Install
Desktop app
Download it from opencli.ai/download, or take it straight from the latest release:
| Platform | Download |
|---|---|
| macOS · Apple Silicon | OpenCLI-macos-aarch64.dmg |
| macOS · Intel | OpenCLI-macos-x86_64.dmg |
| Windows | OpenCLI-windows-x86_64-setup.exe |
| Linux | OpenCLI-linux-x86_64.AppImage |
Each link always points at the newest release, so it keeps working as versions change.
The app updates itself after that.
Your computer will warn you the first time
These builds are not signed with an Apple or Microsoft certificate. Those cost money per year and this project has not spent it. Nothing is wrong with the download; the operating system cannot tell who built it.
macOS — after dragging OpenCLI to Applications, either run once:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/OpenCLI.app
or right-click the app, choose Open, and confirm. Only the first launch.
Windows — SmartScreen shows a blue box. Click More info, then Run anyway.
Command line
One binary, macOS and Linux:
curl -fsSL https://opencli.ai/install.sh | sh
It works out your platform, fetches the matching build, and puts opencli in
/usr/local/bin — or in ~/.local/bin if it cannot write there, telling you
to add it to your PATH.
The npm package is not published yet — the @ai-dashboad scope is not
registered. Until it is, the installer above and the desktop builds are the
two routes.
From source
A recent Rust toolchain:
git clone https://github.com/ai-dashboad/opencli.git
cd opencli/opencli-rs
cargo build --release -p opencli-cli --bin opencli
The binary lands at opencli-rs/target/release/opencli.
What it wrote where
~/.opencli/config.toml | providers, models, approval and sandbox settings |
~/.opencli/workspace/ | where a conversation starts when nothing else says |
~/.opencli/skills/ | skills, including the ones that ship |
~/.opencli/locales/ | languages you add |
~/.opencli/log/ | logs |
Nothing is written outside ~/.opencli until you point the agent at a
directory.
Next
Point it at a model — it ships without one, and will not answer until it has somewhere to ask.