# Bomly Cli > Free, open-source CLI for dependency intelligence, SBOMs, vulnerability auditing, and CI policy gates. - **Type:** MCP server - **Install:** `agentstack add mcp-bomly-dev-bomly-cli` - **Verified:** Pending review - **Seller:** [bomly-dev](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/bomly-dev) - **Installs:** 0 - **Category:** [Developer Tools](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/developer-tools) - **Latest version:** 0.1.0 - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Upstream author:** [bomly-dev](https://github.com/bomly-dev) - **Source:** https://github.com/bomly-dev/bomly-cli - **Website:** https://bomly.dev/cli ## Install ```sh agentstack add mcp-bomly-dev-bomly-cli ``` Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent. ## About Analyze Your Software DNA. Bomly is a free, open-source CLI for dependency intelligence. It scans source trees, SBOMs, Git refs, and container images; explains why dependencies are present; enriches packages with vulnerability and license data when you ask for it; evaluates policy; and writes automation-friendly output for CI. Free and open source, no account, no login. One binary. No service to host. No telemetry. No outbound matcher calls unless you opt in with `--enrich`. ## Install Bomly ```bash # macOS / Linuxbrew brew install bomly-dev/tap/bomly # Linux / macOS install script curl -fsSL https://bomly.dev/install.sh | sh # Windows winget install Bomly.BomlyCLI ``` Prebuilt archives and Linux packages are published from [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/bomly-dev/bomly-cli/releases). Releases include `bomly` (full binary with builtin Syft and Grype) and `bomly-lite` (smaller binary that shells out to external `syft` and `grype`). Verify the install: ```bash bomly version ``` For Linux packages, Scoop, Go install, checksums, pinned versions, upgrades, and uninstall instructions, see [Installation](docs/INSTALLATION.md). ## Start With a Scan ```bash # Scan the current project bomly scan # Scan a specific directory bomly scan --path ./services/api # Scan a container image bomly scan --image ghcr.io/example/app:latest # Scan a remote Git ref bomly scan --url https://github.com/owner/repo --ref v1.2.3 # Read an existing SPDX or CycloneDX SBOM bomly scan --sbom --path ./sbom.cdx.json ``` Bomly reads manifests, lockfiles, package-manager output, container layers, or existing SBOMs and turns them into one dependency graph. Native detectors cover Go, npm, pnpm, Yarn, Maven, Gradle, Python, Composer, Bundler, GitHub Actions, SBOM ingest, and more. Syft fills the long tail, including container images. See the [Support Matrix](docs/SUPPORT_MATRIX.md) and [Scan Targets](docs/SCAN_TARGETS.md). ## What Bomly Can Answer | Question | Command | | --- | --- | | What do we depend on? | `bomly scan` | | What changed in this PR or branch? | `bomly diff --base main --head HEAD` | | Why is this package here? | `bomly explain lodash` | | Which findings matter to policy? | `bomly scan --enrich --audit --fail-on high` | | Can CI fail on high-severity findings? | `bomly scan --enrich --audit --fail-on high --format sarif` | | Can I triage reachable findings first? | `bomly scan --enrich --audit --analyze --fail-on high --fail-on reachable` | For more recipes, see [Getting Started](docs/GETTING_STARTED.md) and [Use Cases](docs/USE_CASES.md). ## Explore Interactively Open the terminal UI when you want to inspect a graph by hand: ```bash bomly scan --interactive ``` Use it to fuzzy-find packages, inspect versions and scopes, pivot through findings, and see how a dependency entered the graph without writing a report to disk. See [Interactive TUI](docs/TUI.md). ## Enrich and Audit By default, Bomly does not call vulnerability, license, lifecycle, or scorecard services. Add `--enrich` when you want external package intelligence: ```bash # Fetch vulnerability and license data bomly scan --enrich # Evaluate policy against enriched package data bomly scan --enrich --audit --fail-on high # Add experimental reachability analysis bomly scan --enrich --audit --analyze --fail-on high --fail-on reachable ``` Built-in enrichment uses public services such as OSV, CISA KEV, deps.dev, and OpenSSF Scorecard. `--audit` evaluates the vulnerability and license data already present on packages; use `--enrich --audit` when you want to fetch and evaluate in one run. Reachability is experimental. It is useful for triage, but "unreachable" is not a guarantee of safety. Read [Reachability](docs/REACHABILITY.md) before using `--fail-on reachable` as a CI gate. ## Explain and Diff Use `explain` when a transitive package shows up and you need the path: ```bash bomly explain requests bomly explain lodash --path ./web ``` Use `diff` when you need to review dependency changes across Git refs or SBOMs: ```bash # Compare Git refs bomly diff --base main --head HEAD # Compare two SBOM files bomly diff --sbom --base ./old.spdx.json --head ./new.spdx.json ``` See [Getting Started](docs/GETTING_STARTED.md) for the first-run walkthrough and [Use Cases](docs/USE_CASES.md) for PR review, upgrade review, and incident