chainctl
chainctl Chainguard Control
For the complete documentation index, see llms.txt.
Serve tools for development sessions to an MCP client over stdio.
Serve the develop session tools over the Model Context Protocol on stdin and stdout, for an agent such as Claude Code to read, edit and run commands in your sessions:
claude mcp add develop – chainctl develop mcp
The tools are exec, wait, kill, read, write and edit. Each takes a session parameter, a session name or short id, resolved in –parent as the other develop verbs resolve it. Paths are absolute in the guest or relative to /work. write and edit refuse a file that changed since this server last read it. Sessions are created, listed and deleted with the other develop verbs.
Run long builds and tests with the exec tool’s run_in_background, then wait for them: the command runs detached in the guest, so the server’s other calls go on beside it. A ‘chainctl develop exec’ from Bash instead holds the guest for the whole command, and another API replica’s calls queue behind it.
chainctl develop mcp [--parent GROUP] --api string The url of the Chainguard platform API. (default "https://console-api.enforce.dev")
--audience string The Chainguard token audience to request. (default "https://console-api.enforce.dev")
--config string A specific chainctl config file. Uses CHAINCTL_CONFIG environment variable if a file is not passed explicitly.
--console string The url of the Chainguard platform Console. (default "https://console.chainguard.dev")
--force-color Force color output even when stdout is not a TTY.
-h, --help Help for chainctl
--issuer string The url of the Chainguard STS endpoint. (default "https://issuer.enforce.dev")
--log-level string Set the log level (debug, info) (default "ERROR")
--non-interactive Disable prompts; fail if a session or group choice is ambiguous.
-o, --output string Output format. One of: [csv, env, go-template, id, json, markdown, none, table, terse, tree, wide]
--parent string Organization or folder name/ID (defaults to $CHAINCTL_SANDBOX_GROUP, then default.group).
-v, --v int Set the log verbosity level.chainctl Chainguard Control
chainctl actions Interact with the Chainguard Actions product.
chainctl actions catalog Browse the public Chainguard Actions catalog.
chainctl actions catalog list List Chainguard Actions in the public catalog.
chainctl actions discover Discover GitHub Actions dependencies used by your workflows.
Last updated: 2026-10-26 19:49