Getting started

Set up Stele

Two commands put Stele on your machine. One more, inside the agent you already use, wires it into your project. After that you keep prompting the way you always have and the record fills in around you.

Three steps, about two minutes.

01

Install the command line tool

One line, on macOS, Linux, or Windows. It installs a single binary, finds the coding agents you already have, and asks which ones to set Stele up for. You can run it again later to add more.

Run in your terminal
curl -fsSL https://app.stele-ai.dev/install.sh | bash

Nothing to configure, and no runtime to install first.

02

Sign in

Your browser opens, you approve, and you are back in the terminal. Use GitHub, Google, or an email link. There is no key to paste and no second account to create.

Run in your terminal
stele account login
03

Wire it into your project

Open the project in your agent and run this once. Stele reads the codebase and any docs it finds, builds the first record, and shows you what it is about to do before it does it.

Run inside your agent
/stele:start

In Claude Code and Cursor this is a slash command. In other agents it is a skill or a command with the same name. If the agent says it does not know the command, restart the session so it picks up what the installer added.

Then nothing changes

That is the setup. From here you prompt your agent as usual. Before it answers, Stele hands it the decisions, lessons, and risks that bear on what you asked; as the work happens, it writes new knowledge and tasks back.

Something not working?

Restarting the agent fixes most of it. If it still does not, the walkthrough covers each agent's differences step by step.

Read the walkthrough