Commands

Run any command with the talos binary. Most generators accept flags but fall back to interactive prompts when a value is omitted, so you can run them with no arguments and answer the questions, or pass --name, --module, and other flags to run them non-interactively.

talos <command> [options]

Run talos help to print the full list from your installed version.

Application

Command	Description
`app:create`	Create a new API application, with optional CI/CD scaffolding
`app:init`	Initialize a new application from the Talos skeleton
`app:start`	Bring up the Docker services and run every runnable module
`app:stop`	Bring down the application’s Docker services

Modules and resources

Command	Description
`module:create`	Generate a new module
`module:remove`	Remove an existing module
`controller:create`	Generate a new controller class
`service:create`	Generate a new service class
`repository:create`	Generate a new repository class
`entity:create`	Generate a new TypeORM entity class
`middleware:create`	Generate a new middleware class
`event:create`	Generate a new event class
`cron:create`	Generate a new cron class
`queue:create`	Generate a new queue class
`cache:create`	Generate a new cache class
`logger:create`	Generate a new logger class
`mailer:create`	Generate a new mailer class
`storage:create`	Generate a new storage class
`permission:create`	Generate a new permission class
`rate-limit:create`	Generate a new rate limiter class
`analytics:create`	Generate a new analytics class
`flag:create`	Generate a new feature flag class
`translation:create`	Generate a new translation class
`command:create`	Generate a new command class
`command:run`	Run a custom command from a module
`database:create`	Generate a new database class
`vector-database:create`	Generate a new vector database class
`workflow:create`	Generate a new workflow class
`workflow:transition:create`	Generate a new workflow transition class
`e2e:create`	Generate a new Playwright e2e test
`marketing:create`	Create a marketing post resource inside a module

AI

Command	Description
`ai:chat:create`	Generate a new AI chat class
`ai:tool:create`	Generate a new AI tool class
`ai:middleware:create`	Generate a new AI middleware class
`ai:skill:create`	Generate a new AI skill class
`agent:skills:create`	Scaffold skills and configuration for coding assistants

Microservices, frontends, and designs

Command	Description
`microservice:create`	Generate a new microservice
`microservice:remove`	Remove an existing microservice
`spa:create`	Generate a new spa module
`spa:feature:create`	Generate a new spa feature (route, layout, hooks and folders)
`spa:remove`	Remove an existing spa module
`admin:create`	Generate a new admin module
`admin:remove`	Remove an existing admin module
`storybook:create`	Generate a new storybook module
`storybook:remove`	Remove an existing storybook module
`swagger:create`	Generate a new swagger module from a target module’s controllers
`swagger:remove`	Remove an existing swagger module
`design:create`	Generate a new design module
`design:remove`	Remove an existing design module
`react:component:create`	Generate a new react component (with test)
`sdk:create`	Generate a browser SDK from module controllers

Database

Command	Description
`migration:create`	Generate a new migration file
`migration:up`	Apply pending migrations across every module
`migration:down`	Roll back the latest applied migration across every module
`seed:create`	Generate a new seed file
`seed:run`	Run seed data across every module

Dependencies

Every one of these audits the resolved dependency graph for known vulnerabilities before it reaches node_modules, rolling the change back if the audit blocks it.

Command	Description
`install`	Install dependencies with bun, auditing every package first
`add`	Add one or more dependencies, auditing the resolved graph first
`update`	Update dependencies, auditing the resolved graph first

Scripts and task running

workspace:run is the task runner: it executes package.json scripts across every discovered package and module in workspace dependency order, with a content-addressed cache. build, fmt, lint, and test are standalone commands with their own dedicated caches, which workspace:run delegates to when you name them.

Command	Description
`workspace:run`	Run one or more scripts across every module and package, with caching
`workspace:check`	Run the full verification gate: install, build, then coverage and lint
`build`	Run the build script across packages and modules with its own dedicated cache
`fmt`	Run the fmt script across packages and modules with its own dedicated cache
`lint`	Run the lint script across packages and modules with its own dedicated cache
`test`	Run the test script across packages and modules with its own dedicated cache
`run`	Alias for `workspace:run`, forwarding every option untouched
`check`	Alias for `workspace:check`
`e2e:run`	Alias for `workspace:run --commands=e2e`

Project health

Command	Description
`project:check`	Run every health check, by category
`security:check`	Audit dependencies via OSV.dev and assistant agents/skills for LLM risks
`coverage`	Run every module’s tests with coverage and report what is left uncovered
`commitlint:init`	Install the git commit-msg hook that lints commit messages
`commitlint:check`	Validate a commit message file against the conventional-commit rules

Issues

Command	Description
`issue:create`	Create a YAML skeleton file for a new issue
`issue:pull`	Pull an issue from Linear and save it as a YAML file
`issue:push`	Push one or more local issue YAML files to Linear (create or update)
`issue:check`	Validate every issue YAML file against the issue conventions
`issue:convert`	Bundle a module’s issue YAML files into a single issues.json

Credentials, storage, and publishing

Command	Description
`credentials:create`	Save API credentials for a provider under the user config
`npm:credentials:create`	Save an npm Granular Access Token under the user config
`npm:publish`	Publish a package or module to npm
`docker:credentials:create`	Save a Docker registry access token under the user config
`docker:publish`	Build and push a package or module Docker image to Docker Hub
`docker:create`	Add a docker service to docker-compose.yml
`storage:push`	Push a local file or folder to a Cloudflare R2, Bunny or S3 bucket
`storage:pull`	Pull a Cloudflare R2, Bunny or S3 bucket path into a local folder
`release:create`	Release packages with version bump, changelog, and git tag

CLI itself

Command	Description
`help`	Show available commands
`version`	Print the installed CLI version
`upgrade`	Upgrade the CLI to its latest version
`completion:zsh`	Install Zsh completion for the `talos` command
`completion:bash`	Install Bash completion for the `talos` command
`completion:fish`	Install Fish completion for the `talos` command

Getting Started

AI

Framework

Command Line

Application

Modules and resources

AI

Microservices, frontends, and designs

Database

Dependencies

Scripts and task running

Project health

Issues

Credentials, storage, and publishing

CLI itself

​Application

​Modules and resources

​AI

​Microservices, frontends, and designs

​Database

​Dependencies

​Scripts and task running

​Project health

​Issues

​Credentials, storage, and publishing

​CLI itself

Application

Modules and resources

AI

Microservices, frontends, and designs

Database

Dependencies

Scripts and task running

Project health

Issues

Credentials, storage, and publishing

CLI itself