GCTRL — pip installer

Self-host Ground Control (GCTRL), the sovereign knowledge-graph memory layer for AI, with one command. This is the pip sibling of the curl | bash installer — same stack, same images, but cross-platform (macOS, Linux, and Windows) with Docker as the only prerequisite (no curl / openssl / bash needed).

pipx install gctrl      # recommended (isolated CLI)
# or:  pip install gctrl

gctrl install           # fetches compose.yml + images, brings the stack up

Then open http://localhost:3001 to activate your license and finish setup.

Commands

Non-interactive install

Honors the same environment variables as the shell installer:

GCTRL_MODEL=qwen2.5:7b GCTRL_RUNTIME=vllm gctrl install

• GCTRL_MODEL — local generation model (default llama3.2:3b)
• GCTRL_RUNTIME=vllm — enable vLLM (only on NVIDIA hosts with ≥8 GB VRAM)
• GCTRL_INSTALL_DIR — install location (default ~/gctrl)

How it relates to the curl installer

curl -fsSL https://gctrl.tech/install | bash still works and is unchanged. This package installs the same stack by reusing the same server-side artifacts (https://gctrl.tech/compose.yml, the license public key, the pinned image tags). Picking pip vs curl changes nothing about GCTRL itself — only how you bootstrap it.

Not to be confused with the @gctrl/cli npm package, which talks to a running instance's API. This package installs and runs the stack.

Docs: https://gctrl.tech/docs · License: AGPL-3.0-or-later