---
title: Elastic CLI
description: The Elastic CLI includes a docs sub-command for interacting with Elastic documentation from the terminal. Search across all published Elastic documentation...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/docs-builder/integrations/elastic-cli
products:
  - Elastic Docs Builder
---

# Elastic CLI
The [Elastic CLI](https://github.com/elastic/cli) includes a `docs` sub-command for interacting with Elastic documentation from the terminal.

## Commands


### Search documentation

```bash
elastic docs search "<query>" --accept-experimental
```

Search across all published Elastic documentation by keyword or phrase.

### Ask questions

```bash
elastic docs ask "<question>" --accept-experimental
```

Ask a natural language question about Elastic documentation and receive an AI-generated answer. This is an experimental feature.

### Read a page

```bash
elastic docs read <path>
```

Read the content of a specific documentation page by its path.
<note>
  The `search` and `ask` commands are experimental and require the `--accept-experimental` flag.
</note>


## Installation

See the [Elastic CLI repository](https://github.com/elastic/cli) for installation instructions and additional documentation.