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Installation

Prerequisites

Section titled “Prerequisites”

Devlish is a single binary with no runtime dependencies. You need:

  • macOS, Linux, or Windows (x86_64 or ARM64)
  • A terminal

Install via script (macOS / Linux)

Section titled “Install via script (macOS / Linux)”
Terminal window
curl -sSL https://devlish.com/install.sh | sh

This downloads the prebuilt binary to ~/.devlish/bin/ and adds it to your PATH.

Build from source

Section titled “Build from source”

Requires Rust 1.75+ with the stable toolchain:

Terminal window
git clone https://github.com/adubinsky/devlish.git
cd devlish/crates/devlish_core
cargo build --release

The binary is at target/release/devlish-core. The bin/devlish shim in the repo root runs it.

Verify installation

Section titled “Verify installation”
Terminal window
devlish version
# devlish 0.1.0 (rust-native)


devlish help

VS Code Extension

Section titled “VS Code Extension”

Install from the VS Code marketplace or Cursor extensions panel. Search for “Devlish” to get syntax highlighting, formatting, hover docs, and autocomplete.

What’s next

Section titled “What’s next”