Installation

cca ships as a single static binary with no runtime dependencies. There is nothing to install alongside it and nothing to configure before first use.

Build from source

This is the primary path, and the one to use if you have Go available.

Requires Go 1.27 or newer.

git clone https://github.com/12fahed/cca.git
cd cca
make build

That produces ./cca in the repository root. Put it somewhere on your PATH:

# macOS and Linux
sudo install -m 0755 cca /usr/local/bin/cca

On Windows, copy cca.exe to a directory on your PATH.

Verify it:

cca version

cca       v0.1.0
commit    3f31cf3
built     2026-09-27T00:44:32Z
go        go1.27.1
platform  linux/amd64
license   GPL-3.0, no warranty — https://github.com/12fahed/cca/blob/main/LICENSE

Download a binary

Prebuilt archives are attached to each release, with a checksums.txt alongside them.

Platform	Architecture
macOS	`arm64`, `amd64`
Linux	`amd64`, `arm64`
Windows	`amd64`

Download, verify, extract, install:

VERSION=0.1.0

curl -LO https://github.com/12fahed/cca/releases/download/v$VERSION/cca_${VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz
curl -LO https://github.com/12fahed/cca/releases/download/v$VERSION/checksums.txt

sha256sum --check --ignore-missing checksums.txt
tar -xzf cca_${VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz
sudo install -m 0755 cca /usr/local/bin/cca

Archives are named cca_<version>_<os>_<arch>, .tar.gz everywhere except Windows which is .zip, and each contains the binary alongside the README and LICENSE.

Build every platform at once

make build-all

Writes all five targets to dist/, each built with CGO_ENABLED=0.

Why not `go install`?

Uninstalling

cca writes nothing outside its own configuration directory, so removing it is two steps:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/cca
rm -rf ~/.config/cca        # only if you created a config file

Your Claude Code transcripts are untouched by both.