Command Reference

All commands live under the tonic binary.

Command	Purpose
tonic connections	Manage saved database targets in global or project-local config.
tonic query	Ping targets and execute inline SQL or query files.
tonic inspect	Browse catalogs, schemas, tables, views, columns, definitions, and supported DDL.
tonic serve	Run the local JSON-RPC service over stdio.
tonic config	Reserved for future CLI configuration commands.

Global Shape

tonic --help
tonic --version

The root command prints help when called without arguments.

Output Formats

query exec supports:

• --format table
• --format csv
• --format json

Inspect list commands support table, csv, and json.

Inspect definition commands support text and json.

Context Flags

Commands that resolve target context use repeated --context key=value flags.

tonic query exec \
  --target warehouse \
  --context schema=analytics \
  --sql 'select count(*) from daily_sales'

Context keys are backend-aware. Unsupported keys fail before execution.