What is linkedin-cli CLAUDE.md?

A set of coding instructions for linkedin-cli, a command-line tool that automates LinkedIn through the Linked API.

Use it when developing linkedin-cli to install dependencies, build or check the TypeScript code, handle authentication, call LinkedIn operations, and format command output.

It explains how the project is structured, built, authenticated, and how its commands return results.

How Linked-API/linkedin-cli configures Claude Code

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Opus 5.5	$0.00293	$0.00293
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00146	$0.00146
Haiku 4.5	$0.00073	$0.00073

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 7b18eff6e9d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

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None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 72 lines

How it starts

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CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code when working with code in this repository.

Product

linkedin-cli is an AI-agent-friendly CLI for LinkedIn automation via Linked API. It wraps the linkedapi-node SDK (v2.0.0) to give AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) a token-efficient interface to control LinkedIn.

Package: linkedin-cli on npm, binary: linkedin Framework: oclif (TypeScript CLI framework by Salesforce)

Build Commands

npm ci                # Install dependencies
npm run build         # tsc + tsc-alias + oclif manifest
npm run typecheck     # Type check without emitting
npm run lint          # ESLint with auto-fix
npm run format        # Prettier

Architecture

User/Agent -> CLI (oclif command) -> linkedapi-node SDK -> Linked API HTTP endpoints

Every command:

Resolves auth tokens via auth-manager.ts (config file -> error)
Creates SDK instance via build-client.ts
Calls operation.execute(params) -> gets workflowId
Polls via operation.result(workflowId) with progress on stderr
Outputs result to stdout (JSON or table based on TTY)

Path Aliases

Defined in tsconfig.json, resolved at build time by tsc-alias:

@base-command -> src/base-command
@core/* -> src/core/*
@utils/* -> src/utils/*

All imports MUST use aliases (not relative paths) when crossing module boundaries.

Code Style

Follows the shared code style guide:

@../docs/CODESTYLE.md — TypeScript code style and naming conventions

Error Handling (Three Levels)

Request errors (SDK throws LinkedApiError) -> non-zero exit, JSON on stderr
Workflow failures (SDK throws LinkedApiError) -> exit 1, JSON on stderr
Action outcomes (returned in result.errors) -> exit 0, {success: false} on stdout

Exit codes: 0=success, 1=general, 2=auth, 3=subscription, 4=account, 5=validation, 6=rate-limit, 7=network, 8=timeout

Key Files

File	Purpose
`src/base-command.ts`	Abstract base for all commands (global flags, auth, error handling)
`src/core/auth/auth-manager.ts`	Token resolution: config file -> error, supports `--account` override
`src/core/auth/config-store.ts`	Multi-account config at `~/.config/linkedin-cli/config.json`
`src/core/client/build-client.ts`	Build LinkedApi instance
`src/core/errors/exit-codes.ts`	Semantic exit codes
`src/core/errors/error-handler.ts`	Map SDK errors -> exit codes + messages
`src/core/output/formatter.ts`	JSON/table output with response envelope
`src/core/output/field-selector.ts`	`--fields` filtering
`src/core/workflow/workflow-runner.ts`	execute + poll with stderr progress
`src/commands/message/get.ts`	Sync-then-poll pattern for conversations

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Changes

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linkedin-cli CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Linked-API/linkedin-cli (82 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 732 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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