"Six months ago, everyone was talking about MCPs. And I was like, screw MCPs. Every MCP would be better as a CLI."

— Peter Steinberger, Founder of OpenClaw Watch on YouTube (~2:39:00) | Lex Fridman Podcast #491

Airbyte CLI

Production-ready CLI for Airbyte Data Integration API.

Installation

npm install -g @ktmcp-cli/airbyte

Configuration

airbyte config set --api-key YOUR_API_KEY
airbyte config set --base-url http://localhost:8006/api
airbyte config set --workspace-id YOUR_WORKSPACE_ID

Usage

Connections

# List all connections
airbyte connections list
airbyte connections list --workspace-id <id>

# Get connection details
airbyte connections get <connection-id>

# Create a new connection
airbyte connections create \
  --source-id <source-id> \
  --destination-id <destination-id> \
  --name "My Pipeline" \
  --schedule manual

Sources

# List all sources
airbyte sources list
airbyte sources list --workspace-id <id>

# Get source details
airbyte sources get <source-id>

# Create a new source
airbyte sources create \
  --workspace-id <id> \
  --name "My PostgreSQL Source" \
  --definition-id decd338e-5647-4c0b-adf4-da0e75f5a750 \
  --config '{"host":"localhost","port":5432,"database":"mydb","username":"user","password":"pass"}'

Destinations

# List all destinations
airbyte destinations list

# Get destination details
airbyte destinations get <destination-id>

# Create a new destination
airbyte destinations create \
  --workspace-id <id> \
  --name "My BigQuery Destination" \
  --definition-id 22f6c74f-5699-40ff-833c-4a879ea40133 \
  --config '{"project_id":"my-project","dataset_id":"my_dataset"}'

Workspaces

# List all workspaces
airbyte workspaces list

Configuration

airbyte config set --api-key YOUR_KEY
airbyte config get apiKey
airbyte config list

JSON Output

All commands support --json flag for machine-readable output:

airbyte connections list --json
airbyte sources get <id> --json

License

MIT