Terminal (CLI) integration
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AI agents & API
For people who live in a shell: session verbs as a 3 MB binary, no window, no Electron — and the same binary is the MCP server for your agents.
kiantu start / stop / status from any shell — the fastest path from "I'm coding" to "it's on the record".
kiantu start / stop / pause / resume / status from any shellkiantu mcp turns it into an MCP server for Claude Code & friendsScriptable: wire it into git hooks, tmux, or your deploy scripts
What it does
- Five human commands on the same binary that serves the MCP tools: start, stop, pause, resume, status.
- Authenticates with a kt_ API token from your environment — works in dotfiles, tmux, CI, anywhere.
Setup
- 1 Download the CLI from kiantu.com/download/cli (macOS universal; Windows/Linux builds on request while in beta).
- 2 Create a token in Settings → Security → API tokens (or reuse your agent registration).
- 3 export KIANTU_API_TOKEN=kt_…
- 4 kiantu start "fixing the login redirect" — and kiantu stop when you're done.
Commands
kiantu start <intent> start a work session kiantu stop close your current session kiantu pause · kiantu resume pause / resume kiantu status what's running right now kiantu mcp serve Kiantu as an MCP server for your agents Quickstart — Shell
export KIANTU_API_TOKEN=kt_…
kiantu start "shipping the pricing page"Data & privacy
- The CLI holds no state and no secrets beyond the token in your environment.
- Same scoping rules as every kt_ token — report_only tokens can write their own work and read nothing.