Installation

Install scripts, per-platform archives, building from source, and staying up to date.

lawlint is a single native binary with no runtime dependencies. Installing it puts one file on your machine and nothing else — no account, no daemon, and no documents leaving your disk.

Install script

curl -fsSL https://lawlint.com/install.sh | sh

irm https://lawlint.com/install.ps1 | iex

The script downloads the archive for your platform, verifies it, and places the lawlint binary in a user-local bin directory — no sudo, nothing installed system-wide, and no documents sent anywhere.

If the shell cannot find lawlint afterwards, that bin directory is not on your PATH; the installer prints the line to add.

Direct downloads

Every archive below is pinned to the release version used to build this site and served from assets.lawlint.com. Use these when you’d rather not pipe a script to a shell, or when you’re provisioning a machine that has no interactive session. The links are immutable; the install scripts track the latest release through a version pointer and verify its archive checksum.

Verify an archive against the pinned release's SHA256SUMS manifest.

Unpack the archive and put lawlint somewhere on your PATH:

tar -xzf lawlint-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
mv lawlint ~/.local/bin/

Build from source

Useful for development, or for a platform without a published archive. You need a Rust toolchain.

git clone https://github.com/sethtjf/lawlint
cd lawlint
cargo build --release -p lawlint-cli

The binary lands at target/release/lawlint.

Staying current

lawlint self-update --check   # report current and latest; download nothing
lawlint self-update           # install the latest release

lawlint also checks for a newer release at most once a day and mentions one if it exists. --no-update-check skips that on any command — worth setting in CI.

What gets installed where

Nothing under .lawlint/ is created until you run lawlint init or lawlint learn. API keys are never written into the project.