cli-anything-qgis

Use this skill when you need to inspect or modify QGIS projects from the terminal through the real QGIS runtime.

Requirements

• QGIS installed with qgis_process on PATH
• PyQGIS importable from the Python environment running the CLI
• Python 3.10+

Agent guidance

• Prefer --json for all machine-driven use.
• For one-shot commands, pass --project <path> when operating on an existing project.
• Running cli-anything-qgis with no subcommand starts a stateful REPL.
• Layout export is backed by real QGIS processing algorithms:

- native:printlayouttopdf - native:printlayouttoimage

What this CLI covers

• create, open, save, and inspect .qgs / .qgz projects
• create writable GeoPackage-backed vector layers
• add features via WKT geometry and typed key=value attributes
• create print layouts and add map/label items
• export layouts to PDF or image
• inspect and run generic qgis_process algorithms
• inspect session status and history

Command groups

project

• new -o/--output [--title] [--crs]
• open PATH
• save [PATH]
• info
• set-crs CRS

layer

• create-vector --name --geometry --crs [--field name:type ...]
• list
• info LAYER
• remove LAYER

feature

• add --layer LAYER --wkt WKT [--attr key=value ...]
• list --layer LAYER [--limit N]

layout

• create --name [--page-size] [--orientation]
• list
• info LAYOUT
• remove LAYOUT
• add-map --layout LAYOUT --x --y --width --height [--extent xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax]
• add-label --layout LAYOUT --text TEXT --x --y --width --height [--font-size N]

export

• presets
• pdf OUTPUT --layout LAYOUT [--dpi] [--force-vector] [--force-raster] [--georeference/--no-georeference] [--overwrite]
• image OUTPUT --layout LAYOUT [--dpi] [--overwrite]

process

• list
• help ALGORITHM_ID
• run ALGORITHM_ID [--param KEY=VALUE ...]

session

• status
• history [--limit N]

Examples

Create a project and add a writable layer

cli-anything-qgis --json project new -o demo.qgz --title "Demo" --crs EPSG:4326
cli-anything-qgis --json --project demo.qgz layer create-vector \
  --name places \
  --geometry point \
  --field name:string \
  --field score:int

Add features and inspect them

cli-anything-qgis --json --project demo.qgz feature add \
  --layer places \
  --wkt "POINT(1 2)" \
  --attr name=HQ \
  --attr score=5

cli-anything-qgis --json --project demo.qgz feature list --layer places --limit 10

Create and export a layout

cli-anything-qgis --json --project demo.qgz layout create --name Main
cli-anything-qgis --json --project demo.qgz layout add-map --layout Main --x 10 --y 20 --width 180 --height 120
cli-anything-qgis --json --project demo.qgz layout add-label --layout Main --text "Demo map" --x 10 --y 8 --width 100 --height 10
cli-anything-qgis --json --project demo.qgz export pdf output.pdf --layout Main --overwrite

Inspect or run processing algorithms

cli-anything-qgis --json process help native:buffer
cli-anything-qgis --json --project demo.qgz process run native:buffer \
  --param INPUT=/tmp/demo_data.gpkg|layername=places \
  --param DISTANCE=1 \
  --param SEGMENTS=8 \
  --param END_CAP_STYLE=0 \
  --param JOIN_STYLE=0 \
  --param MITER_LIMIT=2 \
  --param DISSOLVE=false \
  --param OUTPUT=/tmp/buffer.geojson

REPL

cli-anything-qgis

Example interactive flow:

project new -o demo.qgz --title "Demo"
layer create-vector --name places --geometry point --field name:string
feature add --layer places --wkt "POINT(1 2)" --attr name=HQ
layout create --name Main
session status
quit