# Cortex Command Line Interface

The Cortex Command Line Interface (CLI) is an open‑source, Python‑based command‑line tool for interacting with the [Cortex API](https://docs.cortex.io/api/). It’s published as the `cortexapps-cli` package on PyPI and maintained in the public [`cortexapps/cli` GitHub repository](https://github.com/cortexapps/cli).

You can use it to call Cortex APIs from scripts (for example, managing catalog entities and performing bulk operations).

### Installation

For installation, usage, and examples, see the [Cortex CLI project in PyPi](https://pypi.org/project/cortexapps-cli/).

### Contributions

For bug reports or other issues, customers are encouraged to open GitHub issues in the [Cortex CLI GitHub repository](https://github.com/cortexapps/cli).


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