actions-cli

name	actions-cli
description	Invoke the Actions SDK from the shell - query assets/chains, derive an EOA address from a PRIVATE_KEY env var, read balances. Use when an agent needs to interact with the Actions SDK without embedding TypeScript.
compatibility	Requires Node.js >=18 and the PRIVATE_KEY env var for wallet-scoped commands.

Actions CLI - Agent Skill

Invocation

Spawn the actions binary as a subprocess. Always pass --json (as the first flag) - the default output is human-readable and not intended for parsing. With --json, stdout is a bare JSON document on success and stderr is the error envelope on failure.

actions --json assets
actions --json wallet balance --chain base-sepolia

Command tree

• actions assets - configured asset allowlist.
• actions chains - configured chain shortnames + IDs.
• actions lend markets [--asset <symbol>] [--chain <name> | --chain-id <id>] - lending markets across configured providers, optionally filtered to one asset and/or one chain (no wallet).
• actions lend market --market <name> - inspect one market by name (no wallet).
• actions borrow markets [--collateral <symbol>] [--borrow-asset <symbol>] [--chain <name> | --chain-id <id>] - borrow markets across configured providers, optionally filtered (no wallet).
• actions borrow market --market <name> - inspect one borrow market by name (no wallet).
• actions borrow position --market <name> --wallet <address> - read any wallet's borrow position (no PRIVATE_KEY required).
• actions swap markets [--chain <name>] - all swap markets across configured providers (no wallet).
• actions swap market --pool <id> --chain <name> - inspect one swap market by pool id (no wallet).
• actions swap quote --in <symbol> --out <symbol> (--amount-in <n> | --amount-out <n>) --chain <name> [--provider uniswap|velodrome] [--slippage <pct>] - best quote (no wallet).
• actions swap quotes ... - same flag set; returns every provider's quote sorted best price first.
• actions ens address <name> - forward-resolve an ENS name to its address on Ethereum mainnet (no wallet).
• actions ens name <address> - reverse-resolve an address to its primary ENS name, or name: null when none is set (no wallet).
• actions ens info <input> - fetch the standard ENS profile text records for a name or address (no wallet).
• actions wallet address - EOA address derived from PRIVATE_KEY.
• actions wallet balance [--chain <name> | --chain-id <id>] - balances per chain + asset; the chain flags are mutually exclusive.
• actions wallet lend position --market <name> - the wallet's current balance and shares in a market.
• actions wallet lend open --market <name> --amount <n> [--approval-mode <exact|max>] - supply assets to a market. --approval-mode max approves max-uint to amortise approvals across future supplies (default: exact).
• actions wallet lend close --market <name> (--amount <n> | --max) - withdraw assets. Pass --max to withdraw the wallet's full balance in the market (the CLI fetches the position first; subject to inflight interest accrual).
• actions wallet borrow position --market <name> - the wallet's current collateral, debt, LTV, and health factor in a borrow market.
• actions wallet borrow open --market <name> --borrow-amount <n> [--collateral-amount <n>] [--approval-mode <exact|max>] - borrow against existing or newly-deposited collateral. No --max (open path only accepts strict amounts).
• actions wallet borrow close --market <name> [--borrow-amount <n> | --borrow-max] [--collateral-amount <n> | --collateral-max] - unwind a position. Each leg is independently xor'd; the borrow leg is required. --*-max resolves on-chain at dispatch time so interest-accrual dust doesn't strand the position.
• actions wallet borrow deposit-collateral --market <name> --amount <n> [--approval-mode <exact|max>] - top up collateral without changing debt.
• actions wallet borrow withdraw-collateral --market <name> (--amount <n> | --max) - pull collateral back without touching debt.
• actions wallet borrow repay --market <name> (--amount <n> | --max) [--approval-mode <exact|max>] - repay debt without touching collateral.
• actions wallet swap execute --in <symbol> --out <symbol> (--amount-in <n> | --amount-out <n>) --chain <name> [--provider uniswap|velodrome] [--slippage <pct>] - execute a swap on the resolved chain.

Wallet model

The CLI derives a viem LocalAccount from PRIVATE_KEY and wraps it in an EOA-backed Actions wallet via actions.wallet.toActionsWallet(localAccount). No smart wallet, no bundler, no ERC-4337 UserOps - the signer pays gas directly. For the demo, fund the EOA with testnet ETH on Base Sepolia.

