Installation

The fastest way to run gherkin-cli is npx, with no install step:

npx gherkin-cli parse features/**/*.feature

Install into a project

npm install --save-dev gherkin-cli
# or
pnpm add -D gherkin-cli

Once installed, run it via your package manager’s bin resolution:

npx gherkin-cli validate features/**/*.feature

Requirements

gherkin-cli requires Node.js 22 or later.

Next

• Introduction — what gherkin-cli is and why it exists.
• CLI Reference — the full command surface.