CLI installation

Current availability

The mico executable is the CLI. It reads the meetings stored on your computer. Mico's MCP server is remote and needs no installation: see MCP for agents.

Homebrew, standalone release binaries, and Windows package-manager distribution are forthcoming. Do not rely on those channels yet.

Install from the desktop app

On macOS, open Settings → Developers and select Install. Mico copies its bundled CLI to ~/.local/bin/mico. The CLI section requires a plan that includes the CLI (Flow).

If your shell cannot find mico, add ~/.local/bin to PATH:

export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

Connect to local data

By default, the CLI looks for mico/app.db in your operating system's application-data directory. It also recognizes legacy Mico locations.

Open the desktop app once so it can create the database. After that, the CLI works while the app is closed.

For a custom database location, pass a global option or environment variable:

mico --db-path /path/to/app.db --json meetings list
MICO_DB_PATH=/path/to/app.db mico --json meetings list

If you have a Mico data directory containing app.db, use:

mico --base /path/to/mico-data --json meetings list

The CLI opens the database in read-only query mode. It does not create a database or run migrations.