Resolution rules

• Assets - pass the metadata.symbol value from the allowlist (e.g. USDC_DEMO, OP_DEMO, ETH). Case-insensitive. Run actions --json assets for the current list.
• Chains - pass a shortname (base-sepolia, op-sepolia) via --chain, or a numeric id via --chain-id (mutually exclusive). Both flags accept a comma-separated list to scope the SDK fan-out to multiple chains. Run actions --json chains for the current list.
• Markets (lend) - pass the market name from the config allowlist (e.g. Gauntlet USDC, Aave ETH). Case-insensitive; whitespace and hyphens are ignored, so gauntlet-usdc and gauntletusdc resolve to the same entry. The market entry carries its own chain and asset, so no --chain is needed.
• Markets (borrow) - same name-based resolution as lend, plus / is stripped (so Demo dUSDC / OP and demo-dusdc-op collapse to the same key). Borrow market identifiers are discriminated unions (e.g. { kind: 'morpho-blue', marketId: '0x...', chainId: ... }); the CLI forwards the resolved config to the SDK so a future second provider variant adds no CLI work.
• Markets (swap) - addressed pair-wise via --in/--out/--chain for quotes and execution. --pool <id> is only used for direct swap market lookups; the poolId surfaces in swap markets.
• Amounts - human-readable decimal numbers (e.g. 10, 0.5). The SDK converts to wei using the asset's decimals.
• Slippage - --slippage accepts a percent (e.g. 0.5 for 0.5%); the CLI converts to the SDK's decimal form internally.
• Amount direction - exactly one of --amount-in (exact-in) or --amount-out (exact-out) is required for swap quote, swap quotes, and wallet swap execute.
• Provider selection - forces a provider and skips routing. Omit to let the SDK pick the best available.

Presentation hints (for LLM/agent callers)

These are rules for rendering CLI output to humans, not rules for the CLI itself.

• Chain labels - only when disambiguating. When showing a list (balances, markets, positions, pools), mention the chain only for entries that share their name/symbol/market with another entry on a different chain in the same response. If every row is uniquely identifiable by its name alone, drop the chain label. Count chain occurrences after skipping zero balances. Example: two chains in the raw payload, but only one has a non-zero balance of X - render as X <amount> with no chain. When the user explicitly scopes a question to one chain, still omit the label.
• Zero rows - skip. Don't render zero balances, empty positions, or pools with no meaningful data, unless the user specifically asked about that zero value ("do I have any X on op-sepolia").
• Raw addresses - omit by default. Wallet/pool/market/contract addresses in a listing add noise. Show them only when the user asks for them explicitly, and even then truncate (0xabc…def).

Output

With --json:

• Success: bare JSON document on stdout, exit 0. No envelope (matches gh and AWS CLI conventions).
• Error: JSON {error, code, retryable, retry_after_ms?, details?} on stderr, non-zero exit. retryable: true means the caller may retry (typically network failures). retry_after_ms is present when a specific back-off is recommended. details is redacted - bundler URLs with API keys, signer metadata, and raw viem request bodies are scrubbed.

Without --json (default):

• Success: plain text on stdout intended for human reading. Not stable across versions.
• Error: Error (<code>): <message> on stderr, exit code per the table below.

Balance semantics

Within a single actions wallet balance call, the SDK fans out via Promise.all over (asset x chain), so any single failing RPC rejects the whole call with a network error. Retries may succeed on a different call - do not assume per-chain isolation.

To shrink the failure surface, scope the call with --chain or --chain-id (both accept a comma-separated list). The SDK only queries the chains you pass.

Lend semantics

wallet lend open and wallet lend close emit a structured envelope on stdout:

{
  "action": "open" | "close",
  "market": { "name": "...", "address": "0x...", "chainId": ..., "provider": "..." },
  "asset":  { "symbol": "..." },
  "amount": <number>,
  "transactions": [ { "transactionHash": "0x...", "status": "success", ... } ]
}

transactions is always an array. On EOA the SDK sends approval + position as two sequential transactions when an approval is required, so open returns 1-2 receipts and close returns 1. Bigint receipt fields (blockNumber, gasUsed) are stringified.

