diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3807895c0..8b881be77 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5748,9 +5748,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "yerpc"
-version = "0.5.1"
+version = "0.5.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "30fc983d32883ecb563227a2dcdcbe8567decd9c533b5ecca7e3099e2f7d4c96"
+checksum = "75b5547af776328f66a5476ea3b7c0789e6fed164eb32d1a2122cfb39ffa505d"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "async-channel",
@@ -5771,9 +5771,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "yerpc_derive"
-version = "0.5.0"
+version = "0.5.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6d6b8ce490e8719fe84d7d80ad4d58572b2ea9d7a83d156f6afd6ab3ad5cfb94"
+checksum = "f321bb5f728fb066af06c5a994e4375f1f8b054ee6d650766f0bd68dfa4faefe"
 dependencies = [
  "convert_case 0.5.0",
  "darling 0.14.4",
diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
index 925086448..c17f3c4d4 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ log = "0.4"
 async-channel = { version = "1.8.0" }
 futures = { version = "0.3.28" }
 serde_json = "1.0.99"
-yerpc = { version = "0.5.1", features = ["anyhow_expose", "openrpc"] }
+yerpc = { version = "0.5.2", features = ["anyhow_expose", "openrpc"] }
 typescript-type-def = { version = "0.5.5", features = ["json_value"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.29.1" }
 sanitize-filename = "0.4"
diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/mod.rs b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/mod.rs
index d9b6db8aa..5768d6eb5 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/mod.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/mod.rs
@@ -142,11 +142,7 @@ impl CommandApi {
     }
 }
 
-#[rpc(
-    all_positional,
-    ts_outdir = "typescript/generated",
-    openrpc_outdir = "openrpc"
-)]
+#[rpc(all_positional, ts_outdir = "typescript/generated")]
 impl CommandApi {
     /// Test function.
     async fn sleep(&self, delay: f64) {
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_something.py b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_something.py
index 9a498470a..77fdb0d3b 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_something.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_something.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 import asyncio
+import json
+import subprocess
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock
 
 import pytest
@@ -357,3 +359,11 @@ async def test_import_export(acfactory, tmp_path) -> None:
     await alice2.import_backup(files[0])
 
     assert await alice2.manager.get_system_info()
+
+
+def test_openrpc_command_line() -> None:
+    """Test that "deltachat-rpc-server --openrpc" command returns an OpenRPC specification."""
+    out = subprocess.run(["deltachat-rpc-server", "--openrpc"], capture_output=True).stdout
+    openrpc = json.loads(out)
+    assert "openrpc" in openrpc
+    assert "methods" in openrpc
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
index 9560a0f22..03a480c5a 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ serde_json = "1.0.99"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.29.1", features = ["io-std"] }
 tokio-util = "0.7.8"
-yerpc = { version = "0.5.1", features = ["anyhow_expose"] }
+yerpc = { version = "0.5.2", features = ["anyhow_expose", "openrpc"] }
 
 [features]
 default = ["vendored"]
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-server/README.md b/deltachat-rpc-server/README.md
index 2027072a5..be8c0c562 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/README.md
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/README.md
@@ -32,3 +32,6 @@ languages other than Rust, for example:
 
 1. Python: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/tree/master/deltachat-rpc-client/
 2. Go: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-rpc-client-go/
+
+Run `deltachat-rpc-server --version` to check the version of the server.
+Run `deltachat-rpc-server --openrpc` to get [OpenRPC](https://open-rpc.org/) specification of the provided JSON-RPC API.
diff --git a/deltachat-rpc-server/src/main.rs b/deltachat-rpc-server/src/main.rs
index 1a3049f85..4be58760b 100644
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/src/main.rs
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/src/main.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use deltachat::constants::DC_VERSION_STR;
 use deltachat_jsonrpc::api::{Accounts, CommandApi};
 use futures_lite::stream::StreamExt;
 use tokio::io::{self, AsyncBufReadExt, BufReader};
+use yerpc::RpcServer as _;
 
 #[cfg(target_family = "unix")]
 use tokio::signal::unix as signal_unix;
@@ -39,6 +40,12 @@ async fn main_impl() -> Result<()> {
             }
             eprintln!("{}", &*DC_VERSION_STR);
             return Ok(());
+        } else if first_arg.to_str() == Some("--openrpc") {
+            if let Some(arg) = args.next() {
+                return Err(anyhow!("Unrecognized argument {:?}", arg));
+            }
+            println!("{}", CommandApi::openrpc_specification()?);
+            return Ok(());
         } else {
             return Err(anyhow!("Unrecognized option {:?}", first_arg));
         }