diff --git a/openstackclient/compute/v2/server.py b/openstackclient/compute/v2/server.py
index b3ced54398..29cb0aa346 100644
--- a/openstackclient/compute/v2/server.py
+++ b/openstackclient/compute/v2/server.py
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
 Server action implementations
 """
 
+import logging
+
+from cliff.command import Command
+
 from openstackclient.common import utils
 
 
@@ -53,9 +57,41 @@ def _print_server(cs, server):
 
     utils.print_dict(info)
 
-@utils.arg('server', metavar='<server>', help='Name or ID of server.')
-def do_show_server(cs, args):
-    """Show details about the given server."""
-    print "do_show_server(%s)" % args.server
-    #s = _find_server(cs, args.server)
-    #_print_server(cs, s)
+class List_Server(Command):
+    "List server command."
+
+    log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+    def get_parser(self, prog_name):
+        parser = super(List_Server, self).get_parser(prog_name)
+        parser.add_argument(
+            '--long',
+            action='store_true',
+            default=False,
+            help='Additional fields are listed in output')
+        return parser
+
+    def run(self, parsed_args):
+        self.log.info('List_Server()')
+        self.log.info(' run(%s)' % parsed_args)
+        self.app.stdout.write('hi!\n')
+
+class Show_Server(Command):
+    "Show server command."
+
+    log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+    def get_parser(self, prog_name):
+        parser = super(Show_Server, self).get_parser(prog_name)
+        parser.add_argument(
+            'server',
+            metavar='<server>',
+            help='Name or ID of server to display')
+        return parser
+
+    def run(self, parsed_args):
+        self.log.info('Show_Server()')
+        self.log.info(' run(%s)' % parsed_args)
+        self.app.stdout.write('hi!\n')
+        #s = _find_server(cs, args.server)
+        #_print_server(cs, s)
diff --git a/openstackclient/shell.py b/openstackclient/shell.py
index 29ff854f6b..0aac364639 100644
--- a/openstackclient/shell.py
+++ b/openstackclient/shell.py
@@ -16,17 +16,23 @@
 # vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
 
 """
-Command-line interface to the OpenStack Identity, Compute and Storage APIs
+Command-line interface to the OpenStack APIs
 """
 
-import argparse
-import httplib2
+import logging
+import optparse
 import os
 import sys
 
+from cliff.app import App
+from cliff.commandmanager import CommandManager
+
 from openstackclient.common import utils
 
 
+VERSION = '0.1'
+
+
 def env(*vars, **kwargs):
     """Search for the first defined of possibly many env vars
 
@@ -41,265 +47,98 @@ def env(*vars, **kwargs):
     return kwargs.get('default', '')
 
 
-class OpenStackShell(object):
+class OpenStackShell(App):
 
-    def _find_actions(self, subparsers, actions_module):
-        if self.debug:
-            print "_find_actions(module: %s)" % actions_module
-        for attr in (a for a in dir(actions_module) if a.startswith('do_')):
-            # I prefer to be hypen-separated instead of underscores.
-            command = attr[3:].replace('_', '-')
-            cmd = command.split('-', 1)
-            action = cmd[0]
-            if len(cmd) > 1:
-                subject = cmd[1]
-            else:
-                subject = ''
-            callback = getattr(actions_module, attr)
-            desc = callback.__doc__ or ''
-            help = desc.strip().split('\n')[0]
-            arguments = getattr(callback, 'arguments', [])
+    log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-            if self.debug:
-                print " command: %s" % command
-                print " action: %s" % action
-                print " subject: %s" % subject
-                print " arguments: %s" % arguments
-
-            subparser = subparsers.add_parser(command,
-                help=help,
-                description=desc,
-                add_help=False,
-                formatter_class=OpenStackHelpFormatter
-            )
-            subparser.add_argument('-h', '--help',
-                action='help',
-                help=argparse.SUPPRESS,
-            )
-            self.subcommands[command] = subparser
-            for (args, kwargs) in arguments:
-                subparser.add_argument(*args, **kwargs)
-            subparser.set_defaults(func=callback)
-
-    @utils.arg('command', metavar='<subcommand>', nargs='?',
-                          help='Display help for <subcommand>')
-    def do_help(self, args):
-        """
-        Display help about this program or one of its subcommands.
-        """
-        if getattr(args, 'command', None):
-            if args.command in self.subcommands:
-                self.subcommands[args.command].print_help()
-            else:
-                raise exc.CommandError("'%s' is not a valid subcommand" %
-                                       args.command)
-        else:
-            self.parser.print_help()
-
-    def get_base_parser(self):
-        parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
-            prog='stack',
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(OpenStackShell, self).__init__(
             description=__doc__.strip(),
-            epilog='See "stack help COMMAND" '
-                   'for help on a specific command.',
-            add_help=False,
-            formatter_class=OpenStackHelpFormatter,
-        )
+            version=VERSION,
+            command_manager=CommandManager('openstack.cli'),
+            )
+
+    def build_option_parser(self, description, version):
+        parser = super(OpenStackShell, self).build_option_parser(
+            description,
+            version,
+            )
 
