llama-stack/docs/source/references/llama_stack_client_cli_reference.md

llama (client-side) CLI Reference

The llama-stack-client CLI allows you to query information about the distribution.

Basic Commands

llama-stack-client

llama-stack-client
Usage: llama-stack-client [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Welcome to the LlamaStackClient CLI

Options:
  --version        Show the version and exit.
  --endpoint TEXT  Llama Stack distribution endpoint
  --api-key TEXT   Llama Stack distribution API key
  --config TEXT    Path to config file
  --help           Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  configure          Configure Llama Stack Client CLI.
  datasets           Manage datasets.
  eval               Run evaluation tasks.
  eval_tasks         Manage evaluation tasks.
  inference          Inference (chat).
  inspect            Inspect server configuration.
  models             Manage GenAI models.
  post_training      Post-training.
  providers          Manage API providers.
  scoring_functions  Manage scoring functions.
  shields            Manage safety shield services.
  toolgroups         Manage available tool groups.
  vector_dbs         Manage vector databases.

llama-stack-client configure

llama-stack-client configure
> Enter the host name of the Llama Stack distribution server: localhost
> Enter the port number of the Llama Stack distribution server: 8321
Done! You can now use the Llama Stack Client CLI with endpoint http://localhost:8321

llama-stack-client providers list

llama-stack-client providers list

+-----------+----------------+-----------------+
| API       | Provider ID    | Provider Type   |
+===========+================+=================+
| scoring   | meta0          | meta-reference  |
+-----------+----------------+-----------------+
| datasetio | meta0          | meta-reference  |
+-----------+----------------+-----------------+
| inference | tgi0           | remote::tgi     |
+-----------+----------------+-----------------+
| memory    | meta-reference | meta-reference  |
+-----------+----------------+-----------------+
| agents    | meta-reference | meta-reference  |
+-----------+----------------+-----------------+
| telemetry | meta-reference | meta-reference  |
+-----------+----------------+-----------------+
| safety    | meta-reference | meta-reference  |
+-----------+----------------+-----------------+

Model Management

llama-stack-client models list

llama-stack-client models list

Available Models

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ model_type   ┃ identifier                           ┃ provider_resource_id         ┃ metadata  ┃ provider_id ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ llm          │ meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct     │ llama3.2:3b-instruct-fp16    │           │ ollama      │
└──────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴───────────┴─────────────┘

Total models: 1

llama-stack-client models get

llama-stack-client models get Llama3.1-8B-Instruct

+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+---------------+
| identifier           | llama_model          | metadata                                                 | provider_id   |
+======================+======================+==========================================================+===============+
| Llama3.1-8B-Instruct | Llama3.1-8B-Instruct | {'huggingface_repo': 'meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct'} | tgi0          |
+----------------------+----------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+---------------+

llama-stack-client models get Random-Model

Model RandomModel is not found at distribution endpoint host:port. Please ensure endpoint is serving specified model.

llama-stack-client models register

llama-stack-client models register <model_id> [--provider-id <provider_id>] [--provider-model-id <provider_model_id>] [--metadata <metadata>]

llama-stack-client models update

llama-stack-client models update <model_id> [--provider-id <provider_id>] [--provider-model-id <provider_model_id>] [--metadata <metadata>]

llama-stack-client models delete

llama-stack-client models delete <model_id>

Vector DB Management

llama-stack-client vector_dbs list

llama-stack-client vector_dbs list

+--------------+----------------+---------------------+---------------+------------------------+
| identifier   | provider_id    | provider_resource_id| vector_db_type| params                |
+==============+================+=====================+===============+========================+
| test_bank    | meta-reference | test_bank          | vector        | embedding_model: all-MiniLM-L6-v2
                                                                      embedding_dimension: 384|
+--------------+----------------+---------------------+---------------+------------------------+

llama-stack-client vector_dbs register

llama-stack-client vector_dbs register <vector-db-id> [--provider-id <provider-id>] [--provider-vector-db-id <provider-vector-db-id>] [--embedding-model <embedding-model>] [--embedding-dimension <embedding-dimension>]

Optional arguments:

