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yak status

Show current active account, role tier, and login state.

Usage

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yak status [flags]

Description

Reads the state file and displays a summary of your current yak context.

Flags

Flag Description
--json Output as JSON instead of formatted text
--print-profile Print only the active AWS profile name (used by the shell wrapper)

Example output

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Account:     prod
Role:        developer
Region:      eu-west-1
Last login:  2026-04-06 10:30:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
Safeguard:   active (max: developer)

JSON output

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{
  "account": "prod",
  "role": "developer",
  "region": "eu-west-1",
  "last_login": "2026-04-06T10:30:00Z",
  "safeguard_active": true,
  "safeguard_max_role": "developer"
}