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---
title: Console introduction
description: The two command-line programs of SummerCMS, the summer developer tool and the application binary, and how summer delegates runtime commands.
section: console
order: 10
---
# Console introduction
WinterCMS has one console entry point, `php artisan`. SummerCMS has two programs, because the developer tooling and the running application are separate binaries:
| Program | Where it comes from | What it does |
|---------|---------------------|--------------|
| `summer` | Installed once, by the `curl -fsSL https://summercms.io/new \| bash -s -- <name>` one-liner or from a framework checkout with `go install ./cmd/summer`. | Creates, builds and watches applications, scaffolds plugins and their parts, records API parity fixtures and builds these docs. |
| The application binary, for example `./bin/acme` | Written by `summer build` into the application's `bin/` directory. | Runs the application: the HTTP server, migrations, workers, the scheduler, admin accounts and every command its plugins add. |
The application binary is what you deploy, so everything that must run in production, such as migrations and workers, is a command of the binary rather than of `summer`.
## Getting help
Both programs list their commands with `--help`, and every command accepts `--help` for its arguments and flags:
```sh
summer --help
summer make:model --help
./bin/acme --help
./bin/acme migrate:rollback --help
```
A command that `summer` delegates to the application binary, such as `summer serve`, answers `--help` with the binary's own help, so run it inside an application directory. Asking the help command of `summer` about a delegated command instead prints a short description and its common flags without running the binary.
## Commands that summer delegates
During development you often work from the application directory with `summer` alone. These `summer` commands find the application's `summer.yaml`, build `bin/<binary>` when it does not exist yet, and run the same command of the binary with the same arguments:
| summer command | Runs |
|----------------|------|
| `summer migrate` | `./bin/acme migrate` |
| `summer migrate:rollback` | `./bin/acme migrate:rollback` |
| `summer migrate:status` | `./bin/acme migrate:status` |
| `summer serve` | `./bin/acme serve` |
| `summer queue:work` | `./bin/acme queue:work` |
| `summer queue:clear` | `./bin/acme queue:clear` |
| `summer schedule:run` | `./bin/acme schedule:run` |
| `summer route:list` | `./bin/acme route:list` |
| `summer key:generate` | `./bin/acme key:generate` |
| `summer admin:create` | `./bin/acme admin:create` |
| `summer admin:reset-password` | `./bin/acme admin:reset-password` |
| `summer admin:token:create` | `./bin/acme admin:token:create` |
| `summer admin:token:list` | `./bin/acme admin:token:list` |
| `summer admin:token:revoke` | `./bin/acme admin:token:revoke` |
| `summer admin:token:scopes` | `./bin/acme admin:token:scopes` |
`summer` parses no flags of these commands: every flag and argument, including `--help`, goes to the binary unchanged, and the binary's input is your terminal, so the password prompts of `admin:create` and `admin:reset-password` work as usual:
```sh
summer serve --addr 127.0.0.1:8123
summer serve --help
summer migrate:rollback --plugin acme.blog
summer admin:create --email admin@example.com --superuser
```
One leading `--` is ignored, so `summer serve -- --addr 127.0.0.1:8123` behaves the same as `summer serve --addr 127.0.0.1:8123`.
When `summer` receives SIGINT or SIGTERM while the binary runs, it passes the signal on and waits for the binary to shut down, so stopping `summer serve` with Ctrl+C or `kill` frees its port.
`summer` does not rebuild an existing binary before it delegates. Run `summer build` after you change code, or keep `summer dev` running. Every other runtime command, such as `deferred:purge` or the commands your plugins add, is run on the binary directly.
## The sections of this chapter
- [Setup and maintenance](setup-and-maintenance.md) lists every command of the application binary.
- [Scaffolding](scaffolding.md) covers `summer new`, `summer build`, `summer dev` and the `make:` commands.
- [Writing commands](writing-commands.md) shows how a plugin adds its own commands.
- [Utilities](utilities.md) covers the parity and documentation commands of `summer`.