• --provider-id: Provider ID for the vector db
• --provider-vector-db-id: Provider's vector db ID
• --embedding-model: Embedding model to use. Default: "all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
• --embedding-dimension: Dimension of embeddings. Default: 384

llama-stack-client vector_dbs unregister

llama-stack-client vector_dbs unregister <vector-db-id>

Shield Management

llama-stack-client shields list

llama-stack-client shields list

+--------------+----------+----------------+-------------+
| identifier   | params   | provider_id    | type        |
+==============+==========+================+=============+
| llama_guard  | {}       | meta-reference | llama_guard |
+--------------+----------+----------------+-------------+

llama-stack-client shields register

llama-stack-client shields register --shield-id <shield-id> [--provider-id <provider-id>] [--provider-shield-id <provider-shield-id>] [--params <params>]

Required arguments:

• --shield-id: ID of the shield

Optional arguments:

• --provider-id: Provider ID for the shield
• --provider-shield-id: Provider's shield ID
• --params: JSON configuration parameters for the shield

Eval Task Management

llama-stack-client benchmarks list

llama-stack-client benchmarks list

llama-stack-client benchmarks register

llama-stack-client benchmarks register --eval-task-id <eval-task-id> --dataset-id <dataset-id> --scoring-functions <function1> [<function2> ...] [--provider-id <provider-id>] [--provider-eval-task-id <provider-eval-task-id>] [--metadata <metadata>]

Required arguments:

• --eval-task-id: ID of the eval task
• --dataset-id: ID of the dataset to evaluate
• --scoring-functions: One or more scoring functions to use for evaluation

Optional arguments:

• --provider-id: Provider ID for the eval task
• --provider-eval-task-id: Provider's eval task ID
• --metadata: Metadata for the eval task in JSON format

Eval execution

llama-stack-client eval run-benchmark

llama-stack-client eval run-benchmark <eval-task-id1> [<eval-task-id2> ...] --eval-task-config <config-file> --output-dir <output-dir> [--num-examples <num>] [--visualize]

Required arguments:

• --eval-task-config: Path to the eval task config file in JSON format
• --output-dir: Path to the directory where evaluation results will be saved

Optional arguments:

• --num-examples: Number of examples to evaluate (useful for debugging)
• --visualize: If set, visualizes evaluation results after completion

Example benchmark_config.json:

{
    "type": "benchmark",
    "eval_candidate": {
        "type": "model",
        "model": "Llama3.1-405B-Instruct",
        "sampling_params": {
            "strategy": "greedy",
        }
    }
}

llama-stack-client eval run-scoring

llama-stack-client eval run-scoring <eval-task-id> --eval-task-config <config-file> --output-dir <output-dir> [--num-examples <num>] [--visualize]

Required arguments:

• --eval-task-config: Path to the eval task config file in JSON format
• --output-dir: Path to the directory where scoring results will be saved

Optional arguments:

• --num-examples: Number of examples to evaluate (useful for debugging)
• --visualize: If set, visualizes scoring results after completion

Tool Group Management

llama-stack-client toolgroups list

llama-stack-client toolgroups list

+---------------------------+------------------+------+---------------+
| identifier                | provider_id      | args | mcp_endpoint  |
+===========================+==================+======+===============+
| builtin::rag              | rag-runtime      | None | None          |
+---------------------------+------------------+------+---------------+
| builtin::websearch        | tavily-search    | None | None          |
+---------------------------+------------------+------+---------------+

llama-stack-client toolgroups get

llama-stack-client toolgroups get <toolgroup_id>

Shows detailed information about a specific toolgroup. If the toolgroup is not found, displays an error message.

llama-stack-client toolgroups register

llama-stack-client toolgroups register <toolgroup_id> [--provider-id <provider-id>] [--provider-toolgroup-id <provider-toolgroup-id>] [--mcp-config <mcp-config>] [--args <args>]

Optional arguments:

• --provider-id: Provider ID for the toolgroup
• --provider-toolgroup-id: Provider's toolgroup ID
• --mcp-config: JSON configuration for the MCP endpoint
• --args: JSON arguments for the toolgroup

llama-stack-client toolgroups unregister

llama-stack-client toolgroups unregister <toolgroup_id>