Installation

Prerequisites

• An LLM provider — Anthropic API key (console.anthropic.com), AWS Bedrock credentials, Google Vertex AI project, or any other supported provider

Recommended

curl -fsSL https://starpod.sh/install | sh

This detects your OS and architecture, downloads the latest pre-built binary, and installs it to ~/.local/bin.

Options:

• --version=0.1.7 — pin to a specific version
• --no-homebrew — skip Homebrew on macOS
• INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/bin — override install location

Homebrew (macOS/Linux)

brew install sinaptik-ai/tap/starpod

From crates.io

Requires Rust 1.87+ (rustup).

cargo install starpod

From Source

git clone https://github.com/sinaptik-ai/starpod.git
cd starpod
cargo install --path crates/starpod --locked

Verify

starpod --help

Set Your API Key

Seed your API key into the vault during initialization:

starpod init --env ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="sk-ant-..."

Or manage it later via the web UI Settings page after running starpod dev.

TIP

API keys are stored in the encrypted vault — never in config files or .env files. The vault injects them into the process environment at startup.

Next Steps

Head to Project Setup to initialize Starpod in your project directory.