Command line

peryx <COMMAND>

The binary includes the shipped ecosystem owners and availability implementations. The TOML configuration selects an owner for each index and one availability mode for the process. Commands do not override either choice.

Commands

serve and init options

Logging

Flags override the config file; see Configuration for the full precedence and the [[index]] schema.

config check

Resolve the configuration from the file, PERYX_* environment variables, and flags, then report whether serve would accept it, without opening the data directory, binding a socket, or reaching an upstream. It rejects unknown ecosystem owner IDs and availability modes before checking their dependent settings. It also runs the cross-field rules (authentication features that mint tokens need a signing key, an LDAP group mapping must name a configured index, a read managed replica needs a writer identity), the logging-sink check, and the full index assembly: duplicate names or routes, virtual indexes that reference an unknown or non-hosted member, ecosystem [policy] and [index.settings] keys, secret files that cannot be read, and webhook targets. A 0 exit status with configuration is valid means a restart will start; a non-zero status prints the first problem serve would hit. TLS certificate material is loaded at bind time and is not checked here.

peryx config check [--config <path>] [--data-dir <path>]

It takes the same serve and init options, so a check reflects the flags and environment a later serve will see.

index

Read the configured topology without starting the server. list prints one tab-separated row per index (name, route, ecosystem, kind, writes); show prints one index's details, including a virtual index's layer stack and write target or a cached index's upstream. --ecosystem filters list by a registered ecosystem owner identifier.

peryx index list [--ecosystem <implementation>] [--config <path>] [--data-dir <path>]
peryx index show <index> [--config <path>] [--data-dir <path>]

job

Inspect the durable history of background jobs and run the ones an operator triggers on demand. list prints the most recent runs newest-first as JSON; show prints one run by its jr_... id. Ecosystem owners may add one-shot jobs; reindex rebuilds the search index; drain finalizes an authority's retained writes at its new home after a failover. Every run records a durable history entry you can read back with list and show.

peryx job list [--data-dir <path>] [--config <path>]
peryx job show <id> [--data-dir <path>] [--config <path>]
peryx job reindex [--chunk-size <n>] [--data-dir <path>] [--config <path>]
peryx job drain --authority <name> [--data-dir <path>] [--config <path>]

job reindex

Rebuild the derived resource search index from the authoritative metadata store. The search index is a cache: it normally refreshes on its own as pages and tags are served, and a schema change discards and rebuilds it on the next start. reindex recovers an index that incremental refresh cannot bring current, such as after a partial restore, say, or a bug that left the index stale. It re-derives every document and republishes the index in one node-wide run recorded as a search_rebuild job.

The rebuild commits in batches of --chunk-size documents (default 1000), so peak writer memory stays bounded rather than scaling with the catalog. Each committed batch logs its progress (indexed of total) at info; follow the server log, or job show the run, to watch a long rebuild advance.

Publication is atomic. Searches keep serving the prior complete index for the whole rebuild and switch to the new one only once every batch has committed, so a query never sees a half-built index. If the process stops mid-rebuild, the partial index is discarded on the next start and the incremental refresh rebuilds it. A restart does not serve partial results. A rebuild cancelled at shutdown leaves the served index untouched.

job drain

Finalize the ingress write intents an authority's former home left retained, at the datacenter that just took its home. When a home fails and the control quorum transfers an authority to a survivor, the ingress datacenters still hold the writes the old home never finalized. drain reads those intents in stable key order and finalizes each into the new home's local metadata, recording an authority_drain job you can read back with list and show. It is the operator side of authority transfer: the transfer moves the home, and the drain settles the writes that were in flight when it moved.

The pass is bounded, ordered, and resumable. It finalizes in batches so a large backlog drains in bounded transactions, and each finalize only advances an intent, never re-applies it, so re-running after an interruption resumes at the first intent still pending rather than double-finalizing settled ones. Because the run names its authority, the scheduler fences it: if the same authority transfers again while the drain runs, the run leased a now-superseded epoch and fails with authority_fenced rather than finalizing under stale authority. Run it again at the current home.

mirror

Mirror commands read the same config, --data-dir, and logging flags as serve. The index argument is a configured index name or route. It may point at a cached index directly or at a virtual index with one cached layer.

peryx mirror plan <index> [--option KEY=VALUE]...
peryx mirror sync <index> [--option KEY=VALUE]...
peryx mirror verify <index> [--option KEY=VALUE]...

plan prints the selection without writing cache records. sync stores it; verify checks cached documents and blob digests. Output is tab-separated with one row per selected item or summary count. Core resolves the index and dispatches to its mirror capability; the plugin combines [index.prefetch] with its CLI options. Pair a mirrored index with offline = true to serve the stored set without an upstream.

