# Metabase CLI

> Drive a Metabase instance from the terminal via the `mb` CLI — auth, databases, cards, dashboards, transforms, queries, search, git-sync. Discovery entry; load the full guide with `mb skills get core`.

- Skill: `metabase/metabase-cli` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add metabase/metabase-cli`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/metabase/metabase-cli/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Product & Planning
- Author: metabase (https://skillmd.com/u/metabase)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/metabase/metabase-cli

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# metabase-cli

The official Metabase CLI (`mb`) drives a Metabase instance over its REST API.

Install: `npm i -g @metabase/cli`

## Start here

Before running any `mb` command, load the workflow content from the CLI:

```bash
mb skills get core    # auth, flag conventions, every command group
mb skills list        # everything available on the installed version
```

**Doing a whole job, not one command?** If the user wants an outcome — "make sense of my data", "build a data model", "go from raw data to a dashboard", "answer questions about my data", "be my data analyst", "set up analytics for X" — load the guided end-to-end skill instead and let it drive:

```bash
mb skills get data-workflow
```