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Connect this machine.

The fastest path is from the dashboard. Sign in, click Connect this machine, and you get a one-line installer that already knows who you are — no extra pairing step.

Open the dashboard → How it works

What "Connect this machine" does

You sign in at app.manifoldone.com.
The dashboard opens a Connect this machine dialog and mints a short-lived connect-intent token scoped to your account.
The dialog hands you either a manifoldone://connect?token=… deeplink (if the desktop app is installed) or a personalized curl … | sh one-liner with the token baked in.
The installer drops the app + CLI in place and immediately docks this machine to your account — no copy-paste pairing code.

Fallback — anonymous curl

Working on a headless box, CI runner, or just don't want to open a browser yet? The same installer works without a token — you'll complete pairing afterwards from the dashboard via the manifoldone dock --code path.

curl -fsSL https://manifoldone.com/install.sh | sh

Reads the script first? Read it on the same domain · Source on GitHub

What this installs

Manifoldone.app in /Applications — the desktop shell with Welcome → Login → Projects → Board → Connect flows, system tray, and native notifications. The app also registers the manifoldone:// URI scheme so the dashboard's Connect this machine deeplink lands here.
manifoldone CLI symlinked to /usr/local/bin/manifoldone — the same binary the desktop app uses, surfaced for power-users + scripting.
Auto-update — the app checks manifoldone.com/releases/desktop/manifest.json on launch and prompts you when a new version ships. Updates are signed; we never apply an unsigned bundle.

Manual download

Prefer to download by hand? Grab the matching bundle from the latest GitHub Release. Drop the .app in /Applications, then on first launch the app will offer to install the CLI symlink for you, and the dashboard's Connect this machine deeplink will dock you in one click.

Linux & Windows

Linux .deb / .rpm / .AppImage ship in v0.6. Windows .msi too. The installer prints a friendly notice on those platforms — you'll build from source until the bundles land.

Uninstall

rm -rf /Applications/Manifoldone.app

rm /usr/local/bin/manifoldone

rm -rf ~/.manifoldone

The installer is unsigned during the v0.5 ramp — macOS will warn you on first launch (System Settings → Privacy & Security → Allow Anyway). Production code-signing lands once the Apple Developer ID is provisioned.