Valyu CLI

The official CLI for Valyu.

Built for AI (or human) knowledge workers.

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Install

cURL (macOS / Linux)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/valyuAI/valyu-cli/main/install.sh | bash

Node.js

npm install -g @valyu/cli

Homebrew (macOS / Linux)

brew install valyuAI/cli/valyu

PowerShell (Windows)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/valyuAI/valyu-cli/main/install.ps1 | iex

Then authenticate:

valyu login

Get your API key at platform.valyu.ai.

valyu search "CRISPR base editing latest breakthroughs"
valyu answer "What drove Tesla's Q4 2024 earnings miss?"
valyu sources --category markets

Commands

valyu search

Search across web, academic, and proprietary data sources.

# Web search (default)
valyu search "AI infrastructure investment 2025"

# Specify a source type
valyu search paper "transformer attention mechanisms"
valyu search finance "Apple AAPL earnings Q1 2026"
valyu search bio "CAR-T cell therapy phase 3 trials"
valyu search sec "Tesla 10-K 2024 risk factors"
valyu search patent "mRNA delivery lipid nanoparticles"
valyu search economics "US CPI inflation January 2025"
valyu search news "Fed interest rate decision"

# Options
valyu search paper "CRISPR" -n 20          # more results
valyu search finance "MSFT" --json         # pipe-friendly JSON

valyu answer

Get an AI-synthesized answer from real-time search results. Streams by default.

valyu answer "What is the current state of nuclear fusion commercialisation?"
valyu answer "Summarise NVIDIA's competitive position in AI chips" --fast

valyu contents

Extract clean content from any URL — articles, PDFs, financial reports.

valyu contents https://example.com/report
valyu contents https://sec.gov/filing --summary
valyu contents https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00001 --summary "extract methodology and results"

valyu deepresearch

Async deep research — produces a full report, like a junior analyst.

# Start a research task
valyu deepresearch create "Global AI compute infrastructure trends 2025"

# Start and wait for completion
valyu deepresearch create "CRISPR therapeutics market landscape" --mode heavy --watch

# Check on a running task
valyu deepresearch status <task-id>

# Poll until done
valyu deepresearch watch <task-id>

Research modes:

| Mode | Time | Use for | |------------|------------|----------------------------------| | fast | ~5 min | Quick lookups, simple questions | | standard | ~10-20 min | Balanced research (default) | | heavy | ~60 min | In-depth analysis, long reports | | max | ~90 min | Maximum depth and quality |

valyu sources

Browse all available data sources with pricing.

valyu sources                          # all 36+ sources
valyu sources --category markets       # financial data only
valyu sources --category research      # academic sources

Other commands

valyu login              # save API key
valyu logout             # remove saved key
valyu whoami             # show active key and profile
valyu doctor             # check setup and connectivity
valyu open               # open platform, docs, or API keys in browser

Flags

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | --api-key <key> | Override stored key for one request | | --json | Force JSON output (for scripting/pipes) | | -q, --quiet | No spinners, just JSON (implies --json) | | -p, --profile <name> | Use a named credential profile |

Scripting and agents

Every command outputs clean JSON with --json or in non-TTY contexts:

# Pipe into jq
valyu search finance "AAPL" --json | jq '.results[].title'

# In CI/CD
RESULTS=$(valyu answer "latest rate decision" --quiet)

# With environment variable
VALYU_API_KEY=your_key valyu search web "query" --json

Multiple profiles

valyu login --profile work
valyu login --profile personal
valyu search web "query" --profile work

Agent skill

The CLI ships with a SKILL.md file that teaches AI coding agents how to use it - no MCP server needed, 4-32x cheaper in tokens.

npx skills add @valyu/cli

Then agents can call:

Valyu(search, "CRISPR base editing")
Valyu(answer, "What drove NVDA earnings?")
Valyu(contents, "https://example.com")

Data sources

36+ proprietary and public data sources across:

• Web - real-time web search
• Academic - arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv
• Financial - stocks, earnings, balance sheets, cash flows, crypto, forex
• SEC - 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K filings full text
• Patents - global patent databases
• Biomedical - clinical trials, FDA drug labels, ChEMBL, DrugBank
• Economic - BLS, FRED, World Bank, USASpending

See all: valyu sources

Links

• Platform — manage keys, usage, billing
• Docs — API reference
• npm

License

MIT