Floe CLI

The full Floe platform from your terminal — setup, metered calls, agents, keys, budgets, policies, billing, funds, and phone. Built for humans and for AI coding agents.

Floe tells you what every AI call really costs: it costs each call the moment it ends across every vendor — telephony, STT, LLM, TTS, tools — on one ledger, ties the spend to the client and campaign, and shows your margin per contract, so you can bill your own customers off those actuals and price the next deal on real numbers. This CLI drives all of it from your terminal.

npx @floelabs/cli init

floe init authenticates with your developer key, creates (or selects) an agent, mints its runtime key into your OS keychain, and ends with the only thing that matters — the base-URL swap for your existing OpenAI-compatible client, key already filled in:

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://credit-api.floelabs.xyz/v1", api_key="floe_…")

Every response carries X-Floe-Cost-USDC. One key meters chat, embeddings, speech and transcription across 15+ vendors — one bill, in USDC.

Quickstart

npm install -g @floelabs/cli
floe init                   # authenticate, set up an agent + key
floe status                 # am I set up? balance, budgets, active agent
floe chat "hello"           # one metered call, cost printed
floe test --voice           # STT → LLM → TTS: three legs, one key, one bill

Commands

floe help <command> prints each command's full usage and flags.

Get started

Command	What it does
floe init	Authenticate, set up an agent + key, print the base-URL swap
floe status	Am I set up? Balance, budgets, active agent and key
floe use	Switch this machine to another agent (keys kept per agent)
floe test	Make one real metered call and print its cost

Metered calls

Command	What it does
floe chat	Send a prompt through the metered gateway
floe embed	Create embeddings through the metered gateway
floe speak	Text-to-speech through the metered gateway (writes a file)
floe transcribe	Transcribe an audio file through the metered gateway
floe pay	Call any x402 vendor through the metered proxy

Agents & limits

Command	What it does
floe agents	list | get | create | pause | resume | close | lock — agent fleet
floe keys	list | create | revoke | rotate — agent runtime keys
floe devkeys	list | create | revoke | rotate — developer (floe_live_) keys
floe budget	show | set | clear | reserve — cap agent spend
floe policy	list | create | update | revoke | reset | chain | test — spend policies
floe allowlist	show | set | add | remove — merchant allowlist
floe credit	bounds | open — credit-line inspection and opt-in open

Observability & billing

Command	What it does
floe activity	Unified spend/activity feed with filters
floe usage	Spend series | summary | coverage — usage analytics
floe ledger	Cross-source spend ledger, grouped
floe billing	mtd | invoice | export | charges — billing and exports
floe account	show | rename — account identity
floe team	members | invite | revoke-invite | set-role | remove — team roster

Money

Command	What it does
floe funds	withdraw | move | list | address | topup | sessions — move money
floe cashout	start | list | status | cancel — cash out USDC to fiat

Platform

Command	What it does
floe webhooks	list | create | events | get | pause | enable | delete | test | rotate-secret | deliveries | logs
floe models	Model catalog with modalities and pricing
floe estimate	Estimate a call cost without spending
floe providers	list | set | enable | disable | remove — BYOK provider keys
floe phone	search | buy | list | release | calls | usage | voice | test-call — Floe Phone
floe actions	list | report — cost-per-action rollups and outcomes
floe orchestrators	connect | list | rotate | enable | disable | remove — Vapi/Retell/Bland
floe vendors	status — live-verified vendor probes

Two keys, handled for you

Floe has a developer key (floe_live_…, from the dashboard) for managing agents, and per-agent runtime keys (floe_…) that the gateway meters. The CLI stores both in your OS keychain and always sends the right one — you never pick. On systems without a usable keychain (headless Linux, some containers) it falls back to ~/.config/floe/credentials.json with 0600 permissions and tells you so.

Runtime keys are stored per agent, so floe use <agent> switches this machine between agents without re-minting keys — the first switch to an agent mints its key once (agents cap at 5 keys), and every switch after that reuses it.

Conventions

• --json on every command — machine-readable output for CI and coding agents.
• --yes skips confirmation on destructive or money-moving commands (agents close, keys revoke, funds withdraw, …). Non-interactive runs require it — a script never destroys something by default.
• Exit codes: 0 ok · 1 error · 2 usage · 4 auth · 5 payment/budget.
• --api-url <url> overrides the API base on any command.

Environment

Headless / CI: set FLOE_API_KEY (developer key) and/or FLOE_AGENT_KEY (runtime key); env vars always win over the keychain. FLOE_API_URL overrides the API base.

For AI agents

The CLI is a first-class surface for coding agents:

• Every command takes --json and emits stable, machine-readable JSON — parse it instead of scraping human output. (Metered commands wrap the API body with model/cost fields, and filtered lists are reconstructed, so it's a stable CLI schema, not always the raw API body.)
• Nothing hangs on a prompt: non-interactive destructive calls fail fast with exit 2 unless --yes is passed.
• Bootstrap without a keychain: export FLOE_API_KEY (and FLOE_AGENT_KEY for metered calls) and every command works immediately — no init, no stored state.
• Exit codes are stable and meaningful — branch on 4 (re-auth) and 5 (out of budget).

Development

pnpm install
pnpm build        # tsup → dist/
pnpm typecheck
pnpm test
node dist/bin.js --help

Merging to main publishes to npm automatically when package.json has a new version.

License

MIT © Floe Labs