Install

doze is one static binary with no runtime dependencies — no Docker, no toolchain. It fetches everything else (engines, modules) itself, verified and pinned.

Platforms: macOS on Apple Silicon, Linux on x86-64 and arm64. Intel Macs are not supported (use a Linux devcontainer or VM there); on Windows, WSL2 works.

Homebrew (macOS & Linux)

brew install doze-dev/tap/doze

mise

mise use -g ubi:doze-dev/doze

Direct download

Grab the archive for your platform from the releases page, extract, and put doze on your PATH:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/doze-dev/doze/releases/latest/download/doze_0.1.1_darwin_arm64.tar.gz \
  | tar -xz && sudo mv doze /usr/local/bin/

(Checksums ship as checksums.txt alongside every release.)

With Go (1.26+)

go install github.com/doze-dev/doze/cmd/doze@latest

# or from a clone
git clone https://github.com/doze-dev/doze && cd doze
go build -o doze ./cmd/doze

Verify

doze version
# doze 0.1.1 (darwin/arm64, go1.26.x)

Then head to Getting started — your first backend is about three commands away.

Upgrading

brew upgrade doze-dev/tap/doze / mise up / re-download. doze itself is versioned independently of your projects: upgrading the CLI never changes what a project runs — that’s pinned in each project’s doze.lock.

Uninstall

Remove the binary (brew uninstall doze-dev/tap/doze), then optionally the shared cache and all project data: rm -rf ~/.doze. Nothing else is touched — doze installs no services, agents, or kernel extensions.