diff --git a/graphrag/index/__init__.py b/graphrag/index/__init__.py
index d906de26fe..e096618d98 100644
--- a/graphrag/index/__init__.py
+++ b/graphrag/index/__init__.py
@@ -2,10 +2,7 @@
 
 """The Indexing Engine package root."""
 
-import argparse
-
 from .cache import PipelineCache
-from .cli import index_cli
 from .config import (
     PipelineBlobCacheConfig,
     PipelineBlobReportingConfig,
@@ -120,62 +117,3 @@
     "run_pipeline",
     "run_pipeline_with_config",
 ]
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--config",
-        help="The configuration yaml file to use when running the pipeline",
-        required=False,
-        type=str,
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "-v",
-        "--verbose",
-        help="Runs the pipeline with verbose logging",
-        action="store_true",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--memprofile",
-        help="Runs the pipeline with memory profiling",
-        action="store_true",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--root",
-        help="If no configuration is defined, the root directory to use for input data and output data",
-        # Only required if config is not defined
-        required=False,
-        type=str,
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--resume",
-        help="Resume a given data run leveraging Parquet output files.",
-        # Only required if config is not defined
-        required=False,
-        type=str,
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--reporter",
-        help="The progress reporter to use. Valid values are 'rich', 'print', or 'none'",
-        type=str,
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--emit",
-        help="The data formats to emit, comma-separated. Valid values are 'parquet' and 'csv'. default='parquet,csv'",
-        type=str,
-    )
-    parser.add_argument("--nocache", help="Disable LLM cache.", action="store_true")
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-
-    index_cli(
-        root=args.root,
-        verbose=args.verbose,
-        resume=args.resume,
-        memprofile=args.memprofile,
-        nocache=args.nocache,
-        reporter=args.reporter,
-        config=args.config,
-        emit=args.emit,
-        cli=True,
-    )