kosli assert artifact

Synopsis

kosli assert artifact [IMAGE-NAME | FILE-PATH | DIR-PATH] [flags]

Assert the compliance status of an artifact in Kosli. There are four (mutually exclusive) ways to use kosli assert artifact:

Against an environment. When --environment is specified, asserts against all policies currently attached to the given environment.
Against one or more policies. When --policy is specified, asserts against all the given policies.
Against a flow. When --flow is specified, asserts against the current template file of the given flow.
Against many flows. When none of --environment, --policy, or --flow are specified, asserts against the template files of all flows the artifact is found in (by fingerprint).

Exits with zero code if the artifact has compliant status, non-zero code if non-compliant status.

Flags

Flag	Description
-t, —artifact-type string	The type of the artifact to calculate its SHA256 fingerprint. One of: [oci, docker, file, dir]. Only required if you want Kosli to calculate the fingerprint for you (i.e. when you don’t specify ‘—fingerprint’ on commands that allow it).
-D, —dry-run	[optional] Run in dry-run mode. When enabled, no data is sent to Kosli and the CLI exits with 0 exit code regardless of any errors.
—environment string	The Kosli environment name to assert the artifact against.
-x, —exclude strings	[optional] The comma separated list of directories and files to exclude from fingerprinting. Can take glob patterns. Only applicable for —artifact-type dir.
-F, —fingerprint string	[conditional] The SHA256 fingerprint of the artifact. Only required if you don’t specify ‘—artifact-type’.
-f, —flow string	The Kosli flow name.
-h, —help	help for artifact
-o, —output string	[defaulted] The format of the output. Valid formats are: [table, json]. (default “table”)
—policy strings	[optional] policy name (can be specified multiple times)
—registry-password string	[conditional] The container registry password or access token. Only required if you want to read container image SHA256 digest from a remote container registry.
—registry-username string	[conditional] The container registry username. Only required if you want to read container image SHA256 digest from a remote container registry.

Flags inherited from parent commands

Flag	Description
-a, —api-token string	The Kosli API token.
-c, —config-file string	[optional] The Kosli config file path. (default “kosli”)
—debug	[optional] Print debug logs to stdout. A boolean flag docs (default false)
-H, —host string	[defaulted] The Kosli endpoint. (default “https://app.kosli.com”)
—http-proxy string	[optional] The HTTP proxy URL including protocol and port number. e.g. ‘http://proxy-server-ip:proxy-port’
-r, —max-api-retries int	[defaulted] How many times should API calls be retried when the API host is not reachable. (default 3)
—org string	The Kosli organization.

Live Examples in different CI systems

GitHub
GitLab

View an example of the kosli assert artifact command in GitHub.In this YAML file, which created this Kosli Event.

View an example of the kosli assert artifact command in GitLab.In this YAML file, which created this Kosli Event.

Examples Use Cases

These examples all assume that the flags --api-token, --org, --host, (and --flow, --trail when required), are set/provided.

assert that an artifact meets all compliance requirements for an environment

kosli assert artifact 
	--fingerprint 184c799cd551dd1d8d5c5f9a5d593b2e931f5e36122ee5c793c1d08a19839cc0 
	--environment prod 

assert that an artifact meets a set of policies

kosli assert artifact 
	--fingerprint 184c799cd551dd1d8d5c5f9a5d593b2e931f5e36122ee5c793c1d08a19839cc0 
	--policy has-approval,has-been-integration-tested 

fail if an artifact has a non-compliant status in a single flow (using the artifact fingerprint)

export KOSLI_FLOW=yourFlowName
kosli assert artifact 
	--fingerprint 184c799cd551dd1d8d5c5f9a5d593b2e931f5e36122ee5c793c1d08a19839cc0 

fail if an artifact has a non-compliant status in any flow (using the artifact name and type)

unset KOSLI_FLOW
kosli assert artifact library/nginx:1.21 
	--artifact-type docker 

Last modified on March 10, 2026

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