A receipt with status: "reverted" is normalised to a code: "onchain" error envelope on stderr (exit 5), so callers do not need to inspect receipt status to detect failure.

wallet lend position returns the SDK LendMarketPosition shape verbatim: { balance, balanceFormatted, shares, sharesFormatted, marketId } with bigint fields stringified.

lend markets and lend market return the SDK LendMarket shape(s) verbatim: { marketId, name, asset, supply, apy, metadata }. These do not require PRIVATE_KEY.

NL -> command examples:

• "what markets can I lend in" -> actions --json lend markets
• "supply 10 USDC to Gauntlet" -> actions --json wallet lend open --market gauntlet-usdc --amount 10
• "deposit 0.5 ETH into Aave on op-sepolia" -> actions --json wallet lend open --market aave-eth --amount 0.5
• "withdraw 5 USDC from Gauntlet" -> actions --json wallet lend close --market gauntlet-usdc --amount 5
• "how much do I have in Gauntlet" -> actions --json wallet lend position --market gauntlet-usdc

Borrow semantics

The wallet-scoped write verbs (open, close, deposit-collateral, withdraw-collateral, repay) emit a structured envelope on stdout:

{
  "action": "open" | "close" | "depositCollateral" | "withdrawCollateral" | "repay",
  "market": {
    "name": "...",
    "marketId": { "kind": "morpho-blue", "marketId": "0x...", "chainId": ... },
    "chainId": ...,
    "provider": "morpho"
  },
  "borrowAmount":     <number | "max">,
  "collateralAmount": <number | "max">,
  "transactions": [ { "transactionHash": "0x...", "status":  ...  
   <number | >
   <number | >
   

borrowAmount / collateralAmount echo what the verb touched (the inverse pair is omitted; e.g. repay reports only borrowAmount). The literal string "max" means the SDK resolved the full balance at dispatch time. ltv and healthFactor come from the SDK's positionAfter snapshot and are null when the action left no debt (divide-by-zero guard); they are omitted when the SDK did not surface a positionAfter. transactions is always an array, normalised the same way as lend / swap.

A receipt with status: "reverted" is normalised to a code: "onchain" error envelope on stderr (exit 5).

actions borrow position --market <name> --wallet <address> reads any wallet's position without needing PRIVATE_KEY. wallet borrow position uses the connected wallet.

borrow markets / borrow market / both position commands return the SDK shapes verbatim with bigints stringified. Position fields ltv and healthFactor are null when there is no outstanding debt.

NL -> command examples:

• "what borrow markets are available" -> actions --json borrow markets
• "borrow 1 OP against 2 USDC of collateral on the demo market" -> actions --json wallet borrow open --market demo-dusdc-op --borrow-amount 1 --collateral-amount 2
• "close my borrow position completely" -> actions --json wallet borrow close --market demo-dusdc-op --borrow-max --collateral-max
• "repay all my debt on demo dUSDC/OP" -> actions --json wallet borrow repay --market demo-dusdc-op --max
• "withdraw all collateral from demo dUSDC/OP" -> actions --json wallet borrow withdraw-collateral --market demo-dusdc-op --max
• "top up 5 USDC of collateral on demo dUSDC/OP" -> actions --json wallet borrow deposit-collateral --market demo-dusdc-op --amount 5
• "what's the health factor of 0x... on demo dUSDC/OP" -> actions --json borrow position --market demo-dusdc-op --wallet 0x...
• "how am I doing in demo dUSDC/OP" -> actions --json wallet borrow position --market demo-dusdc-op

Swap semantics

swap quote returns the SDK SwapQuote shape verbatim: amounts (both display and Raw bigint), price + price-impact, slippage (decimal), deadline, and pre-built execution calldata. swap quotes is the multi-provider variant sorted by amountOutRaw desc.

wallet swap execute emits a structured envelope on stdout:

{
  "action": "execute",
  "assetIn":  { "symbol": "USDC_DEMO" },
  "assetOut": { "symbol": "OP_DEMO" },
  "amountIn": 5, "amountOut": 4.9,
  "amountInRaw":  "5000000",
  "amountOutRaw": "4900000000000000000",
  "price": 0.98, "priceImpact": 0.001,
  "transactions": [ { "transactionHash": "0x...", "status": "success", ... } ]

transactions is always an array. EOA execution can fan out into token-approval + Permit2-approval + swap (up to 3 receipts); smart wallets collapse to a single UserOp receipt. A receipt with status: "reverted" is normalised to code: "onchain" exit 5.

wallet swap execute --recipient <addr|ens> accepts either a 0x address or an ENS name. Pass ENS names through this field when the user wants the swap output sent somewhere other than the connected wallet.

