# Global parameters
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The following parameters can be used with any CloudFormation CLI command.

`-h`, `--help`

Shows the help message and exits.

`-v`, `--verbose`

Increase the output verbosity and can specify multiple times.

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS CloudFormation. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query cloudformation-cli` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).