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🎯 What You Can Do With DataKit CLI

Instant connectivity → Connect to any gRPC server by address or deploy your own integrations
Type-safe interactions → Full reflection support with validated request/response types
Interactive testing → Call any RPC method with guided prompts for parameters
Multi-plane control → Manage connections across local daemon and cloud control planes

Rapid scaffolding → Generate integration boilerplate with dtkt integrate create
Local dev loop → Build, run, and hot-reload integrations with dtkt integrate dev
Production ready → Deploy to native runtime or Docker with zero config changes
Protobuf-first → Strong typing, automatic validation, and portable service definitions

Visual workflows → Define automation flows in clean, version-controlled YAML
Multi-connection orchestration → Chain calls across different services and integrations
Built-in logic → Conditional branching, loops, and transformations using CEL expressions
Local execution → Test and debug flows instantly before deploying to production
Connection mapping → Flexibly route flow nodes to different connection instances

Service discovery → List all available services and methods across connections
Type introspection → Browse schemas and build typed values interactively
Real-time status → Check connection health and deployment state
Interactive forms → Auto-generated UIs for any Protobuf type

Quick Test a gRPC Service

Build an Integration

Automate a Workflow

Explore Available Types

Agencies → Scaffold custom integrations in hours, not weeks — ship client projects faster
Data engineers → Test complex data pipelines locally before costly cloud deployments
Platform teams → Build reusable integrations with strong contracts and automatic validation
Developers → Skip the boilerplate — focus on business logic, not infrastructure plumbing

gRPC & Connect → Industry-standard protocols with excellent tooling and performance
Protobuf schemas → Type safety, automatic validation, and cross-language compatibility
Local-first → Full dev loop on your machine, deploy anywhere when ready
Spec-driven → Version control everything — flows, integrations, and configurations

📖 Ready to dive deeper? Check out the DataKit documentation for tutorials, examples, and API references.

Field	Default	Usage
--accept-legal-notices	`false`	Accept legal notices (license).
--cloud	`false`	Overrides the contexts to cloud; equivalent to --contexts=cloud.
--cloud-org		Cloud Organization by (UID\|NAME).
--cloud-space		Cloud Space by (UID\|NAME).
--config		The active configuration name to override.
--contexts	`[]`	Overrides any current contexts from config.
--help, -h	`false`	Show help for the dtkt command.
--local	`false`	Overrides the contexts to local; equivalent to --contexts=local.
--log-format	`pretty`	Log format: (text\|json\|pretty).
--log-level	`info`	Log level: (debug\|info\|warn\|error).
--non-interactive	`false`	Run in non-interactive mode.
--remote	`false`	Overrides the contexts to the configured remote.