macbatch (npm)

Friend / miner install:

# prerequisites: macOS, Homebrew, Python 3.11+ (usually already present)
npm i -g macbatch

macbatch setup --control-url https://YOUR-CONTROL-TUNNEL
macbatch serve

macbatch setup will:

1. Check disk / Apple Silicon
2. Ensure Python package works
3. brew install ollama if missing
4. brew services start ollama
5. ollama pull nomic-embed-text
6. Smoke-test embeddings
7. Save worker config + ping control plane

Host (control plane)

macbatch control start --tunnel
# share the Public URL with friends
macbatch serve   # optional: also mine on host
macbatch bench embed --n 500 --mode multi

Notes

• This npm package wraps the Python CLI (private venv under the package dir).
• Auto-publish: see ../.github/workflows/publish.yml
• Local dev without npm: pip install -e .. from repo root

License

MIT