Installation

Prerequisites

Pandoc — for manuscript builds (docx, pdf, epub). See Pandoc’s installation docs for generating PDF and EPUB documents.
An agent backend on your PATH — the default is Claude Code (nib-agent-claude). See the Agent Protocol for alternatives.

Install nib

Download the latest release for your platform from the GitHub releases page, extract the binary, and place it somewhere on your PATH.

# Verify it's working
$ nib version
nib 1.0.0 (abc123) 2026-03-20

macOS

# Download and extract
curl -sL https://github.com/poiesic/nib/releases/latest/download/nib-darwin-arm64.tar.gz | tar xz

# Move to a directory on your PATH
mv nib /usr/local/bin/

Linux

# Download and extract
curl -sL https://github.com/poiesic/nib/releases/latest/download/nib-linux-amd64.tar.gz | tar xz

# Move to a directory on your PATH
mv nib /usr/local/bin/

What’s next?

Head to the Getting Started guide to create your first novel project.

Getting Started