Access Z.AI capabilities via . The CLI is self-documenting - use at any level.

export Z_AI_API_KEY="your-api-key"

Get a key at: https://z.ai/manage-apikey/apikey-list

npx zai-cli vision analyze ./screenshot.png "What errors do you see?"

npx zai-cli search "React 19 new features" --count 5

npx zai-cli read https://docs.example.com/api npx zai-cli read https://docs.example.com/api --with-images-summary --no-gfm

npx zai-cli repo search facebook/react "server components" npx zai-cli repo search openai/codex "config" --language en npx zai-cli repo tree openai/codex --path codex-rs --depth 2

npx zai-cli doctor

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Default: data-only (raw output for token efficiency). Use for wrapping.

For raw MCP tool calls (, , ), Code Mode, and performance tuning (cache/retries), see .