Install

Install

Subscribe for launch

One email when v0.1.0 lands. After that, one email a week — what shipped, what to install, and one thing learned running bassclef in the last seven days.

What the install does when it lands

Two commands:

1. npm install -g @thebassclef/core — installs the CLI.
2. bassclef init — inside your repo, this creates a .bassclef-source.json file, symlinks the shared skills into ~/.claude/skills/, and wires the hooks that fire at session start.

The init step does not commit anything to your repo. You review the scaffold and commit when you are ready.

Auto-update posture

Auto-update is OFF by default. bassclef will not fetch its own updates without you asking. See Auto-update behavior for the details and how to turn it on when you want it.

Verify

After bassclef init, run:

bassclef check

That prints the substrate version, which skills are wired, and which hooks are active. If anything looks wrong, the failure-mode playbook has the recovery steps.