         # Global arguments
-        parser.add_argument('-h', '--help',
-            action='store_true',
-            help=argparse.SUPPRESS,
-        )
-
-        parser.add_argument('--os-auth-url', metavar='<auth-url>',
+        parser.add_option('--os-auth-url', metavar='<auth-url>',
             default=env('OS_AUTH_URL'),
             help='Authentication URL (Env: OS_AUTH_URL)')
 
-        parser.add_argument('--os-tenant-name', metavar='<auth-tenant-name>',
+        parser.add_option('--os-tenant-name', metavar='<auth-tenant-name>',
             default=env('OS_TENANT_NAME'),
             help='Authentication tenant name (Env: OS_TENANT_NAME)')
 
-        parser.add_argument('--os-tenant-id', metavar='<auth-tenant-id>',
+        parser.add_option('--os-tenant-id', metavar='<auth-tenant-id>',
             default=env('OS_TENANT_ID'),
             help='Authentication tenant ID (Env: OS_TENANT_ID)')
 
-        parser.add_argument('--os-username', metavar='<auth-username>',
+        parser.add_option('--os-username', metavar='<auth-username>',
             default=utils.env('OS_USERNAME'),
             help='Authentication username (Env: OS_USERNAME)')
 
-        parser.add_argument('--os-password', metavar='<auth-password>',
+        parser.add_option('--os-password', metavar='<auth-password>',
             default=utils.env('OS_PASSWORD'),
             help='Authentication password (Env: OS_PASSWORD)')
 
-        parser.add_argument('--os-region-name', metavar='<auth-region-name>',
+        parser.add_option('--os-region-name', metavar='<auth-region-name>',
             default=env('OS_REGION_NAME'),
             help='Authentication region name (Env: OS_REGION_NAME)')
 
-        parser.add_argument('--debug',
-            default=False,
-            action='store_true',
-            help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
-
-        parser.add_argument('--os-identity-api-version',
+        parser.add_option('--os-identity-api-version',
             metavar='<identity-api-version>',
             default=env('OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION', default='2.0'),
             help='Identity API version, default=2.0 (Env: OS_IDENTITY_API_VERSION)')
 
-        parser.add_argument('--os-compute-api-version',
+        parser.add_option('--os-compute-api-version',
             metavar='<compute-api-version>',
             default=env('OS_COMPUTE_API_VERSION', default='2'),
             help='Compute API version, default=2.0 (Env: OS_COMPUTE_API_VERSION)')
 
-        parser.add_argument('--os-image-api-version',
+        parser.add_option('--os-image-api-version',
             metavar='<image-api-version>',
             default=env('OS_IMAGE_API_VERSION', default='1.0'),
             help='Image API version, default=1.0 (Env: OS_IMAGE_API_VERSION)')
 
-        parser.add_argument('--service-token', metavar='<service-token>',
+        parser.add_option('--service-token', metavar='<service-token>',
             default=env('SERVICE_TOKEN'),
-            help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
+            help='deprecated')
 
-        parser.add_argument('--service-endpoint', metavar='<service-endpoint>',
+        parser.add_option('--service-endpoint', metavar='<service-endpoint>',
             default=env('SERVICE_ENDPOINT'),
-            help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
-
-        parser.add_argument('action', metavar='<action>',
-            default='help',
-            help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
-
-        parser.add_argument('subject', metavar='<subject>',
-            default='', nargs='?',
-            help=argparse.SUPPRESS)
+            help='deprecated')
 
