Install

The broker CLIs ship as self-contained .NET 10 binaries — no .NET runtime install required. They’re published per-platform as single-file archives on the broker-specific dist repositories.

Pick the tool you want the docs/install flow for:

Kite CLI

Zerodha Kite Connect v3 → Techriff.KiteCli → binary kite

Dhan CLI

DhanHQ API v2 → Techriff.DhanCli → binary dhan

Kite CLI

macOS / Linux / WSL

curl -fsSL https://cli.jorli.in/install/kite.sh | sh

Default install dir: $HOME/.local/bin (override via INSTALL_DIR).

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://cli.jorli.in/install/kite.ps1 | iex

Default install dir: $env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\kite-cli (auto-added to user PATH).

Manual

Download the matching archive from ssswagatss/kite-cli-dist, extract, and put kite / kite.exe on your PATH.

Dhan CLI

macOS / Linux / WSL

curl -fsSL https://cli.jorli.in/install/dhan.sh | sh

Default install dir: $HOME/.local/bin (override via INSTALL_DIR).

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://cli.jorli.in/install/dhan.ps1 | iex

Default install dir: $env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\dhan-cli (auto-added to user PATH).

Manual

Download the matching archive from ssswagatss/dhan-cli-dist, extract, and put dhan / dhan.exe on your PATH.

Agent skills (optional)

Teach coding agents every command, the --json --no-color contract, and live-trading guardrails. Skill source lives in each CLI GitHub project (skills/ folder) and is mirrored to the public dist repos:

npx skills add ssswagatss/kite-cli-dist --skill kite-cli
npx skills add ssswagatss/dhan-cli-dist --skill dhan-cli

Global, all agents: add -g --agent '*' -y. Full details: Agent skills.

Verify the install

After installing, run each tool’s --help and auth-status check:

kite --help
kite auth status --json --no-color

dhan --help
dhan auth status --json --no-color

Each command should print structured JSON without colour codes. If command not found, your PATH doesn’t include the install directory.

Supported platforms

Both CLIs ship self-contained, single-file binaries for six runtime identifiers:

OS	Architectures
Windows	win-x64, win-arm64
Linux	linux-x64, linux-arm64
macOS	osx-x64, osx-arm64

Builds are trimmed-free (-p:PublishTrimmed=false) to keep reflection-based table rendering reliable.

Updating

Both CLIs have an update command that prints the URL of the latest release — they do not auto-update.

kite update --json --no-color
# { "latestReleaseUrl": "https://github.com/ssswagatss/kite-cli-dist/releases/latest" }

dhan update --json --no-color
# { "latestReleaseUrl": "https://github.com/ssswagatss/dhan-cli-dist/releases/latest" }

Re-run the install script for your platform, or download the archive from the release URL and replace the binary manually.

Build from source

Each CLI can be built from source with the .NET SDK (10+). The solution files use the new XML .slnx format.

git clone https://github.com/ssswagatss/<cli>-cli   # source repos are currently private
cd <cli>-cli
dotnet restore <Cli>.slnx
dotnet build <Cli>.slnx --no-restore
dotnet test <Cli>.slnx --no-build

Replace <Cli> with KiteCli or DhanCli as appropriate.