Installation

Install script

curl -fsSL https://tryaura.sh/install | sh

This detects your platform, downloads the matching binary from GitHub Releases, verifies its SHA-256 checksum against the published SHA256SUMS, and installs to ~/.aura/bin.

If you would rather not pipe to a shell

Reading a script before running it is a reasonable habit, and the install script is written to be read:

curl -fsSL https://tryaura.sh/install -o install.sh
less install.sh
sh install.sh

Options

Both are environment variables:

Variable	Default	Purpose
AURA_INSTALL_DIR	~/.aura/bin	Where the binary is written.
AURA_VERSION	latest release	Install a specific tag, for example v0.2.0.

AURA_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/bin AURA_VERSION=v0.2.0 curl -fsSL https://tryaura.sh/install | sh

npm

If you already have Node.js 24 or newer, this is the shorter path and keeps Aura updatable alongside your other global tooling:

npm install -g @tryaura/aura-cli

Prebuilt binaries

Every release publishes archives and a SHA256SUMS file for:

• darwin-arm64, darwin-x64
• linux-arm64, linux-x64

Download from the releases page and verify:

shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing

Verify the install

aura --version

If your shell cannot find aura, add the install directory to your PATH:

export PATH="$HOME/.aura/bin:$PATH"

The install script prints the exact line to add for your shell.