Install Synap

The Synap CLI is the single entry point for everything — your account, your knowledge graph, the MCP server that exposes it to AI tools, and the integration wirings for the AI tools themselves.

Install

curl -fsSL install.synap.ing | sh

This downloads the appropriate binary for your platform, verifies its cryptographic provenance against the published manifest, and installs synap (and the bundled synap-mcp) to ~/.local/bin/.

Make sure ~/.local/bin is on your PATH. If you're not sure:

echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n' | grep -q "$HOME/.local/bin" && echo "ok" || echo "add it to your shell init"

Sign in

synap login

Authenticate against your Synap account. The CLI handles everything — credentials, session, the cognition layer at ~/.synap/. If you don't have an account, the iOS app at apps.apple.com/us/app/synap-ing is the fastest way to create one; you can sign in to that same account from the CLI immediately after.

Wire your AI tools

synap wire

synap wire detects every supported AI tool installed on your machine (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, opencode, Aider, Continue, Goose) and offers to configure each one for you. Preview the changes first, confirm, and you're wired.

Verify

synap status
synap whoami

If both return expected values, you're done. Open any AI tool and ask it something that requires your context — your graph is now part of the conversation.

Self-update

synap upgrade

Each upgrade verifies provenance before swapping binaries. No manual reinstall required.