Monocle CLI

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Terminal utility to control and use Monocle AI. Log in once, then chat with models, integrate Claude Code, or call Monocle's OpenAI-compatible API from your own apps — all with the same authenticated session.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+ — check with node -v

🚀 Setup

npm install -g @warmblood/monocle-cli
monocle login

A browser opens — sign in with your organization account.

✅ Check status

monocle status

Shows your tenant, user, access/refresh token validity, and whether Claude Code is globally configured to route through Monocle. Read-only — it does not refresh tokens.

📖 Commands

Command	Description
monocle login [--tenant <domain>] [--device-code]	Sign in
monocle status	Show login, token, and Claude Code configuration status
monocle token	Print current access token (auto-refreshed when near expiry)
monocle model list	List available models
monocle model chat [--model <id>] [--system-prompt <text>] [--system-prompt-file <path>] [--max-tokens <n>]	Chat with a model (REPL or stdin)
monocle claude [...args]	Launch Claude Code through Monocle (args pass through)
monocle setup	Globally route plain claude through Monocle (opt-in)
monocle unset	Remove the global claude routing

💬 Chat with models

List what your tenant has:

$ monocle model list
MODEL ID              NAME                  OWNER       CONTEXT
────────────────────  ────────────────────  ──────────  ─────────
claude-sonnet-4-6     Claude Sonnet 4.6     anthropic   200k
claude-opus-4-7       Claude Opus 4.7       anthropic   200k
gpt-4o                GPT-4o                openai      128k

3 model(s) available.

Interactive REPL:

$ monocle model chat --model claude-sonnet-4-6
Monocle Chat (model: claude-sonnet-4-6)
Router: https://api.monocle-ai.com
Type your message. Press Ctrl+D to exit.
---
> Hello
Hello! How can I help you today?

> /quit
Bye.

One-shot via stdin:

$ echo "Summarize OAuth 2.0 in one sentence." | monocle model chat
Using model: claude-sonnet-4-6
Router: https://api.monocle-ai.com
OAuth 2.0 is an authorization framework that lets applications access a user's resources on another service without sharing the user's password.

With a system prompt from a file:

monocle model chat --system-prompt-file ./persona.md --model claude-opus-4-7

🤖 Claude Code integration

monocle claude

Other terminals and IDE integrations running plain claude are unaffected. To globally route plain claude through Monocle, run monocle setup once; undo with monocle unset.

Note

See Claude Code integration details for ANTHROPIC_API_KEY handling, global setup, and troubleshooting.

🔌 Using Monocle from your own app (OpenAI-compatible SDK)

Monocle exposes an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API, so any OpenAI client works with two env vars. Export them once:

export MONOCLE_API_KEY="$(monocle token)"
export MONOCLE_BASE_URL="$(jq -r .router_url ~/.monocle/credentials.json)/v1"

Then from Python:

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["MONOCLE_API_KEY"],
    base_url=os.environ["MONOCLE_BASE_URL"],
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="claude-sonnet-4-6",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Note

See Using Monocle with the OpenAI SDK for Node.js, curl, streaming, token-refresh patterns for long-running apps, and troubleshooting.

🆘 Troubleshooting

"Not logged in" error → Run monocle login first.

Token expired → monocle token auto-refreshes when near expiry. If it's been more than 30 days since your last login, run monocle login again.

For Claude Code and OpenAI SDK specific issues, see the linked guides above.

Help

Contact your organization admin or open an issue in this repository.