casen
Manage Camunda 8 clusters from your terminal. Deploy processes, resolve incidents, query instances, and generate connector templates — all with one tool.
Profile setup → process list → deploy → incidents → JSON output
Everything you need
for Camunda 8 ops
Interactive TUI
Navigate menus, commands, and input forms with arrow keys. Run casen with no arguments to enter the full TUI.
Connection Profiles
Store multiple clusters — dev, staging, prod. Switch with --profile or casen profile use. Supports Bearer, OAuth2, and Basic auth.
Full API Coverage
Processes, instances, incidents, jobs, decisions, variables, messages, and signals — all 34 resource groups, 180+ operations.
Connector Generation
Point casen connector generate at an OpenAPI or Swagger spec and get ready-to-use Camunda element templates.
Flexible Output
Human-readable tables by default. Add --json for machine-readable output. Pipe straight into jq or scripts.
Shell Completion
Tab completion for bash, zsh, and fish. One command to install. Never mistype a subcommand again.
Commands
| casen profile list | List all saved profiles |
| casen profile add <name> | Add a profile interactively |
| casen profile use <name> | Switch the active profile |
| casen profile remove <name> | Delete a profile |
| casen processes list | List deployed process definitions |
| casen instances list | List process instances |
| casen instances cancel <key> | Cancel a running instance |
| casen deploy <file> | Deploy a BPMN, DMN, or form file |
| casen incidents list | List open incidents |
| casen incidents resolve <key> | Resolve an incident |
| casen jobs list | List active jobs |
| casen decisions list | List deployed decision definitions |
| casen variables list <key> | List variables for a process instance |
| casen messages publish | Publish a message correlation |
| casen connector generate <spec> | Generate element templates from OpenAPI/Swagger |
Human-readable
or machine-friendly
Name Version Deployed ───────────────────────────────────────────── order-process 3 2026-03-15 09:42 payment-gateway 1 2026-03-14 14:22 notification-flow 2 2026-03-12 11:08 3 process definitions
[
{
"key": 2251799813685229,
"name": "order-process",
"version": 3,
"bpmnProcessId": "order-process"
}
] Global options
| Flag | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| --profile | <name> | Use a specific saved connection profile for this command |
| --json | — | Output results as JSON instead of a table |
| --help | — | Show help for a command |
Tab completion
for every shell
# Add to ~/.bashrc eval "$(casen completion bash)"
# Add to ~/.zshrc eval "$(casen completion zsh)"
# Add to fish config casen completion fish \ | source
Install in seconds
Available on npm. Works with npm, pnpm, bun, and yarn.
$ npm install -g @bpmnkit/cli$ pnpm add -g @bpmnkit/cli$ bun add -g @bpmnkit/cli$ yarn global add @bpmnkit/cli
Then run casen to launch the interactive TUI,
or casen --help to see all commands.