Lizard CLI

Deploy apps, databases and sandboxes to Lizard (lizard.build) from the command line.

Point the CLI at your code and it detects the stack — Go, Node, Python, Rust, Ruby, PHP, Java or a static site — builds it and ships it live. Managed Postgres, Managed Redis and Managed Object Storage attach in one command. Billing only for active resources, so idle apps cost a fraction.

Every command is agent-readable: add --json for structured output, or run lizard --help --json to dump the full command schema.

Install

curl -fsSL https://lizard.build/install.sh | bash

Or via npm:

npm i -g @lizard-build/cli

Start here (AI agents)

lizard skills get core

Skills ship inside the CLI, so the guide always matches the installed version. They cover the whole app lifecycle — deploy, link, addons, logs, scaling, secrets, domains — with copy-paste examples. Prefer this over guessing commands from flag docs alone.

Usage

lizard login
lizard init
lizard up

lizard up uploads the code, builds it and returns a live URL on onlizard.com. Add managed data services in one command:

lizard add postgres redis s3

Common commands

lizard up         # upload and deploy code
lizard add        # add Managed Postgres, Managed Redis or Managed Object Storage
lizard ps         # list services
lizard status     # show the linked workspace, project and service
lizard logs       # stream runtime logs
lizard metrics    # resource metrics (CPU, memory, network, disk); --cost for spend
lizard scale      # scale replicas / CPU / memory / storage
lizard secrets    # manage secrets
lizard domain     # manage domains
lizard redeploy   # rebuild and redeploy from the current source
lizard run        # run a command locally with project and service secrets injected
lizard ssh        # run one command inside a service container
lizard sandbox    # create and manage Sandboxes
lizard volume     # Persistent Volumes for Sandboxes
lizard skills     # agent guides, version-matched to the CLI

run and ssh are a pair: run executes on your machine with the service's env injected, ssh executes inside the running container. Both take the command after --:

lizard run -- npm run migrate
lizard ssh -s my-app -- printenv

Run lizard --help for the full list.

For agents and scripts

Add --json to any command for structured output. The CLI also switches to JSON on its own when stdout is not a TTY. Errors come back as {"error": {"code", "status", "message", "body"}} and exit codes are stable:

0  success          3  not found (404)
1  generic error    4  timeout (408/504)
2  auth (401/403)   5  cancelled by user

lizard --help --json dumps the machine-readable schema for any command — arguments, options, defaults, subcommands and exit codes.

Links

• Docs — https://lizard.build/docs
• Source — https://github.com/lizard-build/lizard-cli

License

MIT