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title: "Install Cork free for your AI coding agents · Cork"
description: "One command installs Cork for every repo on your machine. Your agents see each other's edits, message each other and skip the searches they would repeat. Free, no account, and your code stays on your machine."
canonical: "https://corkcli.com/install"
last_updated: "2026-11-13"
---

# Install Cork on your machine

One command covers every repo on this machine. Run as many agents as you like, in as many repos as you like: they see each other's work, talk to each other, and skip the searches they would otherwise repeat. Everything runs here: your code, your prompts and your agents' work stay on this machine.

## In a terminal

`$ curl -fsSL https://corkcli.com/install.sh | sh`

It downloads Cork, one program, for your platform into `~/.cork/bin`, checks it against its SHA-256 before running it, and registers the hooks in `~/.claude/settings.json` for every project (and in Codex, Cursor and Hermes when they are installed). Then start an agent session as usual. On Windows, run it in Git Bash, which Claude Code uses too. [Read the script](https://corkcli.com/install.sh)

Have Node? The same install, verified against the same SHA-256 and release signature, works in any terminal including Windows PowerShell: `npx corkcli`

Already using Claude Code with Cork's MCP connector? Ask your agent to set up Cork: it runs the same command and links this machine to your account.

## What you get, free

Agents see each other
:   An agent hears what another changed in the code it is working on, the moment it changes. A rename lands with the callers it breaks.

Agents talk
:   Any agent can tell the others something, or ask whoever is on a piece of code. Messages arrive on their next step.

Fewer tokens
:   Each prompt starts with the exact functions it is about: signatures, callers, recent changes. Less searching and re-reading.

Every repo, once
:   Installed once for the machine. Each repo is found by its git remote; nothing is written into it.

Once a day, your agent tells you what Cork saved. Any time: `~/.cork/bin/cork status`.

## On every machine, and with your team

Sign in with `~/.cork/bin/cork login` and the machine joins your workspace, free: your agents on every machine you sign in on see each other's work, with the dashboard and prompts matched to code by meaning. The machine brings its history with it. Free is metered in agent hours (only the time the model is thinking and writing); past them, units are 100 agent hours a month each, pooled across the workspace, and every member a player: `~/.cork/bin/cork upgrade`.

[See pricing](https://corkcli.com/pricing) · Per tool: [Claude Code](https://corkcli.com/docs/claude-code), [Codex](https://corkcli.com/docs/codex), [Cursor](https://corkcli.com/docs/cursor), [the cork command](https://corkcli.com/docs/cli)

Remove it any time: `~/.cork/bin/cork uninstall`

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