Commands
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Check the setup for each agent: wiring, hook activity, connection, transcript capture, and sweep health. Finish pairing if the machine is not paired. See Check your setup.
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Remove Alike’s wiring, the local runtime, the credential, the Claude Code note, and the hourly sweep file. Your local transcript copies stay. See Uninstall.
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Copy new transcripts and upload them now. Use this when no agent on the machine has a hook that can start a sweep, for example a machine with only Windsurf, Zed, or Continue.
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macOS only. Write a
launchd file that runs --sweep every hour. The installer does not load the file. It prints the command that loads it now. Otherwise it loads at your next login. On Linux, the installer prints a cron line instead.flag
Show the help text.
Options
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Choose transcript capture without a prompt. Use
all, a comma-separated list of agent IDs, or an empty value for no capture. Example: --capture=claude,codex.string
Set up only these agents. Use the IDs in Supported agents.
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Preview the run without writes. The install shows which agents it would set up. It does not list each file. Works with the install,
--uninstall, --sweep, and --enable-scheduled-sweep.flag
Do not add the 2-line Alike note to
~/.claude/CLAUDE.md.flag
Use with
--doctor. Save one raw hook input for each agent and hook event in ~/.alike/payloads/, for a bug report. Delete the folder when you are done. See Check your setup.string
Connect to a different Alike server. You do not need this for the production service.
Write every option with
=, for example --harness=claude. The installer ignores options that it does not know, and options written with a space.Agent IDs
claude, codex, copilot, factory, devin, cline, vscode, cursor, windsurf, zed, continue, jetbrains, antigravity
Environment variables
The server line
Most commands print the server that they use:ALIKE_BASE_URL in your environment.
Exit codes
On Windows, the installer exits with code
0 and changes nothing.