CLI - Keenable

keenable-cli is a single-binary CLI for Keenable — configure MCP for your AI clients, search the web, and manage API keys from the terminal. No API key is needed to get started with the CLI. To raise rate limits on the CLI, please log in. To learn more, see authentication.

Installation

brew install keenableai/tap/keenable-cli

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf \
  https://github.com/keenableai/keenable-cli/releases/latest/download/keenable-cli-installer.sh \
  | sh

irm https://github.com/keenableai/keenable-cli/releases/latest/download/keenable-cli-installer.ps1 | iex

cargo install --git https://github.com/keenableai/keenable-cli

Quick start

# Login with your Keenable account
keenable login

# Configure MCP for your AI clients (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.)
keenable configure-mcp --all

# Search the web
keenable search "rust async patterns" -p

Authentication

# Device-code login (opens browser)
keenable login

# Save API key directly (CI, servers)
keenable login --api-key <KEY>

# Clear stored credentials
keenable logout

MCP setup

# Show client status
keenable configure-mcp

# Configure all detected clients
keenable configure-mcp --all

# Configure a specific client
keenable configure-mcp --cursor

# Remove Keenable from all clients
keenable reset --all

Supported clients: Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, OpenCode.

Search

# YAML output (for agents)
keenable search "AI news"

# Pretty output (for humans)
keenable search "AI news" -p

# Restrict to site
keenable search "AI news" --site techcrunch.com

# Date filter
keenable search "AI news" --published-after 2026-01-01

# Date filter
keenable search "AI news" --acquired-before 2026-05-01

# Use a specific API key
keenable search "AI news" --api-key KEY

Date and time filters

--acquired-after, --acquired-before, --published-after, and --published-before each accept one of the following formats:

Date in RFC 3339 full-date form (YYYY-MM-DD) — covers that whole day in UTC. On an --*-after flag it resolves to 00:00:00 on that date; on a --*-before flag it resolves to 23:59:59.999 on that date, so pages from the named day are kept at either end. Pass a timestamp instead to cut at an exact instant.
Timestamp in ISO 8601 form (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS[.sss][±HH:MM]). When a timezone offset is not provided, the timezone is interpreted as UTC.
Relative delta (<number><unit>, e.g. 7d, 30min) — resolves to the request time minus the delta, truncated to minute precision. Supported units: min (minutes), h (hours), d (days), mo (months), y (years).

# Resolves to 2026-01-15T00:00:00Z
keenable search "AI news" --published-after 2026-01-15

# Resolves to 2026-01-15T23:59:59.999Z — the 15th is kept
keenable search "AI news" --published-before 2026-01-15

# No offset → UTC
keenable search "AI news" --published-after 2026-01-15T10:30:00
keenable search "AI news" --published-after 2026-01-15T10:30:00.500-05:00

# 7 days before request time
keenable search "AI news" --acquired-after 7d

# 30 minutes before request time
keenable search "AI news" --acquired-after 30min

Relative deltas may be combined with absolute values across the two bounds of a window:

keenable search "AI news" --published-after 1y --published-before 6mo
keenable search "AI news" --acquired-after 2024-01-01 --acquired-before 30d

For example, at request time 2026-05-18T14:23:45Z, --acquired-after 2h resolves to 2026-05-18T12:23:00Z — a document acquired at 12:22:59Z is dropped, one acquired at 12:23:00Z is kept. Mind the difference between a date and a timestamp on a --*-before flag: --acquired-before 2026-05-01 keeps a page acquired at 2026-05-01T14:31:13Z, while --acquired-before 2026-05-01T00:00:00Z drops it. Use the date form to mean “up to and including that day”, and the timestamp form to cut at midnight.

Fetch

# Fetch page content (YAML)
keenable fetch https://example.com

# Pretty output
keenable fetch https://example.com -p

# LLM extraction: return only the instruction's output instead of the full page
keenable fetch https://example.com --prompt "List all pricing tiers with their monthly prices"

Updating

The CLI checks for updates automatically once per hour. To update manually:

# Homebrew
brew update && brew upgrade keenable-cli

Or re-run the installer script.

​Installation

​Quick start

​Authentication

​MCP setup

​Search

​Date and time filters

​Fetch

​Updating