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Surge

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Operate and troubleshoot Surge via surge-cli, including command discovery, runtime diagnostics, state inspection (dump/watch/test), and environment mutation with set key-paths. Use when a task asks to control Surge behavior, inspect live status, adjust policy/runtime switches, or automate Surge operations from CLI.

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Surge CLI Ops

Use this skill to run Surge operations safely and consistently through surge-cli.

Startup

  1. Resolve executable path in this order:
    • surge-cli in PATH
    • /Applications/Surge.app/Contents/Applications/surge-cli
  2. Prefer JSON output with --raw for machine parsing.
  3. If operating on remote instances, add --remote password@host:port.

Baseline Context Workflow

Before mutating runtime settings, collect baseline state:

  1. surge-cli --raw environment
  2. surge-cli --raw dump policy
  3. surge-cli --raw dump profile

After changes, re-run the relevant read commands to verify effects.

Mutation Rules

When using set:

  1. Use minimal key-path deltas only.
  2. Batch related updates in one command when possible.
  3. Treat <nil> and (null) as null assignments.
  4. Re-check environment immediately after mutation.

Examples:

surge-cli --raw set ProxyMode=2
surge-cli --raw set ProxyGroupSelection.Proxy=HK
surge-cli --raw set AutoPolicyGroupOverride.Streaming=<nil>

Streaming Command Handling

For streaming commands (for example diagnostics/bandwidth tests):

  1. Process incremental chunks.
  2. Respect completion markers (hasMore=false or command-specific completion payload).
  3. Do not assume a single response frame.

Platform and Capability Notes

  1. Some commands are platform-limited (for example certain device-management and profile-edit commands).
  2. Validate capability and platform before execution in automation workflows.

Reference

Read detailed command semantics, full command list, and environment key definitions from: