Installation

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

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.

winget (Windows)

winget install RigSmith.Rigsmith    # all four tools
winget install RigSmith.Rig         # just rig
winget install RigSmith.ChangeRig   # just changerig
winget install RigSmith.ShipRig     # just shiprig
winget install RigSmith.ClaudeRig   # just clauderig

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             # all four tools

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

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                 # all four tools
curl -fsSL rigsmith.sh/brew/clauderig | sh       # just clauderig
curl -fsSL rigsmith.sh/brew/clauderig-ui | sh    # the menu bar app

Or run brew yourself:

brew install --cask rigsmith/tap/rigsmith      # all four tools
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/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

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. Unpack and put the binaries on your PATH.

From source

The repo is a single Go module (github.com/rigsmith/rigsmith) — the four 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

clauderig additionally needs git and an authenticated GitHub CLI (gh) for its private-repo gate.