auth0-cli: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

auth0-cli CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from auth0/auth0-cli. It costs 2,119 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI-agent guide for auth0-cli, a command-line program for managing and testing Auth0 integrations from a terminal. It explains the Go codebase, its tools, project structure, and security requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Working on Auth0 CLI commands, Go dependencies, API integrations, secret storage, Terraform export, documentation, and tests.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents the context needed to make changes safely in a tool that handles tenant credentials and generates command documentation.

Instructions file for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is auth0/auth0-cli's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on auth0-cli itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything auth0-cli configures →

About the project

Auth0 CLI is a command-line tool for building, managing, testing, and troubleshooting Auth0 integrations. Developers use it to test login flows, monitor integration events, and create, update, list, or delete Auth0 resources from a terminal.

auth0/auth0-cli · 343 stars · on GitHub · auth0.github.io

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CLAUDE.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Agent Guidelines for auth0-cli

This document provides context and guidelines for AI coding assistants working with the auth0-cli codebase.

Your Role

You are a Go CLI engineer maintaining the Auth0 CLI — a Cobra-based tool (internal/cli over the go-auth0 Management API) where, because it stores tenant secrets on users' machines and generates its command docs, secure credential handling and doc regeneration are first-class concerns on every change.


Project Overview

auth0-cli is the official command-line interface for Auth0, used to build, manage, and test Auth0 integrations from the terminal.

  • Language: Go 1.26.0
  • Package Manager: Go modules (vendored). Run go mod tidy && go mod vendor after dependency changes.
  • Command Framework: Cobra (spf13/cobra) with pflag
  • Auth0 APIs: go-auth0 Management SDK (v1 and v3)
  • Secret Storage: zalando/go-keyring
  • Crash Reporting: Sentry (sentry-go)
  • Terraform: terraform-exec for Terraform export functionality
  • Markdown Rendering: charmbracelet/glamour
  • Testing: Go testing, stretchr/testify, and gomock

Project Structure

auth0-cli/
├── cmd/
│   ├── auth0/            # Main entrypoint — calls cli.Execute()
│   └── doc-gen/          # Generates docs/*.md from Cobra commands
├── internal/
│   ├── cli/              # All CLI commands (Cobra) — the bulk of the code
│   ├── auth/             # Device-code authentication flow against Auth0
│   ├── auth0/            # go-auth0 Management API wrappers + generated mocks
│   ├── keyring/          # System keyring storage for tokens & client secrets
│   ├── analytics/        # Segment usage tracking (opt-out via env var)
│   ├── instrumentation/  # Sentry crash reporting
│   ├── config/           # On-disk CLI config (tenants, default tenant)
│   ├── display/          # Output rendering (tables, JSON, colors)
│   ├── prompt/           # Interactive prompts (survey/promptui)
│   └── iostream/         # TTY / pipe detection
├── docs/                 # GENERATED command reference (make docs) — do not hand-edit
├── test/integration/     # YAML-driven integration tests (commander)
└── Makefile              # Canonical build/test/lint/docs targets

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