Tembo CLI Skill

A CLI tool for interacting with the Tembo Public API – manage AI coding tasks and repositories programmatically.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

• Creating coding tasks for Tembo AI agents
• Listing and searching existing tasks
• Managing repository connections
• Automating Tembo workflows in CI/CD pipelines
• Building custom integrations with Tembo

Installation

bun add -g github:tryosschat/tembo-cli

Authentication

Get your API key from app.tembo.io → Settings → API Keys.

# Set your API key
tembo-cli auth login YOUR_API_KEY

# Verify authentication
tembo-cli auth whoami

# Check status
tembo-cli auth status

You can also set the TEMBO_API_KEY environment variable.

Permissions

Important: Agents using this skill MUST ask for explicit user confirmation before running any command that modifies state. This includes:

• tasks create — creates a new coding task (costs compute, triggers an AI agent)
• auth login / auth logout — modifies stored credentials

Read-only commands (tasks list, tasks search, repos list, auth whoami, auth status) are safe to run without confirmation.

Example: Before creating a task, always confirm:

“I’d like to create a Tembo task: Fix the login bug on repo myorg/myapp. Should I proceed?”

Never run background tasks or batch-create tasks without the user explicitly allowing it.

Commands

Authentication

Tasks

Create Task Options

tembo-cli tasks create "Fix the login bug" \
  --agent "claudeCode:claude-4-5-sonnet" \
  --repo "https://github.com/org/repo" \
  --branch "main"

Repositories

Available Agents

Tembo supports multiple coding agents:

Examples

Create a Bug Fix Task

tembo-cli tasks create "Fix the authentication bug in the login component" \
  --repo "https://github.com/myorg/myapp" \
  --branch "main"

Create Task with Sonnet (Faster)

tembo-cli tasks create "Add input validation to the signup form" \
  --agent "claudeCode:claude-4-5-sonnet" \
  --repo "https://github.com/myorg/myapp"

List Recent Tasks as JSON

tembo-cli tasks list --limit 5 --json

Search for Specific Tasks

tembo-cli tasks search "authentication" --limit 10

CI/CD Integration

# In GitHub Actions or similar
export TEMBO_API_KEY=${{ secrets.TEMBO_API_KEY }}
tembo-cli tasks create "Fix failing tests in PR #${PR_NUMBER}" \
  --repo "$GITHUB_REPOSITORY" \
  --branch "$GITHUB_HEAD_REF"

API Reference

The CLI wraps the Tembo Public API at https://api.tembo.io:

Configuration

Config is stored at ~/.tembo-cli/config.json:

{
  "apiKey": "your-api-key",
  "apiUrl": "https://api.tembo.io"
}

Error Handling

The CLI provides clear error messages:

Troubleshooting

“No API key found”

tembo-cli auth login YOUR_API_KEY
# or
export TEMBO_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY

“Invalid API key” Regenerate your key at app.tembo.io → Settings → API Keys

“Rate limited” Wait a minute and retry. Consider batching requests.