case.dev CLI

The casedev CLI is the interface to case.dev, a legal AI platform providing encrypted document vaults, production OCR, audio transcription, and legal/web/patent search.

This skill covers installation, authentication, diagnostics, and general CLI usage. For domain-specific workflows, see the companion skills: vaults, ocr, transcription, search.

Installation

# macOS (Homebrew)
brew install casemark/casedev/casedev

# macOS + Linux (shell script)
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CaseMark/homebrew-casedev/main/install.sh | sh

Verify: casedev --version

Authentication

Three methods, in order of preference:

# 1. Environment variable (best for agents)
export CASE_API_KEY=sk_case_YOUR_KEY

# 2. Store key in config
casedev auth set-key --api-key sk_case_YOUR_KEY

# 3. Browser device-flow login (interactive, use --no-open for headless)
casedev auth login --no-open

Check auth status: casedev auth status --json

API keys start with sk_case_. Config is stored at ~/.config/case/config.json.

Diagnostics

casedev doctor --json

Checks: API URL format, root reachability, vault/OCR/voice/compute/skills health endpoints, API key validity. Use --strict to fail on warnings.

Focus (Default Targets)

Set default vault/object/project so you can omit --vault flags:

casedev focus set --vault VAULT_ID --object OBJECT_ID --project PROJECT_ID
casedev focus show --json
casedev focus clear --all

Job Tracker

Unified job tracker for OCR and transcription jobs:

casedev jobs list --json
casedev jobs list --type ocr --status completed --json
casedev jobs get JOB_ID --type ocr --json
casedev jobs watch JOB_ID --type transcribe --interval 5 --timeout 600 --json

API Routes

Browse and call any case.dev API endpoint by operationId:

casedev routes list --json
casedev routes list --tag vault --json
casedev call getVaultList --json
casedev call createVault --body '{"name":"test"}' --json

Raw API Access

casedev api GET /vault --json
casedev api POST /vault --body '{"name":"new-vault"}' --json
casedev api GET /ocr/v1/health --no-auth --json

Flags: --header "name:value", --no-auth, --body <json>.

Global Flags

All commands accept:

• --json — machine-readable JSON output (always use this in agent workflows)
• --api-url <url> — override API base URL
• --api-key <key> — override API key for this invocation

Troubleshooting

"No API key set": Run casedev auth set-key --api-key sk_case_... or set CASE_API_KEY env var.

Doctor shows FAIL: The specific service may be temporarily unavailable. Check the message for which service.

"Invalid API key format": Keys must start with sk_case_.