Login & Install Shortcut

Two small top-level commands, both really about the marketplace rather than the local xcore runtime.

xcli login

Authorizes this machine with the marketplace via a device-code flow — opens a browser, you confirm a 6-digit code, xcli saves the resulting credentials on its own. Full walkthrough: Authentication → Quick Start.

xcli login

For CI, not this

xcli login mints a personal credential meant for a human running it interactively. CI pipelines should use a project-scoped key and the XCLI_API_KEY/XCLI_SIGNING_KEY environment variables instead — see Environment variables.

xcli install

A shortcut for xcli plugin install — same command, same options, one less word to type:

xcli install name-of-plugin
xcli install name-of-plugin@1.2.3

There's no equivalent top-level shortcut for service extensions — use xcli service install directly.