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Using pulse-cli from AI agents ​

pulse-cli is built to be driven by coding agents. Everything an agent needs is in the CLI itself. Point your agent at it, e.g. in AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md: "Run pulse-cli guide before using pulse-cli."

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pulse-cli guide
pulse-cli commands --search 'process instance'
pulse-cli describe process-definition start
pulse-cli process-definition start invoice --var amount=250 --dry-run
pulse-cli process-definition start invoice --var amount=250
pulse-cli guide auth
  • pulse-cli guide prints a short usage guide with an index of topics. pulse-cli guide <topic> prints one topic (workflow, input, output, config, auth, recipes), pulse-cli guide --list lists them. Every command line in the guide is tested against the CLI.
  • pulse-cli commands [group] and --search <words> list commands; pulse-cli describe returns arguments, options, body schema and examples as JSON. --dry-run previews a write.
  • pulse-cli api <METHOD> <path> sends a raw request with the same guards, output and errors.
  • The workflow commands (inspect, wait, advance, retry, deploy, status) drive a process instance without passing ids around. pulse-cli wait replaces sleep; exit code 9 means the process did not reach the expected state.
  • With OAuth, a person logs in once with pulse-cli auth login; agents never do. A command that needs a login fails with LOGIN_REQUIRED (exit 4) and names the command to run. pulse-cli auth status tells whether the login is usable.
  • A bearer token from PULSE_CLI_TOKEN is never refreshed: on TOKEN_EXPIRED (exit 4) the agent asks for a new one. A token command in the env of .claude/settings.json fetches short-lived tokens instead.
  • A project file (.pulse-cli.json) ships the repository's engines, so an agent session needs no setup. It names engines, never credentials.

Claude Code plugin ​

The CLI is also a Claude Code plugin, pulse-cli, in the plugin marketplace pulse of this repository (.claude-plugin/marketplace.json):

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/plugin marketplace add Miragon/pulse
/plugin install pulse-cli@pulse

From a shell: claude plugin marketplace add Miragon/pulse and claude plugin install pulse-cli@pulse. The plugin contains:

  • The skill pulse-cli, the text of pulse-cli guide. Claude Code loads it when a task reads or changes the state of a Camunda 7, Operaton or CIB seven engine; /pulse-cli loads it by hand.
  • The command /pulse-cli:status [options]: Claude runs pulse-cli status (read-only) and summarizes incidents, overdue jobs, external task workers and next commands. Only the bare pulse-cli status and pulse-cli ping run without a permission prompt.

The CLI is not part of the plugin: install it with npm install -g @miragon/pulse-cli, otherwise the skill runs npx -y @miragon/pulse-cli. Plugin and npm versions match. Claude Code does not update third-party plugins on its own: after a release, run the commands below, or turn on auto-update for pulse under Marketplaces in /plugin.

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claude plugin marketplace update pulse
claude plugin update pulse-cli@pulse

If you copied SKILL.md into a skills directory before, remove that copy (rm -r ~/.claude/skills/pulse-cli); otherwise Claude Code lists the skill twice.

The plugin lives in apps/cli/skills/pulse-cli. The npm package ships it too, so claude --plugin-dir "$(npm root -g)/@miragon/pulse-cli/skills/pulse-cli" loads the installed version for one session.

Claude Code skill without the plugin ​

apps/cli/skills/pulse-cli/SKILL.md is the core guide as a Claude Code skill; it ships with the npm package. To use it without the plugin (not in addition to it), install it for all your projects or for one project:

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mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/pulse-cli
cp "$(npm root -g)/@miragon/pulse-cli/skills/pulse-cli/SKILL.md" ~/.claude/skills/pulse-cli/

mkdir -p .claude/skills/pulse-cli
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Miragon/pulse/main/apps/cli/skills/pulse-cli/SKILL.md -o .claude/skills/pulse-cli/SKILL.md