You can access command-line arguments via the global process object. The process object has an argv property which is an array containing the complete command-line. i.e. process.argv.
To get started, write a program that simply contains:
console.log(process.argv)
Run it with node program.js and some numbers as arguments. e.g:
$ node program.js 1 2 3
In which case the output would be an array looking something like:
You'll need to think about how to loop through the number arguments so you can output just their sum. The first element of the process.argv array is always 'node', and the second element is always the path to your program.js file, so you need to start at the 3rd element (index 2), adding each item to the total until you reach the end of the array.
Also be aware that all elements of process.argv are strings and you may need to coerce them into numbers. You can do this by prefixing the property with + or passing it to Number(). e.g. +process.argv[2] or Number(process.argv[2]).
learnyounode will be supplying arguments to your program when you run learnyounode verify program.js so you don't need to supply them yourself. To test your program without verifying it, you can invoke it with learnyounode run program.js. When you use run, you are invoking the test environment that learnyounode sets up for each exercise.