Global Flags

These flags are available on all commands (project, issue, and milestone).

Flag	Short	Description
`--project-path <path>`	`-p`	Path to project root. Default: auto-detect by walking up from cwd.
`--format <fmt>`	`-f`	Output format: `json` (default), `table`
`--quiet`	`-q`	Suppress all output
`--verbose`	`-V`	Enable debug logging to stderr
`--help`	`-h`	Show help for command
`--version`	`-v`	Show CLI version

Project Path Resolution

All commands accept -p / --project-path <path> to specify the project root. If omitted, the CLI walks up from the current working directory looking for a .mdp/ folder.

Quiet Mode

--quiet suppresses all output. The command still executes and returns the appropriate exit code:


mdp issue update --id ISS-1 --status Done -q && echo "done"

Verbose Mode

--verbose enables detailed logging to stderr. Normal output still goes to stdout.

Stdin Support

Commands that accept a --body or --content flag also accept - as the value to read from stdin:


echo "## Description\nAuth module with JWT" | mdp issue create -t "Implement auth" --content -

Batch commands (batch-create, batch-update) read a JSON array directly from stdin — they do not use the --content - convention:


echo '[{ "title": "Fix login bug", "type": "bug" }]' | mdp issue batch-create