Supported implementations:

• Ecosystem owner documentation

cache

Cache commands read the same config and --data-dir flags as serve. Output is tab-separated with a header row, so it can be piped to cut, awk, or a spreadsheet without scraping prose.

peryx cache list --data-dir /var/lib/peryx
peryx cache list --index <index> --resource <resource>
peryx cache list --digest 2cf24dba5fb0a30e26e83b2ac5b9e29e1b161e5c1fa7425e73043362938b9824
peryx cache list --stale --min-age-secs 600 --min-size-bytes 1048576
peryx cache size
peryx cache fsck
peryx cache purge resource --index <index> --resource <resource>
peryx cache purge resource --index <index> --resource <resource> --yes
peryx cache purge orphaned-blobs
peryx cache purge orphaned-blobs --yes

cache list streams metadata rows and blob paths. The index and resource filters apply to cached metadata pages; the digest filter applies to blob files. Age and size filters apply before output.

cache size reports cached page counts, stale page counts, page record bytes, blob counts and bytes, invalid blob-path counts, unpublished stage counts and bytes, and metadata table row counts. Stage bytes belong to writes that never finished; a restart sweeps the ones no live write owns.

cache fsck checks shared cache records and blob hashes, then dispatches implementation-owned records to the selected ecosystem checker. It prints ok when it finds no problem; otherwise it prints one row per problem and a problems total.

cache purge resource removes the selected resource's cached metadata and unshared implementation records. It does not delete blob files; run cache purge orphaned-blobs after a resource purge to reclaim unreferenced blobs.

Purge commands dry-run by default. Add --yes to delete the planned rows or blob files.

backup

backup create reads the same config and --data-dir flags as serve.

peryx backup create --data-dir /var/lib/peryx /backups/peryx-2026-07-03
peryx backup verify /backups/peryx-2026-07-03

backup create writes a directory containing manifest.json, config.toml, metadata/peryx.redb, blobs.tsv, and the referenced files under blobs/sha256/.... It copies only blob digests referenced by metadata records and streams file copies with hash checks. It refuses an existing non-empty backup directory.

config.toml is an effective config snapshot. Treat the backup directory as sensitive when the config contains access tokens or upstream credentials. On Unix, backup create creates the root 0700 and the config snapshot, metadata store, and manifest 0600 regardless of umask, and restore writes the restored config.toml and peryx.redb 0600.

backup verify rehashes the config snapshot, blob index, and each blob. It also opens the copied metadata store and checks that every referenced digest appears in blobs.tsv. It prints ok on success; on failure it prints problem rows and exits non-zero.

restore

peryx restore /backups/peryx-2026-07-03 --data-dir /var/lib/peryx
peryx restore /backups/peryx-2026-07-03 --data-dir /var/lib/peryx --force

restore verifies the backup before writing. It refuses a non-empty target data directory unless --force is passed. With --force, it replaces the target directory, then writes peryx.redb, config.toml, and the referenced blobs. It warns when the config snapshot in the backup names a different data_dir than the restore target.

policy

Policy commands read the same config and --data-dir flags as serve.

peryx policy dry-run --data-dir /var/lib/peryx
peryx policy dry-run --index <index> --resource <resource>

policy dry-run scans cached and hosted records through the selected owner, then prints tab-separated denial rows:

action  index  resource      artifact  group  rule                 field     reason
serve   cache  blocked-name                   resource-block-list  resource  resource "blocked-name" is blocked

It does not fetch upstreams and does not change the served index. Use it after editing [index.policy] and before running serve with the same config.

Supported policy implementations:

• Ecosystem owner documentation

quota

Quota commands read the same config and --data-dir flags as serve, derive each repository's limits from its policy, and change no metadata. They report the same status as the /+quota HTTP reads.

peryx quota list
peryx quota inspect --index hosted

quota list prints one tab-separated row per repository; quota inspect prints one repository as JSON. A - byte or resource limit marks an unlimited counter:

repository  ecosystem  used_bytes  reserved_bytes  byte_limit  remaining_bytes  resources  resource_limit  audit
hosted      format     3000        500             10000       6500             1          5               false
cache       format     0           0               -           -                0          -               false

retention

Retention commands read the same config and --data-dir flags as serve, load rules from a --rules TOML file in the retention configuration form, and change no metadata.

peryx retention dry-run --index <index> --rules retention.toml --limit 100
peryx retention export --index <index> --rules retention.toml > plan.jsonl

retention dry-run prints one page of tab-separated candidates, then a summary row and, when the page fills, a next-cursor row to resume from:

action  resource  group  artifact    digest      class   visibility  bytes  rule
remove  resource  1.0    artifact-a  sha256:012  hosted  active      20480  age
summary policy_version=42  repository=7  catalog=3  policy=2

retention export streams the whole plan as JSON Lines, the identity first, matching the HTTP export. See Retention plans for pagination, resumable export, and the side-effect-free contract.

writer

Promote a replacement dc or ha writer after fencing the previous writer:

peryx writer promote writer-b --config peryx.toml

For dc and ha, the configured writer_identity is the expected current claim. promote atomically replaces it with the argument and refuses a missing store, missing expected identity, or stale claim. Update writer_identity to the replacement before starting the promoted node. The command does not create a data directory, copy data, or stop the previous writer; see High availability for the complete procedure.

self update

Binaries placed by the release installer scripts carry this command. Those builds compile the self-update feature and read the install receipt the installer wrote. Package-manager installations omit the command because their package manager owns the file (installation).