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title: "Introduction"
description: "Exposes every Backbone operation as an auto-discovered Symfony Console command, with no Command class per operation"
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date: "2026-10-10"
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url: "https://www.derafu.dev/docs/core/backbone-console/introduction"
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# Turn Any Backbone Operation Into a CLI Command

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Exposes every operation a [`SafeExplorerInterface`](https://www.derafu.dev/docs/core/backbone-dispatcher) discovers as its own auto-discovered [Symfony Console](https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/console.html) command — no per-operation `Command` subclass, ever.

## Why

[Backbone Dispatcher](https://www.derafu.dev/docs/core/backbone-dispatcher) already turns a string operation id and a plain array of parameters into a safe, serializable call. This package is one more transport on top of it — the same idea [Backbone API](https://www.derafu.dev/docs/core/backbone-api) is for HTTP, but for a standalone CLI process, meant to be run by hand or invoked from any other language via `exec()`/`system()`/`subprocess.run()`, not just from PHP.

A business library can expose hundreds of operations. `OperationCommandLoader` builds a `Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command` for exactly one, on demand, only when a `bin/console` invocation actually needs it — never all of them upfront.

## Installation

```bash
composer require derafu/backbone-console
```

## Requirements

PHP 8.5+. Depends on [`derafu/backbone-dispatcher`](https://www.derafu.dev/docs/core/backbone-dispatcher), [`derafu/console`](https://www.derafu.dev/docs/core/console), `derafu/xml`, and `symfony/console`/`symfony/yaml`.



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Last updated on 10/10/2026