Explore ggshield commands (quota and config basics)

What ggshield commands are available?

https://docs.gitguardian.com/ggshield-docs/home

First is quota, which checks how many API calls you have remaining for your GitGuardian workspace:

ggshield quota

As a rule of thumb, Starter plans include 10,000 API calls per month, and Business and Enterprise plans start at 100,000 calls per month.

Next is config, which acts like the CLI control panel. ggshield uses YAML configuration to define how the CLI behaves, and you can tune it per repository.

With ggshield config you can view current settings, set or unset keys, and scope them either globally (user-level) or locally (repo-level). Local config overrides global, and command-line flags override both.

If you’re using a self-hosted GitGuardian instance, config is also where you can define the instance URL.

We won’t go through every option here, but the key takeaway is that you can control a lot of ggshield’s behavior through config when you need to.