Installation

Topchester is distributed as the topchester-ai package. The executable is topchester.

The supported npm package targets are:

• macOS ARM64 (Apple Silicon);
• glibc Linux ARM64 and x64.

Node.js >=18 and npm are required to install the package. The installed topchester command is a standalone executable and does not require Bun. Intel macOS, Windows, and musl Linux are not supported by the standalone release.

npm install -g topchester-ai
topchester --version

Use npm for the supported standalone installation path. Bun >=1.3 is required only when running or building Topchester from source.

Update

Topchester can update itself through the package manager that installed the current CLI:

topchester update
topchester update --check
topchester update 0.15.0

topchester upgrade is an alias for topchester update.

After an update, restart any running Topchester process.