Install and set up

Requirements

• Node.js 20 or newer
• git
• An AI backend: either the claude CLI on your PATH, or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set

Install

npm install -g @postlyra/cli

Set up

postlyra init
postlyra login

init asks for the API URL, the folders mine --all scans (optional), an optional notes folder, the mining window in days, and how many ideas a run should ask for. Press enter to keep any current value.

login opens Postlyra in your browser by default (the gh auth login shape): approve the sign-in there, two-factor and passkeys included, and the CLI receives a token on a loopback callback. Pass --with-password on a machine with no browser to open, for the original email, password and two-factor prompts instead. Either way it stores a token and picks a brand: automatically when the account has one, by asking when it has several.

Both write to ~/.config/postlyra/config.json, with mode 600 because it holds your API token.

Check it

postlyra status

API: https://api.postlyra.com
Logged in as ada@example.com
Brand: My Brand (0f8fad5b-d9cb-469f-a165-70867728950e)
Folders: ~/Sites
Vault: ~/Sites/second-brain
Unmined items (mine --all): 8 of 22 in the last 7 day(s)

This checks auth, brand, folders and the unmined count without mining anything or spending a token.

Your first run

Go to a repo you worked on this week, and look before you leap:

cd ~/Sites/myproject
postlyra mine --dry-run

That collects and filters, prints the work log the AI would see, and stops. No AI call, no push.

When it looks right:

postlyra mine

Brands

One login token serves every brand on your account. login pins this machine to one.

postlyra brands                  # list them, * marks the selected one
postlyra brands use "<name>"     # switch (the id also works)
postlyra mine --brand "<name>"   # override for one run

An account with several brands and none selected refuses to mine rather than guessing.

What folders should I point it at

Only postlyra mine --all uses folders. A plain postlyra mine works on whatever folder you run it in.

folders entries are either a git repo itself, or a parent folder holding several repos one level down.

{ "folders": ["~/Sites"], "exclude": ["*/website"] }

Pointing at ~/Sites picks up every repo directly inside it. Each is labelled Sites/myproject, and that label is the only thing about the repo that ever reaches Postlyra.

exclude patterns match against that label. * matches within one path segment, so */website excludes every project's website repo without touching anything else.

Upgrading

postlyra upgrade

Runs a global npm install of the latest published version. Run postlyra --version afterwards to confirm.