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Other Entities

Command reference for every CLI entity outside of experiments and feature flags — activity feed, goals, segments, metrics, teams, users, tags, administration, and platform configuration.

Activity feed​

Global activity feed across all experiments. Scans recent experiments and aggregates their activity notes. --since accepts all date formats.

Aliases: activity-feed

# List recent activity
abs activity-feed list
abs activity-feed list --since 7d
abs activity-feed list --search checkout_redesign         # filter by experiment name
abs activity-feed list --state running --experiments 100   # scan more experiments
abs activity-feed list --limit 50                          # show more entries

# Show rendered markdown notes (bold, code, tables, mentions resolved to names)
abs activity-feed list --notes
abs activity-feed list --notes --show-images               # inline images in notes

# Watch activity in real-time
abs activity-feed watch --notes
abs activity-feed watch --interval 10 --notes
abs activity-feed watch --state running

# Per-experiment activity (also accepts names)
abs experiments activity list checkout_redesign --notes
abs experiments activity list checkout_redesign --notes --show-images
abs experiments activity create checkout_redesign --note "Deployed to staging"

See Experiments & Feature Flags for the full per-experiment activity command reference (edit, reply, etc.).

Goals​

Aliases: goals, goal

abs goals list
abs goals get 123
abs goals create --name "Purchase completed"
abs goals update 123 --description "Updated description"

# Follow/unfollow
abs goals follow 123
abs goals unfollow 123

# Access control
abs goals access list-users 123
abs goals access grant-user 123 --user 1 --role 2
abs goals access revoke-user 123 --user 1 --role 2

Segments​

Aliases: segments, segment

abs segments list
abs segments get 123
abs segments create my-segment --attribute user_country
abs segments update 123 --description "Updated"
abs segments delete 123

Metrics​

Aliases: metrics, metric

abs metrics list
abs metrics list --search "revenue"
abs metrics list --owners 1,2 --teams 3                   # by IDs
abs metrics list --owners "[email protected]" --teams Growth  # by name/email
abs metrics list --review-status pending
abs metrics list --sort name --asc
abs metrics list --ids 1,2,3
abs metrics get 123
abs metrics create --name "Revenue" --type count
abs metrics update 123 --description "Updated"
abs metrics archive 123
abs metrics archive 123 --unarchive

# Follow/unfollow
abs metrics follow 123
abs metrics unfollow 123

# Reviews
abs metrics review status 123
abs metrics review request 123
abs metrics review approve 123
abs metrics review comments 123
abs metrics review comment 123 --message "Looks correct"
abs metrics review reply 123 456 --message "Thanks"

# Access control
abs metrics access list-users 123
abs metrics access grant-user 123 --user 1 --role 2
abs metrics access revoke-user 123 --user 1 --role 2

Teams​

Aliases: teams, team

abs teams list
abs teams list --include-archived
abs teams get 123
abs teams create --name "Growth"
abs teams update 123 --description "Updated"
abs teams archive 123
abs teams archive 123 --unarchive

# Team members
abs teams members list 123
abs teams members add 123 --users 1,2,3 --roles 1,2
abs teams members edit-roles 123 --users 1,2 --roles 3,4
abs teams members remove 123 --users 1,2

Users​

Aliases: users, user

abs users list
abs users list --include-archived
abs users get 123
abs users create --email [email protected] --name "Jane Doe"
abs users update 123 --name "Jane Smith"
abs users archive 123
abs users archive 123 --unarchive

# Reset password
abs users reset-password 123

# User API keys
abs users api-keys list --user 42                           # by user ID
abs users api-keys list --user "[email protected]"            # by email
abs users api-keys list --user "Jane Doe"                    # by name
abs users api-keys get 1 --user 42
abs users api-keys create --user 42 --name "CI Key"
abs users api-keys create --user 42 --name "CI Key" --description "For CI/CD"
abs users api-keys update 1 --user 42 --name "Renamed"
abs users api-keys delete 1 --user 42

Tags​

Manage tags for experiments, goals, and metrics.

