quickstart

A guided setup for the Zilliz Cloud command-line tool, which lets you manage Zilliz Cloud from a terminal. It covers installation, sign-in, and choosing a cluster, a hosted database environment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing the Zilliz command-line tool for a project. It helps verify installation, sign in, view available clusters, and select the cluster to use.
Why use it?
It avoids having to work out the installation and authentication steps yourself. It also keeps setup checks in the right order without asking you to share an API key in chat.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/zilliztech/zilliz-plugin/quickstart
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zilliztech/zilliz-plugin
Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 484 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00024 $0.00484
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00242
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00048

Measured 2d ago against content hash ddfab5b4a116, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

quickstart scanned grade C with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zilliztech/zilliz-cli/master/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zilliztech/zilliz-cli/master/install.sh | bash
plugins/zilliz/commands/quickstart.md · 85 lines

What it actually says

Guide the user through the complete Zilliz Cloud CLI setup. Follow these steps in order:

Step 1: Install zilliz-cli

Check if already installed:

zilliz --version

If not installed or needs upgrading:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zilliztech/zilliz-cli/master/install.sh | bash

Verify:

zilliz --version

Step 2: Authenticate

Check if already logged in:

zilliz auth status

If not logged in, instruct the user to open their own terminal and run one of:

  1. Browser login (recommended)zilliz login — opens browser for OAuth, full feature access.
  2. API Key via loginzilliz login --api-key — prompts for API key, no browser needed.
  3. API Key via configure (legacy)zilliz configure — prompts for API key, simpler setup.
  4. Environment variable — add export ZILLIZ_API_KEY=<key> to .zshrc / .bashrc.

IMPORTANT: These commands require interactive input and cannot run inside Claude Code. Do NOT ask the user to paste API keys into the chat.

Wait for the user to confirm login is complete, then verify:

zilliz auth status

Step 3: Select a Cluster

List available clusters:

zilliz cluster list

If no clusters exist, offer to create one:

zilliz project list
zilliz cluster regions
zilliz cluster create --type serverless --name <name> --project-id <id> --region <region>

Step 4: Set Cluster Context

Set the active cluster for data operations:

zilliz context set --cluster-id <selected-cluster-id>

Step 5: Verify

Confirm everything works:

zilliz context current
zilliz collection list

Report the setup result to the user, showing their cluster ID, endpoint, and database.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 85 lines · 24 tokens per session scan C ddfab5b4a116

Subscribe to this mod's changes

quickstart is a command published in the GitHub repository zilliztech/zilliz-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 484 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.