TeamCity CLI

teamcity is the official command-line client for TeamCity. It covers the day-to-day — starting builds, tailing logs, digging through the queue — and the odd jobs too: shelling into build agents, editing job settings, raw REST calls when nothing else fits.

Full documentation, including installation, authentication, and a command reference, lives at jb.gg/tc/docs.

Install

macOS (Homebrew):

brew install jetbrains/utils/teamcity

Linux:

curl -fsSL https://jb.gg/tc/install | bash

The install script also works on macOS. New installs use ~/.local/bin without sudo; rerunning it updates an existing unmanaged installation in place. Missing Bash/Zsh PATH entries are added automatically. Restart your shell afterward, or use the printed PATH command.

Windows (Winget):

winget install JetBrains.TeamCityCLI

npm:

npm install -g @jetbrains/teamcity-cli

More installation methods (deb, rpm, Chocolatey, Scoop, build from source)

Debian/Ubuntu:

curl -fsSLO https://github.com/JetBrains/teamcity-cli/releases/latest/download/teamcity_linux_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i teamcity_linux_amd64.deb

RHEL/Fedora:

sudo rpm -i https://github.com/JetBrains/teamcity-cli/releases/latest/download/teamcity_linux_amd64.rpm

Arch Linux (AUR):

yay -S teamcity-bin

PowerShell:

irm https://jb.gg/tc/install.ps1 | iex

CMD:

curl -fsSL https://jb.gg/tc/install.cmd -o install.cmd && install.cmd && del install.cmd

Chocolatey:

choco install teamcitycli

Scoop:

scoop bucket add jetbrains https://github.com/JetBrains/scoop-utils
scoop install teamcity

Build from source:

go install github.com/JetBrains/teamcity-cli/tc@latest

See the getting started guide for the full walkthrough.

Usage

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Log in once and the CLI remembers the server:

teamcity auth login

Then:

# my latest build on this branch
teamcity run list --user @me --branch @this --limit 1

# start a build and stay attached to it
teamcity run start MyProject_Build --branch main --watch

# pin different revisions in a job with multiple VCS roots
teamcity run start MyProject_Build --revision AppRepo=abc123 --revision AssetsRepo=@main

# logs from the latest build of a job
teamcity run log --job MyProject_Build

# what's sitting in the queue
teamcity queue list

# shell into a build agent
teamcity agent term Agent-Linux-01

One naming note: TeamCity says build and build configuration; the CLI says run and job. The glossary has the full mapping.

Set TEAMCITY_RO=1 to block writes and remote shells (agent exec and agent term). Use server-side permissions for a security boundary.