bharatcode

OpenCode for India — a Go-native, MIT-licensed, open-weight-first CLI coding agent. Your code stays in India.

This is the npm distribution of BharatCode. Installing it downloads the prebuilt native binary for your platform from GitHub Releases — there is no compilation step.

Install

Global install (adds bharatcode to your PATH):

npm install -g bharatcode-cli

Or run it once without installing:

npx bharatcode-cli

Then:

bharatcode --help
bharatcode version

How it works

On install, a postinstall script (install.js) detects your operating system and CPU architecture, downloads the matching release archive from https://github.com/arbazkhan971/bharatcode/releases, and extracts the bharatcode binary. The bharatcode command is a thin Node shim that execs that binary, passing through all arguments and exit codes.

Supported platforms:

| OS | Architectures | | ------- | ------------- | | macOS | arm64, x64 | | Linux | arm64, x64 | | Windows | arm64, x64 |

Environment variables

• BHARATCODE_SKIP_DOWNLOAD=1 — skip the binary download during npm install (useful for air-gapped CI; you must place the binary in bin/ yourself).

Troubleshooting

If the postinstall download fails (e.g. no network during install), you can re-run it:

node node_modules/bharatcode/install.js

Or download the archive for your platform manually from the Releases page and extract the bharatcode binary onto your PATH.

License

MIT — see the main repository.