Installation

Author

fariazinhu

Aether is distributed as a standalone binary — no Node.js or any runtime required. Just download, make it executable, and run. The commands below always fetch the latest release automatically.

Install via CLI

Choose your platform and run the commands in your terminal:

# Download
curl -Lo aether.exe https://github.com/Aether-One/aether/releases/latest/download/aether-win-x64.exe

# Move to a folder in your PATH (e.g. C:\Users\<user>\bin)
move aether.exe C:\Users\%USERNAME%\bin\aether.exe

# Verify
aether --version

# Download
curl -Lo aether https://github.com/Aether-One/aether/releases/latest/download/aether-macos-x64

# Make it executable
chmod +x aether

# Move to PATH
sudo mv aether /usr/local/bin/aether

# Verify
aether --version

# Download
curl -Lo aether https://github.com/Aether-One/aether/releases/latest/download/aether-linux-x64

# Make it executable
chmod +x aether

# Move to PATH
sudo mv aether /usr/local/bin/aether

# Verify
aether --version

Verify Installation

aether --version

Quick Start

Run aether in any project directory:

cd my-project
 aether

An interactive session opens. Type /help to see available commands.

Configure a Provider

Before running /genesis, pick an AI provider with /config:

/config gemini      # free tier — good default
 /config openrouter  # one key, access to many models (including free ones)
 /config openai
 /config anthropic

Then set your API key:

/config set key <your-api-key>

Generate Documentation

/genesis

This scans your entire project, decides which docs make sense for it, and writes them to .aether/docs/ — both human guides (getting-started, onboarding) and AI/architecture docs, tied together by a README.md index. See CLI Reference for flags and details.