Install on macOS

Works on macOS 13 (Ventura) and later. Apple Silicon is strongly recommended if this Mac will run the AI — its unified memory is what lets a laptop hold a useful model.

No app to drag yet

There is no .dmg or Homebrew formula yet, and the binaries are not code-signed. Both are planned. For now, installing means pasting one line into Terminal.

Install

1. Open Terminal: press ⌘ + Space, type Terminal, press Enter.

2. Paste this line and press Enter:

   curl -fsSL https://github.com/waired-ai/waired-agent/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh

3. Read the summary it prints, and press Enter at Proceed? [Y/n].

4. Enter your Mac password when asked.

   Nothing appears on screen as you type it. That is how Terminal handles passwords — it is not frozen. Type it and press Enter.

   Waired asks for it because the background service is registered for the whole machine, so it starts at boot without anyone logging in.

Now sign in and set up.

Not comfortable piping a script into a shell?

Reasonable. Download it first, read it, then run it:

curl -fsSLO https://github.com/waired-ai/waired-agent/releases/latest/download/install.sh
less install.sh    # press q to quit
sh install.sh

Skip the AI software

Waired installs Ollama — the program that runs models — during setup, and only on computers that will run models. To make sure it is never installed:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/waired-ai/waired-agent/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh -s -- --skip-ollama

What gets installed

Commands	/usr/local/bin/waired, /usr/local/bin/waired-agent
Background service	A system launchd daemon, starts at boot
Settings and state	/Library/Application Support/waired

Sign in and set upThe next step.

UninstallOne line, about ten seconds.