Installation

recruit is a single binary, with nothing else to install. It needs Claude Code.

Homebrew

On macOS and Linux:

brew install ronalove/tap/recruit

Homebrew downloads a prebuilt binary, for macOS (Apple Silicon, Intel) or Linux (x86_64, arm64, static).

To update:

brew update && brew upgrade recruit

Release archives

Each release holds the same binaries as archives, one per platform, with a SHA256SUMS file:

Archive	Platform
recruit-<version>-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	macOS, Apple Silicon
recruit-<version>-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	macOS, Intel
recruit-<version>-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz	Linux x86_64, static
recruit-<version>-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz	Linux arm64, static

Extract recruit and put it somewhere on your PATH.

From source

With Rust 1.99 or newer, curl and tar. recruit’s terminal engine, libghostty-vt, is built with Zig 0.16: scripts/ghostty.sh fetches Zig and Ghostty’s sources once, checks them, and builds it.

git clone https://github.com/ronalove/recruit
cd recruit
scripts/ghostty.sh
cargo install --path .

What recruit needs

• Claude Code, installed and logged in: recruit runs claude from your PATH, or the command given by [claude] command. With Claude Code 2.1.287 or newer, each member also loads recruit’s mod, which adds the model, the context and the usage to the dashboard, and the /recruit command. Older versions work without these.
• On macOS, a terminal that sends Option as Alt, for recruit’s shortcuts: see Option on macOS.
• No special font. In Ghostty, kitty and WezTerm, which carry the Nerd Font symbols themselves, the dashboard and the menu draw their icons with them; elsewhere, with plain Unicode signs.

Check the installation:

recruit --version

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