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Article<br>Meet the Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal<br>ETIENNE WHITTOM / UNITY TECHNOLOGIESVP, Authoring Platform

Jul 20, 2026

*]:text-body [&>*]:mb-4 [&>h3]:font-semibold">TL;DR<br>Available now : the Unity CLI is a standalone unity binary for managing and interacting with editors, modules, projects, and auth from the terminal. No UI needed; install via command line.<br>Built for automation: structured JSON/TSV output, clear exit codes, non-interactive installs, and service-account auth for CI.<br>Also available today : the experimental com.unity.pipeline package lets the CLI drive a running Editor, or a dev Player build, over a local API. You can expose your own commands with a [CliCommand] attribute.<br>unity command eval runs C# code live inside a running Editor or Player and returns the result, with no project-level recompile or domain reload required.<br>Together, they allow AI agents to operate Unity: observe a live project, act on it, and verify the result.<br>If you’d prefer to watch a video overview of the Unity CLI, you can do so here.<br>More and more of development happens in the terminal: in scripts, in CI, and increasingly in the hands of AI agents. Today Unity meets you there. The Unity CLI brings Unity to the terminal at every level: install and manage editors with one binary, drive a running Editor from a script, and even execute live C# inside your project with no recompile. It's one single, fast unity command, and each layer goes further than the last: the CLI manages Unity, the Pipeline package drives it, and eval reaches inside it. Both the CLI and the Pipeline package are available today.<br>Before we dig into things, let’s take a look at what is possible when these features come together:

In this 25-second clip, a developer hands an AI agent a plain-English bug report: "the player sometimes falls through the floor." The agent uses unity command eval to inspect the live scene, finds a collider disabled at runtime, re-enables it, and re-enters Play mode to confirm the fix, observing the running game, acting on it, and verifying the result itself, with no copy-pasting of console output.

*]:text-body [&>*]:mb-4 [&>h3]:font-semibold">What is the Unity CLI<br>The CLI ships as a single self-contained binary. There are no dependencies to install, and installation adds itself to your PATH: simply run it as unity, and update it in place with unity upgrade. Beyond editors and projects, it also handles modules and...