MilkStraw AI Now Lives in Your Terminal
We turned our onboarding into a single command. Here's what that means for your team.
Onboarding to MilkStraw AI was already simple. A two-step wizard, two CloudFormation stacks, no engineering team is required. But we kept asking ourselves: can we make it even shorter?
Now it's one command:
That's it. The CLI authenticates you, deploys the necessary CloudFormation stacks to your AWS organization, and gets you to your savings dashboard. No clicking through consoles, no tickets to your platform team.
Within a day or two, you start receiving commitments. And if you don't need them anymore, we take them back. You carry none of the risk.
Why a CLI?
We built MilkStraw AI for teams that care about infrastructure. Those teams usually live in the terminal. Asking them to click through a web console for onboarding always felt like a detour.
The CLI also opens a door we're excited about. This is the first step. In the near future, it'll become your agent's companion to optimize, secure, and clean your infrastructure directly from the command line. Think of this release as the foundation for something much bigger.
Getting Started
You need two things: the AWS CLI configured with your management account credentials, and a MilkStraw AI account.
Then run:
Skip the --aws-profile flag if you're using default credentials. The CLI walks you through the rest: browser auth, org naming, stack deployment. A few minutes and you're looking at your savings dashboard.
Not Just Setup
Onboarding is the headline, but the CLI does more than that. You can check your deployment status with milkstraw status, update your stacks to the latest templates with milkstraw update, and manage multiple organizations with milkstraw org list. Output formats include JSON and Markdown, so it plays nicely with scripts, automation, and agents.
What's Next
This CLI is going to grow. We're building toward a world where your terminal is the control plane for cloud cost optimization. Stay tuned.
Check out the CLI docs to get started, and watch the walkthrough video to see the whole setup in action.