Installation

Quick install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zdavison/deer/main/install.sh | bash

This installs both deer (the TUI dashboard) and deerbox (the standalone CLI).

Supported platforms

OS	Architecture
macOS	x64, arm64
Linux	x64, arm64

Prerequisites

deer requires the following tools to be installed and available on your PATH:

Tool	Why	Install
tmux	Each agent runs in a tmux session	brew install tmux or apt install tmux
gh (GitHub CLI)	PR creation and GitHub API access	cli.github.com
Claude Code CLI	The agent runtime	docs.anthropic.com

Make sure gh is authenticated (gh auth login) and Claude Code is logged in (claude should launch without prompting for credentials).

Verify the installation

deer --version
deerbox --version

Both commands should print a version number.

Building from source

If you prefer to build from source, you need Bun installed:

git clone https://github.com/zdavison/deer.git
cd deer
bun install
bun run build

The compiled binaries are written to dist/.