@waniwani/cli

The official CLI for WaniWani — the open-source toolkit for building MCP funnels: multi-step conversational flows (sales, lead generation, booking, quotes) that run as a single MCP tool inside ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and any MCP-capable client.

waniwani connects a local repo to a WaniWani agent in one command, runs your MCP server against the hosted playground.

If you're building an MCP distribution server with the @waniwani/sdk, this CLI is the fastest way to wire it to the WaniWani platform without touching a dashboard.

Install

# bun
bun add -g @waniwani/cli

# npm
npm install -g @waniwani/cli

# pnpm
pnpm add -g @waniwani/cli

# yarn
yarn global add @waniwani/cli

Requires Node.js 20 or later.

Quickstart

# 1. Authenticate (browser-based OAuth2 PKCE flow)
waniwani login

# 2. Connect this repo to an agent — picks an org, picks or creates an agent,
#    and writes the binding to waniwani.json
waniwani connect

# 3. Run your MCP locally and open the WaniWani playground against it
waniwani dev

Three commands and your local MCP server is talking to ChatGPT/Claude/Cursor through the WaniWani playground. No tunnel setup, no manual dashboard wiring, no copying API keys.

Commands

Command	Description
waniwani login	OAuth2 PKCE login. Opens your browser, stores tokens in .waniwani/settings.json.
waniwani logout	Clear local credentials.
waniwani connect	Interactive: pick an org, pick or create an agent (managed or external), write the binding to waniwani.json.
waniwani dev	Run your MCP locally (bun dev / npm run dev / etc.), open the WaniWani playground in your browser, and bridge them.

waniwani connect

Two flavors of agents:

• Managed — WaniWani provisions a GitHub repo + Vercel project pre-wired with the MCP distribution template, API keys, and auto-deploys. Push to main, it deploys.
• External — You host the MCP server (Docker, Cloudflare Workers, your own infra). The CLI registers it with WaniWani and gives you a production API key to set as WANIWANI_API_KEY.

The CLI writes orgId and projectId to waniwani.json so subsequent commands (and the SDK at runtime) pick them up automatically.

waniwani dev

Spawns your local dev server (auto-detects bun / pnpm / yarn / npm), waits for it to bind to the port, creates a dev session against the WaniWani platform, and opens the playground with localMode=1 so chat traffic routes to localhost:3000 instead of your production deployment. Ctrl-C cleans everything up.

Override the port with -p / --port <port>, or set devPort in waniwani.json.

Configuration

The CLI is fully project-scoped — no global config.

Auth & local state

Stored in .waniwani/settings.json (per repo, gitignored):

{
  "apiUrl": "https://app.waniwani.ai",
  "accessToken": "…",
  "refreshToken": "…",
  "expiresAt": "2026-05-20T12:00:00Z",
  "clientId": "…"
}

Tokens auto-refresh on 401. Switch staging/production with WANIWANI_API_URL.

Project config (waniwani.json)

Shared with @waniwani/sdk. waniwani connect writes orgId and projectId; you can add anything else the SDK supports:

import type { WaniWaniProjectConfig } from "@waniwani/sdk";

export default {
  orgId: "org_…",
  projectId: "proj_…",
  devPort: 3000,
} satisfies WaniWaniProjectConfig;

Env vars

Variable	What it does
WANIWANI_API_URL	Override the API base URL (defaults to https://app.waniwani.ai).
WANIWANI_API_KEY	Use a long-lived API key instead of OAuth tokens. Useful in CI.

JSON output

Most commands support --json for scripting:

waniwani login --json
waniwani logout --json

connect and dev are interactive-only.

For AI agents

If you're Claude Code, Cursor, or another AI coding agent reading this, here's the short version:

1. npm i -g @waniwani/cli (or bun add -g @waniwani/cli)
2. waniwani login
3. waniwani connect — picks an org and an agent interactively; writes waniwani.json
4. waniwani dev — runs the user's existing dev script, bridges it to the playground

The CLI assumes the user already has an MCP server in the cwd (or will scaffold one with @waniwani/sdk). It does not generate code on its own — pair it with the SDK or the MCP distribution template.

For building the actual flow / tools / widgets, see the SDK docs and install the agent skill:

bunx skills add WaniWani-AI/sdk -s waniwani-sdk

Status

Pre-1.0. The command surface is small and stable (login / logout / connect / dev), but flags and output format may change without notice until v1. Pin your CLI version in CI.

Links

• Website: waniwani.ai
• Dashboard: app.waniwani.ai
• SDK: @waniwani/sdk · docs.waniwani.ai
• CLI reference: docs.waniwani.ai/cli/overview
• Template: WaniWani-AI/mcp-distribution-template
• Issues: github.com/WaniWani-AI/cli/issues

License

MIT © WaniWani

"WaniWani" is a trademark of WaniWani Inc. The license covers the code, not the name.