Dedalus CLI

The official CLI for the Dedalus REST API.

It is generated with Stainless.

Installation

Installing with Go

To test or install the CLI locally, you need Go version 1.22 or later installed.

go install 'github.com/stainless-sdks/dedalus-sdk-cli/cmd/dedalus-sdk@latest'

Once you have run go install, the binary is placed in your Go bin directory:

• Default location: $HOME/go/bin (or $GOPATH/bin if GOPATH is set)
• Check your path: Run go env GOPATH to see the base directory

If commands aren't found after installation, add the Go bin directory to your PATH:

# Add to your shell profile (.zshrc, .bashrc, etc.)
export PATH="$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin"

Running Locally

After cloning the git repository for this project, you can use the scripts/run script to run the tool locally:

./scripts/run args...

Usage

The CLI follows a resource-based command structure:

dedalus-sdk [resource] <command> [flags...]

dedalus-sdk chat:completions create \
  --api-key 'My API Key' \
  --model openai/gpt-5-nano \
  --message '{content: You are Stephen Dedalus. Respond in morose Joycean malaise., role: system}' \
  --message "{content: 'Hello, how are you today?', role: user}"

For details about specific commands, use the --help flag.

Environment variables

Environment variable	Description	Required	Default value
DEDALUS_API_KEY	API key for Bearer token authentication.	no	null
DEDALUS_X_API_KEY	API key for X-API-Key header authentication.	no	null
DEDALUS_AS_URL	MCP Authorization Server URL	no	"https://as.dedaluslabs.ai"
DEDALUS_ORG_ID	Organization ID for request scoping.	no	null
DEDALUS_PROVIDER	Provider name for BYOK mode (e.g., 'google', 'openai', 'anthropic').	no	null
DEDALUS_PROVIDER_KEY	Provider API key for BYOK mode.	no	null
DEDALUS_PROVIDER_MODEL	Model identifier for BYOK provider.	no	null

Global flags

• --api-key - API key for Bearer token authentication. (can also be set with DEDALUS_API_KEY env var)
• --x-api-key - API key for X-API-Key header authentication. (can also be set with DEDALUS_X_API_KEY env var)
• --as-base-url - MCP Authorization Server URL (can also be set with DEDALUS_AS_URL env var)
• --dedalus-org-id - Organization ID for request scoping. (can also be set with DEDALUS_ORG_ID env var)
• --provider - Provider name for BYOK mode (e.g., 'google', 'openai', 'anthropic'). (can also be set with DEDALUS_PROVIDER env var)
• --provider-key - Provider API key for BYOK mode. (can also be set with DEDALUS_PROVIDER_KEY env var)
• --provider-model - Model identifier for BYOK provider. (can also be set with DEDALUS_PROVIDER_MODEL env var)
• --help - Show command line usage
• --debug - Enable debug logging (includes HTTP request/response details)
• --version, -v - Show the CLI version
• --base-url - Use a custom API backend URL
• --format - Change the output format (auto, explore, json, jsonl, pretty, raw, yaml)
• --format-error - Change the output format for errors (auto, explore, json, jsonl, pretty, raw, yaml)
• --transform - Transform the data output using GJSON syntax
• --transform-error - Transform the error output using GJSON syntax

Passing files as arguments

To pass files to your API, you can use the @myfile.ext syntax:

dedalus-sdk <command> --arg @abe.jpg

Files can also be passed inside JSON or YAML blobs:

dedalus-sdk <command> --arg '{image: "@abe.jpg"}'
# Equivalent:
dedalus-sdk <command> <<YAML
arg:
  image: "@abe.jpg"
YAML

If you need to pass a string literal that begins with an @ sign, you can escape the @ sign to avoid accidentally passing a file.

dedalus-sdk <command> --username '\@abe'

Explicit encoding

For JSON endpoints, the CLI tool does filetype sniffing to determine whether the file contents should be sent as a string literal (for plain text files) or as a base64-encoded string literal (for binary files). If you need to explicitly send the file as either plain text or base64-encoded data, you can use @file://myfile.txt (for string encoding) or @data://myfile.dat (for base64-encoding). Note that absolute paths will begin with @file:// or @data://, followed by a third / (for example, @file:///tmp/file.txt).

dedalus-sdk <command> --arg @data://file.txt

Linking different Go SDK versions

You can link the CLI against a different version of the Dedalus Go SDK for development purposes using the ./scripts/link script.

To link to a specific version from a repository (version can be a branch, git tag, or commit hash):

./scripts/link github.com/org/repo@version

To link to a local copy of the SDK:

./scripts/link ../path/to/githubcomdedaluslabsdedalussdkgo-go

If you run the link script without any arguments, it will default to ../githubcomdedaluslabsdedalussdkgo-go.