"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

Amazon Chime CLI

Production-ready CLI for the Amazon Chime Communications API. Manage meetings, attendees, and messaging channels from your terminal.

Installation

npm install -g @ktmcp-cli/awschime

Configuration

awschime config set --access-key-id YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID \
  --secret-access-key YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Usage

Config

# Set AWS credentials
awschime config set --access-key-id <id> --secret-access-key <secret>

# Get a config value
awschime config get accessKeyId

# List all config
awschime config list

Meetings

# List active meetings
awschime meetings list

# Get meeting details
awschime meetings get <meeting-id>

# Create a new meeting
awschime meetings create
awschime meetings create --external-id "team-standup-2024-01-15" --region us-east-1

# Delete a meeting
awschime meetings delete <meeting-id>

# JSON output
awschime meetings list --json

Attendees

# List attendees in a meeting
awschime attendees list <meeting-id>

# Get attendee details
awschime attendees get <meeting-id> <attendee-id>

# Add an attendee to a meeting
awschime attendees create <meeting-id> --user-id "[email protected]"

# Remove an attendee
awschime attendees delete <meeting-id> <attendee-id>

Channels (Chime SDK Messaging)

# List messaging channels
awschime channels list
awschime channels list --app-instance-arn arn:aws:chime:us-east-1:123456789012:app-instance/abc123

# Get channel details
awschime channels get <channel-arn>

# Create a channel
awschime channels create \
  --app-instance-arn arn:aws:chime:us-east-1:123456789012:app-instance/abc123 \
  --name "Engineering Team" \
  --mode UNRESTRICTED \
  --privacy PUBLIC

# Delete a channel
awschime channels delete <channel-arn>

Media Regions

Amazon Chime supports these media regions for optimal latency:

• us-east-1 (N. Virginia) — default
• us-west-2 (Oregon)
• eu-west-1 (Ireland)
• eu-central-1 (Frankfurt)
• ap-southeast-1 (Singapore)
• ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo)

JSON Output

All commands support --json for scripting:

# Get all meetings as JSON
awschime meetings list --json

# Get attendees and pipe to jq
awschime attendees list <meeting-id> --json | jq '.[].ExternalUserId'

License

MIT