         return parser
 
-    def get_subcommand_parser(self, cmd_subject):
-        parser = self.get_base_parser()
-
-        self.subcommands = {}
-        subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(metavar='<subcommand>')
-
-        if cmd_subject is None or cmd_subject == '':
-            # TODO(dtroyer): iterate over all known subjects to produce 
-            #                the complete help list
-            print "Get all subjects here - exit"
-            exit(1)
-
-        (module, version) = self._map_subject(cmd_subject)
-        if module is None or cmd_subject is None:
-            print "Module %s not found - exit" % cmd_subject
-            exit(1)
-        if self.debug:
-            print "module: %s" % module
-        exec("from %s.v%s import %s as cmd" % (module, self.api_version[module], cmd_subject))
-        self._find_actions(subparsers, cmd)
-
-        self._find_actions(subparsers, self)
-
-        return parser
-
-    def _map_subject(self, cmd_subject):
-        '''Convert from subject to the module that implements it'''
-        COMPUTE = ['server']
-        IDENTITY = ['key']
-        IMAGE = ['image']
-        if cmd_subject in COMPUTE:
-            version = self.api_version['compute'].replace('.', '_')
-            return ('compute', version)
-        elif cmd_subject in IDENTITY:
-            version = self.api_version['identity'].replace('.', '_')
-            return ('identity', version)
-        elif cmd_subject in IMAGE:
-            version = self.api_version['imade'].replace('.', '_')
-            return ('image', version)
-        else:
-            return None
-
-    def main(self, argv):
-        '''
-        - get api version
-        - get version command set
-        - import version-subject module
-        - is verb-subject supported?
-        '''
-        # Parse global args to find version
-        parser = self.get_base_parser()
-        (options, args) = parser.parse_known_args(argv)
+    def prepare_to_run_command(self, cmd):
+        """Set up auth and API versions"""
+        self.log.debug('prepare_to_run_command %s', cmd.__class__.__name__)
 
         # stash selected API versions for later
         # TODO(dtroyer): how do extenstions add their version requirements?
         self.api_version = {
-            'compute': options.os_compute_api_version,
-            'identity': options.os_identity_api_version,
-            'image': options.os_image_api_version,
+            'compute': self.options.os_compute_api_version,
+            'identity': self.options.os_identity_api_version,
+            'image': self.options.os_image_api_version,
         }
 
-        # Setup debugging
-        if getattr(options, 'debug', None):
-            self.debug = 1
-        else:
-            self.debug = 0
-
-        if self.debug:
+        if self.options.debug:
             print "API: Identity=%s Compute=%s Image=%s" % (self.api_version['identity'], self.api_version['compute'], self.api_version['image'])
-            print "Action: %s" % options.action
-            print "subject: %s" % getattr(options, 'subject', '')
-            print "args: %s" % args
+            print "cmd: %s" % cmd
 
-        # Handle top-level --help/-h before attempting to parse
-        # a command off the command line
-        if getattr(options, 'help', None) or getattr(options, 'action', None) == 'help':
-            print "top-level help"
-            # Build available subcommands
-            self.parser = self.get_subcommand_parser(options.subject)
-            self.do_help(options)
-            return 0
-
-        # Build selected subcommands
-        self.parser = self.get_subcommand_parser(options.subject)
-
-        # Parse args again and call whatever callback was selected
-        args.insert(0, '%s-%s' % (options.action, options.subject))
-        if self.debug:
-            print "args: %s" % args
-        args = self.parser.parse_args(args)
-
-        if self.debug:
-            print "Testing command parsing"
-            print "Auth username: %s" % options.os_username
-            #print "Action: %s" % options.action
-            #print "Subject: %s" % options.subject
-            print "args: %s" % args
-
-class OpenStackHelpFormatter(argparse.HelpFormatter):
-    def start_section(self, heading):
-        # Title-case the headings
-        heading = '%s%s' % (heading[0].upper(), heading[1:])
-        super(OpenStackHelpFormatter, self).start_section(heading)
+    def clean_up(self, cmd, result, err):
+        self.log.debug('clean_up %s', cmd.__class__.__name__)
+        if err:
+            self.log.debug('got an error: %s', err)
 
 
-def main():
-    try:
-        OpenStackShell().main(sys.argv[1:])
+def main(argv=sys.argv[1:]):
+    return OpenStackShell().run(argv)
 
-    except Exception, e:
-        if httplib2.debuglevel == 1:
-            raise  # dump stack.
-        else:
-            print >> sys.stderr, e
-        sys.exit(1)
-
-def test_main(argv):
-    # The argparse/optparse/cmd2 modules muck about with sys.argv
-    # so we save it and restore at the end to let the tests
-    # run repeatedly without concatenating the args on each run
-    save_argv = sys.argv
-
-    main()
-
-    # Put it back so the next test has a clean copy
-    sys.argv = save_argv
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
+    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bd8620af08..6dbf5e1ee6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ def read(fname):
     return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()
 
 requirements = [
+        'cliff',
+        'distribute',
         'httplib2', 
         'prettytable',
         "python-keystoneclient >= 2012.1",
@@ -43,7 +45,11 @@ setup(
     test_suite = "nose.collector",
 
     entry_points = {
-        'console_scripts': ['stack = openstackclient.shell:main']
+        'console_scripts': ['stack = openstackclient.shell:main'],
+        'openstack.cli': [
+            'list_server = openstackclient.compute.v2.server:List_Server',
+            'show_server = openstackclient.compute.v2.server:Show_Server',
+        ]
     }
 )