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Installation

Dodo consists of two parts: 1. The CLI (NPM): A React-based terminal UI. 2. The Engine (Go): A high-performance agent runtime (automatically managed by the CLI).

The easiest way to install Dodo is via npm. This installs the CLI wrapper which will automatically download the correct engine binary for your OS (macOS, Linux, or Windows).

npm install -g dodo-ai

Verify the installation:

dodo --version

Ready to go!

You can now run dodo in any directory. The first time you run it, it will download the ~15MB engine binary.

Alternative: Build from Source

If you prefer to build the engine yourself (e.g., for contributing), you'll need Go 1.21+ and Node.js 18+.

  1. Clone the repository: 

    git clone https://github.com/ChamsBouzaiene/dodo.git
cd dodo

  2. Build the Engine: 

    go build -o repl ./cmd/repl

  3. Run the UI: 

    cd ink-ui
npm install
npm run dev -- --engine ../repl