Overview
Jorli CLI
Section titled “Jorli CLI”Local-first trading tools for Indian brokers. Free command-line software that runs entirely on your machine — your credentials never leave your laptop, no analytics phone home, no tokens get exfiltrated to a third-party server.
Jorli ships a guarded strategy runtime plus two broker CLIs:
Jorli Agent
Conversational strategy authoring, deterministic backtesting, shadow execution, bounded
live confirmation, independent risk gates, SQLite audit history, and a local Angular dashboard.
Binary: jorli.
Kite CLI
Cross-platform .NET 10 CLI for Zerodha Kite Connect v3 — auth, profile, portfolio,
orders, trades, GTT triggers, alerts, instruments, quotes, historical candles, margins,
and charges. Package: Techriff.KiteCli. Binary: kite.
Dhan CLI
Cross-platform .NET 10 CLI for DhanHQ API v2 — auth, funds, portfolio, orders, trades,
super orders, alerts, instruments, quotes, historical candles, option chain, margins,
eDIS, kill switch, and US global stocks. Package: Techriff.DhanCli. Binary: dhan.
Why these exist
Section titled “Why these exist”The trading community in India deserves free, predictable, no-bullshit tooling. The Jorli CLIs are a small part of that — a retail trader, somewhere in India, got tired of paying in dollars for tooling that just wraps broker REST endpoints. These are the same wrappers, given away. No SaaS backend, no metered calls, no telemetry, no license fee.
All three tools are built on the same principles:
- Local-first. Secrets live in your OS keyring (
dhan-cli:/kite-cli:prefix), never in a config file shared by other tools. - Machine-readable with
--json --no-color. Every command supports those flags for clean structured output that’s safe to feed to scripts or another terminal agent. - No silent mutation. Live trading commands require an explicit
--yes(Dhan) or only run from operator-supplied JSON files (Kite). Tools never invent trades. - No telemetry. Networks calls are made strictly to the broker API. The binary does not phone home, does not ping an update checker, does not report usage.
Where to go next
Section titled “Where to go next”Install
One-line install on macOS, Linux, and Windows (curl/irm scripts or manual download).
Concepts
The output contract, exit codes, secret storage, and the --json / --no-color rule.
Security
What the CLIs touch, what they don’t, and how secrets stay local.
Terminal agent guide
Operating rules for AI agents driving either CLI in shared transcripts.
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