Download

Get Buildhound

The usual way in is your coding agent: it runs npx buildhound and sets everything up. This page is for doing it by hand, and for the one download that is always yours, Buildhound for Mac.

For your Mac

Buildhound for Mac

The menu bar app: what is running on this Mac, pause it, and the settings window. Signed and notarised; it updates itself once installed. The agent runs without it.

Version 0.1.47

Download for Mac SHA-256 checksum

Unzip it into Applications and open it. Apple silicon.

This release stays at mac/v0.1.47 if you ever need it again.

The command line

The CLI

Nothing to install first: npx fetches the CLI, and connecting a machine downloads the agent for it. The same commands are an MCP server for your coding agent.

npx buildhound runner add

By hand, step by step: Set up by hand. With your coding agent: Set up with your agent.

By hand

The agent, without the CLI

The Buildhound agent is what runs jobs on a machine. runner add installs it for you and keeps it updated; these binaries are for setting up by hand, from the setup docs.

buildhound-agent-darwin-arm64macOS, Apple siliconSHA-256
buildhound-agent-linux-arm64Linux, ARM64SHA-256
buildhound-agent-linux-amd64Linux, x86-64SHA-256

Version 0.1.47. On a Mac the agent fetches its virtualisation helper itself; there is nothing else to install.