Command Reference
The kis surface, commands, subcommands and flags, generated from kis --help rather than
written by hand, so it matches the binary you have installed.
For task-oriented guides start with Getting Started and the topic pages; this section is the exhaustive list.
Global flags
Section titled “Global flags”| Flag | Purpose |
|---|---|
-l, --log-level string | Log level (trace, debug, info, warn, error) (default “error”) |
-q, --quiet | Suppress non-error output |
Every command
Section titled “Every command”| Command | Purpose | Subcommands |
|---|---|---|
kis encrypt | Encrypt a file | — |
kis decrypt | Decrypt a file | — |
kis json find | Filter JSON files by an expr predicate | — |
kis json query | Run jq queries over JSON files | — |
kis json validate | Check JSON parses, matches a schema, meets predicates | — |
kis test | Functional test runner | — |
kis cron | Scheduled job management | 10 |
kis version | Show version info | — |
kis ai | AI services (chat, embed, chunk, structured, modalities) | 19 |
kis rules | Rules engine | — |
kis bbox | Bounding box operations | 5 |
kis ocr | OCR rules execution on .json+.bbox page pairs | 2 |
kis hocr2bbox | HOCR to bounding box conversion | — |
kis login | Authenticate with the kis.ai platform | — |
kis info | Information about products, services, and infrastructure | 2 |
kis git | Git operations (push/pull/commit/stage) | 6 |
kis code | Code generation | 25 |
kis dependency | Dependency management | — |
kis liquid | Liquid template processing | — |
kis synthetic | Synthetic data generation | 8 |
kis sql2entity | SQL to entity conversion | — |
kis i18n | Internationalization | — |
kis spec | YAML specification toolchain (validate, lint, scaffold) | 6 |
kis test | Automated test client (functional, load, API tests) | — |
kis flow | Workflow automation | — |
kis automate | Workflow automation (alias for flow) | — |
kis sandbox | Run commands in an isolation sandbox (the sandbox engine harness) | 6 |
kis script | Multi-language script engine (JavaScript, Lua, Starlark, Go, CEL, expr, WASM) | 6 |
kis datapipe | Data pipeline operations | — |
kis yaml | YAML editing and validation | 4 |
By area
Section titled “By area”| Area | Covers |
|---|---|
| Core | encrypt, decrypt, find, query, test, cron, version |
| AI & Documents | ai, rules, bbox, ocr, hocr2bbox, synthetic |
| Build & Spec | code, spec, dependency, i18n, sql2entity, yaml, liquid |
| Automation & Execution | flow, automate, script, sandbox, datapipes |
| Platform | login, info, git |
The command list is assembled from the plugins actually installed, so run kis --help on your
own machine to see what is available there.