Decode, inspect, sign, and verify JWTs while debugging auth flows with jwt-cli

Decode JWTs, inspect claims, and verify or sign tokens with local keys during auth debugging and test setup.

Prerequisites

jwt-cli

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• brew install mike-engel/jwt-cli/jwt-cli
• cargo install jwt-cli
• cargo test
• cargo run -- help

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• Currently the underlying token encoding and decoding library, jsonwebtoken, doesn't support the SEC1 private key format and requires a conversion to the PKCS8 type. You can rea...

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• You may also install the binary from the release page, if you're unable to use Homebrew or Cargo install methods below.

• Only 64bit linux, macOS, and Windows targets are pre-built. Sorry if you're not on one of those! You'll need to build it from the source. See the contributing section on how to install and build the p...

• You should install it somewhere in your $PATH. For Linux and macOS, a good place is generally /usr/local/bin. For Windows, there isn't a good place by default :(.

• Source: https://github.com/mike-engel/jwt-cli

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mike-engel/jwt-cli/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://github.com/mike-engel/jwt-cli

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange