generated: '2026-07-19'
method: searched
source: https://docs.kurrent.io/commercial-tools/cli-tool.html
notes: >-
  Kurrent ships three distinct command-line tools: es-cli for administering KurrentDB nodes,
  esc for driving Kurrent Cloud, and kcap for the Capacitor agentic-coding product. The binaries
  themselves are catalogued in packages/.
clis:
- name: es-cli
  title: KurrentDB Admin CLI
  description: Command line interface for administering KurrentDB nodes.
  docs: https://docs.kurrent.io/commercial-tools/cli-tool.html
  availability: commercial
  install:
  - method: download
    detail: Downloadable binaries for Linux, Windows and macOS from the Kurrent customer portal.
  commands:
  - name: admin
    description: >-
      Database operations — scavenge, shutdown, backup and restore, and stream management.
  - name: user
    description: >-
      User account management — add, delete, enable, disable and change passwords.
  - name: projections
    description: >-
      Projection management — create, enable, disable, and query results and state.
  - name: competing
    description: >-
      Competing-consumer subscription group operations — create, list and update.
  - name: config_generator
    description: Generates KurrentDB configuration files with recommended settings.
- name: esc
  title: Kurrent Cloud CLI
  description: Command line interface for Kurrent Cloud.
  repository: https://github.com/kurrent-io/esc
  homepage: https://www.kurrent.io/kurrent-cloud
  language: rust
  install:
  - method: source
    detail: Built and released from the kurrent-io/esc repository.
- name: kcap
  title: Kurrent Capacitor CLI
  description: >-
    CLI companion for Kurrent Capacitor — records and visualizes agentic coding sessions, manages
    the recording daemon, profiles, plugins and imports, and supports MCP review.
  repository: https://github.com/kurrent-io/kcap-cli
  package: '@kurrent/kcap'
  registry: npm
  install:
  - method: npm
    command: npm install -g @kurrent/kcap
  skill: skills/kurrent-capacitor-cli.md
related_tooling:
- name: es-gencert-cli
  description: Certificate generation CLI for KurrentDB clusters.
  repository: https://github.com/kurrent-io/es-gencert-cli
- name: gaffer
  description: >-
    Developer toolkit for KurrentDB projections — local development, testing, debugging and
    deployment.
  repository: https://github.com/kurrent-io/gaffer
  homepage: https://gaffer.kurrent.io