brainstormie-win

Windows installer for BraiStormie. Node is used only as the installer; the app itself is a frozen Windows executable.

npm install -g brainstormie-win
Brain

Brain with no arguments opens the full-screen terminal UI. Subcommands match the Python CLI (Brain init, Brain run, Brain doctor, …). On Windows the command is case-insensitive (brain works too).

Requirements

• Windows 10/11, 64-bit
• Node.js 20 or newer (for npm)
• No Python install is required

What install does

The npm package is a small launcher. postinstall places the PyInstaller onedir payload in vendor\braistormie\braistormie.exe from, in order:

1. BRAINSTORMIE_BUNDLE (zip or onedir folder)
2. A repo-local dist\braistormie build (npm install -g .\npm after .\scripts\package_windows.ps1)
3. A GitHub Release zip named brainstormie-win-x64-<version>.zip, checked against the matching .sha256 file

Registry installs refuse to run a downloaded zip until the SHA-256 matches.

Local install from this repository

.\scripts\package_windows.ps1
npm install -g .\npm
Brain --version

PATH

Global install writes Brain.cmd to the npm prefix (usually %APPDATA%\npm). The Node.js Windows installer normally adds that folder to your user PATH. If Brain is not found:

npm config get prefix
# add that folder to the user PATH, then open a new terminal

Windows Defender

The payload is an unsigned PyInstaller onedir. Windows Defender and other antivirus tools often flag unsigned frozen binaries. Sign the exe before a public release. Until then, prefer a local .\scripts\package_windows.ps1 build you produced yourself.