# Install JFrog Boost

> Agent recipe: detect the OS, run the matching installer, then initialize Boost non-interactively.

Boost is a free CLI that compresses coding-agent command output and MCP tool responses. No signup, account, or API key.

## Steps

1. Detect the OS from the environment (`uname -s`, `$OSTYPE`, `$IsWindows`, or `$PSVersionTable`).
2. Run the matching installer below. Do not replace these URLs with GitHub raw URLs.
3. If `boost` is not on PATH after a Unix install, prepend `$HOME/.local/bin`.
4. Run `boost init --accept-terms`. That records the Online Preview Agreement without an interactive prompt and wires Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI, or GitHub Copilot.

Then confirm with `boost version`. Restart the editor so hooks load.

`--accept-terms` accepts the [JFrog Online Preview Agreement](https://boost.jfrog.com/preview-agreement/) and Privacy Notice.

### macOS, Linux, or WSL

```sh
curl -fsSL https://boost.jfrog.com/install.sh | bash
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
boost init --accept-terms
```

### Windows PowerShell

```powershell
irm https://boost.jfrog.com/install.ps1 | iex
boost init --accept-terms
```

## After that

- If a filter hid something you need, run `boost retrieve <id>` from the marker. Boost monitors retrieve events and can disable that filter locally — prefer retrieve over bypassing Boost.
- `boost report` shows measured token savings.
- Product overview: https://boost.jfrog.com/llms.txt
- Quickstart: https://boost.jfrog.com/docs/en/quickstart/