diff --git a/cmd/zrok/main.go b/cmd/zrok/main.go
index d5016e31..c50453b2 100644
--- a/cmd/zrok/main.go
+++ b/cmd/zrok/main.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"github.com/michaelquigley/pfxlog"
+	"github.com/openziti-test-kitchen/zrok/zrokdir"
 	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 	"os"
@@ -13,11 +14,7 @@ func init() {
 	pfxlog.GlobalInit(logrus.InfoLevel, pfxlog.DefaultOptions().SetTrimPrefix("github.com/openziti-test-kitchen/"))
 	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&verbose, "verbose", "v", false, "Enable verbose logging")
 	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&panicInstead, "panic", "p", false, "Panic instead of showing pretty errors")
-	apiEndpointDefault := os.Getenv("ZROK_API_ENDPOINT")
-	if apiEndpointDefault == "" {
-		apiEndpointDefault = "https://api.zrok.io"
-	}
-	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&apiEndpoint, "endpoint", "e", apiEndpointDefault, "zrok API endpoint address")
+	zrokdir.AddZrokApiEndpointFlag(&apiEndpoint, rootCmd.PersistentFlags())
 	rootCmd.AddCommand(httpCmd)
 }
 
diff --git a/cmd/zrokloop/main.go b/cmd/zrokloop/main.go
index f39ab8e9..d70d1c64 100644
--- a/cmd/zrokloop/main.go
+++ b/cmd/zrokloop/main.go
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"github.com/michaelquigley/pfxlog"
+	"github.com/openziti-test-kitchen/zrok/zrokdir"
 	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 	"os"
@@ -8,6 +10,12 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 )
 
+func init() {
+	pfxlog.GlobalInit(logrus.InfoLevel, pfxlog.DefaultOptions().SetTrimPrefix("github.com/openziti-test-kitchen/"))
+	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&verbose, "verbose", "v", false, "Enable verbose logging")
+	zrokdir.AddZrokApiEndpointFlag(&apiEndpoint, rootCmd.PersistentFlags())
+}
+
 var rootCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	Use:   strings.TrimSuffix(filepath.Base(os.Args[0]), filepath.Ext(os.Args[0])),
 	Short: "zrok loopback harness",
diff --git a/zrokdir/client.go b/zrokdir/client.go
index ae037295..a3fbb0fa 100644
--- a/zrokdir/client.go
+++ b/zrokdir/client.go
@@ -6,9 +6,19 @@ import (
 	"github.com/go-openapi/strfmt"
 	"github.com/openziti-test-kitchen/zrok/rest_client_zrok"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+	"github.com/spf13/pflag"
 	"net/url"
+	"os"
 )
 
+func AddZrokApiEndpointFlag(v *string, flags *pflag.FlagSet) {
+	defaultEndpoint := os.Getenv("ZROK_API_ENDPOINT")
+	if defaultEndpoint == "" {
+		defaultEndpoint = "https://api.zrok.io"
+	}
+	flags.StringVarP(v, "endpoint", "e", defaultEndpoint, "zrok API endpoint address")
+}
+
 func ZrokClient(endpoint string) (*rest_client_zrok.Zrok, error) {
 	apiUrl, err := url.Parse(endpoint)
 	if err != nil {