Level - Printing Press CLI
Prerequisites: Install the CLI
This skill drives the levelio-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:
- macOS / Linux:
bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/levelio/install.sh) - Windows (PowerShell):
iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/levelio/install.ps1 | iex - Verify:
levelio-cli --version - Ensure
~/.local/bin(macOS / Linux) or%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\msp-skills(Windows) is on$PATH.
The installer downloads the levelio-cli and levelio-mcp binaries into ~/.local/bin
(macOS / Linux) or %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\msp-skills (Windows). It does not
register the skill with your agent and writes no MCP client config - see
mcp-install.md for that wire-up.
If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.
levelio-cli syncs your entire Level estate - devices, groups, tags, custom fields, alerts, and OS updates - into a local SQLite database, then answers portfolio-wide questions offline that the Level web UI shows one device at a time. Match every API operation with agent-native output (--json/--select/--csv), then transcend with weighted at-risk ranking, fleet-wide patch posture, per-client posture scorecards, group-clustered alert triage, reboot-debt tracking, and custom-field coverage audits.
When to Use This CLI
Use levelio-cli when an agent or technician needs a portfolio-wide answer about a Level-managed fleet - at-risk endpoints, patch exposure, alert clusters, stale agents, security-score distribution, or custom-field gaps - rather than a single device's detail. It is the right tool for cross-entity rollups, anti-joins (what is missing), and scriptable RMM automation, all offline against a synced local store.
Anti-triggers
Do not use this CLI for:
- single-device detail lookups (use devices show , not the fleet analytics commands)
- real-time monitoring without a prior sync - analytics commands read the local store
- authoring automations, scripts, or monitoring policies - the public API only triggers automation webhooks
Unique Capabilities
These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.
Cross-entity fleet intelligence
at-risk- Rank the worst endpoints across every axis at once - active alerts, pending patches, low security score, and how long they have been dark - as a single weighted risk score.Reach for this when an agent needs the single prioritized 'fix these first' list across the whole fleet instead of one health axis at a time.
levelio-cli at-risk --top 20 --agentpatch-posture- Aggregate OS updates across the fleet - available vs installed, by category and device, including patches that errored - so you can see exposure at a glance.Use when an agent must report fleet-wide patch exposure or pick which category of updates to push next.
levelio-cli patch-posture --category security --agentfleet- One-screen inventory rollup, cross-tabbed any way you slice it - by OS, platform, group, or tag - with online and maintenance counts.Reach for this for a portfolio-wide inventory answer instead of paging through device lists.
levelio-cli fleet --by os --online --agentalert-triage- Cluster unresolved alerts by group and severity with device context, so systemic fires surface above one-off noise.Reach for this to answer 'where are my fires and which are systemic' in one call.
levelio-cli alert-triage --severity critical --group-by group --agentclient-scorecard- One row per top-level group (client) with device count, online %, open critical alerts, average security score, stale count, and patch exposure - the QBR-ready per-client rollup.Reach for this when an agent needs per-client fleet posture in one table - which client is worst, where to focus - instead of walking groups and devices one call at a time.
levelio-cli client-scorecard --agent
Health and drift
stale- List devices that have gone dark - not seen in N days - with an option to exclude machines intentionally in maintenance mode.Use to find agents that silently stopped checking in without chasing each device in the UI.
levelio-cli stale --days 14 --exclude-maintenance --agentgroup-tree- Render the Level group hierarchy with each node showing its real rolled-up health - descendant device, alert, stale, and score counts.Use to see the org structure annotated with where the problems actually concentrate.
levelio-cli group-tree --with alerts,stale,score --agentsince- Show what changed in a recent time window - new alerts, newly published updates, and devices last seen - so you can answer 'what happened since I last looked'.Reach for this at the start of a shift to catch up on everything that moved overnight.
levelio-cli since --hours 24 --agentalert-recurrence- Rank which alert names fire most often across the fleet and on how many distinct devices, so chronically noisy monitors surface above one-off fires.Reach for this when the question is which monitors are chronically noisy and worth tuning, not which fires are burning right now (use alert-triage for that).
