submit_get · submit_create · submit_modify · submit_delete · submit_set_operator · hook_list · hook_get · hook_create · hook_modify · hook_delete · hook_set_operator ✅ ✅ ✅
access get · set · grant · revoke ✅ ✅ ✅
history list ✅ ✅ ✅

Responses & export

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
answers get · list · list_all · export · export_results · download_export · integrations_list · delete · restore ✅ ✅ ✅
operations get ✅ ✅ ✅

Integrations

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
hooks list · get · create · modify · delete ✅ ✅ ✅
subscriptions list · get · create · modify · delete · attach ✅ ✅ ✅
variables list ✅ ✅ ✅
notifications list · get · status_get · restart · cancel · errors_list ✅ ✅ ✅

Distribution

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
keysets list · get · create · modify · delete · download ✅ ✅ ✅
filling get · submit · suggest ✅ ✅ ✅

Media

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
files upload · verify · download · delete ✅ ✅ ✅
images upload · clone ✅ ✅ ✅

Identity

Resource Operations SDK CLI MCP
me get ✅ ✅ ✅

Every resource and operation above deep-links to the Yandex API reference: 318 of 334 operations resolve to their own endpoint page and 15 to their resource's page. No public API reference exists yet for tracker.linktypes, tracker.linktypes.list, shown as plain text. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the intentional exclusions (UI-only endpoints with no public REST API) and per-method notes.

Layout

src/ycli/
├── cli/                # root Typer CLI  → `ycli` / `yandex-cli` (app · context · output)
├── mcp/                # root FastMCP server → `ycli mcp start` (read/write, `[mcp]` extra)
├── settings.py         # AppConfig + Credentials (pydantic-settings)
├── log.py              # stderr logging setup (stdlib)
└── yandex/
    ├── tracker/        # per-domain SDK …
    ├── wiki/           #   each resource group has:
    └── forms/          #   client.py · cli.py · mcp.py · models.py
plugins/yandex-360/     # distributable Claude Code plugin (skills + instructions)
references/             # vendored Yandex API reference docs (local-only; see references/README.md)

Development

uv sync --all-extras   # --all-extras pulls in the `mcp` extra the tests exercise
uv run pytest          # 100% coverage gate; HTTP stubbed with `MockAPI` (no live network)

See CONTRIBUTING.md for conventions and how to add an endpoint. Contributions welcome.

License

MIT © 2026 Sava Znatnov

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