Drupal.org CLI

A command line tool for interfacing with Drupal.org and GitLab (git.drupalcode.org). Uses the Drupal.org REST API and GitLab REST API.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or higher, with cURL support
• Git - Currently required to apply and create patches. Very useful for contributing patches back to an issue.

Installation

Installing manually

1. Download the drupalorg.phar file from the latest release.

   curl -OL https://github.com/mglaman/drupalorg-cli/releases/latest/download/drupalorg.phar

2. Rename the file to drupalorg, ensure it is executable, and move it into a directory in your PATH (use echo $PATH to see your options).

   chmod +x drupalorg.phar
   mv drupalorg.phar /usr/local/bin/drupalorg

3. Run drupalorg and verify you can see the list of available commands.

Installing via Composer (deprecated)

Use the following command to install the command line tool via Composer:

composer global require mglaman/drupalorg-cli

Installing (Bash) completion

drupalorg comes with completion support for all commands, excluding options.

To activate it, either source the completion file or add it to the system-wide completion directory, normally /etc/bash_completion.d/.

In your .bashrc (or .profile) add

source [...]/vendor/mglaman/drupalorg-cli/drupalorg-cli-completion.bash

Installing (Zsh) completion

drupalorg comes with namespace-aware completion out of the box. If jq is installed, the Zsh completion script upgrades itself to use drupalorg list --format=json once per shell session and can complete:

• commands and namespace-prefixed commands
• documented long and short options (i.e. flags)
• command aliases such as is and pi
• positional argument placeholders such as <nid>

In those placeholders, angle brackets mean the argument is required, and square brackets mean it is optional. For example, <nid> is required and [nid] is optional.

Without jq, the script falls back to the original command and namespace completion behavior.

Copy the Zsh completion file to ~/.zsh/completions/_drupalorg:

mkdir -p ~/.zsh/completions
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mglaman/drupalorg-cli/refs/heads/main/drupalorg-cli-completion.zsh -o ~/.zsh/completions/_drupalorg

In your ~/.zshrc add (if not already present):

fpath=(~/.zsh/completions $fpath)
autoload -Uz compinit
compinit

Restart your shell or run source ~/.zshrc.

Updating

Automatic updating is not yet supported. You will need to manually download new releases.

Usage

Use the 'list' command to see available commands.

drupalorg list

Commands

Available commands:
  help                      Display help for a command
  list                      List commands
 issue
  issue:apply               Applies the latest patch from an issue.
  issue:branch              Creates a branch for the issue.
  issue:checkout            Check out a branch from the GitLab issue fork.
  issue:get-fork            Show the GitLab issue fork URLs and branches.
  issue:interdiff           Generate an interdiff for the issue from committed local changes.
  issue:link                Opens an issue
  issue:patch               Generate a patch for the issue from committed local changes.
  issue:search        [is]  Searches issues for a project by title keyword.
  issue:setup-remote        Add the GitLab issue fork as a git remote and fetch it.
  issue:show                Show a given issue information.
 maintainer
  maintainer:issues   [mi]  Lists issues for a user, based on maintainer.
  maintainer:release-notes  [rn|mrn] Generate release notes.
 mcp
  mcp:config                Output the Claude Desktop MCP configuration snippet.
  mcp:serve                 Start a Model Context Protocol server over stdio.
 mr
  mr:diff                   Show the unified diff for a merge request.
  mr:files                  List changed files in a merge request.
  mr:list            [mrl]  List merge requests for a Drupal.org issue fork or project.
  mr:logs                   Show failed job traces from the latest pipeline for a merge request.
  mr:status                 Show the pipeline status for a merge request.
 project
  project:issues      [pi]  Lists issues for a project.
  project:kanban            Opens project kanban
  project:link              Opens project page
  project:release-notes [prn] View release notes for a release
  project:releases          Lists available releases
 skill
  skill:install             Installs the drupalorg-cli discovery skill into .claude/skills/ in the current directory.
  skill:get                 Outputs current skill content for agent consumption.

GitLab work items

Some Drupal.org projects have migrated their issue queues to GitLab work items at git.drupalcode.org. These projects are detected automatically via field_project_has_issue_queue on the project node.

project:issues fetches from the GitLab API instead of Drupal.org for these projects.

The following commands accept a work item reference in place of a Drupal.org issue NID:

# Full URL
drupalorg issue:show https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_context/-/work_items/3586157

# Explicit path
drupalorg issue:show project/ai_context#3586157

# Shorthand (project/ prefix assumed)
drupalorg issue:show ai_context#3586157

The same formats work for issue:get-fork and mr:list. MR URLs also work directly:

drupalorg mr:list https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_context/-/merge_requests/131

AI agent skills

drupalorg-cli ships with skills for Claude Code and other AI agents that support the skills format.

Install via npx skills

npx skills add mglaman/drupalorg-cli

Install via the CLI

Run this inside your Drupal project directory:

drupalorg skill:install

Both methods install a discovery stub into .claude/skills/drupalorg-cli/. The stub tells agents to call drupalorg skill:get for current instructions, so skills never go stale between releases.

Available skills

Skill	Description
drupalorg-cli	Full CLI reference — commands, output formats, error handling
drupalorg-work-on-issue	End-to-end GitLab MR contribution workflow
drupalorg-issue-search	Search issues across API, Drupal.org scrape, and web
drupalorg-issue-summary-update	Analyse and draft updated issue summaries

Fetch any skill on demand:

drupalorg skill:get drupalorg-cli
drupalorg skill:get drupalorg-work-on-issue

Getting Started

Working with project issues

If you want to use this to generate patches that you can contribute back to a Drupal project, it's best to work within a cloned repo of that project. To get instructions for cloning a project's repo, visit the "Version Control" tab on the project page.

From within the directory of the project we're working on:

• drupalorg issue:apply [issue number] - Create a new branch for the given issue, apply the latest patch on the issue to the new branch, then commit the changes locally.
• drupalorg issue:patch [issue number] - Create a new patch for the given issue from the changes committed locally.

Contributing

Installing and running from source

1. Clone the repository
2. In the drupalorg-cli directory, run composer install
3. Run the script with ./drupalorg