Scalattice CLI

Sign in from a terminal, land in an interactive CLI, mint an account management key (slt_mgmt_…) for automation, create an inference API key (slt_…) for OpenAI-compatible SDKs, check credits, and manage a provider fleet. Optional MCP mode for AI coding agents.

Product: scalattice.com/cli · npm: scalattice-cli · Cloud docs: developers#cli · providers#fleet-api · Installer: scalattice.cloud/install/cli

Install

# Paste-friendly
curl -fsSL https://scalattice.cloud/install/cli | sh

# Or with npm (Node 18+)
npm install -g scalattice-cli

Or sign in on Cloud /auth and run the curl command shown there. That stores a session in ~/.config/scalattice/config.json, signs the browser tab in, installs this CLI if needed, and opens the prompt.

Related MCP server: Modal MCP Server

Quick start

scalattice

You get a scalattice> prompt. Type commands without the scalattice prefix:

scalattice> whoami
scalattice> login
scalattice> credits
scalattice> help
scalattice> exit

login stores a session only. For the OpenAI SDK, create a key and export it:

scalattice developers keys create
eval "$(scalattice init)"   # after OPENAI_API_KEY is in the env

One-shot from any shell still works: scalattice login, scalattice whoami, and the rest.

Then use any OpenAI SDK:

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()  # uses OPENAI_BASE_URL + OPENAI_API_KEY
print(client.models.list())

Keys

Create management keys on Account or account keys create if you need a long-lived secret for MCP. The CLI itself uses your session.

Commands

Inside the prompt, drop the scalattice prefix. From a normal terminal, keep it.

developer/developers, provider/providers, machine/machines, and key/keys are aliases.

Config: ~/.config/scalattice/config.json (mode 0600) — session + email only. Keys are never written there.

Env overrides: SCALATTICE_CLOUD_URL, SCALATTICE_API_URL, SCALATTICE_API_KEY, SCALATTICE_MGMT_KEY, SCALATTICE_SESSION_TOKEN.

Provider fleet

scalattice login
scalattice provider machines create
scalattice provider machines
scalattice provider pause   # or resume

See Fleet API docs.

MCP (optional)

MCP is not a second install. After login, leave the prompt and run scalattice mcp. For a headless agent without a session, set SCALATTICE_MGMT_KEY in that environment.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scalattice": {
      "command": "scalattice",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

License

MIT