Terminal · cogs CLI
The CLI for every Minds instance.
cogs is the multi-instance command center. Ctrl+1–9 hotkeys to switch contexts. Backup and restore to S3 or NAS. Hot-attach volumes. Provision Akasha Cloud instances. Reproducibility capture, run, and diff. Diff anything. Roll back everything.
Capabilities
What you get.
Production-grade from day one. No flags, no betas — these ship when you adopt Minds.
Multi-instance
Manage up to 9 instances in one shell. Ctrl+1..9 switches focus.
Backup + restore
S3-compatible and NAS targets. Encrypted at rest with rotating KEKs.
Hot volume attach
Filesystem, S3-compatible, or KMS-versioned. Online — no daemon restart.
Reproducibility
Capture, run, and diff full reproducibility manifests.
Cloud provisioning
`cogs services create --type akasha --plan starter` and you're live.
Differential privacy
Tunable DP guardrails on analytics queries.
API
A few lines is all it takes.
exampletypescript
$ cogs login
$ cogs services create --type akasha --plan starter
✓ akasha-7f3a provisioned in us-east
# Multi-instance with hotkeys
$ cogs shell --instances prod,staging,scratch
[prod] $ memory.episodic recall --query "Q3 revenue"
[Ctrl+2 → staging]
[staging] $ kv put episode://test/1 '{"hello":"world"}'
# Backup and restore
$ cogs backup --to s3://l1fe-backups/akasha-7f3a --encrypt
$ cogs restore --from s3://l1fe-backups/akasha-7f3a --at 2026-10-01T12:00ZSpecs
What it costs, what it guarantees.
At a glance
- Binary size
- ~12 MB (musl)
- Hotkeys
- Ctrl+1..9 instance switch
- Backup targets
- S3 · S3-compat · NAS · local
- Encryption
- AES-256-GCM with rotating KEKs
- Cross-platform
- macOS · Linux · Windows · WSL
Guarantees
- Durability
- fsync per WAL commit
- Isolation
- MVCC · snapshot
- Audit
- BLAKE3 Merkle chain
- Encryption
- AES-256-GCM per-namespace
- Concurrency
- 100K+ ops/sec
Get started in an afternoon.
Run anywhere — Akasha Cloud, on-prem, or air-gapped.