CLI Reference

scitex-io provides a command-line interface via the scitex-io command.

scitex-io --help-recursive    # Show all commands and subcommands

Commands

Table 2. CLI commands organized by category.

Category	Command	Description
Core I/O	scitex-io info	Show all registered save/load formats
Core I/O	scitex-io configs	Load and display project YAML configurations
Integration	scitex-io mcp	MCP server management (start, doctor, list-tools)
Integration	scitex-io list-python-apis	List all Python API functions with signatures
Utility	scitex-io version	Show version information
Utility	scitex-io shell-completion	Generate shell completion scripts

Format Inspection

# Show all registered formats
scitex-io info

# Example output:
#   Save formats (24 built-in):
#     .csv, .json, .npy, .npz, .pkl, .yaml, ...
#   Load formats (29 built-in):
#     .csv, .json, .npy, .npz, .pkl, .yaml, ...

Configuration Inspection

# Load and display configs from default ./config/ directory
scitex-io configs

# Custom config directory
scitex-io configs -d /path/to/project/config

# Output as JSON (machine-readable)
scitex-io configs --json

# Force debug mode (promotes DEBUG_* keys)
scitex-io configs --debug

API Introspection

scitex-io list-python-apis         # List all public functions
scitex-io list-python-apis -v      # With signatures
scitex-io list-python-apis -vv     # With descriptions
scitex-io list-python-apis -vvv    # Full details

Shell Completion

Generate tab-completion scripts for your shell:

# Bash
eval "$(scitex-io shell-completion bash)"

# Zsh
eval "$(scitex-io shell-completion zsh)"

# Fish
scitex-io shell-completion fish | source

To make it permanent, add to your shell profile (e.g., ~/.bashrc).