# Experiment tags (aliases: tags, tag, experiment-tags)
abs tags list
abs tags get 1
abs tags create --tag "pricing"
abs tags update 1 --tag "pricing-v2"
abs tags delete 1

# Goal tags (aliases: goal-tags, goaltags)
abs goal-tags list
abs goal-tags create --tag "revenue"
abs goal-tags delete 1

# Metric tags (aliases: metric-tags, metrictags)
abs metric-tags list
abs metric-tags create --tag "engagement"
abs metric-tags delete 1

Metric categories​

Aliases: metric-categories, metriccategories, metric-cats

abs metric-categories list
abs metric-categories get 1
abs metric-categories create --name "Revenue" --color "#FF5733"
abs metric-categories update 1 --name "Revenue Metrics"
abs metric-categories archive 1

Applications​

Aliases: apps, app, application

abs apps list
abs apps get 1
abs apps create --name "Mobile App"
abs apps update 1 --name "Mobile App v2"
abs apps archive 1
abs apps archive 1 --unarchive

Environments​

Aliases: envs, env, environment

abs envs list
abs envs get 1
abs envs create --name "staging"
abs envs update 1 --name "production"
abs envs archive 1
abs envs archive 1 --unarchive

Unit types​

Aliases: units, unit

abs units list
abs units get 1
abs units create --name "device_id"
abs units update 1 --name "user_id"
abs units archive 1
abs units archive 1 --unarchive

Administration​

Roles​

Aliases: roles, role

abs roles list
abs roles get 1
abs roles create --name "Editor"
abs roles update 1 --description "Can edit experiments"
abs roles delete 1

Permissions​

Aliases: permissions, permission, perms, perm

abs permissions list
abs permissions categories
abs permissions policies

API keys​

Aliases: api-keys, apikeys, apikey, api-key

abs api-keys list
abs api-keys get 1
abs api-keys create --name "CI/CD Key"
abs api-keys update 1 --description "Updated"
abs api-keys delete 1

Webhooks​

Aliases: webhooks, webhook

abs webhooks list
abs webhooks get 1
abs webhooks create --name "Slack" --url https://hooks.slack.com/... --max-retries 5
abs webhooks update 1 --enabled false
abs webhooks delete 1

# Webhook event types
abs webhooks events

Favorites​

Manage favorite experiments and metrics.

Aliases: favorites, favorite, fav

abs favorites add experiment 123
abs favorites add metric 456
abs favorites remove experiment 123
abs favorites remove metric 456

Notifications​

View and manage notifications.

Aliases: notifications, notification, notif

abs notifications list
abs notifications list --cursor 100
abs notifications mark-seen
abs notifications mark-read --ids 1,2,3
abs notifications check

Asset roles​

Manage global asset roles for access control.

Aliases: asset-roles, assetroles

abs asset-roles list
abs asset-roles get 1
abs asset-roles create --name "Reviewer"
abs asset-roles update 1 --name "Lead Reviewer"
abs asset-roles delete 1

Custom sections​

Manage experiment custom sections.

Aliases: custom-sections, customsections

abs custom-sections list
abs custom-sections create --name "Launch Checklist" --type test
abs custom-sections update 1 --name "Updated Checklist"
abs custom-sections archive 1
abs custom-sections archive 1 --unarchive
abs custom-sections reorder --sections "1:0,2:1,3:2"

Events​

View and manage event tracking data. --from/--to accept all date formats.

Aliases: events, event

abs events list --from 7d --to now
abs events list --event-name my-experiment --event-type exposure --from 5h
abs events list --app 1 --unit-type 2 --event-type exposure --items 50
abs events list --unit-uid user123 --env-type production
abs events list --effective-exposures --from 1d              # only assignment-changing exposures
abs events list --event-name exp1 --event-name exp2          # multiple names (all filters repeatable)
abs events history --from 7d --period 1d
abs events history --event-name my-experiment --env-type production
abs events unit-data 1:user123 2:device456
abs events delete-unit-data 1:user123
abs events json-values --event-type exposure --path "variant" --experiment-id 123
abs events json-layouts --source unit_attribute --phase after_enrichment

Insights​

View experiment velocity and decision analytics. --from/--to accept ISO dates (see date formats).

