macOS
With Homebrew. Or use the installer from nodejs.org.
1. Node 22.5 or newer
brew install node2. Friday
npm install -g @archymedes/friday3. Open a project and start
cd your-project
fridayCheck what you have with node -v.
archymedes.xyz/install
Get started
Install Friday on your computer in two commands, or go straight to Argus or Orion.
Friday
The coding agent for your terminal. Linux, macOS or Windows, on x64 or arm64.
Windows
In PowerShell. winget ships with Windows 10 and 11; restart the terminal afterwards.
1. Node 22.5 or newer
winget install OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS2. Friday
npm install -g @archymedes/friday3. Open a project and start
cd your-project
fridayCheck what you have with node -v.
Linux
Any distribution, without root, through nvm.
1. Node 22.5 or newer
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.3/install.sh | bash
. "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh"
nvm install 222. Friday
npm install -g @archymedes/friday3. Open a project and start
cd your-project
fridayCheck what you have with node -v.
WSL2
Inside the Linux shell, exactly as on Linux. Friday then works on files in WSL.
1. Node 22.5 or newer
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.3/install.sh | bash
. "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh"
nvm install 222. Friday
npm install -g @archymedes/friday3. Open a project and start
cd your-project
fridayCheck what you have with node -v.
Update · Remove
npm install -g @archymedes/friday@latest
npm uninstall -g @archymedes/fridayArgus
Watches the machine your agents and servers run on, and says what it could not see.
Orion