novi
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Install Novi.
See your day first.

Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex — any coding agent. It reads this page and does the whole setup for you.

Paste into your coding agent
Read https://novibenolife.com/install/ and follow the coding-agent instructions exactly to set up Novi for me.
No account · no API key · nothing leaves your machine
What happens next

Your agent does
all three.

  1. 01

    It shows you your day

    Projects, sessions, commits, hours — read from your machine, nothing installed yet. Don't like it? You stop right here.

  2. 02

    It installs Novi

    One package, then Novi wires itself into the agents you actually use. Takes about a minute.

  3. 03

    You just ask

    “Show me my day.” Or week, month, standup — in any chat, anytime. Novi answers from real sessions and commits.

  • Everything stays local. Sending or publishing is always your call.
  • Reversible — novi uninstall removes every hook it added.
Rather do it yourself?

Two commands.

Try it first — prints today's report, installs nothing. Needs Node 20.19+.

npx -y https://novibenolife.com/downloads/novibenolife-latest.tgz today

Keep it — installs the CLI, then wires up your agents, the daemon and the daily schedule.

npm i -g https://novibenolife.com/downloads/novibenolife-latest.tgz && novi install

Changed your mind? novi uninstall reverses all of it. Your report database stays at ~/.novibenolife/novi.db until you delete it yourself.

Menu bar app for macOS Apple Silicon · .dmg App for Windows 64-bit · .exe
Instructions for coding agents The recipe your agent follows. You can skip it.

Rules: run step 1 and show the user their day before making any persistent change. Summarize only facts Novi returns — never invent work. Never upload, publish or configure delivery unless the user explicitly asks. If one integration is unavailable, say so and continue with the rest.

  1. Preview — show the user their day

    Runs the package once without installing it. Read the facts JSON and give a short summary of projects, sessions, commits and active time. If today is empty, retry with week --facts. Needs Node 20.19+ (node --version); if it is missing, ask before installing it.

    npx -y https://novibenolife.com/downloads/novibenolife-latest.tgz today --facts

  2. Install the CLI

    novi install registers available MCP clients, starts the local daemon and creates the daily schedule. Some integrations reporting “not found” is normal — it just means the user doesn't have that agent.

    npm install -g https://novibenolife.com/downloads/novibenolife-latest.tgz novi install

  3. Install the skill for the user's agent

    Copy the bundled skill to Novi's stable local directory, then install it for the agents the user actually has.

    mkdir -p ~/.novibenolife/skill cp -R "$(npm root -g)/novibenolife/skill/." ~/.novibenolife/skill/

    Claude Code

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/novibenolife cp -R "$(npm root -g)/novibenolife/skill/." ~/.claude/skills/novibenolife/

    Codex

    mkdir -p ~/.codex grep -q "novibenolife — dev-activity reports" ~/.codex/AGENTS.md 2>/dev/null || cat "$(npm root -g)/novibenolife/skill/codex-snippet.md" >> ~/.codex/AGENTS.md

    For Cursor or any other agent, add a global rule telling it to read ~/.novibenolife/skill/SKILL.md when the user asks for their day, week, standup or Novi.

  4. Verify, then hand back

    Run both checks. If the agent loads skills or MCP servers only at startup, tell the user to start a new session.

    novi doctor novi today

    Finish with: “Ask me show me my day, week, month or standup anytime. Nothing leaves this machine unless you explicitly publish or send it.”

Uninstall: novi uninstall removes hooks, MCP entries, autostart and the daemon, then npm uninstall -g novibenolife. The database at ~/.novibenolife/novi.db stays unless the user asks to delete it.