Anythink all-in-one backend: data, auth, files, workflows, payments, APIs

Anythink CLI

The official command-line interface for Anythink — the headless backend platform for developers and founders. Manage your projects, entities, data, workflows, users, files, and payments without leaving the terminal.

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Contents

• Installation
• Getting started
• Command reference
• signup / login / logout
• accounts
• projects
• config
• entities
• fields
• data
• search
• workflows
• users
• files
• email
• roles
• api-keys
• menus
• charts
• dashboards
• settings
• integrations
• pay
• oauth
• api
• docs
• migrate
• plans
• MCP server
• Contributing
• License

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Installation

Both the anythink CLI and the anythink-mcp server are distributed together. The quickest way to get both is Homebrew.

Homebrew (macOS / Linux) — recommended

brew install anythink-cloud/tap/anythink

This installs both commands onto your PATH:

• anythink — the CLI
• anythink-mcp — the MCP server (see MCP server)

Or tap first, then install:

brew tap anythink-cloud/tap

brew install anythink

Update to the latest release:

brew upgrade anythink

Uninstall:

brew uninstall anythink

macOS / Linux — download binary

Grab the latest release for your platform from the Releases page:

# Example — macOS Apple Silicon

curl -Lo anythink https://github.com/anythink-cloud/anythink-cli/releases/latest/download/anythink-osx-arm64 chmod +x anythink sudo mv anythink /usr/local/bin/

The MCP server ships as a matching anythink-mcp- binary on the same release — download and install it the same way (e.g. anythink-mcp-osx-arm64).

Verify the download against checksums.txt in the release assets:

sha256sum -c checksums.txt --ignore-missing

.NET global tool

If you have the .NET 8 SDK installed:

dotnet tool install --global anythink-cli

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/anythink-cloud/anythink-cli

cd anythink-cli dotnet build dotnet run --project src/AnythinkCli.csproj -- --help

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Getting started

# 1. Create an account (or log in if you already have one)

anythink signup

2. Create a billing account

anythink accounts create --name "My Company"

3. Create a project

anythink projects create "My App" --region lon1

4. Connect to the project

anythink projects use

5. Start building

anythink entities list anythink workflows list

Your credentials and project profiles are stored in ~/.anythink/config.json. You can manage multiple projects by running projects use to switch between them.

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Command reference

signup / login / logout

anythink signup                        Create a new Anythink account

anythink login Log in to the platform anythink logout Remove saved credentials for a project profile

signup and login are interactive — they prompt for email and password and walk you through connecting to a billing account and project on first run.

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accounts

Manage billing accounts. A billing account is the container for one or more projects and holds your subscription and payment details.

anythink accounts list                 List your billing accounts

anythink accounts create Create a new billing account anythink accounts use Set the active billing account

Examples

anythink accounts create --name "Acme Ltd" --email billing@acme.com

anythink accounts use a1b2c3d4

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projects

Create and manage Anythink projects. Each project is an isolated backend instance with its own database, auth, files, and workflows.

anythink projects list                 List projects in the active billing account

anythink projects create Create a new project anythink projects use Connect to a project (sets it as the active profile) anythink projects delete Delete a project

Options — `projects create`

Examples

anythink projects create "My App" --region lon1

anythink projects use a1b2c3d4 anythink projects delete a1b2c3d4 --yes

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config

View and manage saved CLI profiles.

anythink config show                   List all profiles and platform settings

anythink config use Set the active project profile anythink config remove Remove a profile

Profiles are named by project alias or ID and stored in ~/.anythink/config.json.

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entities

Manage entities (database tables) in the active project.

anythink entities list                 List all entities

anythink entities get Get entity details and fields anythink entities create Create a new entity anythink entities update Update entity settings anythink entities delete Delete an entity and all its data

Options — `entities create`

Examples

anythink entities create orders --rls

anythink entities get customers anythink entities delete temp_data --yes

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fields

Manage fields on an entity. Fields map directly to database columns.

anythink fields list <entity>          List fields on an entity

anythink fields add Add a field anythink fields delete Delete a field

Options — `fields add`

Examples

anythink fields list customers

anythink fields add customers email --type varchar --unique --required anythink fields add products price --type float --required anythink fields delete customers 1234 --yes

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data

CRUD operations on entity records.

anythink data list <entity>            List records

anythink data get Get a single record by ID anythink data create Create a new record anythink data update Update a record anythink data delete Delete a record anythink data export Export records to CSV, JSON or JSONL anythink data import Create records from CSV, JSON or JSONL

Options — `data list`

Filter operators (JSON form) — {"field": value} matches exactly, {"field": [a, b]} matches any, {"field": null} matches empty. For anything else use an operator object, e.g. {"price": {"gte": 10, "lt": 100}}:

Options — `data create` / `data update`

Examples

anythink data list blog_posts --limit 10

anythink data get blog_posts 42 anythink data create blog_posts