Golem CLI Introduction

Golem CLI is a command-line interface for interacting with Golem. Golem CLI allows users to upload their components, launch new agents based on these components and call functions on running agents.

Golem CLI versions

There are precompiled binaries of two variants of the CLI:

• golem is the full version of the command line interface, including a locally runnable version of Golem itself.
• golem-cli is a lightweight version of the command line interface, requiring a running Golem cluster.

In this documentation we will use the golem command in the snippets.

Installation

There are two ways to install any of the above described versions of Golem CLI:

• Downloading a precompiled platform-specific binary
• Installing from source using Rust tooling

Downloading precompiled binaries

You can download the precompiled version of golem (and golem-cli) from the following pages:

Installing from source

It is also possible to build it from source for yourself using Rust tooling. Refer to the page about building Golem CLI for yourself for more information.

Installing bootstrap skills

Golem provides AI coding agent skills that teach your coding agent (such as Amp, Cursor, or Claude Code) how to work with Golem. To install the two bootstrap skills, run:

npx skills add golemcloud/skills

These bootstrap skills give your coding agent enough knowledge to get started with Golem. When you create a new project with golem new, additional language- and project-specific skills are automatically added to the project directory, providing much deeper guidance.

Working with components

Golem CLI can manage components. See the Golem CLI components page for details.

Interacting with agents

Golem CLI allows creating, invoking and observing agents. See the Golem CLI agents page for more information.