zspace-cli

Manage your 极空间 (ZSpace) NAS from the terminal or AI agents — no password, no SSH, no DDNS.

mcp-name: io.github.skyzhao1223/zspace-cli

Just keep the ZSpace desktop client logged in on macOS.

📖 How large-file sliced upload was born: 一次 1.4GB 备份引发的逆向 (zh, CSDN) · CLI guide: 极空间 NAS 命令行管理指南 (zh, CSDN)

Beginner guide (no coding required) · Skills — incl. 9 cross-NAS organizer skills for AI agents · 中文文档

[zspace-cli terminal demo]

Install

pip install zspace-cli        # basepip install "zspace-cli[mcp]" # optional MCP supportzs check                      # ✓ reads the desktop client login state

Prerequisite: the ZSpace desktop client is running and logged in on macOS.

Quick start

zs ls /sata11/my/data/影视zs find "权力的游戏"                  # full-text searchzs tree /sata11/my/data -d 3zs up ./本地文件.mp4 /sata11/my/data/影视   # uploadzs up ./本地文件.mp4 /sata11/my/data/影视 --verify  # upload + MD5 round-trip checkzs down /sata11/my/data/影视/某文件.mkv ./下载 # download

from zspace_cli import ZSpaceClient
with ZSpaceClient() as zs:    for f in zs.ls("/sata11/my/data"):        print(f"{'📁' if f.is_dir else '📄'} {f.name}")

CLI options

zs check, zs ls, zs info, zs find, zs tree, zs usage, zs du, zs bigfiles, zs disks, zs smart, zs recycle list/config accept --json for machine-readable output. zs mv/zs cp/zs rm/zs down accept * ? glob patterns on the source path. zs baidu check/ls/tasks/fails also accept --json.

ls pages through large directories automatically (the NAS API returns at most 50 entries per call). find uses the NAS full-text index, so it searches across directories. Upload/download show a progress bar on a real terminal and stream the file (no full-file buffering). Pass --verify to zs up to download the uploaded file to a temporary directory and compare its MD5 with the local source; verification is opt-in because it doubles transfer. CJK paths work out of the box. Files above 64 MB are uploaded through the desktop client's sliced /v2/file/upload protocol (2 MB slices), because the local proxy rejects oversized single-request bodies with HTTP 413; a 413 on a smaller file falls back to slices automatically.

Features

Use with AI agents (Skills)

zs skill --list                           # see what's availablezs skill ~/your-project/.cursor/skills/   # install all (Cursor)# zs skill ~/your-project/skills/         # Claude Code, etc.zs skill ~/your-project/skills/ --only nas-report,photo-organizer   # or pick a few

Then tell your agent things like "list the files in /sata11/my/data". The skills ship inside the wheel, so zs skill works on any machine that has zspace-cli installed.

Besides zspace-nas (the zero-config base for ZSpace file ops), zs skill installs a family of 9 cross-NAS organizer skills. Their scanners are pure-stdlib and run on any mounted path (SMB/NFS), so they work with ZSpace, Synology, QNAP, UGREEN, etc. All follow the same read-only pattern: scan → the LLM drafts an old→new plan → you confirm → the agent executes (deletes always quarantine first).

Start with nas-report to see the big picture, then run whichever specialist it recommends. The most common combo is dedup-finder + file-sorter. De-duping first is recommended — you skip moving bytes you're about to delete, and you avoid same-name collisions — but the reverse order misses nothing: de-dup is content-level and independent of directory layout (verified: both orders find the identical duplicate groups). file-sorter reports suspected copies: X MB (N% of the bytes to move) so you can decide by the number instead of by a rule. See skills/README.md for the full list. Media-library naming stays a separate project: media-manager-skill.

How it works

ZSpace has no official CLI or public API. zspace-cli talks to the desktop client's local proxy, so it works behind NAT as long as the client is online:

Skill / zs / SDK / MCP  →  127.0.0.1:13579 (desktop client proxy)  →  NAS

Disclaimer — This is an unofficial, community-maintained project, not affiliated with or endorsed by ZSpace (极空间). It relies on the desktop client's local proxy interface, which is not officially documented. It only reads the login state of your own account on your own machine — it does not bypass authentication, crack encryption, or touch anyone else's data. Use at your own risk; make sure your use complies with the ZSpace user agreement and your local laws.

Platform support

Works on any OS where the ZSpace desktop client exposes its local proxy on 127.0.0.1:13579. The login state (vuex.json) is auto-detected:

If the client stores it elsewhere, point the CLI/SDK at it explicitly:

zs --config-dir ~/path/to/zspace-config checkZS_CONFIG_DIR=~/path/to/zspace-config zs check   # or as an env var

Windows/Linux config locations are best-effort guesses (not verified against a real client). If auto-detection misses yours, please open an issue with the actual path so it can be added.

Windows on ARM — some [mcp] dependencies (e.g. cryptography) don't ship ARM64 wheels for every version, so pip install "zspace-cli[mcp]" may try to build them from source (slow, or fails without Rust). Force prebuilt wheels: pip install --only-binary=:all: "zspace-cli[mcp]".

