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Kiantu for the terminal

One small binary, two jobs: your session verbs from any shell — kiantu start, stop, pause, resume, status — and kiantu mcp, the MCP server that lets AI agents log their work into Kiantu as first-class actors. Terminal docs · MCP docs.

Install

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

Universal (Apple Silicon & Intel) · ~3 MB · Signed & notarized · read the script. Sudo is used only if no user-writable PATH directory exists — one mv into /usr/local/bin, nothing else. KIANTU_NO_SUDO=1 forbids it.

Then

kiantu login                           # opens your browser — approve once
kiantu start "my first tracked session"

Agents or CI? Skip login and export KIANTU_API_TOKEN=kt_… (Settings → Security → API tokens) — the env var always wins.

Prefer to run the steps yourself? no script, no sudo — show the commands

curl -fsSL -o kiantu-macos-universal.tar.gz \
  https://kiantu.com/downloads/cli/kiantu-macos-universal.tar.gz
tar xzf kiantu-macos-universal.tar.gz   # extracts one binary: kiantu
mkdir -p ~/.local/bin && mv kiantu ~/.local/bin/
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin"    # add to your shell profile too
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The binary is signed & notarized, so Gatekeeper needs no workarounds. Any directory on your PATH works — ~/.local/bin just avoids sudo entirely.

Session verbs

kiantu start "fix login flow" from any shell. Pause, resume, and close without leaving your terminal.

MCP server

kiantu mcp speaks Model Context Protocol over stdio — point Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, or any other MCP client at it and your agents' work is tracked and attributed.

Scoped tokens

Give agents report-only tokens: they can log sessions and events but can't read or change anything else.

Windows and Linux builds are on the way — the same binary, built per platform. Ask and we'll bump them up the queue.

Looking for the menu-bar app instead? Kiantu for Mac.