Top-level commands

Commands that hang off the root rather than a group.

cow disable

turn automations off (many keys, or –all for this app’s)

cow disable [options] [keys...]

Arguments

Argument	Description
keys	automation keys

Options

Flag	Description
--all	every automation of this app
--app-id <appId>	the app, when not run inside its repo

cow enable

turn automations on (many keys, or –all for this app’s)

cow enable [options] [keys...]

Arguments

Argument	Description
keys	automation keys

Options

Flag	Description
--all	every automation of this app
--app-id <appId>	the app, when not run inside its repo

cow init

create a cow project in .cowliss/: cow.json, automations/, emails/, segments/, and the files to test them

cow init [options] [dir]

Arguments

Argument	Description
dir	repository to create the project in (default: here)

Options

Flag	Description
--org <id>	organization id (default: the logged-in org)
--app <id>	app id this repository pushes to (default: ask, or the org’s only one)
--yes	accept the defaults instead of prompting
--blueprint <name>	start from a gallery blueprint

cow login

authenticate via the dashboard browser flow (or –token) and cache the session for this API

cow login [options]

Options

Flag	Description
--token <jwt>	paste a session token instead of the browser flow
--web <url>	dashboard URL; overrides COW_WEB_URL and webUrl in cow.json (default https://app.cowliss.com)
--no-open	do not open the browser; print the URL and wait (headless/agent use)

cow logout

delete the cached session for this API, leaving other APIs’ sessions in place

cow logout [options]

cow mcp

run the MCP server over stdio (admin API as tools for in-editor agents)

cow mcp [options]

cow overview

the organization’s last 30 days against the 30 before: people, events, deliveries, subscribers, broadcasts sent, open rate

cow overview [options]

cow pause

hold automations: nobody enters, and everyone part-way through waits (many keys, or –all for this app’s)

cow pause [options] [keys...]

Arguments

Argument	Description
keys	automation keys

Options

Flag	Description
--all	every automation of this app
--app-id <appId>	the app, when not run inside its repo

cow plan

show what a push of this repository would change, and change nothing

cow plan [options]

cow pull

write the app’s automations, templates, segments, events and purposes, as the server holds them, into this project

cow pull [options]

Options

Flag	Description
--app-id <id>	the app to pull into a directory with no cow.json
--force	write even when the git working tree is dirty

cow push

show what this repository would change, then apply it once you agree

cow push [options]

Options

Flag	Description
--yes	apply without asking; what a pipeline passes
--force	overwrite resources edited in the dashboard or over the API since the last push
--prune	also delete the automations and segments this app has and this tree does not

cow search

find what an id, an automation, template or segment key, an app slug or an identifier value names

cow search [options] <q>

cow status

whether this app is healthy, what its automations and templates are doing, and what changed here since the last push

cow status [options]

cow test

run every scenario in scenarios/, one automation’s, or one file, on a virtual clock (local: no API call, nothing sent; a project with no automations passes)

cow test [options] [automation]

Options

Flag	Description
--scenario <file>	run only this JSON scenario file, against the named automation

cow whoami

show which credential commands here will use, and for a login its subject, org, role, expiry and every org it covers

cow whoami [options]

Options

Flag	Description
--key <ak_...>	ask the API what an ingestion key writes into, instead of reading the cached session
--source <src_...>	the source id that key is about to send to (required with –key)