IDA HCLI

A modern command-line interface for managing IDA Pro licenses, downloads, ...

Documentation

See https://hcli.docs.hex-rays.com/

Contributing

HCLI is under heavy active development by our team. We are not accepting external contributions at this time due to:

• Rapid development and frequent breaking changes
• Tight integration requirements with our proprietary IDA Pro workflows
• Internal roadmap priorities and architectural decisions

However feel free to report bugs or suggest features via Issues

For our internal team, please see our Contributing Guidelines for development setup and workflow.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Issues and Support

• Bug Reports & Feature Requests: GitHub Issues
• Questions & Discussions: Discussions
• Documentation: Auto-generated from source code at build time
• Commercial Support: Contact [email protected]
• Hex-Rays Website: hex-rays.com

Development

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10 or higher
• uv package manager

Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/HexRaysSA/ida-hcli.git
cd ida-hcli

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run in development mode
uv run hcli --help

Build System

# Install with development dependencies
uv sync --extra dev 

# Build package
uv build 

# Run development tools
uvx ruff format
uvx ruff check --fix
uvx ruff check --select I --fix
uvx mypy --check-untyped-defs src/ tests/ --exclude tests/data/ --disable-error-code=import-untyped --disable-error-code=import-not-found

Documentation

Documentation is automatically generated from source code:

# Build documentation
uv run mkdocs build

# Serve documentation locally
uv run mkdocs serve

# Documentation includes:
# - CLI commands (from Click help text)
# - API reference (from Python docstrings)
# - Usage examples (auto-generated)

Testing

# Run tests
uv run pytest

# Test CLI commands
uv run hcli whoami
uv run hcli plugin list

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed development guidelines.