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title: Amplitude CLI
description: "amp is a manifest-driven command-line client for the Amplitude Developer API, for managing projects, taxonomy, feature flags, and charts from a terminal or a script."
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# Amplitude CLI

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`amp` is a command-line client for the [Developer API](https://amplitude.com/docs/apis/developer). The API's OpenAPI spec generates `amp`'s command surface directly, so every API command maps to an operation. Use `amp` to manage projects, event and user properties, events, feature flags, and saved charts from a terminal, script, or AI agent's shell instead of calling the REST endpoints directly.

## Built for two readers

`amp` output adapts to who's reading it. In an interactive terminal, list and context commands print human-friendly tables and summaries. Pipe the output to a file or another command, or pass `--json`, and `amp` prints raw, compact API JSON instead, so an agent or script doesn't spend tokens or effort parsing decoration.

## How amp fits with other Amplitude tools

- **[Developer API](https://amplitude.com/docs/apis/developer)**: `amp` is a client for this API. Every command maps to one or more Developer API requests, and the same authentication, scopes, and resources apply to both.
- **[SDKs](https://amplitude.com/docs/sdks)**: The projects, taxonomy, and feature flags you manage with `amp` are the same objects your app reads and writes at runtime through an Amplitude SDK. Use `amp` to set up and administer those objects; use an SDK to instrument your application against them.
- **[Setup wizard](https://amplitude.com/docs/get-started/setup-wizard-cli)**: The Amplitude Wizard CLI (`npx @amplitude/wizard`) onboards a codebase, detects your framework, and instruments SDK events. `amp` doesn't instrument code; use it to manage the projects, taxonomy, and flags that an instrumented app reads and writes.
- **[Amplitude MCP](https://amplitude.com/docs/amplitude-ai/amplitude-mcp)**: MCP gives an AI client natural-language, OAuth-based access to the same kinds of Amplitude objects. Use `amp` for scriptable automation in agents and CI where a conversational interface isn't the right fit.

To get started, go to [Install](https://amplitude.com/docs/developers/cli/install) and [Authentication](https://amplitude.com/docs/developers/cli/authentication), then follow the [quickstart](https://amplitude.com/docs/developers/cli/quickstart).