@gitlab/duo-cli
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GitLab Duo for your command line. An AI-powered CLI tool that brings GitLab Duo Agentic Chat to your terminal.
📖 For installation, usage, and configuration see the GitLab Duo CLI documentation.
To run the CLI from a local checkout:
npm run cli
This builds and launches the app. Pass CLI flags after --:
npm run cli -- run --goal "example"
For hot-reload development, use npm run dev:watch instead.
See the full Development Guide for prerequisites, building, debugging, testing, and architecture details.
The GitLab Duo CLI is split across two packages:
packages/cli — CLI entry point, command routing, backend abstraction, and controllers for interactive and headless modes.packages/tui — React-based terminal UI built on Ink. Pure presentation layer with zero domain logic. Renders the chat interface, messages, tool calls, diffs, and Markdown.See the License for details.
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GitLab Duo for your command line
The npm package @gitlab/duo-cli receives a total of 50,742 weekly downloads. As such, @gitlab/duo-cli popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @gitlab/duo-cli demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 7 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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