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@symbiosis-lab/moss

v0.11.7

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moss on your PATH — npm wrapper that installs the moss CLI binary from moss-releases

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@symbiosis-lab/moss

moss on your PATH. This package downloads the official moss CLI binary from moss-releases and exposes it as the moss command.

Publishing note: the package is currently marked "private": true in package.json so it cannot ship by accident. Flip that (remove the field) at publish time — publishConfig is already set up.

Install

npm install -g @symbiosis-lab/moss
moss --version

The binary is fetched at install time (postinstall). With --ignore-scripts, or if the download failed (e.g. offline), the first moss invocation fetches it lazily instead.

Supported platforms: macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon, one universal binary) and Linux x86_64.

Use

moss build ~/Sites/my-site

All arguments pass straight through to the moss binary; see moss --help.

Linux runtime dependency (temporary)

The current Linux binary links against WebKitGTK even for headless CLI verbs. If moss fails with error while loading shared libraries, install:

sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0

This requirement is temporary — a moss CLI build without the WebKitGTK linkage is planned.

Checksums

Downloads are verified against the SHA256SUMS file published with each release. Releases that predate checksum publishing install with a warning instead of verification.

Versioning and overrides

The wrapper downloads the moss version matching its own package version; they are released in lockstep. MOSS_VERSION_OVERRIDE=v0.11.1 forces a specific release (ops/testing escape hatch).

Controlling the download

| Variable | Effect | |---|---| | MOSS_SKIP_BINARY_DOWNLOAD=1 | Install the wrapper without fetching a binary. moss then fetches it on first run. | | MOSS_BINARY_PATH=/path/to/moss | Run that binary instead of the vendored one, and skip the download entirely. | | MOSS_FORCE_BINARY_DOWNLOAD=1 | Download even where the wrapper would otherwise skip. |

Each also reads from .npmrc under its lowercased name (moss_skip_binary_download=true), because npm passes config keys to lifecycle scripts as npm_config_*.

Inside the moss repo the download is skipped automatically. A checkout is not an install: packages/moss sits in the workspace rather than under node_modules, so pnpm install at the repo root would otherwise pull a release binary that no moss developer wants — they build from source. Point MOSS_BINARY_PATH at src-tauri/target/release/moss to exercise the wrapper against your own build.

License

The wrapper code in this package is MIT (see LICENSE). The moss binary it downloads is a separate work, distributed under its own terms via moss-releases.