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Canonical Certified Hardware API Client

hwctl is a hwlib backed CLI tool for collecting and sending hardware information to a Hardware API server to find certification status of device models.

The production deployment of the Hardware API server is available at https://hw.ubuntu.com.

You can view the Hardware API OpenAPI schema at https://canonical.github.io/hardware-api/.

Details for hwctl

License
  • GPL-3.0-only

Last updated
  • 14 August 2025 - latest/stable
  • 31 August 2025 - latest/beta

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