ZAI CLI

Z.AI vision, search, reader, and GitHub exploration via CLI and MCP.

Features

• Vision: Image/video analysis, OCR, UI-to-code, error diagnosis (GLM-4.6V)
• Search: Real-time web search with domain/recency filtering
• Reader: Web page to markdown extraction
• Repo: GitHub code search and reading via ZRead
• Tools: MCP tool discovery and raw calls
• Code: TypeScript tool chaining

Installation

# Set your API key
export Z_AI_API_KEY="your-api-key"

# Get a key at: https://z.ai/manage-apikey/apikey-list

Quick Start

# Analyze an image
npx zai-cli vision analyze ./screenshot.png "What errors do you see?"

# Search the web
npx zai-cli search "React 19 new features" --count 5

# Read a web page
npx zai-cli read https://docs.example.com/api

# Explore a GitHub repo
npx zai-cli repo search facebook/react "server components"

# Check setup
npx zai-cli doctor

Usage

Simply describe what you need - ZAI activates when you:

• Need image or video analysis
• Want to search the web in real-time
• Need to read a webpage as markdown
• Want to explore GitHub repositories

Author

Numman Ali - @numman-ali

Resources

• n-skills Marketplace

License

Apache-2.0