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Last updated on Nov 17, 2025

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Install Harness CLI

You can install harness CLI utility on Linux, MacOS, or Windows in order to interact with Harness Platform from a command-line interface.

Linux

Install the CLI on Linux

1. Download and extract the Harness CLI binary.

ARM

curl -LO https://github.com/harness/harness-cli/releases/download/v0.0.25-Preview/harness-v0.0.25-Preview-linux-arm64.tar.gz
tar -xvf harness-v0.0.25-Preview-linux-arm64.tar.gz

AMD

curl -LO https://github.com/harness/harness-cli/releases/download/v0.0.25-Preview/harness-v0.0.25-Preview-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xvf harness-v0.0.25-Preview-linux-amd64.tar.gz

2. Add the binary path to the system $PATH variable

echo 'export PATH="$(pwd):$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

3. After you install the CLI, it is available using the harness command. To verify run:

harness --version

MacOS

Install the CLI on MacOS

1. Run commands below on terminal

curl -LO https://github.com/harness/harness-cli/releases/download/v0.0.25-Preview/harness-v0.0.25-Preview-darwin-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xvf harness-v0.0.25-Preview-darwin-amd64.tar.gz 
export PATH="$(pwd):$PATH" 
echo 'export PATH="'$(pwd)':$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile  
source ~/.bash_profile 
harness --version

(If you are using different shell variation of terminal e.g. zsh, replace ~/.bash_profile with your shell specific profile file path e.g. ~/.zshrc)

Windows

Install the CLI on Windows

1. Run the commands below in Windows Powershell:

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/harness/harness-cli/releases/download/v0.0.25-Preview/harness-v0.0.25-Preview-windows-amd64.zip -OutFile ./harness.zip

2. Extract the downloaded zip file and change directory to extracted file location
3. Run following command in powershell to setup environment variables:

$currentPath = Get-Location 
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", "$env:PATH;$currentPath", [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine)

4. Restart terminal

Configure Harness CLI

1. Obtain Harness API Token. You can follow the steps outlined in the Harness documentation's guide on how to create a personal API token.

2. Retrieve your Account ID by navigating within the Harness UI to ACCOUNT SETTINGS > Overview > Account Id.

3. Login to Harness from CLI.

   harness login --api-key HARNESS_API_TOKEN --account-id HARNESS_ACCOUNT_ID

   Note: Replace HARNESS_API_TOKEN with the Harness API Token obtained in the previous step, and HARNESS_ACCOUNT_ID with your specific Account Id.

4. Upon successful login, you will be greeted with the confirmation message Login successfully done. Yay!