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How to install atuin on Windows (atuinsh/atuin) · gitmanual

How to install on Windows

atuinsh/atuin

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Start here

Website ↗atuin.shThe project's own site.Docs ↗docs.atuin.shLinked from the README.In the browser ↗Open in GitHub CodespacesThe repo ships a dev container, so nothing to install.

Setup script in the repo

The maintainers included install.sh. Run it from the cloned folder after reading it.

bash install.sh

Will it work on my device?

Yes, it installs on your Windows

A ready-made Windows download is in the latest release.

Supported devices from the README: Supported platforms

Atuin supports zsh, bash, fish, nushell, xonsh, and PowerShell. See Supported platforms for the full matrix and what each tier means.

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Download for Windows

18.24.5 · 11/4/2026 ↗

atuin-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.msi

msi · x64 · 19.9 MB · 16 downloads · best match

Download

Invoke-WebRequest "https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.5/atuin-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.msi" -OutFile "atuin-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.msi"
msiexec /i "atuin-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.msi"

Other Windows downloads (2)

atuin-server-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip

zip · x64 · 5.8 MB · 10 downloads

Download

Add the extracted folder to your PATH if it's a CLI tool.

Invoke-WebRequest "https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.5/atuin-server-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip" -OutFile "atuin-server-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip"
Expand-Archive "atuin-server-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip" -DestinationPath .

atuin-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip

zip · x64 · 20.0 MB · 1,038 downloads

Download

Add the extracted folder to your PATH if it's a CLI tool.

Invoke-WebRequest "https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.5/atuin-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip" -OutFile "atuin-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip"
Expand-Archive "atuin-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip" -DestinationPath .

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Good to know

Cargo workspace — pick a crate with cargo run -p <name>.
Dockerfile available (base image: lukemathwalker/cargo-chef:latest-rust-slim-bookworm@sha256:b4b459d305bee99c8f8200212c46276108af90b0501386e1339336c2e03c81a2).
Dev Container config found — you can open it in VS Code Dev Containers or GitHub Codespaces for a zero-setup environment.
Has AGENTS.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.
Nested projects: crates/atuin-ai/Cargo.toml, crates/atuin-client/Cargo.toml, crates/atuin-common/Cargo.toml, crates/atuin-daemon/Cargo.toml and 11 more

Files we read (12)

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

.github/workflows/beta-release.yml

.github/workflows/devcontainer.yaml

.github/workflows/docker.yaml

.github/workflows/docs-main.yml

.github/workflows/docs-release.yml

.github/workflows/release.yml

CONTRIBUTING.md

Cargo.toml

Dockerfile

README.md

rust-toolchain.toml

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