# Command Reference
safe-chains knows 1050 commands across 75 categories.
## Glossary
| **Allowed standalone flags** | Flags that take no value (`--verbose`, `-v`). Listed on flat commands. |
| **Flags** | Same as standalone flags, but in the shorter format used within subcommand entries. |
| **Allowed valued flags** | Flags that require a value (`--output file`, `-j 4`). |
| **Valued** | Same as valued flags, in shorter format within subcommand entries. |
| **Bare invocation allowed** | The command can be run with no arguments at all. |
| **Subcommands** | Named subcommands that are allowed (e.g. `git log`, `cargo test`). |
| **Positional arguments only** | No specific flags are listed; only positional arguments are accepted. |
| **(requires --flag)** | A guarded subcommand that is only allowed when a specific flag is present (e.g. `cargo fmt` requires `--check`). |
Unlisted flags, subcommands, and commands are not allowed.
- [AI Tools](ai.md) (9 commands)
- [Android](android.md) (10 commands)
- [Ansible](ansible.md) (7 commands)
- [API / Load Testing](api.md) (12 commands)
- [Compression / Archive](archive.md) (10 commands)
- [Binary Analysis](binary.md) (9 commands)
- [Blockchain / Crypto](blockchain.md) (20 commands)
- [Build Systems](build.md) (5 commands)
- [Shell Builtins](builtins.md) (22 commands)
- [C / C++](c.md) (7 commands)
- [Clipboard](clipboard.md) (3 commands)
- [Cloud Providers](cloud.md) (9 commands)
- [Compilation Toolchains](compile.md) (24 commands)
- [Config Management](configmgmt.md) (3 commands)
- [Containers](containers.md) (38 commands)
- [C++ Package Managers](cppkg.md) (3 commands)
- [Cryptography](crypto.md) (3 commands)
- [Crystal](crystal.md) (3 commands)
- [D](d.md) (1 commands)
- [Dart / Flutter](dart.md) (2 commands)
- [Data Processing](data.md) (25 commands)
- [Database Clients](db.md) (40 commands)
- [.NET](dotnet.md) (21 commands)
- [Editors](editors.md) (3 commands)
- [Elixir / Erlang](elixir.md) (2 commands)
- [Embedded](embedded.md) (7 commands)
- [Erlang](erlang.md) (1 commands)
- [Code Forges](forges.md) (5 commands)
- [Filesystem](fs.md) (27 commands)
- [Fuzzy Finders](fuzzy.md) (7 commands)
- [Game Engines](game.md) (1 commands)
- [Gleam](gleam.md) (1 commands)
- [Go](go.md) (18 commands)
- [Hashing](hash.md) (9 commands)
- [Haskell](haskell.md) (6 commands)
- [Julia](julia.md) (1 commands)
- [JVM](jvm.md) (23 commands)
- [Kafka](kafka.md) (3 commands)
- [Common Lisp](lisp.md) (2 commands)
- [Lua](lua.md) (2 commands)
- [ImageMagick](magick.md) (1 commands)
- [Media](media.md) (10 commands)
- [Database Migrations](migrations.md) (6 commands)
- [ML / Observability](ml.md) (7 commands)
- [Mobile Frameworks](mobile.md) (5 commands)
- [Networking](net.md) (45 commands)
- [Niche / Esoteric](niche.md) (3 commands)
- [Nim](nim.md) (2 commands)
- [Nix](nix.md) (12 commands)
- [Node.js](node.md) (16 commands)
- [OCaml](ocaml.md) (3 commands)
- [PDF / Document](pdf.md) (14 commands)
- [Perl](perl.md) (4 commands)
- [PHP](php.md) (7 commands)
- [Package Managers](pm.md) (5 commands)
- [Theorem Provers](proof.md) (8 commands)
- [Python](python.md) (51 commands)
- [R](r.md) (2 commands)
- [Racket](racket.md) (1 commands)
- [Roc](roc.md) (1 commands)
- [Ruby](ruby.md) (46 commands)
- [Rust](rust.md) (8 commands)
- [Project Scaffolders](scaffold.md) (7 commands)
- [Search](search.md) (7 commands)
- [Serverless / IaC](serverless.md) (7 commands)
- [Swift](swift.md) (1 commands)
- [System Info](sysinfo.md) (37 commands)
- [System](system.md) (64 commands)
- [TeX / LaTeX](tex.md) (3 commands)
- [Text Processing](text.md) (27 commands)
- [Developer Tools](tools.md) (193 commands)
- [Version Control](vcs.md) (9 commands)
- [WebAssembly](wasm.md) (10 commands)
- [Shell Wrappers](wrappers.md) (7 commands)
- [Xcode](xcode.md) (17 commands)