CLI reference
Every package ships a CLI (and most a matching kaos-*-serve MCP server). Run
kaos-<tool> --help, or kaos-<tool> <command> --help, for full usage. All follow the
same conventions: --json for structured output, human-readable by default, errors to
stderr. See the package reference for versions and install.
| Tool | Subcommands | What it does |
|---|
| kaos-core | tools artifacts config vfs creds auth | Inspect the runtime: tools, artifacts, settings, VFS, credentials, auth. |
| kaos-mcp | serve list-tools list-resources | Serve a runtime over MCP; list its tools and resources. |
| kaos-llm-client | check chat profiles config | Check connectivity, chat, inspect model profiles and config. |
| kaos-llm-core | check examples summarize classify analyze | Run LLM programs: summarize, classify, analyze. |
| kaos-agent | chat | Interactive or one-shot agent chat (also: kaos-extract, kaos-agents-serve). |
| kaos-pdf | extract search info outline page render classify serve | Extract, search, render, and classify PDFs. |
| kaos-office | extract search metadata xlsx-extract write-docx redline | DOCX / PPTX / XLSX extraction, authoring, and redlining. |
| kaos-tabular | query describe sample export read | Run SQL over CSV / Parquet / JSON / XLSX / SQLite. |
| kaos-source | discover preview info materialize inspect-archive | Discover and materialize sources; inspect archives. |
| kaos-web | extract metadata fetch search browser-doctor serve | Web extraction, fetch, search, and browser diagnostics. |
| kaos-nlp | tokenize segment compare find search index hash duplicates encode vocab analyze | Tokenize, segment, BM25 search/index, fuzzy hashing, dedup. |
| kaos-ml | info | Classical ML over the content AST (Python API is the primary surface). |
| kaos-nlp-transformers | info prefetch | Diagnostics and model cache-warming (prefetch) for embeddings/rerank/NLI. |
| kaos-graph | serve version | Serve the graph engine over MCP; print version. |
| kaos-names | generate vocabulary | Generate friendly handles; inspect the word lists. |
| kaos-ui | list info new doctor | Scaffold apps: list/inspect templates, create a project, health-check. |