findy-agent-cli

findy-agent-cli

Findy Agency is an open-source project for a decentralized identity agency. OP Lab developed it from 2019 to 2024. The project is no longer maintained, but the work will continue with new goals and a new mission. Follow the blog for updates.

Getting Started

Findy Agency is a collection of services (Core, Auth, Vault and Web Wallet) that provide full SSI agency along with a web wallet for individuals. To start experimenting with Findy Agency we recommend you to start with the documentation and set up the agency to your localhost environment.

• Documentation
• Instructions for starting agency in Docker containers

Project

findy-agent-cli is a command-line tool for Findy Agency Aries protocol engine. The tool is a standalone CLI with minimal dependencies i.e. none. The binary includes all that's needed to run it. It provides commands to

• allocate new cloud agent;
• authenticate thru WebAuthn by including headless FIDO2 authenticator which can be easily used from other processes thru JSON interface as well;
• communicate with the cloud agent and make connections, invitations, cred defs, schemas, and listen the agent notifications;
• execute protocol commands like issue credential, request proof, trust-ping, etc.;
• start and communicate with chat-bots;
• execute operation commands to agency itself like setting logging levels, querying statistics;
• and naturally auto-completion is supported

Installation

For fast installation use the install.sh script. For the brave ones:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/findy-network/findy-agent-cli/HEAD/install.sh)"

Or just download the script first:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/findy-network/findy-agent-cli/HEAD/install.sh

The default installation directory is ./bin. If you want to set it first run the install.sh with the -b flag. Example for the macOS:

./install.sh -b /usr/local/bin

Don't forget to set the auto-completion

Running Full Stack Agency

For running quickly a full-stack trial please see the guide. It includes all key components of the Findy Agency in docker compose file and detailed examples how to use findy-agent-cli to setup wallets and cloud agents.

Building From Source Files

Follow these steps to install CLI tool from the source. Please make sure that Go and git are both installed and working properly. You should have $GOPATH/bin/ in your $PATH variable.

Note! Go modules must be on.

1. Clone findy-agent-cli
2. Install binary: make install or make deps cli
3. Binary will in $GOPATH/bin/ by name findy-agent-cli or if you used make deps cli by name cli
4. To activate auto-completion run: . sa-compl.sh without arguments if you used make deps cli and use . sa-compl.sh findy-agent-cli findy-agent-cli if you used the first option.

CLI usage examples

Examples are now included in the command help which can be activated by cli agency -h or cli help agency.

More examples can be found from scripts/fullstack/README.md

Usage

In addition to passing flags into the command, it is possible to use environment variables or configuration files to specify your flag values.

Configuration file

In order to use configuration file place your configuration file path to --config flag.

Example: findy-agent-cli bot start --config my_config.yaml

If you have export FCLI_CONFIG=./cfg.yaml in your environment variables you easily can have directory based configurations to execute CLI-tools commands just by defining cfg.yaml files to those directories you want to present your agent. Only thing you have to do is switch to the directory which contains the proper cfg.yaml for the context you want to use. The directory name tells you the context you are in.

ENV variable usage

You can pass flag values using environment variables.

The example of typical and minimal settings for usage of the tool:

export FCLI_SERVER="host.domain.net:50051"
export FCLI_URL="https://host.domain.net"
export FCLI_TLS_PATH="/home/god/go/src/github.com/findy-network/certs"

The previous environment variables tell the findy-agent-cli where the WebAuthn server and gRPC agency are as well set the proper TLS certificate path.

ENV variable names can be found from flag usage info. To see flag info for specific command, use --help flag after the command.

Example: findy-agent-cli authn --help

Shell auto-completion

Use findy-agent-cli completion <shell type> command to generate findy-agent-cli auto-completion script to your shell environment.

You can load bash auto-completion code into your current shell with these commands:

Bash: source <(findy-agent-cli completion bash) zsh: source <(findy-agent-cli completion zsh)

Note! Bash auto-completion requires bash-completion to be installed beforehand.

There is sa-compl.sh helper script to allow easily take use of auto-completion at the run-time even with complex aliases like this:

alias your_alias='go run .'
. ./sh-compl.sh "go run ." your_alias

If you are using make cli to build dev-time version of the command to your GOPATH you can just run $ . ./sh-compl.sh

Enable to all shell sessions (optional)

According which shell you are using, add one of the previous commands to your shell configuration scripts (e.g. .bash_profile/.zshrc)