GoodData Command-line Interface

Beta Feature

GoodData CLI is currently a beta feature and is still under active development. Do not use beta features in your production environment.

The GoodData Command-line Interface (CLI) lets you easily sync your local environment with the server.

This is done using the following commands:

clone Downloads analytical objects from the workspace and saves them to your local environment.
deploy Replaces the target workspace with your local analytical objects.

To install the CLI, run npm i -g @gooddata/code-cli.

CLI shortcut

The CLI command is gd. Some terminal frameworks, e.g. OMZ, have preset the gd alias as a git diff.

The CLI follows the standard notation: gd <options> <commands>

If you experience problems with the alias, try running unalias gd and consider adding this line to your .zshrc (or other) profile file.

Generic Options

The following options are available for all commands:

Option	Description
`-h` or `--help`	Display the usage information.
`-v` or `--version`	Show GoodData CLI version.
`-l <level>`,`--log-level <level>`	Log verbosity (choices: “error”, “warn”, “info”, “debug”, default: “info”)

Commands

Command	Description
init	Initialize a local GoodData environment.
clone	Clone analytical objects from the workspace.
deploy	Deploy analytical objects to GoodData.
validate	Validate local environment.
help	Display the usage information.

init

Initialize a local GoodData environment.

Creates gooddata.yaml configuration file. Also creates .env to store environmental variables and .gitignore, so you can easily start storing your analytics in Version Control System (like git).

Example of use:

gd init

options

Option	Description
`--cursor`	Generate boilerplate Cursor rules and mcp.json configuration.

clone

Clone analytical objects from the workspace.

clone uses information from the configuration file to connect to GoodData.

Example of use:

gd clone -f

options

Option	Description
`-p <profileName>` or `--profile <profileName>`	Profile to use
`-f` or `--force`	Overwrites source_dir if it exists. All files in that folder will be erased.

deploy

Deploys all local analytical objects to the workspace defined in the profile. The operation replaces objects in the target workspace.

Example of use:

gd deploy --profile production

options

Option	Description
`-p` or `--profile <profileName>`	Profile to use
`--no-validate`	Skips validation before deployment

validate

Validates analytical objects defined in .yaml files for syntactic and semantic errors.

Example of use:

gd validate

options

Option	Description
`-p` or `--profile <profileName>`	Profile to use

help

Display the usage information for the CLI or for a specific command.

Example of use:

gd help

Or:

gd help clone

Object Structures

Cursor Support