Overview

Manage provider connections from the CLI: list available/configured providers, add, test, test-all, validate, rotate API keys, and view per-provider metrics.

Quick install

npm install -g nerve   # or: npx nerve
nerve --version

Subcommands

provider-cmd provider [subcommand]

Manage provider connections (use

Example:

nerve provider-cmd provider [subcommand]

providers

Example:

nerve providers

providers available

Show available providers in the Nerve catalog

Flags:

• --json
• --search <query>
• -q, --q <query>
• --category <category>

Example:

nerve providers available

providers list

List configured provider connections

Flags:

• --json

Example:

nerve providers list

providers test <idOrName>

Test a configured provider connection

Flags:

• --json

Example:

nerve providers test <idOrName>

providers test-all

Test all active provider connections

Flags:

• --json

Example:

nerve providers test-all

providers validate

Validate local provider configuration without calling upstream

Flags:

• --json

Example:

nerve providers validate

providers rotate <idOrName>

Flags:

• --new-key <key>
• --from-env <VAR>
• --oauth
• --yes
• --skip-test
• --dry-run

Example:

nerve providers rotate <idOrName>

providers status

Flags:

• --provider <name>
• --json

Example:

nerve providers status

providers metrics

Flags:

• --provider <id>
• --connection-id <id>
• --period <p>
• --metric <m>
• --sort-by <field>
• --limit <n>
• --watch
• --compare <list>

Example:

nerve providers metrics

providers metric <connectionId> <metric>

Flags:

• --period <p>

Example:

nerve providers metric <connectionId> <metric>

test-provider test [provider] [model]

Flags:

• --all-providers
• --json
• --latency
• --repeat <n>
• --compare <models>
• --save <path>

Example:

nerve test-provider test [provider] [model]

Nerve — CLI Providers & Keys

Requires the nerve CLI. See CLI entry-point skill for install + global flags.

Provider catalog (available providers)

nerve providers available                        # Full Nerve provider catalog
nerve providers available --search openai        # Filter by id, name, alias
nerve providers available --category api-key     # Filter by category
nerve providers available --json                 # Machine-readable JSON

Categories: api-key, oauth, free, local, combo.

Configured provider connections

nerve providers list                             # Connections in your DB
nerve providers list --json

Testing connections

nerve providers test <id|name>                   # Test one configured connection
nerve providers test-all                         # Test every active connection (TUI progress)
nerve providers validate                         # Local-only structural validation (no HTTP)

test-all opens an interactive TUI that shows live pass/fail per connection. Use --json to get a machine-readable result:

nerve providers test-all --json

API key management (Nerve keys)

These manage the Nerve API keys issued under API Manager — not provider credentials.

nerve keys list                                  # List all Nerve API keys
nerve keys add <provider> [apiKey]               # Add an API key for a provider
nerve keys remove <provider>                     # Remove an API key
nerve keys regenerate <id>                       # Regenerate (rotate) a key
nerve keys revoke <id>                           # Revoke a key (disables it)
nerve keys reveal <id>                           # Show the full key value
nerve keys usage <id>                            # Show usage stats for a key

nerve keys rotate <id>                           # Rotate + revoke old key atomically
nerve keys expiration list                       # List key expiration times

Key policies

nerve keys policy show <id>                      # Show rate-limit / permission policy
nerve keys policy set <id> \
  --rate-limit 100 \
  --rate-window minute \
  --permissions chat,models                          # Set policy on a key

Models

nerve models                                     # List all models (all providers)
nerve models openai                              # Filter by provider
nerve models --search gpt                        # Search by name
nerve models --json                              # JSON output

OAuth providers

nerve oauth list                                 # List OAuth-configured providers
nerve oauth login <provider>                     # Start browser-based OAuth flow
nerve oauth logout <provider>                    # Revoke OAuth token
nerve oauth status <provider>                    # Show token state + expiry
nerve oauth refresh <provider>                   # Force token refresh

For OAuth providers (Gemini, Windsurf, Antigravity, etc.) the login command opens the Nerve dashboard OAuth flow in your browser.

Provider nodes (multi-account routing)

Provider nodes let you attach multiple API keys / accounts to one logical provider for round-robin or failover.

nerve nodes list <provider>                      # List nodes for a provider
nerve nodes add <provider> --api-key <key>       # Add a node
nerve nodes remove <provider> <nodeId>           # Remove a node
nerve nodes test <provider> <nodeId>             # Test one node

Routing combos (CLI)

Create and manage routing combos from the terminal:

nerve combo list                                 # List all combos
nerve combo create <name> \
  --strategy priority \
  --targets anthropic/claude-opus-4-7,openai/gpt-4o  # Create combo
nerve combo switch <name>                        # Activate a combo as default
nerve combo delete <name>                        # Delete a combo
nerve combo suggest --task "code review"         # Ask Nerve to recommend a combo

For the full REST API for combos see nerve-routing skill.

Quota & usage

nerve quota                                      # Provider quota usage + reset times
nerve usage                                      # Request + token usage summary
nerve cost                                       # Cost breakdown (by provider/model)

Compression (CLI)

nerve compression status                         # Current compression mode + savings stats
nerve compression set --mode rtk                 # Enable RTK compression
nerve compression set --mode stacked             # Enable stacked (RTK + Caveman)
nerve compression set --mode off                 # Disable compression
nerve compression preview --mode rtk --text "..."  # Preview savings for sample text

Health

nerve health                                     # Detailed health: circuit breakers, cache, memory

Errors

• providers test <id> fails with 401 → API key stored for that provider is wrong; use keys remove + keys add to reset it
• oauth login opens but doesn't complete → the OAuth token endpoint may be firewalled; use API key auth instead
• combo create fails with strategy unknown → use one of: priority, weighted, round-robin, fill-first, least-used, cost-optimized, auto, random, strict-random, p2c, reset-aware, lkgp, context-optimized, context-relay