Keet CLI#

Overview#

Use this skill when operating or improving the keet-cli project for Keet Messenger and Keet ↔ OpenClaw bridge workflows.

Default to read-only inspection. Treat all live Keet profile data and private chat content as sensitive. Do not expose secrets, recovery material, private messages, invite/profile codes, or generated bridge state.

Project source to verify before use: https://github.com/projectreturn/Keet-cli.

Required safety gates#

Before any external or state-changing action, get explicit user confirmation for:

• exact Keet profile/storage path,
• exact target chat or room,
• exact outgoing message/action,
• whether a long-running process may remain active,
• exact Git repository, branch, and commit diff before pushing.

Never join invites, create chats, route additional chats, print recovery/account material, or push code unless the user explicitly asked for that exact action.

Quick workflow#

1. Locate the project repository. Common default: /openclaw/workspace/keet-cli.
2. Verify provenance and local state before using it:

bash

git remote -v
git status --short --branch
npm run lint
node src/cli.js --help

1. Prefer read-only commands first.
2. Confirm the required safety gates before any send, bridge, daemon, invite, chat, or Git push action.
3. After edits, run npm run lint and inspect git diff before reporting completion.

Read-only commands#

Run from the repo root unless the user specifies another checkout.

bash

npm run lint
node src/cli.js --help
node src/cli.js inspect
node src/cli.js rooms
node src/cli.js messages --limit 10
node src/cli.js tui

Override Keet storage only when the user provides or confirms the path:

bash

KEET_APP_STORAGE=/confirmed/path/to/app-storage node src/cli.js inspect

State-changing commands#

Only run these after explicit confirmation of profile, target chat, and exact action:

bash

node src/cli.js send 'confirmed message text'
node src/cli.js send-file --caption 'confirmed caption' /confirmed/file/path
node src/cli.js bridge
node src/cli.js daemon --socket .keet-cli.sock
node src/cli.js daemon-send --socket .keet-cli.sock current
node src/cli.js watch --interval 2000

For send-file, confirm the file path, target chat, and caption before sending. For watch, daemon, supervisor, or bridge modes, tell the user whether the process will keep running and how to stop it.

Sensitive data rules#

• Treat Keet profile storage, account/recovery material, private keys, tokens, invite/profile codes, bridge state, and logs with private messages as sensitive.
• Do not commit live Keet profile storage, generated state files, logs, screenshots of private chats, or copied private messages.
• Avoid printing message contents unless the user asked to inspect those exact messages.
• Redact secrets and private message content in summaries and errors.
• In shared/group contexts, do not reveal user-specific chat names, keys, paths, message contents, or operational details.

Storage lock model#

Keet Desktop and keet-cli should not use the same live storage concurrently. Keet protects the database with a device-file/FD lock.

If commands fail due to locking:

1. Check whether Keet Desktop or another keet-cli process is already using the profile.
2. Prefer one explicitly approved long-running owner process via daemon --socket .keet-cli.sock and route CLI/bridge actions through daemon-send instead of spawning competing sessions.
3. Do not kill user processes unless explicitly approved.

TUI mode#

Use TUI mode for interactive local inspection only after confirming that no other live Keet owner process is using the same storage:

bash

node src/cli.js tui

The TUI can list rooms, select a room, view recent messages, and send messages. Sending is state-changing: confirm the target chat and exact message first.

Daemon / REPL mode#

Use daemon mode only when repeated reads/sends are needed and the user approved a long-running process:

bash

node src/cli.js daemon --room ROOM_ID --socket .keet-cli.sock

Common REPL commands:

text

/status
/messages 10
/send confirmed message text
/send-md **confirmed** _markdown_
/send-file /confirmed/file/path confirmed caption
/rooms
/current
/use ROOM_ID
/quit

Socket automation uses one JSON command per call:

bash

node src/cli.js daemon-send --socket .keet-cli.sock status
node src/cli.js daemon-send --socket .keet-cli.sock send '{"text":"confirmed message","format":"plain"}'
node src/cli.js daemon-send --socket .keet-cli.sock send-file '{"filePath":"/confirmed/file/path","caption":"confirmed caption"}'

send and send-file try the default daemon socket first when present, then fall back to a direct Core session. Set KEET_CLI_NO_DAEMON=1 to force direct mode, or KEET_CLI_DAEMON_STRICT=1 to fail instead of falling back.

This avoids conflicts between separate watch, send, and send-file processes.

Watch mode#

Use watch mode only after the user confirms the profile and chat scope:

bash

node src/cli.js watch --interval 2000

By default it should ignore local/self messages. Use --include-local only when explicitly needed for debugging.

Keet ↔ OpenClaw bridge#

Run the bridge in foreground for debugging first:

bash

node src/cli.js bridge
node src/cli.js bridge --daemon-socket .keet-cli.sock --config bridge.config.json

Use supervisor/container modes only after the user confirms a persistent process is wanted.

Prefer --daemon-socket when a daemon owns the Keet profile. In that mode the bridge reuses the daemon instead of opening its own Core sidecar.

A safe bridge must:

• keep multi-room routing disabled by default,
• forward only explicitly approved chat(s) from a config allowlist,
• report invites/membership events without auto-joining or acting on them,
• fail closed when the target chat is ambiguous,
• ignore its own/local echo messages unless debugging requires them,
• persist enough state to avoid duplicate replies and the selected model mode,
• handle Keet audio messages locally when configured: download only from Keet's local file link, transcribe with local Whisper, and forward the transcript instead of raw audio,
• support explicit model switching commands such as lokal, online, and modell status,
• avoid logging private message contents or secrets,
• stop or provide a stop command when the task is complete.

Release checklist#

Before release or publishing:

bash

npm run lint
git status --short --branch
git diff --stat
git log --oneline -5

Before any Git push, confirm the repository, branch, diff, and credential/identity that will be used. Do not embed private key paths or print private keys in public skill content.