kosli attest decision

Record a compliance decision against a control in a Kosli trail.

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Synopsis

kosli attest decision [IMAGE-NAME | FILE-PATH | DIR-PATH] [flags]

Record a compliance decision against a control in a Kosli trail.
Use this command to record the outcome of evaluating a control as part of your delivery pipeline — whether it was satisfied or not — attached to a specific trail with an optional artifact. This decision is the evidence that a governance requirement was assessed.

The attestation can be bound to a trail using the trail name. The attestation can be bound to an artifact in two ways:

• using the artifact’s SHA256 fingerprint which is calculated (based on the --artifact-type flag and the artifact name/path argument) or can be provided directly (with the --fingerprint flag).
• using the artifact’s name in the flow yaml template and the git commit from which the artifact is/will be created. Useful when reporting an attestation before creating/reporting the artifact.

You can optionally associate the attestation to a git commit using --commit (requires access to a git repo). You can optionally redact some of the git commit data sent to Kosli using --redact-commit-info. Note that when the attestation is reported for an artifact that does not yet exist in Kosli, --commit is required to facilitate binding the attestation to the right artifact. To record repository information, all three of --repo-id, --repo-url, and --repository must be set together. These are automatically set in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, and Azure DevOps. In other CI systems, set them explicitly to capture repository metadata.

Flags

Flag	Type	Description
--annotate	stringToString	[optional] Annotate the attestation with data using key=value.
-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).
--attachments	strings	[optional] The comma-separated list of paths of attachments for the reported attestation. Attachments can be files or directories. All attachments are compressed and uploaded to Kosli’s evidence vault.
-g, --commit	string	[conditional] The git commit for which the attestation is associated to. Becomes required when reporting an attestation for an artifact before reporting it to Kosli. (defaulted in some CIs: docs ).
-C, --compliant	bool	[defaulted] Whether the attestation is compliant or not.
--control	string	The control identifier being evaluated (e.g. RCTL-043).
--description	string	[optional] attestation description
-D, --dry-run	bool	[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.
-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.
--external-fingerprint	stringToString	[optional] A SHA256 fingerprint of an external attachment represented by --external-url. The format is label=fingerprint (labels cannot contain ’.’ or ’=’). This flag can be set multiple times. There must be an external url with a matching label for each external fingerprint.
--external-url	stringToString	[optional] Add labeled reference URL for an external resource. The format is label=url (labels cannot contain ’.’ or ’=’). This flag can be set multiple times. If the resource is a file or dir, you can optionally add its fingerprint via --external-fingerprint
-F, --fingerprint	string	[conditional] The SHA256 fingerprint of the artifact to attach the attestation to. Only required if the attestation is for an artifact and --artifact-type and artifact name/path are not used.
-f, --flow	string	The Kosli flow name.
-h, --help	bool	help for decision
-n, --name	string	The name of the attestation as declared in the flow or trail yaml template.
-o, --origin-url	string	[optional] The url pointing to where the attestation came from or is related. (defaulted to the CI url in some CIs: docs ).
--redact-commit-info	strings	[optional] The list of commit info to be redacted before sending to Kosli. Allowed values are one or more of [author, message, branch].
--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 and it is not already accessible via Docker/Podman auth files or a credential helper.
--registry-provider	string	[deprecated] The docker registry provider or url. Only required if you want to read docker image SHA256 digest from a remote docker registry. (DEPRECATED: no longer used)
--registry-username	string	[conditional] The container registry username. Only required if you want to read container image SHA256 digest from a remote container registry and it is not already accessible via Docker/Podman auth files or a credential helper.
--repo-id	string	[conditional] The stable, unique identifier for the repository in your VCS provider (e.g. a numeric ID). Do not use the repository name as it can change if the repo is renamed. All three of --repo-id, --repo-url and --repository must be set to record repository information (defaulted in some CIs: docs ).
--repo-provider	string	[optional] The source code hosting provider. One of: github, gitlab, bitbucket, bitbucket_cloud, bitbucket_dc, azure-devops, azure_devops_services, azure_devops_server, git, subversion (defaulted in some CIs: docs ).
--repo-root	string	[defaulted] The directory where the source git repository is available. Only used if --commit is used or defaulted in CI, see docs . (default ”.”)
--repo-url	string	[conditional] The URL of the repository. Must be a valid URL. All three of --repo-id, --repo-url and --repository must be set to record repository information (defaulted in some CIs: docs ).
--repository	string	[conditional] The name of the repository (e.g. owner/repo-name). All three of --repo-id, --repo-url and --repository must be set to record repository information (defaulted in some CIs: docs ).
-T, --trail	string	The Kosli trail name.
-u, --user-data	string	[optional] The path to a JSON file containing additional data you would like to attach to the attestation.

Flags inherited from parent commands

Flag	Type	Description
-a, --api-token	string	The Kosli API token.
-c, --config-file	string	[optional] The Kosli config file path. (default “kosli”)
--debug	bool	[optional] Print debug logs to stdout.
-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.
-q, --quiet	bool	[optional] Suppress non-critical warning messages. Errors and normal output are not affected. If both --quiet and --debug are set, --debug wins.

Examples Use Cases

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

record a compliant decision against a trail

kosli attest decision 
	--name yourAttestationName 
	--control RCTL-043 
	--compliant=true 

record a non-compliant decision against a trail

kosli attest decision 
	--name yourAttestationName 
	--control RCTL-043 
	--compliant=false 

record a decision linked to a specific artifact (by fingerprint)

kosli attest decision 
	--name yourAttestationName 
	--control RCTL-043 
	--compliant=true 
	--fingerprint yourArtifactFingerprint 

record a decision with an evidence attachment

kosli attest decision 
	--name yourAttestationName 
	--control RCTL-043 
	--compliant=true 
	--attachments eval-report.json