NL -> command examples:

• "swap 5 USDC for OP on Unichain" -> actions --json wallet swap execute --in USDC_DEMO --out OP_DEMO --amount-in 5 --chain unichain
• "buy 1 OP with USDC" -> actions --json wallet swap execute --in USDC_DEMO --out OP_DEMO --amount-out 1 --chain unichain
• "swap 1 USDC for OP and send it to vitalik.eth" -> actions --json wallet swap execute --in USDC_DEMO --out OP_DEMO --amount-in 1 --chain unichain --recipient vitalik.eth
• "send swap output to 0xd8dA...96045" -> actions --json wallet swap execute --in USDC_DEMO --out OP_DEMO --amount-in 1 --chain unichain --recipient 0xd8dA6BF26964aF9D7eEd9e03E53415D37aA96045
• "what's the best price for 100 USDC -> OP" -> actions --json swap quote --in USDC_DEMO --out OP_DEMO --amount-in 100 --chain unichain
• "compare provider quotes" -> actions --json swap quotes --in USDC_DEMO --out OP_DEMO --amount-in 100 --chain unichain
• "execute on Velodrome with 1% slippage" -> actions --json wallet swap execute --in USDC_DEMO --out OP_DEMO --amount-in 100 --chain unichain --provider velodrome --slippage 1

ENS semantics

Read-only name resolution on Ethereum mainnet (chain ID 1). No PRIVATE_KEY is required. Setting MAINNET_RPC_URL uses an operator-configured mainnet RPC; when it is unset, the SDK's public RPC fallback is used and the CLI prints a warning to stderr.

• address takes an ENS name (must be dot-separated, e.g. vitalik.eth) and emits { name, address }. A non-name input (raw address, bare label) exits validation (2).
• name takes a 0x address and emits { address, name }, where name is null when the address has no primary ENS record. A non-address input exits validation (2).
• info takes either a name or an address and emits the SDK EnsInfo shape verbatim: the standard ENSIP-5 / ENSIP-18 profile text records (avatar, display, description, url, email, keywords, twitter, github, discord, reddit), each string or null. An all-null result is a normal success (the name exists but set no records), not an error.

Setting MAINNET_RPC_URL adds mainnet to the CLI's shared chain set, so it also becomes a valid --chain mainnet / --chain-id 1 target and is included in the default wallet balance fan-out. The demo lend/borrow/swap markets are testnet-only, so this affects reads (balances), not write targets.

NL -> command examples:

• "what address is vitalik.eth" -> actions --json ens address vitalik.eth
• "resolve vitalik.eth" -> actions --json ens address vitalik.eth
• "what's the ENS name for 0xd8dA...96045" -> actions --json ens name 0xd8dA6BF26964aF9D7eEd9e03E53415D37aA96045
• "show vitalik.eth's profile" -> actions --json ens info vitalik.eth
• "get the ENS records for 0xd8dA...96045" -> actions --json ens info 0xd8dA6BF26964aF9D7eEd9e03E53415D37aA96045

RPC trust

*_RPC_URL env vars must point to operator-trusted endpoints. A malicious RPC can return fake balance data, which will confuse the caller. The same trust concern applies to MAINNET_RPC_URL for ENS reads: a fake RPC can return a wrong address for a name. If it is unset, the SDK public mainnet fallback is used and the CLI warns on stderr.

Exit codes

Code	Meaning	Retryable
0	Success	-
1	Unknown error	false
2	Validation (bad input)	false
3	Config error (missing env, malformed)	false
4	Network error (RPC, timeout)	true
5	Onchain error (revert, UserOp failure)	false (†)

(†) Specific onchain sub-classes (nonce conflicts, gas underpricing) may set retryable: true via the retryableOverride mechanism. Treat retryable as the source of truth; the table row shows the default.

Unknown commands

Typos (actions nonsense) exit 1 with commander's default plain-text error on stderr - not the JSON error envelope. This distinction is deliberate: the JSON envelope is only emitted for errors thrown from within a registered handler.