levelio-cli alert-recurrence --top 15 --agentreboot-due- List devices waiting on a reboot to finalize installed patches - and how long they have been waiting - joined with online and maintenance state.Reach for this when patches are installed but not yet effective - the reboot backlog is the gap between patch posture on paper and in reality.
levelio-cli reboot-due --days 3 --agent
Governance and hygiene
cf-coverage- Audit which devices, groups, or the org are missing a custom-field value - the absence the UI can't show - via an anti-join.Reach for this when an agent must enforce data hygiene - e.g. every device must carry an asset-tag or warranty field.
levelio-cli cf-coverage --missing --agentsecurity-posture- Show the fleet security-score distribution and everyone under a threshold, optionally rolled up by group.Use to report fleet security posture or target the weakest endpoints for remediation.
levelio-cli security-posture --below 70 --by-group --agenttag-audit- Surface tag-data drift: devices with zero tags, orphan tags applied to nothing, and duplicate tag names that fragment the fleet.Reach for this when fleet filters and automations misbehave because tag data drifted - untagged devices and orphan tags are invisible until audited.
levelio-cli tag-audit --agent
Command Reference
alerts - Alerts generated by monitoring devices.
levelio-cli alerts list- Returns a list of your alerts.levelio-cli alerts show- Retrieves the details of an existing alert.
automations - Operations on automations.
levelio-cli automations <token>- Triggers an automation via a webhook.
custom-field-values - Values assigned to custom fields for the organization, groups, and devices.
levelio-cli custom-field-values delete- Deletes a custom field value for the organization, group, or device.levelio-cli custom-field-values list- Returns a list of custom field values for the organization, groups, or devices.levelio-cli custom-field-values update- Set a custom field value for the organization, group, or device.
custom-fields - Custom fields that can have values assigned to them.
levelio-cli custom-fields create- Creates a custom field.levelio-cli custom-fields delete- Deletes a custom field.levelio-cli custom-fields list- Returns a list of custom fields.levelio-cli custom-fields show- Retrieves the details of an existing custom field.levelio-cli custom-fields update- Updates a custom field.
devices - Devices with the Level agent installed.
levelio-cli devices delete- Deletes the specified device.levelio-cli devices list- Returns a list of your devices.levelio-cli devices show- Retrieves the details of an existing device.levelio-cli devices update- Updates the specified device.
groups - The group hierachy that contains devices.
levelio-cli groups create- Creates a new group.levelio-cli groups delete- Deletes an existing group.levelio-cli groups list- Returns a list of your groups.levelio-cli groups show- Retrieves the details of an existing group.levelio-cli groups update- Updates an existing group.
tags - Tags that can be applied to devices.
levelio-cli tags create- Creates a new tag.levelio-cli tags delete- Deletes a tag.levelio-cli tags list- Returns a list of tags.levelio-cli tags show- Retrieves a tag.levelio-cli tags update- Updates an existing tag.
updates - Update operations and status for devices.
levelio-cli updates list- Returns a list of your updates.levelio-cli updates show- Retrieves the details of an existing update.
Finding the right command
When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:
levelio-cli which "<capability in your own words>"
which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match - fall back to --help or use a narrower query.
Recipes
Morning fleet catch-up
levelio-cli since --hours 12 --agent
Everything that changed overnight - new alerts, new updates, devices that checked in - in one structured payload.
Patch-day exposure report
levelio-cli patch-posture --category security --agent --select summary,by_category
Fleet-wide pending vs installed security updates, narrowed to just the rollup fields an agent needs.
Find the worst endpoints fast
levelio-cli at-risk --top 10 --agent --select rank,hostname,risk_score,reasons
Top-10 risk ranking with only the decision fields, ready to pipe into a ticket.
Dark-agent sweep
levelio-cli stale --days 7 --exclude-maintenance
Devices that have not checked in for a week and are not in maintenance - the silent-failure list.
Data-hygiene audit
levelio-cli cf-coverage --missing --agent
Every assignee missing a custom-field value, so required asset/warranty data can be backfilled.
