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title: "Roadmap: StackShip CLI"
description: "The separate StackShip CLI is not available today. Use OpenTofu, the dashboard, or the v1 API."
---

> Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.stackship.run/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Roadmap: StackShip CLI

> **Roadmap — not available today**
>
> StackShip does not ship a separate `stackship` command-line binary today.
> Commands previously described on this page were design work, not a released
> interface.

## Use OpenTofu for remote runs

OpenTofu is the supported command-line interface. Configure its native cloud
integration with `app.terraform.io`-compatible StackShip endpoints, then use
normal `tofu plan` and `tofu apply` commands.

OpenTofu 1.12.5 represents a plain `tofu plan` without `-out` as a
speculative configuration version rather than a run-level `plan-only`
attribute. StackShip translates that cloud-protocol signal into a
`plan_only` run with plan and policy stages only: it has no approval stage,
apply stage, or apply record. `tofu plan -out=FILE` instead creates a
provisional saved plan that remains applyable with `tofu apply FILE`.

OpenTofu prints Terraform Cloud-shaped browser links at
`/app/{organization}/{workspace}/runs/{runId}`. StackShip keeps those links
working with a permanent redirect to the canonical dashboard route at
`/runs/{runId}`. Query parameters are not forwarded.

Use the dashboard or the [v1 REST API](/automation/api) for control-plane
administration that is outside OpenTofu's cloud protocol.

## Direction

A future StackShip-specific CLI may wrap the v1 API for administrative tasks.
No command surface, release date, support commitment, or compatibility promise
is part of the current product contract.

Source: https://docs.stackship.run/automation/cli/index.mdx