# Cheep

> Cheep is a safety-first, unofficial Namecheap CLI for people, scripts, and AI agents. It exposes every method in Namecheap's official API catalog through named, discoverable commands.

## Documentation

- [Quickstart](https://cheep.sh/docs/): Install Cheep, configure a sandbox profile, and run the first domain check.
- [Authentication](https://cheep.sh/docs/authentication/): API credentials, sandbox and production profiles, IP whitelisting, and headless environments.
- [DNS workflows](https://cheep.sh/docs/dns/): Export, plan, apply, and restore a DNS zone with snapshots and explicit confirmation.
- [Complete API access](https://cheep.sh/docs/api/): Discover all 59 catalog methods and use parameters, dry runs, and charge gates.
- [Automation contract](https://cheep.sh/docs/automation/): Versioned JSON, streams, stable exits, non-interactive execution, and timeouts.
- [Safety contract](https://cheep.sh/docs/safety/): Sandbox defaults, mutation confirmations, production and charge gates, and unknown outcomes.

## Source code

- [Cheep repository](https://github.com/turushan/cheep): The open source Go CLI. The website is a separate project.