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wasmCloud Shell (wash)

wash (the wasmCloud Shell) is a single command-line interface (CLI) to handle all of your wasmCloud tooling needs. This CLI has a number of sub-commands that help you interact with the wasmCloud ecosystem:

  • call - Invoke methods in a wasmcloud actor
  • claims - Functions related to reading, writing, and verifying claim attestations
  • ctl - Interact with a live, running lattice control interface.
  • ctx - Functions for managing contexts to easily connect to wasmCloud lattices
  • drain - Functions for managing the contents of the local wasmcloud cache
  • keys - Functions for generating, listing, and working with ed25519 encryption keys used for signatures
  • lint - Perform lint checks on .smithy models.
  • new - Functions for creating new projects from a template, such as actors, providers, and interfaces.
  • par - Functions for working with provider archives, bundles of native libaries and claims for a capability provider.
  • reg - Functions for interacting with OCI registries
  • validate - Perform validatio checks on .smithy models.

wash has built-in help and you can follow any subcommand with --help to get more information about options available. For example wash --help, wash ctl --help, wash ctl start --help, and wash ctl start actor --help all provide context-relevant help..

Installation​

wash can be installed from a binary release, or with cargo. See wash-cli for instructions on how to install it for your platform.