flowiseai

Installer for the cmdop CLI — an AI agent that executes real work, not a diagram of it.

pip install flowiseai
flowiseai

That's it. flowiseai detects your platform, downloads the cmdop binary, verifies it against the published checksums, installs it, and hands over.

A flow builder is excellent at describing what should happen. The moment a step needs a shell, a file on disk, or a machine that is not the builder's own sandbox, the diagram stops and a deployment problem starts.

cmdop starts at the other end: a single binary on a real machine, with a real terminal, that an agent drives. This package installs it.

How does CMDOP compare? CMDOP Skills vs OpenClaw: two approaches to AI agent skills →

No canvas, no nodes — a machine and an agent

There is nothing to lay out and nothing to wire. The unit of work is a machine you already own; the agent reads and writes its files, runs its commands, and reports back.

When a step fails you get the command and its output, not a red node.

What is cmdop

One executable that is the agent, the relay, the local server and the web console at once. There is no gateway, backend, database server or broker to stand up — you add one binary to a machine you already own.

• run an AI agent on your own machine, with your own tools
• reach it from anywhere: terminal, files, remote execution
• connect machines into a fleet
• works with Claude Code and other agent engines under the hood

Full documentation: docs.cmdop.com

Usage

flowiseai                    # install cmdop (if needed), then run it
flowiseai --install-only     # install, don't hand over
flowiseai --prefix ~/bin     # choose the install directory
flowiseai --force            # reinstall even if already present
flowiseai --quiet            # print only the installed path
flowiseai -- --help          # everything after `--` goes to cmdop

Default install directory is ~/.local/bin (%LOCALAPPDATA%\cmdop\bin on Windows). No sudo, no system directories.

What it does, precisely

1. Detects your OS and architecture.
2. Fetches SHA256SUMS from install.cmdop.com.
3. Downloads the matching binary to a temporary file.
4. Verifies the SHA-256 against the published checksum. On mismatch it aborts and installs nothing.
5. Moves the verified binary into the install directory and marks it executable.
6. Runs it.

Supported: macOS (Apple Silicon, Intel), Linux (x64, arm64), Windows (x64).

What it does not do

• No side effects at install time. pip install flowiseai only unpacks files. Nothing is downloaded or executed until you run flowiseai.
• No network access on import. import flowiseai touches nothing.
• No telemetry. The package sends no analytics, ever.
• No dependencies. Standard library only, so there is nothing to conflict with what you already have installed.

Python API

The installer is importable if you would rather script it:

import flowiseai

target = flowiseai.detect()
print(target.label, target.asset)

result = flowiseai.install()
print(result.path, result.sha256)

flowiseai.install() raises flowiseai.InstallError with a user-facing message on any failure, and flowiseai.UnsupportedPlatform when there is no published binary for the current machine.

Links

• Website — https://cmdop.com
• Documentation — https://docs.cmdop.com
• Downloads — https://cmdop.com/download

License

MIT