Installation

Every RigSmith tool is a single, statically-linked Go binary — no .NET runtime, no Node. rig, changerig, shiprig, clauderig and codexrig run natively on macOS, Linux, and Windows, on both x86-64 and Arm64 (Apple Silicon, Windows on Arm, arm64 Linux), and every release ships all six builds of each at once so no platform trails the others.

brewrig is the exception: macOS and Linux only, four builds, because Homebrew does not run on Windows.

Your platform	Install with
Windows	winget · Scoop · PowerShell
macOS	Homebrew · curl | sh
Linux	Homebrew · curl | sh

Winget, Homebrew, the install scripts, and direct downloads offer the same choice: install the whole family or just one tool. Scoop provides the family bundle.

Being macOS/Linux only, brewrig is absent from the winget and Scoop lanes. The install scripts leave it out of a whole-family install on Windows rather than failing, and say why if you ask for it by name; so does rigsmith brewrig from the npm meta package.

winget (Windows)

winget install RigSmith.Rigsmith    # the whole family
winget install RigSmith.Rig         # just rig
winget install RigSmith.ChangeRig   # just changerig
winget install RigSmith.ShipRig     # just shiprig
winget install RigSmith.ClaudeRig   # just clauderig
winget install RigSmith.CodexRig    # just codexrig

These are portable packages — winget unpacks the .exes and registers each one as a command on your PATH. Restart the terminal to pick that up. Both x64 and Arm64 installers are published for every package.

Scoop (Windows)

scoop bucket add rigsmith https://github.com/rigsmith/scoop-bucket
scoop install rigsmith             # the whole family (no brewrig — see above)

PowerShell (Windows)

irm https://rigsmith.sh | iex             # the whole family
irm https://rigsmith.sh/rig | iex         # just rig
irm https://rigsmith.sh/changerig | iex   # just changerig
irm https://rigsmith.sh/shiprig | iex     # just shiprig
irm https://rigsmith.sh/clauderig | iex   # just clauderig
irm https://rigsmith.sh/codexrig | iex    # just codexrig

Binaries install to $HOME\.local\bin (override with RIGSMITH_INSTALL); the script adds that directory to your user PATH — restart the terminal to pick it up. Same URL as curl: PowerShell gets the .ps1, a shell gets the .sh.

Homebrew (macOS)

curl -fsSL rigsmith.sh/brew | sh                 # the whole family
curl -fsSL rigsmith.sh/brew/clauderig | sh       # just clauderig
curl -fsSL rigsmith.sh/brew/codexrig | sh        # just codexrig
curl -fsSL rigsmith.sh/brew/brewrig | sh         # just brewrig
curl -fsSL rigsmith.sh/brew/clauderig-ui | sh    # the menu bar app

Or run brew yourself:

brew install --cask rigsmith/tap/rigsmith      # the whole family
brew install --cask rigsmith/tap/rig           # just rig
brew install --cask rigsmith/tap/changerig     # just changerig
brew install --cask rigsmith/tap/shiprig       # just shiprig
brew install --cask rigsmith/tap/clauderig     # just clauderig
brew install --cask rigsmith/tap/codexrig      # just codexrig
brew install --cask rigsmith/tap/brewrig       # just brewrig
brew install --cask rigsmith/tap/clauderig-ui  # the menu bar app

Note the rigsmith/tap/ prefix. Homebrew will not load a cask from a non-official tap by its short name until the tap is trusted, so brew install rig stops with a trust prompt while the qualified name does not. That is the whole reason rigsmith.sh/brew exists — it bakes the prefix in.

The packages are casks, so this route is macOS only. On Linux use curl | sh below.

curl | sh (macOS / Linux)

curl -fsSL https://rigsmith.sh | sh            # the whole family
curl -fsSL https://rigsmith.sh/rig | sh        # just rig
curl -fsSL https://rigsmith.sh/changerig | sh  # just changerig
curl -fsSL https://rigsmith.sh/shiprig | sh    # just shiprig
curl -fsSL https://rigsmith.sh/clauderig | sh  # just clauderig
curl -fsSL https://rigsmith.sh/codexrig | sh   # just codexrig
curl -fsSL https://rigsmith.sh/brewrig | sh    # just brewrig (macOS / Linux)

Binaries install to ~/.local/bin by default (override with RIGSMITH_INSTALL). Make sure that directory is on your PATH.

Auditing the script

https://rigsmith.sh returns the install script as plain text — open it in a browser to read it before piping it to a shell.

Direct download

Every GitHub release attaches a per-tool archive and a combined rigsmith_<version>_<os>_<arch> archive for each of the six targets — darwin, linux, and windows × amd64 and arm64 — plus a checksums.txt. (brewrig has four: no windows, and the Windows bundle omits it.) Unpack and put the binaries on your PATH.

From source

The repo is a single Go module (github.com/rigsmith/rigsmith) — the binaries live under cmd/, the shared engine under core/. Build any binary from the repo root, on any OS Go supports:

go build -o bin/rig       ./cmd/rig
go build -o bin/changerig ./cmd/changerig
go build -o bin/shiprig   ./cmd/shiprig
go build -o bin/clauderig ./cmd/clauderig
go build -o bin/codexrig  ./cmd/codexrig
go build -o bin/brewrig   ./cmd/brewrig   # macOS / Linux

clauderig, codexrig and brewrig additionally need git and an authenticated GitHub CLI (gh) for their private-repo gate. brewrig needs Homebrew itself, which is also why it has no Windows build.