# 🔥 Feature Spotlight: Make CLI is here!

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**Created:** [April 20, 2026, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/feature-spotlight-make-cli-is-here/107713 "2026-04-20T12:16:27Z")\
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> ### Make CLI: A new scriptable way to manage automations, built for developers and AI agents 💻

If you, your dev team, or your AI coding agents live in scripting, CI/CD, and Git, this one is for you! 🫵

Today, we’re introducing Make CLI: an open-source command-line interface that gives developers and AI agents full programmatic access to Make directly from the terminal.

 ![Make CLI](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/make/original/3X/d/b/db28eed1167360efd74e73d2a0bd29b54471fcd4.jpeg)

## **🆕 What you can do with Make CLI**

- ⚙ **Manage your entire Make setup from the terminal:** scenarios, connections, data stores, hooks, executions, and more
- 🤖 **Give AI agents full Make access:** AI coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor can manage automations via terminal with no token overhead or context pollution
- 🔗 **Run automations natively in your CI/CD pipeline:** integrate Make directly into your automated pipelines and scripting workflows

## **⚙ How Make CLI works**

Make CLI is a tool you install on your computer or server. Once installed, you authenticate with your Make account and run commands directly from the terminal — no browser, no UI. Each command maps to an action in Make: listing your scenarios, activating one, checking executions, and so on. It’s Make, but through text commands instead of clicks.

## **💻 When to use Make CLI**

Make now offers multiple ways to build and manage your Make automations. Mix and match based on how you work:

- **🎨 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦** for visual, no-code building and orchestration.

- **🔌 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐌𝐂𝐏** for AI assistants with structured tool calling

- **🧰 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐌𝐂𝐏 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐛𝐨𝐱𝐞𝐬** for AI assistants when curated tool selection matters

- 🛠 **𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐒𝐃𝐊** for programmatic control inside your own app

- **💻 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐂𝐋𝐈** for AI coding agents, scripting, and CI/CD

Same platform. Same power. Different ways to automate for every person and AI agent on your team.

### 🤖 Make CLI or MCP: Which to use for AI?

> **Use MCP when your AI is an assistant. CLI when your AI agent is a developer.**

Both Make MCP and Make CLI give access to Make, but they are built for different kinds of AI.

**Make MCP** is native to AI chat assistants: conversational tools like Claude or ChatGPT, where a human is in the loop. MCP provides structured, native tool calling that fits how assistants work.

**Make CLI** is native to AI coding agents: tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex that already live in the terminal and execute commands autonomously.

For AI coding agents, CLI is the natural fit because:

- It fits into the workflows AI coding agents already use with version control, code review, and CI pipelines

- There are no tool schemas loading into the agent’s context window; instead, it just runs commands, which reduces token spend and minimizes agent context overhead

- Output is predictable and reviewable, like any other code change

The simple rule: **Use MCP when your AI is an assistant. CLI when your AI agent is a developer.**

## **🚀 Get started**

Make CLI is available to all users as an open-source tool.

👉 To install the Make CLI and run your first commands, follow the [Make CLI documentation](https://developers.make.com/make-cli)

> _⚠ **Use with caution.** Make CLI is intended for developers and advanced users. Commands can create, modify, and delete your scenarios, connections, data stores, and other resources. Always test in a non-production environment before considering using it in live workflows._

### **🔧 Technical highlights**

- **Flexible installation:** Install via Homebrew, npm, a precompiled binary, or a Linux package to fit your development environment

- **CI/CD and scripting support:** Integrate Make into automated pipelines and non-interactive workflows using environment variable authentication or command flags

- **Multiple output formats:** Choose between JSON, compact, or table formats to match your scripting needs and integrate with existing toolchains.

## **📚 Helpful resources**

> Make CLI:
> 
> - [Official release note](https://help.make.com/the-make-cli-is-now-live)
> - [LinkedIn announcement](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/itsmakehq_%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%9A%F0%9D%90%A4%F0%9D%90%9E-%F0%9D%90%82%F0%9D%90%8B%F0%9D%90%88-%F0%9D%90%A2%F0%9D%90%AC-%F0%9D%90%A5%F0%9D%90%A2%F0%9D%90%AF%F0%9D%90%9E-a-new-way-activity-7451963002594971648-sdg-/)
> - [Documentation and step-by-step guide](https://developers.make.com/make-cli)
> 
> Make MCP:
> 
> - [Community announcement](https://community.make.com/t/feature-spotlight-make-mcp-server-and-webinar-with-apify/79752)
> - [What is MCP, How it works & Examples](https://www.make.com/en/mcp)
> - [Documentation and step-by-step guide](https://help.make.com/get-started-with-make-mcp-server)
> 
> Make MCP Toolboxes:
> 
> - [Community announcement](https://community.make.com/t/introducing-mcp-toolboxes/105071)
> - [How to guide](https://www.make.com/en/how-to-guides/mcp-toolboxes)
> - [Documentation and step-by-step guide](https://help.make.com/mcp-toolboxes)
> 
> Make SDK:
> 
> - [Documentation and step-by-step guide](https://developers.make.com/api-documentation/client-libraries)

Let us know your thoughts!

And as always, happy automating 🟣

Valery from Make