specification: API Commons CLI
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: CData
providerId: cdata
generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: https://www.cdata.com/solutions/cli/
name: CData CLI
binary: cdatacli
description: >-
  A first-party command-line tool that gives terminal AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor,
  Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot) direct access to CData connectors — finding and downloading
  drivers, creating connections, browsing schemas, and running SQL with push-down to the
  source system's own API. Positioned as the self-hosted counterpart to the hosted Connect
  AI MCP server: the CLI drives CData JDBC drivers on the developer's machine, the MCP
  server drives the managed cloud service.
install:
- platform: macos
  command: curl -fsSL https://downloads.cdata.com/cdatabuilds/builds/free/cdatacli/install-cdatacli-macos.sh | bash
- platform: windows
  command: irm https://downloads.cdata.com/cdatabuilds/builds/free/cdatacli/install-cdatacli-windows.ps1 | iex
- platform: linux
  command: curl -fsSL https://downloads.cdata.com/cdatabuilds/builds/free/cdatacli/install-cdatacli-linux.sh | bash
version: null
version_note: >-
  The install scripts fetch "the latest CLI" from an unpinned path and CData publishes no
  registry metadata for the binary, so no version or release date can be read. Recorded as
  null deliberately — checked, nothing published.
commands:
- group: drivers
  description: Find and install CData connectors, each a single .jar file.
  examples:
  - cdatacli drivers search salesforce
  - cdatacli drivers download --artifact-id salesforce-jdbc
  - cdatacli drivers list
- group: connection
  description: >-
    Create and manage data source connections. Credentials and OAuth are handled by the
    connector; per the published copy, "the agent never sees the secret."
  examples:
  - cdatacli connection create --name salesforce-prod --driver Salesforce --connectionstring "AuthScheme=OAuth"
- group: metadata
  description: >-
    Searchable schema discovery, so an agent finds what it needs without pulling the whole
    catalog into its context window.
  examples:
  - cdatacli metadata tables --connection sf-sandbox --table "%Opportunity%"
  - cdatacli metadata columns --connection salesforce-prod --table Opportunity
- group: query
  description: >-
    Standard SQL executed through the connector, with WHERE / JOIN / GROUP BY and aggregates
    pushed down to the source API rather than filtered client-side.
skills:
  repository: https://github.com/CDataSoftware/cli-skills
  install: npx skills add CDataSoftware/cli-skills
  description: >-
    CData publishes Agent Skills for the CLI itself, covering installation, driver setup and
    running queries.
docs: https://www.cdata.com/solutions/cli/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: info@apievangelist.com