Cli Anything Krita

by hkuds34f519533bc1No license51K starsListed Oct 8, 2026Updated Oct 8, 2026Repository updated 2 weeks ago

CLI harness for Krita digital painting — manage projects, layers, filters, and export via command line. Use when automating Krita workflows, batch processing images, or operating Krita without a GUI.

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Command-line harness for automating Krita digital painting projects, layers, filters, canvas settings, and exports.

What it does: This skill documents a command-line interface for Krita, the open-source digital painting application. It covers creating and saving projects, adding and configuring layers, applying filters, resizing the canvas, exporting renders and animation frames in many formats, and using undo/redo session history. All commands support a JSON mode for machine-readable output, and the document includes an example end-to-end workflow.
When to use it: Use it when automating Krita workflows, batch processing images, or operating Krita without a graphical interface. It suits scripted project setup, layer and filter manipulation, and rendering exports from the command line.
Requirements: Requires Krita installed on the system and Python 3.10 or later. The CLI is installed from the krita/agent-harness directory with pip install -e . The skill ships instructions only, with no scripts or assets.

cli-anything-krita

CLI harness for Krita, the professional open-source digital painting application.

Prerequisites

Krita installed on the system
Python 3.10+

Install the CLI:

Command Reference

Project Management

bash

cli-anything-krita project new -n "My Art" -w 2048 -h 2048 -o project.jsoncli-anything-krita project open project.jsoncli-anything-krita --project project.json project savecli-anything-krita --project project.json project info

cli-anything-krita project new -n "My Art" -w 2048 -h 2048 -o project.jsoncli-anything-krita project open project.jsoncli-anything-krita --project project.json project savecli-anything-krita --project project.json project info

Layer Management

bash

cli-anything-krita -p project.json layer add "Sketch" -t paintlayercli-anything-krita -p project.json layer add "Colors" --opacity 200cli-anything-krita -p project.json layer add "Group" -t grouplayercli-anything-krita -p project.json layer remove "Sketch"cli-anything-krita -p project.json layer listcli-anything-krita -p project.json layer set "Colors" opacity 180cli-anything-krita -p project.json layer set "Colors" visible falsecli-anything-krita -p project.json layer set "Colors" blending_mode multiply

cli-anything-krita -p project.json layer add "Sketch" -t paintlayercli-anything-krita -p project.json layer add "Colors" --opacity 200cli-anything-krita -p project.json layer add "Group" -t grouplayercli-anything-krita -p project.json layer remove "Sketch"cli-anything-krita -p project.json layer listcli-anything-krita -p project.json layer set "Colors" opacity 180cli-anything-krita -p project.json layer set "Colors" visible falsecli-anything-krita -p project.json layer set "Colors" blending_mode multiply

Layer types: paintlayer, grouplayer, vectorlayer, filterlayer, filllayer, clonelayer, filelayer

Filters

bash

cli-anything-krita -p project.json filter apply blur -l "Background"cli-anything-krita -p project.json filter apply sharpencli-anything-krita -p project.json filter apply levels -c '{"shadows": 10, "highlights": 240}'cli-anything-krita filter list

cli-anything-krita -p project.json filter apply blur -l "Background"cli-anything-krita -p project.json filter apply sharpencli-anything-krita -p project.json filter apply levels -c '{"shadows": 10, "highlights": 240}'cli-anything-krita filter list

Available: blur, sharpen, desaturate, levels, curves, brightness-contrast, hue-saturation, color-balance, unsharp-mask, posterize, threshold

Canvas Operations

bash

cli-anything-krita -p project.json canvas resize -w 4096 -h 4096cli-anything-krita -p project.json canvas resize --resolution 600cli-anything-krita -p project.json canvas info

cli-anything-krita -p project.json canvas resize -w 4096 -h 4096cli-anything-krita -p project.json canvas resize --resolution 600cli-anything-krita -p project.json canvas info

Export

bash

cli-anything-krita -p project.json export render output.png -p png --overwritecli-anything-krita -p project.json export render output.jpg -p jpegcli-anything-krita -p project.json export render output.psd -p psdcli-anything-krita -p project.json export animation ./frames/ -p pngcli-anything-krita export presetscli-anything-krita export formats

cli-anything-krita -p project.json export render output.png -p png --overwritecli-anything-krita -p project.json export render output.jpg -p jpegcli-anything-krita -p project.json export render output.psd -p psdcli-anything-krita -p project.json export animation ./frames/ -p pngcli-anything-krita export presetscli-anything-krita export formats

Presets: png, png-web, jpeg, jpeg-web, jpeg-low, tiff, tiff-lzw, psd, pdf, svg, webp, gif, bmp

Session (Undo/Redo)

Status

Agent Usage (JSON Mode)

All commands support --json for machine-readable output:

bash

cli-anything-krita --json -p project.json project infocli-anything-krita --json -p project.json layer listcli-anything-krita --json status

cli-anything-krita --json -p project.json project infocli-anything-krita --json -p project.json layer listcli-anything-krita --json status

Example Workflow

bash

# 1. Create projectcli-anything-krita --json project new -n "Illustration" -w 3000 -h 4000 -o art.json
# 2. Set up layer stackcli-anything-krita --json -p art.json layer add "Background" -t paintlayercli-anything-krita --json -p art.json layer add "Sketch" -t paintlayer --opacity 180cli-anything-krita --json -p art.json layer add "Inking" -t paintlayercli-anything-krita --json -p art.json layer add "Colors" -t paintlayercli-anything-krita --json -p art.json layer add "Effects" -t paintlayer --opacity 128
# 3. Apply effectscli-anything-krita --json -p art.json filter apply blur -l "Background"
# 4. Exportcli-anything-krita --json -p art.json export render final.png -p png --overwrite

# 1. Create projectcli-anything-krita --json project new -n "Illustration" -w 3000 -h 4000 -o art.json
# 2. Set up layer stackcli-anything-krita --json -p art.json layer add "Background" -t paintlayercli-anything-krita --json -p art.json layer add "Sketch" -t paintlayer --opacity 180cli-anything-krita --json -p art.json layer add "Inking" -t paintlayercli-anything-krita --json -p art.json layer add "Colors" -t paintlayercli-anything-krita --json -p art.json layer add "Effects" -t paintlayer --opacity 128
# 3. Apply effectscli-anything-krita --json -p art.json filter apply blur -l "Background"
# 4. Exportcli-anything-krita --json -p art.json export render final.png -p png --overwrite

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Cli Anything Krita

cli-anything-krita

Prerequisites

Command Reference

Project Management

Layer Management

Filters

Canvas Operations

Export

Session (Undo/Redo)

Status

Agent Usage (JSON Mode)

Example Workflow

Source and attribution

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