cli

The official command-line interface for Aliyun Model Studio (DashScope) AI Platform

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Chat with Qwen, generate and edit images and videos, understand images, synthesize and recognize speech, call apps, manage memory, retrieve knowledge, search the web — every AI capability, one command away.

Built for AI Agents. Every command works as a structured tool call.

Features

• Model generation — Full-modality generation across text, image, video, and speech, with editing and reference-based generation
• Asset understanding — Parse and ask questions about images, documents, audio, and long videos
• App orchestration — Call Managed Agents, agents, and workflows published on Aliyun Model Studio, wired to knowledge bases, memory, web search, and MCP tools
• Training & deployment — Validate and upload datasets, fine-tune models, deploy dedicated models as endpoints
• Account operations — Login, UI-based configuration, model marketplace, usage and quota, rate-limit increases, team seat management
• Plan onboarding — Connect subscription plans such as Token Plan to the CLI and common coding agents in one step

Note: App orchestration, training & deployment, account operations, and plan onboarding are currently available only to China site (aliyun.com) account holders and are not yet supported for international / global site accounts.

Showcase 1: A Cinematic Short Film from One Sentence

A complete 2-minute, 16:9 cinematic short film — produced end-to-end from a single natural-language sentence, with zero manual editing. This showcase demonstrates how an AI Agent can compose a multi-step creative pipeline by orchestrating three primitives:

• Qwen Code — the agentic coding model that interprets the user's intent and drives the workflow
• Aliyun Model Studio CLI — invokes HappyHorse 1.1, Aliyun Model Studio's text-/image-/reference-to-video generation model
• spark-video Skill — handles scene decomposition, storyboarding, shot continuity, and final stitching

The single prompt

"Generate a roughly 2-minute video in Japanese cinematic style — a sweet, innocent first-love story about a high-school girl. The plot should be heart-fluttering enough to make viewers want to fall in love. Aspect ratio: 16:9."

Showcase 2: A Short-Film Director Managed Agent from One Sentence

One sentence builds a reusable cloud-side short-film director for storyboarding, storyboard image generation, and video creation:

• Qwen Code — understands the requirement and generates the agent configuration
• Aliyun Model Studio CLI — validates the configuration, previews the changes, and completes the deployment
• Managed Agent — runs the director role along with its skills and tools in the cloud

The single prompt

"Build me a Managed Agent app that can produce short films — a director expert that generates videos and can also design the matching storyboards."

Installation

Agent install (recommended)

Send the following to your Agent — it will detect your environment, then install and verify the CLI for you:

Please read https://bailian.aliyun.com/cli/install.md and install the Aliyun Model Studio CLI for me

Install with NPM

npm install -g bailian-cli
bl skill init

Requires Node.js >= 18.17.

Install on macOS/Linux

curl -fsSL https://bailian.aliyun.com/cli/install.sh | bash

No Node.js required. The installer automatically installs Bailian Skills.

Install on Windows

irm https://bailian.aliyun.com/cli/install.ps1 | iex

No Node.js required. The installer automatically installs Bailian Skills.

Quick Start

Once installed, just describe your task to your AI Agent — no need to assemble commands by hand.

More examples and scenarios: Aliyun Model Studio CLI Site

Authentication

API Key

Required for most commands. Get your key from the DashScope Console.

bl auth login --api-key sk-xxxxx

Get or copy your Token Plan API key from the Token Plan subscription overview.

bl auth login --config token-plan --api-key sk-sp-xxxxx

Console Login (OAuth)

Required for console capability commands (model list, app list, MCP list, workspace, usage queries, rate-limit increases, direct console calls). Opens the Bailian console in your browser to sign in.

bl auth login --console

Alibaba Cloud OpenAPI AK/SK

Token Plan seat and member management requires an Alibaba Cloud AccessKey. Get yours from the RAM Console.

Recommended: create a RAM sub-account with minimum privileges instead of using the root account's AK/SK.

bl auth login --open-api --access-key-id LTAI5t... --access-key-secret ...

Configuration

# View current config
bl config show

# List all config profiles
bl config list

# Switch config profile
bl config use --name token-plan

# Switch the CLI interface to Chinese
bl config set --key language --value zh-CN

Config file location: ~/.bailian/config.json

Update

bl update

Upgrades the CLI to the latest version and refreshes the installed Agent Skills. Release notes for every version live in CHANGELOG.md.

Contributing

Bug reports, feature requests, and PRs are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for developer setup, repo layout, and the workflow for adding or changing commands.

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