Meetless CLI (mla)

Governed change-control and knowledge for your AI coding agents.

mla is the Meetless agent CLI. It wires Meetless into your local Claude Code setup (capture hooks, an MCP server, and the /mla skill) so coding-agent sessions are governed and reviewable, and decisions, rules, and project knowledge stay propagated instead of getting lost in chat threads and tickets.

Install

Pick one. All three install the same mla binary.

curl (recommended, no Node required):

curl -fsSL https://meetless.ai/install.sh | sh

Homebrew (macOS / Linux):

brew install --cask meetless/tap/mla

If Homebrew refuses with Refusing to load cask ... from untrusted tap, trust the tap once and re-run. Homebrew is phasing in mandatory trust for every third-party tap; today most installs only warn, but strict setups (and CI) already require this:

brew trust meetless/tap

npm (Node 22+):

npm install -g @meetless/mla

The package name is @meetless/mla; it installs a single command, mla.

Quickstart

mla --version      # confirm the install
mla login          # browser sign-in (opens your Meetless workspace)
mla init           # wire mla into Claude Code (hooks, MCP server, /mla skill)
mla activate       # opt this repository in
mla doctor         # verify everything is wired

The curl installer already runs mla init for you, so on that path it is a harmless idempotent re-run; the npm and Homebrew paths install only the binary, so mla init is what wires Claude Code and takes mla doctor green.

To wire mla into Claude Code as an MCP server, register mla mcp. In an activated repository it serves your governed knowledge; elsewhere it connects in a status-only mode and tells you the next step.

See mla help for the full command list.

Platforms

mla is tested on macOS and Linux. Windows is community-supported: it runs under WSL, and that is the recommended path. Install and use it from inside your WSL distro exactly as on Linux.

If a coding agent drives mla from the Windows side (Git Bash / PowerShell) rather than from inside WSL, invoke it through WSL and single-quote the argument so the path is not rewritten to C:/Program Files/... before it reaches WSL:

wsl -e bash -c '$HOME/.meetless/bin/mla <args>'

The single quotes and literal $HOME matter: they expand inside WSL, and the leading slash never reaches Git Bash's POSIX-to-Windows path conversion.

Windows issues and contributions are welcome at github.com/Meetless/mla; fixes there are hand- ported back into the upstream tree, so a merged PR may lag a release. You can also file from anywhere with mla bug report.

Updating

mla checks for new releases and tells you how to upgrade with the same method you installed with. To upgrade manually:

• curl: rerun the install script above
• Homebrew: brew upgrade --cask mla
• npm: npm install -g @meetless/mla@latest

Set MLA_NO_UPDATE_NOTIFIER=1 to silence update checks.

Uninstall

mla uninstall            # interactive: shows exactly what it will remove, asks once
mla uninstall --dry-run  # preview only, changes nothing
mla uninstall --yes      # non-interactive (CI)

Removes the entire local footprint: ~/.meetless (config, credentials, queue, hooks, logs), the Meetless hook entries in ~/.claude/settings.json, the meetless MCP server in ~/.claude.json, and the /mla skill. It then prints the one command to remove the mla binary. It is local only: your server-side workspace data and any .meetless.json markers in other repos are left untouched (it tells you how to remove those by hand).

Links

• Website: https://meetless.ai
• Report a bug: run mla bug report (files it straight to the team), or email [email protected]

Licensed under Apache-2.0.