Aliases: insights, insight

abs insights velocity --from 2026-01-01 --to 2026-03-01 --aggregation month
abs insights decisions --from 2026-01-01 --to 2026-03-01 --aggregation week
abs insights velocity --from 2026-01-01 --to 2026-03-01 --aggregation day --teams Product,Engineering
abs insights velocity-detail --from 2026-01-01 --to 2026-03-01 --aggregation month
abs insights decisions-history --from 2026-01-01 --to 2026-03-01 --aggregation week

Statistics​

Statistical analysis tools for experiment planning.

Aliases: statistics, stats

abs statistics power-matrix --config '{"split":[0.5,0.5],"metric_mean":100,"metric_variance":25,"metric_type":"count","powers":[0.8,0.9]}'

Storage configs​

Manage storage destinations for data exports.

Aliases: storage-configs, storageconfigs

abs storage-configs list
abs storage-configs get 1
abs storage-configs create --config '{"type": "s3", ...}'
abs storage-configs update 1 --config '{"bucket": "new-bucket"}'
abs storage-configs test --config '{"type": "s3", ...}'

Action dialog fields​

Manage fields shown in experiment action dialogs (start, stop, etc.).

Aliases: action-dialog-fields, actiondialogfields

abs action-dialog-fields list
abs action-dialog-fields get 1
abs action-dialog-fields create --config '{"name": "Reason", "type": "text"}'
abs action-dialog-fields update 1 --config '{"required": true}'

Platform configuration​

Manage server-side platform settings (not local CLI config — see Configuration for local config).

Aliases: platform-config, platformconfig, platform-configs

abs platform-config list
abs platform-config get 1
abs platform-config update 1 --value '{"key": "value"}'

CORS origins​

Manage allowed CORS origins.

abs cors list
abs cors get 1
abs cors create --origin "https://app.example.com"
abs cors update 1 --origin "https://new.example.com"
abs cors delete 1

Datasources​

Manage event data source configurations.

Aliases: datasources, datasource, ds

abs datasources list
abs datasources get 1
abs datasources create --config '{"type": "postgres", ...}'
abs datasources update 1 --config '{"host": "new-host"}'
abs datasources archive 1
abs datasources test --config '{"type": "postgres", ...}'
abs datasources introspect --config '{"type": "postgres", ...}'
abs datasources validate-query --config '{"query": "SELECT ..."}'
abs datasources preview-query --config '{"query": "SELECT ..."}'
abs datasources set-default 1
abs datasources schema 1

Export configurations​

Manage scheduled data export configurations.

Aliases: export-configs, exportconfigs, export-config

abs export-configs list
abs export-configs get 1
abs export-configs create --config '{"destination": "s3", ...}'
abs export-configs update 1 --config '{"schedule": "daily"}'
abs export-configs archive 1
abs export-configs pause 1
abs export-configs histories 1
abs export-configs cancel-history 1 42 --reason "No longer needed"

Update schedules​

Manage experiment analysis update schedules.

Aliases: update-schedules, updateschedules

abs update-schedules list
abs update-schedules get 1
abs update-schedules create --config '{"interval": "1h"}'
abs update-schedules update 1 --config '{"interval": "30m"}'
abs update-schedules delete 1

Raw API access​

Make arbitrary API requests for endpoints not covered by dedicated commands.

# GET requests
abs api /experiments
abs api "/experiments?search=Bundle&items=5&previews=1"
abs api /metrics?archived=true -o json

# POST requests
abs api /experiments -X POST -d '{"name": "test", "type": "test"}'
abs api -X POST "/experiments/123/metrics/145" -o json   # fetch metric data

# Custom headers
abs api /experiments -H "X-Custom: value"

Utilities​

# Open the ABSmartly dashboard in your browser
abs open
abs open experiments
abs open experiments 123

# Diagnose configuration issues
abs doctor

abs doctor validates API connectivity, profile configuration, custom fields cache status, credentials file permissions, and warns about stale experiments stuck in "created" state.

# Show version and build info
abs version

Shell completions​

Generate shell completions for Bash or Zsh with tab-completion for commands, subcommands, and options.

# Bash
eval "$(abs completion bash)"
# Or persist:
abs completion bash >> ~/.bashrc

# Zsh
eval "$(abs completion zsh)"
# Or persist:
abs completion zsh >> ~/.zshrc