ak commands show

ak commands show

Show command details

Synopsis

What it does: Print metadata for a single command - name, version, description, runtime requirements.

Who it's for: Both: power devs scripting (--json) and users inspecting what they're about to install.

When to use it: After ak commands list or search finds a candidate; before installing.

Examples: ak commands show engineer/agent-browser ak commands show engineer/agent-browser --json

What changes on disk: Read-only.

Output modes: pretty default on TTY (colors, ASCII markers) plain auto when stdout piped or --no-interactive json --json (single-object envelope, NDJSON-safe)

Exit codes: 0 success 1 runtime error 2 invalid flags 3 user-cancel (SIGINT, prompt-cancel) 5 command not found

ak commands show <kit>/<command> [flags]

Options

  -h, --help             help for show
      --json             Emit machine-readable JSON (implies --no-interactive)
      --no-interactive   Disable interactive prompts (CI-safe)
  -q, --quiet            Suppress non-error output on stderr
  -V, --verbose          Extra diagnostic output on stderr (loses to --quiet)
  -y, --yes              Assume yes for all prompts

SEE ALSO

• ak commands - Per-slash-command management commands