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The dd cli command line tool ships to U.S. and Canadian developers on macOS, with access decided by a Google Form prompt asking "why do you want access, and what would you build."
DoorDash shipped dd-cli on July 16, a command-line tool that lets a person — or an AI agent acting on their behalf — search stores, build a cart, and check out from a text terminal. The release is real, but the more interesting interface is the Google Form deciding who actually gets to build on top.
Access is waitlist-only, restricted to developers in the U.S. or Canada on Apple Silicon Macs (M1 through M4). The form collects a LinkedIn, X, or GitHub handle and an open-ended prompt — why do you want access, and what would you build — that does most of the curating. The current release, dd-cli v0.2.0, ships a darwin-arm64 tarball with a published SHA256 checksum and a "distributed as-is, without warranty" notice. The repository README calls the tool "built to be driven directly by a human, or called by AI agents with shell access (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) so they can complete ordering tasks on your behalf."
Someone announced the beta on X, framing it as part of DoorDash's "agentic commerce" push alongside its existing ChatGPT and Claude integrations. One early developer issue reports roughly 3.1 seconds of per-search latency and a ~0.37-second startup floor that compounds across agent command chains, an early read on the friction an agent loop will hit.
Watch items: which use cases the waitlist admits, whether Uber Eats, Instacart, or Grubhub ship their own shell-accessible surfaces, and whether the form quietly closes.