Setup

NebGuard installs for your AI coding assistant and then guards every action your agent takes, with no per-project configuration required. Installing is the same shape for every assistant: put the nebguard binary on your PATH, then run nebguard setup <assistant>.

Pick your assistant from the table, then follow its page for the exact steps.

Supported assistants

Assistant	Vendor	Status	Setup command	Configure
Claude Code	Anthropic	Supported	nebguard setup claude-code	None
Codex CLI	OpenAI	Supported	nebguard setup codex-cli	One-time hook trust

NebGuard behaves the same across every supported assistant, and each is enabled with nebguard setup <assistant>.

Planned, in rough order of popularity: GitHub Copilot CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI, opencode, Continue, Amazon Q Developer CLI, and Qwen Code. Run nebguard setup --help to see the current list on your binary.

note

NebGuard installs hooks that your assistant invokes automatically. You never run those hooks yourself. The only commands you run are the ones on each assistant's page.

Prerequisites (all assistants)

• The nebguard binary on your PATH. Public users install it from get.nebcore.ai; see the Installation page for the install host and the signature-verification recipe.
• The assistant itself already installed and working. NebGuard wires into an existing assistant; it does not install the assistant for you.

Licensing

NebGuard licenses itself. nebguard setup includes its own one-time signup, so NebGuard works on its own with no other tool required: a new user gets a time-boxed trial of the paid rule domains that then steps down to the always-on free guardrails.

You do not need nebcli. If you are a NebCore tenant, logging in with NebCLI is a shortcut that delivers your license automatically, so you skip the NebGuard signup and the paid rule domains stay active:

nebcli login

There is no separate nebguard login, and licensing works the same way for every assistant. See Concepts for how tiers map to domains, and NebCLI and NebGuard together for exactly how the two tools cooperate.

tip

If you log in with nebcli after installing NebGuard, your license is picked up at the start of your next agent session. There is nothing else to run.

Next steps

• Claude Code or Codex CLI: install for your assistant.
• Concepts: the safety model, the seven domains, licensing tiers, and telemetry.
• Examples: see what a block and a guidance note look like.