Install Oscar

Oscar ships as prebuilt binaries for macOS and Linux. Windows users can run Oscar through WSL2.

curl -fsSL https://github.com/TheRealOpsCanvas/public/releases/download/oscar-latest/oscar-install.sh | bash

After Install

Set up model access, then launch Oscar in the terminal:

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="sk-ant-..."
oscar

If you use AWS Bedrock instead:

export CLAUDE_CODE_USE_BEDROCK=1
export AWS_REGION=us-east-1
oscar

Direct Downloads

These are standalone binaries. Download the one for your platform, make it executable, and move it onto your PATH.

macOS

Download the binary, make it executable, and place it on your PATH:

If ~/.local/bin is not already on your PATH, add it to your shell config (e.g. ~/.zshrc):

If macOS blocks the binary because it was downloaded from the internet:

Linux

If ~/.local/bin is not already on your PATH, add it to your shell config (e.g. ~/.bashrc):

Windows (WSL2)

Oscar runs on Windows through WSL2arrow-up-right. Install WSL2 with a Linux distribution (Ubuntu recommended), then run the installer inside your WSL2 terminal:

This installs the Linux x64 binary, which runs natively inside WSL2.

Verify Downloads

Oscar publishes a checksum manifest with every release:

Use it to verify any binary or installer you download manually.

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