Installation

No Rust toolchain required. Pick your platform:

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macOS / Linux

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/syv-labs/cxp/main/install.sh | sh

The script downloads the pre-built binary, places it in ~/.local/bin, and then runs cxp install automatically — which registers the MCP server with Claude Code and Cursor and walks you through picking an LLM backend.

Windows

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/syv-labs/cxp/main/install.ps1 | iex

Pin a Specific Version

# macOS / Linux
CXP_VERSION=0.1.0 curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/syv-labs/cxp/main/install.sh | sh

# Windows
$env:CXP_VERSION = "0.1.0"
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/syv-labs/cxp/main/install.ps1 | iex

Build From Source

git clone https://github.com/syv-labs/cxp
cd cxp/contextpool
cargo build --release
# binary at target/release/cxp

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Verify

cxp --version
# cxp 0.1.0

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What cxp install Does

After the binary is placed, cxp install runs automatically and does two things:

1. Registers the MCP server — writes a contextpool entry to ~/.claude.json (Claude Code) and ~/.cursor/mcp.json (Cursor)
2. Backend wizard — asks which LLM you want to use for summarization and saves the key securely to your keychain

You can re-run this at any time:

cxp install              # re-register MCP + re-run wizard if not yet configured
cxp install --setup      # re-run just the backend wizard
cxp install --force      # overwrite existing entries

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Next Steps

→ Quickstart — understand what just got set up.