---
title: 'connect - CLI command'
description: 'Connect workspace to Nx Cloud'
---

# connect

Connect workspace to Nx Cloud

## Usage

```shell
nx connect
```

Install `nx` globally to invoke the command directly using `nx`, or use `npx nx`, `yarn nx`, or `pnpm nx`.

## Options

### help

Type: `boolean`

Show help

### version

Type: `boolean`

Show version number


connect - CLI command

## Related Documentation
### Concepts
- [How Caching Works](concepts/how-caching-works)
- [Improve Worst Case CI Times](concepts/dte)
- [Task Pipeline Configuration](concepts/task-pipeline-configuration)
- [Customizing Inputs](more-concepts/customizing-inputs)
- [Illustrated Distributed Task Execution](more-concepts/illustrated-dte)
### Recipes
- [CI Setup](recipes/ci/ci-setup)
- [Troubleshoot Cache Misses](recipes/other/troubleshoot-cache-misses)
### Reference
- [reset](nx/reset)
### See Also
- [Nx Cloud Documentation](/nx-cloud/intro/what-is-nx-cloud)
- [Nx Cloud Main Site](https://nx.app)
- [--skip-nx-cache flag](/nx/affected#skip-nx-cache)
- [tasks-runner-options property](/reference/nx-json#tasks-runner-options)
- [nx.json reference: inputs and namedInputs](/reference/nx-json#inputs-&-namedinputs)
- [Project Configuration reference: inputs and namedInputs](/reference/project-configuration#inputs-&-namedinputs)
