A command-line tool built for AI Agents — invoke Alibaba Cloud Bailian's full-modal AI capabilities from your terminal with a single instruction.
Bailian CLI (npm package bailian-cli, commands bl / bailian) is a command-line tool built for AI Agents. It exposes Alibaba Cloud Bailian's full-modal capabilities as structured tool calls. Once installed and authenticated, a single natural-language instruction lets your Agent orchestrate capabilities — text chat, image and video generation, speech synthesis and recognition, vision understanding, and more. It is compatible with mainstream Agent frameworks such as Claude Code, Qwen Code, OpenCode, Cursor, and Codex.
ImportantThe CLI itself is free and open source; you are billed by actual usage of each model and application service, and new users get a free quota. Source and full docs are on the GitHub repository.
Capabilities
Model invocation:
- Text Chat & Omni — Text generation and Omni multimodal interaction
- Image Generation & Editing — Image generation and multi-image composition
- Video Generation & Editing — Text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video, video editing
- Speech Synthesis & Recognition — TTS and ASR
- Vision Understanding — Image, document, and video parsing
Platform management and tools:
- Usage & Quota — Usage stats, rate limits, and permissions
- Configuration & Tools — Auth, profiles, and general tools
Start here
- Installation & Auth — Install the CLI and Skills, configure authentication, and verify
- Quickstart — Onboard in 3 steps and send your Agent its first request
- Changelog — Version changes and newly added capabilities
Resources
- Playground: try capabilities in the console without installing
- GitHub repository: source, issues, and full documentation