Per-client QBR rollup
levelio-cli client-scorecard --agent
One row per client group - devices, online %, open criticals, average security score, stale count, and patch exposure - ready for a QBR slide.
Auth Setup
Authenticate with a Level API key (Settings -> API keys; read-only is enough for every list/show/sync/analytics command). Export it as LEVEL_API_TOKEN; it is sent as 'Authorization: Bearer '.
Run levelio-cli doctor to verify setup.
Agent Mode
Add --agent to any command. Expands to: --json --compact --no-input --no-color --yes.
Pipeable - JSON on stdout, errors on stderr
Filterable -
--selectkeeps a subset of fields. Dotted paths descend into nested structures; arrays traverse element-wise. Critical for keeping context small on verbose APIs:levelio-cli alerts list --agent --select id,name,statusPreviewable -
--dry-runshows the request without sendingOffline-friendly - sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available
Non-interactive - never prompts, every input is a flag
Explicit retries - use
--idempotentonly when an already-existing create should count as success, and--ignore-missingonly when a missing delete target should count as success
Response envelope
Commands that read from the local store or the API wrap output in a provenance envelope:
{
"meta": {"source": "live" | "local", "synced_at": "...", "reason": "..."},
"results": <data>
}
Parse .results for data and .meta.source to know whether it's live or local. A human-readable N results (live) summary is printed to stderr only when stdout is a terminal AND no machine-format flag (--json, --csv, --compact, --quiet, --plain, --select) is set - piped/agent consumers and explicit-format runs get pure JSON on stdout.
Agent Feedback
When you (or the agent) notice something off about this CLI, record it:
levelio-cli feedback "the --since flag is inclusive but docs say exclusive"
levelio-cli feedback --stdin < notes.txt
levelio-cli feedback list --json --limit 10
Entries are stored locally at ~/.local/share/levelio-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless LEVELIO_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or LEVELIO_FEEDBACK_AUTO_SEND=true. Default behavior is local-only.
Write what surprised you, not a bug report. Short, specific, one line: that is the part that compounds.
Output Delivery
Every command accepts --deliver <sink>. The output goes to the named sink in addition to (or instead of) stdout, so agents can route command results without hand-piping. Three sinks are supported:
| Sink | Effect |
|---|---|
stdout |
Default; write to stdout only |
file:<path> |
Atomically write output to <path> (tmp + rename) |
webhook:<url> |
POST the output body to the URL (application/json or application/x-ndjson when --compact) |
Unknown schemes are refused with a structured error naming the supported set. Webhook failures return non-zero and log the URL + HTTP status on stderr.
Named Profiles
A profile is a saved set of flag values, reused across invocations. Use it when a scheduled agent calls the same command every run with the same configuration - HeyGen's "Beacon" pattern.
levelio-cli profile save briefing --json
levelio-cli --profile briefing alerts list
levelio-cli profile list --json
levelio-cli profile show briefing
levelio-cli profile delete briefing --yes
Explicit flags always win over profile values; profile values win over defaults. agent-context lists all available profiles under available_profiles so introspecting agents discover them at runtime.
Exit Codes
| Code | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0 | Success |
| 2 | Usage error (wrong arguments) |
| 3 | Resource not found |
| 4 | Authentication required |
| 5 | API error (upstream issue) |
| 7 | Rate limited (wait and retry) |
| 10 | Config error |
Argument Parsing
Parse $ARGUMENTS:
- Empty,
help, or--help→ showlevelio-cli --helpoutput - Starts with
install→ ends withmcp→ MCP installation; otherwise → see Prerequisites above - Anything else → Direct Use (execute as CLI command with
--agent)
MCP Server Installation
- Install the MCP binary (run the install script from the Prerequisites section, or see mcp-install.md for per-agent wire-up).
- Register with Claude Code:
claude mcp add levelio-mcp -- levelio-mcp - Verify:
claude mcp list
Direct Use
- Check if installed:
which levelio-cliIf not found, offer to install (see Prerequisites at the top of this skill). - Match the user query to the best command from the Unique Capabilities and Command Reference above.
- Execute with the
--agentflag:levelio-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent - If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help:
levelio-cli <command> --help.