The public facing documentation for the IOTile Core Tools is https://coretools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html, but things change a little when you have access to a real device.
With a BLED112 dongle, and access to the proper packages, you can communicate with a real device.
After installation, the iotile operations can be run from the OS command-line, or by using the IOTile Shell.