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Installation

Requires Node 20+. Three commands, no build step, plain ESM run via tsx.

Install

bash
git clone https://github.com/KunjShah95/SENTINEL-CLI.git
cd SENTINEL-CLI
npm install
npm link        # optional: puts `sentinel` on your PATH

Give it a key

Groq's free tier is the zero-cost default:

bash
export GROQ_API_KEY=gsk_...

Local models need no key

Run ollama serve (default http://localhost:11434) and Sentinel auto-discovers installed models. LM Studio works the same way.

Verify

bash
sentinel --version
sentinel ask "say ok"