generated: '2026-08-27'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/sdks.htm ,
  https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/SDKDocs/cliinstall.htm ,
  https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/tools/oci-cli/latest/oci_cli_docs/ (all HTTP 200),
  https://github.com/oracle/oci-cli
provider: Oracle Platforms
providerId: oracle-platforms
name: OCI CLI
binary: oci
official: true
repository: https://github.com/oracle/oci-cli
docs: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/tools/oci-cli/latest/oci_cli_docs/
quickstart: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/SDKDocs/cliinstall.htm
description: >-
  Oracle's first-party command-line interface to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Built on the
  OCI Python SDK, it covers the same control plane as the six OpenAPI documents in this
  repo — the CLI command tree is generated from the same service definitions, so a command
  exists for essentially every operation.
install:
  - method: script
    command: 'bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oracle/oci-cli/master/scripts/install/install.sh)"'
    platforms: [linux, macos]
  - method: pip
    command: pip install oci-cli
    platforms: [linux, macos, windows]
  - method: package-manager
    command: 'Homebrew, Oracle Linux yum, and Windows PowerShell installers are documented'
configuration:
  file: ~/.oci/config
  setup_command: oci setup config
  docs: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/sdkconfig.htm
  description: >-
    Named profiles hold tenancy OCID, user OCID, signing-key fingerprint, private key path
    and region. The same profile is what the local-stdio MCP servers read via
    OCI_CONFIG_PROFILE, so CLI configuration is a prerequisite for Oracle's MCP path too.
auth:
  - api-key profile (oci setup config)
  - session token (oci session authenticate)
  - instance principal
  - resource principal
command_structure: 'oci <service> <resource> <action> [options]'
command_examples:
  - oci compute instance list --compartment-id <ocid>
  - oci db autonomous-database list --compartment-id <ocid>
  - oci data-science model list --compartment-id <ocid>
  - oci analytics analytics-instance list --compartment-id <ocid>
command_note: >-
  Examples reflect the documented `oci <service> <resource> <action>` shape and map onto
  operationIds verified in openapi/ (ListInstances, ListAutonomousDatabases, ListModels,
  ListAnalyticsInstances). The exact flag set for each was not individually probed.
related:
  mcp: >-
    oracle.oci-api-mcp-server wraps this CLI as an MCP server; oracle.oci-cloud-mcp-server
    bypasses it and calls the Python SDK directly. See mcp/oracle-platforms-mcp.yml.