triage recipes. ## Generate Output for CI Bomly can write human-readable text, JSON, SARIF, SPDX 2.3, and CycloneDX 1.6: ```bash # Structured JSON for automation bomly scan --json # SARIF for security tabs and code-scanning integrations bomly scan --enrich --audit --fail-on high --format sarif # Write SBOMs while still showing the normal report bomly scan -o spdx=sbom.spdx.json -o cyclonedx=sbom.cdx.json # Emit one SBOM to stdout bomly scan --format cyclonedx ``` Exit codes are stable for scripts: `0` for clean results, `2` for policy violations, and separate values for usage, runtime, and no-supported-project failures. See [Output Formats](docs/OUTPUT_FORMATS.md), [SBOM Formats](docs/SBOM.md), and [Exit Codes](docs/EXIT_CODES.md). To gate pull requests, use the [Bomly Guard action](https://github.com/bomly-dev/bomly-guard) or call the CLI directly from your workflow: ```yaml # .github/workflows/bomly.yml - uses: actions/checkout@v5 with: fetch-depth: 0 - uses: bomly-dev/bomly-guard@v1 with: fail-on: high ``` See [Bomly Guard](docs/BOMLY_GUARD.md) and [CI Integration](docs/CI_INTEGRATION.md). ## Use Bomly With AI Agents Bomly can run as an MCP server so AI agents can call the same `scan`, `explain`, and `diff` capabilities you use on the command line: ```bash bomly mcp serve ``` Add Bomly to an MCP-aware agent such as Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, or a custom tool, and the agent receives structured JSON it can summarize or reason over. See [Getting Started](docs/GETTING_STARTED.md) for setup recipes. ## Configure and Extend Bomly reads configuration from global config, project config, `BOMLY_*` environment variables, and CLI flags, with later sources taking precedence: 1. `~/.bomly/config.yaml` 2. `/.bomly/config.yaml` 3. `BOMLY_*` environment variables 4. CLI flags Use `--config ` to add an explicit config file. See the generated [Config Reference](docs/CONFIG_REFERENCE.md). Managed plugins let you add detectors, matchers, and auditors without forking Bomly: ```bash bomly plugins install github:bomly-dev/bomly-plugin-bun-lock-detector@v0.1.0 bomly plugins enable bomly.examples.detector.bun-lock bomly plugins verify bomly.examples.detector.bun-lock ``` See [Plugins](docs/PLUGINS.md) for install, trust, and authoring guidance. ## Documentation - [Getting Started](docs/GETTING_STARTED.md) - install Bomly and run your first scan - [Installation](docs/INSTALLATION.md) - install methods, checksums, upgrades, uninstall - [Use Cases](docs/USE_CASES.md) - practical recipes for PR gates, SBOMs, triage, and offline scans - [Scan Targets](docs/SCAN_TARGETS.md) - directories, Git repos, containers, and SBOMs - [Output Formats](docs/OUTPUT_FORMATS.md) - text, JSON, SARIF, SPDX, CycloneDX - [SBOM Formats](docs/SBOM.md) - SPDX 2.3 and CycloneDX 1.6, ingest, and conversion recipes - [CI Integration](docs/CI_INTEGRATION.md) - GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure, CircleCI - [Bomly Guard](docs/BOMLY_GUARD.md) - turnkey GitHub Action for PR dependency review - [Reachability](docs/REACHABILITY.md) - experimental reachable-vulnerability triage - [Plugins](docs/PLUGINS.md) - managed external detectors, matchers, and auditors - [All Documentation](docs/README.md) - full docs index Contributor setup lives in [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). Architecture details live in [docs/ARCHITECTURE.md](docs/ARCHITECTURE.md). ## Questions For questions, ideas, and general support, please use [Bomly Discussions](https://github.com/orgs/bomly-dev/discussions). Use this repository's issues only for confirmed bugs, regressions, or actionable implementation work. ## Support Bomly is an open-source project. If you find it useful, you can support the project by starring the repository, sharing feedback, opening issues, contributing improvements, or sponsoring ongoing maintenance. See [Support Bomly](https://bomly.dev/support). ## License Bomly CLI is licensed under the [Apache License 2.0](LICENSE). ## Source & license This open-source MCP server is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code. - **Author:** [bomly-dev](https://github.com/bomly-dev) - **Source:** [bomly-dev/bomly-cli](https://github.com/bomly-dev/bomly-cli) - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Homepage:** https://bomly.dev/cli Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above. ## Pricing - **Free** — Free ## Security capabilities Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access: - **Network access:** yes - **Filesystem access:** no - **Shell / process execution:** no - **Environment & secrets:** no - **Dynamic code execution:** no *"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.* ## Versions - **0.1.0** — security scan: flagged — Imported from the upstream source. ## Links - Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/mcp-bomly-dev-bomly-cli - Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/bomly-dev - Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse --- Listed on AgentStack — the marketplace for AI agent skills and MCP servers. 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