so basically its an ai coding agent for your terminal. you type what you want and it reads your project, edits files, runs commands, that kind of stuff. one binary, no docker or weird setup. you just need an api key (openai, anthropic, ollama, etc).
npm (mac, linux, windows):
npm install -g mateooo93-cortex@latest
cortex
curl (mac / linux):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mateooo93/cortex-cli/main/script/install.sh | bash
windows (powershell):
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mateooo93/cortex-cli/main/script/install.ps1 | iex
linux (download binary):
curl -fsSL -o cortex https://github.com/Mateooo93/cortex-cli/releases/latest/download/cortex-linux-amd64
chmod +x cortex && mv cortex ~/.local/bin/
if npm says permission denied:
mkdir -p ~/.npm-global
npm config set prefix ~/.npm-global
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.npm-global/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile
. ~/.profile
npm install -g mateooo93-cortex@latest
demo: https://mateooo93.github.io/cortex-cli/
license: AGPL-3.0