redmine-cli

A command-line interface for Redmine project management.

Installation · Getting Started · AI Agents

Installation

Homebrew (macOS & Linux)

bash

brew tap aarondpn/tap
brew install redmine

This also installs shell completions for bash, zsh, and fish.

Quick Install Script

Terminal

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aarondpn/redmine-cli/main/install.sh | bash

Auto-detects your OS and architecture, downloads the latest release with checksum verification, and installs to ~/.local/bin.

Install with Go

bash

go install github.com/aarondpn/redmine-cli/v2/cmd/redmine@latest

Manual Download

Grab the latest release for your platform from GitHub Releases:

Platform	Architecture	Download
Linux	x86_64	`redmine-cli-linux-amd64.tar.gz`
Linux	ARM64	`redmine-cli-linux-arm64.tar.gz`
macOS	Intel	`redmine-cli-darwin-amd64.tar.gz`
macOS	Apple Silicon	`redmine-cli-darwin-arm64.tar.gz`
Windows	x86_64	`redmine-cli-windows-amd64.zip`

Updating

bash

redmine update

Downloads and verifies the latest release via SHA256 checksum before replacing the binary.

Getting Started

bash

# Configure your Redmine server and API key
redmine auth login

# List issues
redmine issues list

# View a specific issue
redmine issues view 123

# Log time
redmine time log

# Script it: JSON output filtered with the built-in --jq
redmine issues list --project myproject --jq '.[].id'
redmine issues get 123 --jq '.status.name'

Run redmine --help to see all available commands.

-o json prints machine-readable JSON, and -q/--jq <expression> filters it (strings are printed raw, everything else as JSON). Errors always go to stderr; in JSON mode they are a single-line {"error": {...}} envelope on the last line of stderr, stdout stays empty and the exit code is non-zero. See Output formats.

Using with AI Agents

redmine-cli ships an Agent Skill (the open SKILL.md standard, supported by 35+ agents) and a built-in MCP server. Both are vendor-neutral - pick the one-liner that matches your tool:

Tool	One-line install
Any agent (skill)	`npx skills add aarondpn/redmine-cli`
Any MCP host	`redmine mcp serve` (then add to host config)
Docker (MCP only)	`docker run -i --rm -e REDMINE_SERVER -e REDMINE_API_KEY ghcr.io/aarondpn/redmine-mcp`
Claude Code	`/plugin marketplace add aarondpn/redmine-cli` then `/plugin install redmine`
Codex CLI	`codex plugin marketplace add aarondpn/redmine-cli` then `/plugins` (install Redmine from the added marketplace)
Gemini CLI	`gemini extensions install https://github.com/aarondpn/redmine-cli`

The skill teaches the agent the non-obvious parts of the CLI (output formats, name resolution, pagination, common workflows). The MCP server exposes the same operations as typed tool calls, read-only by default, with per-group / per-tool allow- and deny-lists.

Full configuration, host-specific snippets (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Zed, VS Code), and write-tool gating: see the AI Agent Integration guide.

Development

Local E2E testing against a real Redmine instance (Docker, supported on Redmine 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.0): see e2e/README.md.