Install AI Badger

This document covers install and build paths for the public OSS binary.

Homebrew

Install from the shared PVRLabs tap:

brew install pvrlabs/tap/badger

The tap pulls release tarballs from GitHub Releases.

Curl Installer

Install the latest release:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PVRLabs/aibadger/main/install.sh | sh

The installer downloads the matching GitHub Release tarball for your platform, verifies its SHA-256 checksum, and installs badger into ~/.local/bin by default. If that directory is not on your PATH, add it before running badger.

Install a specific release:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PVRLabs/aibadger/main/install.sh | BADGER_VERSION=v0.2.0 sh

Install into a custom directory:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PVRLabs/aibadger/main/install.sh | BADGER_INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/bin" sh

Windows

PowerShell one-liner (default install to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Badger):

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PVRLabs/aibadger/main/install.ps1 | iex

Custom directory or version:

$env:BADGER_INSTALL_DIR = "$HOME\bin"; irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PVRLabs/aibadger/main/install.ps1 | iex
$env:BADGER_VERSION = "v0.2.0"; irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PVRLabs/aibadger/main/install.ps1 | iex

Manual: download badger_<version>_windows_amd64.zip from the latest release and extract badger.exe to your PATH.

Build from source:

go install github.com/PVRLabs/aibadger/cmd/badger@latest

Build From Source

Development build:

go build -o badger ./cmd/badger

Release-style build:

go build -tags aibadger_release -ldflags="-s -w" -o badger ./cmd/badger

Verify

Check the binary version:

./badger --version

Expected output:

badger v0.2.0

Published installs should report the current release version. Source builds from main may report the next development version, for example badger v0.2.1-dev, until the next release is prepared.

Release Notes

For release publishing and artifact details, see releasing.md.