MCP configuration (optional)

{  "mcpServers": {    "zspace": { "command": "zs-mcp", "args": [] }  }}

Docker (headless)

Multi-arch images (linux/amd64, linux/arm64) are published to GHCR on every release, so there is nothing to build:

docker pull ghcr.io/skyzhao1223/zspace-cli:latest   # or pin a release, e.g. :0.1.9docker run --rm --network host \  -e ZS_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:13579 \  -e ZS_CONFIG_DIR=/config \  -v "$HOME/Library/Application Support/zspace:/config:ro" \  ghcr.io/skyzhao1223/zspace-cli zs check

The image's default command is zs-mcp, so an MCP client can run ghcr.io/skyzhao1223/zspace-cli directly to start the server; pass zs … to use the CLI instead. Tags are latest plus each release version.

To run the CLI / MCP server in a container against the desktop client proxy on the host via compose — no desktop client needed inside the image:

export ZS_CONFIG_HOST_DIR="$HOME/Library/Application Support/zspace"   # macOS# export ZS_CONFIG_HOST_DIR="$APPDATA/zspace"                          # Windows# export ZS_CONFIG_HOST_DIR="$HOME/.zspace"                            # Linuxdocker compose builddocker compose run --rm zspace-cli zs checkdocker compose run --rm zspace-cli zs ls /sata11/my/data

It mounts the host's ZSpace config read-only (ZS_CONFIG_HOST_DIR) and points ZS_BASE_URL at the host via host.docker.internal. On Linux hosts, either use network_mode: host or the included extra_hosts mapping. To build the image yourself instead of pulling it from GHCR:

docker build -t zspace-cli .docker run --rm --network host \  -e ZS_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:13579 \  -e ZS_CONFIG_DIR=/config \  -v "$HOME/Library/Application Support/zspace:/config:ro" \  zspace-cli zs check

Globbing

rm / mv / cp / down accept glob patterns (*, ?, [...], **) that are expanded on the NAS:

zs rm "/sata11/my/data/影视/*.mkv" --forcezs cp "/sata11/my/data/**/*.mp4" /sata11/my/data/movieszs down "/sata11/my/data/photos/*.jpg" ./photos

Or via the SDK: client.glob("/sata11/my/data/**/*.mkv").

API reference

Note: the interface parameter names are non-standard (parent / to instead of path / dest) — documented by the community from the desktop client's behavior.

Repository layout

zspace-cli/├── src/zspace_cli/│   ├── cli.py         # Typer CLI (zs ...)│   ├── client.py      # ZSpaceClient SDK (retry / stream / progress)│   ├── auth.py        # vuex.json auto-detection + credential cache│   ├── mcp_server.py  # MCP tools (zs-mcp)│   └── skills/        # packaged skill copies shipped in the wheel (keep in sync!)├── skills/            # skill sources — the source of truth (edit here)├── scripts/mcp_smoke.py├── tests/             # pytest (CLI + SDK + MCP + auth)└── promo/             # launch/promo material (submodule)

Integrations

Pair zspace-cli with Jellyfin / Emby / MoviePilot / MCP clients / Docker and media-manager-skill for media library tooling.

For cloud-drive → NAS pipelines, combine with baidu-pan-skill: it downloads Baidu NetDisk (百度网盘) share links reliably (cookie extraction, transfer-save, resumable chunked downloads, structural verification), then zs up takes over for the sliced large-file upload to the NAS. Both ship as agent skills, so one prompt can drive the whole backup.

Roadmap

• File upload/download
• Linux / Windows client auth (best-effort path detection + ZS_CONFIG_DIR)
• Docker headless option (ZS_BASE_URL + docker-compose.yml)
• Pre-built multi-arch images on GHCR (ghcr.io/skyzhao1223/zspace-cli, published per release)
• Batch glob helpers (glob() + zs rm/mv/cp/down patterns)
• Agent skill family: 9 cross-NAS organizers (incl. file-sorter for generic type-based archiving) + nas-report entry, selective install (zs skill --list/--only)
• Optional EXIF-based photo dating (photo-organizer --exif: exiftool → mdls → mtime fallback) — #14
• Per-skill config overrides (skills/<name>/config.json: whitelist dirs / extension rules) — #15 · shipped for all 8 scanners (nas-report deliberately excluded). The key set differs per skill and whitelist_dirs has four distinct effects across five of them — see the family table in skills/README.md
• Growth-trend reports (nas-report diff two snapshots: category/dir growth, rate & ETA) — #16

Contributing

PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md for dev setup, quality gates, and the skill-authoring guide (including the skills/ ↔ src/zspace_cli/skills/ dual-copy sync rule that CI enforces).

• 🧭 Not sure where to start? Pick from CONTRIBUTION_IDEAS.md (difficulty-tagged backlog, incl. reverse-engineered NAS API notes) or the good first issue label
• 💬 Questions & showcases: Discussions
• 🔒 Security issues: private reporting via SECURITY.md
• 🤝 This project follows the Contributor Covenant

Legal

Unofficial community project, not affiliated with or endorsed by ZSpace/极空间. It automates your own logged-in desktop client on your own machine — no passwords handled, no service gates bypassed (membership-gated features are documented as gated, never worked around). API notes are interoperability documentation of observed client behavior and may break with client updates. Concerns or takedown requests: [email protected] — legitimate requests are answered promptly. Source archives ship with every GitHub Release; the maintainer keeps off-platform git bundle mirrors.

License

MIT