Tally AXI

An AXI-compliant command line for Tally. Read forms and submissions and manage webhooks through the public Tally REST API with token-efficient TOON output, pre-computed counts, truncation with a --full escape hatch, structured errors, and help[] next steps on every result.

Install

npm install -g tally-axi        # or run on demand: npx -y tally-axi@latest <command>

Requires Node.js 20 or newer.

Configure

Create an API key in Tally settings, then export it:

export TALLY_API_KEY="your_tally_api_key_here"

The key is read from the environment only — never pass it as a command argument. Optional overrides: TALLY_API_BASE_URL (HTTPS-only, default https://api.tally.so) and TALLY_TIMEOUT_MS (100–120000, default 10000).

tally-axi with no arguments shows a live home view (auth state, form count, recent forms) and works without a key, so session-start hooks stay safe.

Commands

Command	What it does
tally-axi	Live home view: auth status, form count, recent forms, next steps
tally-axi forms list [--limit N] [--page N]	Forms shared with the API key
tally-axi forms get <formId> [--full]	One form definition (truncated by default)
tally-axi submissions list <formId> [--limit N] [--page N]	Responses for one form
tally-axi submissions get <formId> <submissionId> [--full]	One response with answers
tally-axi submissions delete <formId> <submissionId> --confirm	Permanently delete one response
tally-axi webhooks list <formId>	Webhooks configured on one form
tally-axi webhooks create <formId> --url <https-url> --confirm	New FORM_RESPONSE webhook
tally-axi webhooks delete <webhookId> --confirm	Unsubscribe an endpoint

Every command also accepts --json (machine-readable JSON instead of TOON) and --help. Tally form creation and editing are not in the public API — create and edit forms at tally.so, then read them here.

Examples

$ tally-axi
bin: ~/.npm-global/bin/tally-axi
description: "Tally forms, submissions, and webhooks for agents - ..."
auth: api-key
forms: 12 shared with this key
recent_forms[5]{id,name,status}: ...
help[4]: ...

$ tally-axi forms list --limit 3
count: 3
totalCount: 12
forms[3]{id,name}: ...
help[2]: ...

$ tally-axi submissions delete frmAbc123 subXyz789 --confirm
deleted:
  id: subXyz789
  form: frmAbc123
help[1]: ...

Safety model

• Mutations are gated. submissions delete, webhooks create, and webhooks delete refuse to run without --confirm (exit 2) and make zero network calls until it is present.
• Writes and deletes are never retried. Safe reads retry at most twice on network errors, 429, and 5xx, honoring Retry-After (30s cap).
• Credentials never leak. The API key stays in the environment; upstream diagnostic bodies are recursively redacted before they reach the terminal; webhook URLs must be HTTPS.
• Timeouts. Requests abort after TALLY_TIMEOUT_MS (default 10s).

Exit codes

0 success · 2 usage errors (unknown flags, missing --confirm, bad arguments) · 1 runtime and API failures. Errors print structured error / code / help[] on stdout, never stderr, and never prompt.

Agent skill

An installable skill is bundled for agents that support the format:

npx skills add brycehamrick/tally-axi

Development

npm install
npm run build       # tsc -> dist/
npm test            # vitest
npm run typecheck
npm run lint

Run the CLI locally with node bin/tally-axi.js after building. dist/ is committed so clone-and-run and GitHub installs need no build step — after editing src/, run npm run build and commit dist/ in the same change. Network access lives only in src/tally/http.ts; tests inject fakes and never touch the network.

License

MIT