Command reference

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mla is the Meetless Agent CLI. This page is a curated reference for the commands you reach for day to day, grouped by purpose. It is not an exhaustive flag dump; run mla help for the complete, authoritative list, and mla <command> --help patterns where a command has its own help (for example mla kb help and mla graph help).

Note

The connector also uses a family of internal commands (shown under mla _internal in mla help) that the hooks call for you. You do not run those by hand; they are listed here for completeness only, not as part of the everyday surface.

Setup and identity

Command	What it does
mla init	Machine setup and credential update. Defaults to logged-out; run mla login next. Pass --control-token only for a headless shared-key install.
mla login	Browser sign-in that captures an audited user session. --no-browser --port <n> for SSH/headless.
mla logout	Revoke the current user session and clear it locally.
mla whoami	Print the identity behind the current config.
mla activate	Provision or bind a workspace for this folder. --here, --create, --repair, --bootstrap fast variants.
mla deactivate	Remove this folder’s workspace binding.
mla workspace [show]	Print the workspace bound to this folder and its health.
mla mcp	Start the Meetless MCP server over stdio, authenticated as you and scoped to the workspace. Wire it into Claude Code.
mla rewire	Idempotent re-wiring after a binary upgrade.
mla upgrade	Self-upgrade to the latest signed release. --check reports without installing.
mla uninstall	Remove the entire local footprint.

Health and status

Command	What it does
mla doctor	Health check; reports workspace binding and session capture state.
mla status	Whether Meetless is active here, plus scan-cache counts (confirmed rules, pending items, inventory).
mla mute / mla unmute	Silence or re-enable capture for the current session only.
mla flush	Drain the local spool; --gc also reaps stale-session litter.

Ask and knowledge

Command	What it does
mla ask "<query>"	Answer from governed memory with citations. --mode answer|search|canonical|compare, --as-of <date>.
mla kb summary	Overview of the knowledge base.
mla kb add <path>	Ingest a document as evidence, born pending.
mla kb show <ref>	Render a document and its promoted relationships.
mla kb promote <doc-id>	Flip a shadow personal doc to live so the workspace grounds on it.
mla kb help	Full KB catalog and the posture-versus-review model.

Review and the graph

Command	What it does
mla review	Open the pending review inbox; mla review <id> for one item.
mla graph pending	List pending relationship candidates (typed edges between docs).
mla graph review	Record a verdict on a relationship candidate; <id> --accept|--reject.
mla conflicts	Work the open cross-session conflicts raised by contradiction detection; resolve <case-id> records the verdict.

Onboarding and rules

Command	What it does
mla enrich <plan|brief|ingest|materialize>	Agent-orchestrated onboarding enrichment; usually driven by the /mla onboard skill.
mla rules <list|activity|attest|revoke|publish>	Inspect and manage governed rules, including the enforcement ceilings.
mla context <accept|dismiss> <id> / mla context list	Resolve stale-context review items; a rescan runs immediately.

Sessions and adoption

Command	What it does
mla session show	Inspect a session; reconcile archives sessions whose transcript was deleted.
mla summary	Recap the current session; --all for every session.
mla turn [N]	Per-turn assist recap: did mla run this turn and did it help?
mla stats	Usefulness dashboard from local events. evidence for the adoption join.
mla adoption	Evidence follow-through: did the agent pull or cite what was injected?
mla label	Mark an enrichment useful, noisy, harmful, or prevented-a-mistake.

Reading the docs

This page ships inside the binary. mla docs renders it, and every other page of this site, from a corpus compiled into the CLI at build time, so all of it works offline and before you have signed in.

Command	What it does
mla docs	List every documentation topic that ships with your binary.
mla docs <topic>	Render one page in the terminal, for example mla docs reference/commands.
mla docs search <terms>	Keyword search across the bundled pages; prints the matching sections.
mla docs ask "<question>"	Ask a question in plain language and get an answer with citations to the pages it came from.
mla help / mla <command> --help	The command list, and one command’s own usage. -h is the same as --help.

mla docs ask is the one command here that is not offline: it needs a signed-in session, because a model reads the pages for you. It answers only from the pages above and cites the ones it used, so an answer you can check is the point. When the documentation does not cover what you asked, it says so rather than guessing.

Support

Command	What it does
mla debug bundle --trace-id <id>	Write a local, inspectable zip for a trace. Nothing uploads; raw payloads excluded by default.
mla help	The complete command list.
mla --version	The running binary’s version and build.

Every command

The index below is generated from the CLI’s command registry, the same array the dispatcher runs on, so a command cannot appear here without being runnable (or be runnable without appearing here). The groups above are the curated view; this is the exhaustive one.

Command	What it does
mla init	Machine setup and credential update. Defaults to logged-out; run mla login next.
mla wire / mla rewire	Idempotent re-wiring after a binary upgrade. No token needed.
mla upgrade	Self-upgrade to the latest signed release. --check reports without installing.
mla login	Browser sign-in that captures an audited user session.
mla logout	Revoke the current user session and clear it locally.
mla uninstall	Remove the entire local Meetless footprint.
mla whoami	Print the identity behind the current config.
mla activate	Provision or bind a workspace for this folder.
mla codex	Install or remove the Codex connector (governs OpenAI Codex sessions).
mla deactivate	Remove this folder’s workspace binding.
mla mute	Silence capture for the current session only.
mla unmute	Re-enable capture for the current session.
mla workspace	Show the workspace bound to this folder and manage its members.
mla review	Open the pending review inbox; mla review <id> for one item.
mla enforcement	Review and adjudicate governed-rule enforcement blocks.
mla conflicts	List and resolve open cross-session conflicts.
mla decisions	Export one governed decision as a DecisionRecord.
mla session	Inspect a session; reconcile archives sessions whose transcript was deleted.
mla ask	Answer from governed memory with citations.
mla mcp	Start the Meetless MCP server over stdio, authenticated as you.
mla kb	Ingest, inspect, and govern knowledge-base documents.
mla graph / mla cg	The coordination graph: review typed relationships between documents.
mla rules	Add, inspect, and govern rules, including the enforcement ceilings.
mla enrich	Agent-orchestrated onboarding enrichment; usually driven by the /mla onboard skill.
mla agent-memory	Operator surface for the agent-memory capture pipeline (dry-run only).
mla summary	Recap the current session; --all for every session.
mla label	Mark an enrichment useful, noisy, harmful, or prevented-a-mistake.
mla stats	Usefulness dashboard from local events. evidence is the adoption join.
mla turn	Per-turn assist recap: did mla run this turn, and was its evidence explicitly referenced?
mla adoption	Evidence follow-through: did the agent pull or cite what was injected?
mla flush	Drain the local spool; --gc also reaps stale-session litter.
mla queue	Reclaim orphaned queue files from dead sessions.
mla doctor	Health check; reports workspace binding and session capture state.
mla status	Whether Meetless is active here, plus scan-cache counts.
mla scan	Rebuild this repo’s local rule cache from the backend bundle.
mla context	Resolve stale-context review items; a rescan runs immediately.
mla debug	Write a local, inspectable zip for a trace. Nothing uploads.
mla evidence	The human-only CE0 evidence-consultation labeling workflow. Local only.
mla bug	File a private, redacted diagnostic report to Meetless support and track it.
mla docs	Read the Meetless documentation in your terminal, offline; docs ask answers a question.
mla help	The complete command list; mla help <command> narrows to one command.
mla _internal	Hook-invoked internal commands. The hooks call these for you; you never run them by hand.