Is rtk still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change today. Latest release dev-1.2.0-rc.619, yesterday.

Some track record. 86k stars, 10 months old, by an organization. Get it from the official repo and read what it installs.

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How to install rtk on Linux (rtk-ai/rtk) · gitmanual

How to install on Linux

rtk-ai/rtk

CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies

Rust#agentic-coding#ai-coding#anthropic#claude-code

Difficulty: Easy
Time: about 5 min
Stars: ★ 85,803
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License: Apache-2.0
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Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (Apache-2.0).
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change today. Latest release dev-1.2.0-rc.619, yesterday.
Can I trust it?: Some track record86k stars, 10 months old, by an organization. Get it from the official repo and read what it installs.

Start here

Website ↗rtk-ai.appThe project's own site.

Setup script in the repo

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

bash install.sh

Also: scripts/install-local.sh

Will it work on my device?

Yes, it installs on your Linux

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

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Download for Linux

dev-1.2.0-rc.619 (pre-release) · 11/6/2026 ↗

rtk_amd64.deb

deb · x64 · 5.3 MB · 7 downloads · best match

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk_amd64.deb"
sudo apt install ./"rtk_amd64.deb"

Other Linux downloads (24)

rtk-oss_0.49.0-1_amd64.deb

deb · x64 · 4.6 MB · 5 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-oss_0.49.0-1_amd64.deb"
sudo apt install ./"rtk-oss_0.49.0-1_amd64.deb"

rtk-oss_amd64.deb

deb · x64 · 4.6 MB · 3 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-oss_amd64.deb"
sudo apt install ./"rtk-oss_amd64.deb"

rtk_0.49.0-1_amd64.deb

deb · x64 · 5.3 MB · 4 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk_0.49.0-1_amd64.deb"
sudo apt install ./"rtk_0.49.0-1_amd64.deb"

rtk-oss-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

tar.gz · x64 · 6.1 MB · 13 downloads

Download

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-oss-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "rtk-oss-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"

rtk-proxy-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

tar.gz · x64 · 8.8 MB · 6 downloads

Download

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-proxy-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "rtk-proxy-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"

rtk-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

tar.gz · x64 · 7.1 MB · 14 downloads

Download

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "rtk-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"

rtk-oss_0.49.0-1_arm64.deb

deb · ARM64 · 3.9 MB · 3 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-oss_0.49.0-1_arm64.deb"
sudo apt install ./"rtk-oss_0.49.0-1_arm64.deb"

rtk-oss_arm64.deb

deb · ARM64 · 3.9 MB · 6 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-oss_arm64.deb"
sudo apt install ./"rtk-oss_arm64.deb"

rtk_0.49.0-1_arm64.deb

deb · ARM64 · 4.5 MB · 5 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk_0.49.0-1_arm64.deb"
sudo apt install ./"rtk_0.49.0-1_arm64.deb"

rtk_arm64.deb

deb · ARM64 · 4.5 MB · 4 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk_arm64.deb"
sudo apt install ./"rtk_arm64.deb"

rtk-0.49.0-1.x86_64.rpm

rpm · x64 · 7.1 MB · 5 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-0.49.0-1.x86_64.rpm"
sudo dnf install ./"rtk-0.49.0-1.x86_64.rpm"

rtk-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz

tar.gz · ARM64 · 6.3 MB · 11 downloads

Download

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "rtk-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"

rtk-oss-0.49.0-1.x86_64.rpm

rpm · x64 · 6.0 MB · 4 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-oss-0.49.0-1.x86_64.rpm"
sudo dnf install ./"rtk-oss-0.49.0-1.x86_64.rpm"

rtk-oss-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz

tar.gz · ARM64 · 5.4 MB · 9 downloads

Download

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-oss-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "rtk-oss-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"

rtk-oss.x86_64.rpm

rpm · x64 · 6.0 MB · 4 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-oss.x86_64.rpm"
sudo dnf install ./"rtk-oss.x86_64.rpm"

rtk-proxy-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz

tar.gz · ARM64 · 8.3 MB · 6 downloads

Download

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-proxy-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "rtk-proxy-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"

rtk.x86_64.rpm

rpm · x64 · 7.1 MB · 5 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk.x86_64.rpm"
sudo dnf install ./"rtk.x86_64.rpm"

rtk-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

tar.gz · ARM64 · 6.3 MB · 19 downloads

Download

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "rtk-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"

rtk-oss-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

tar.gz · ARM64 · 5.5 MB · 11 downloads

Download

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-oss-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "rtk-oss-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"

rtk-proxy-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

tar.gz · ARM64 · 8.4 MB · 5 downloads

Download

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-proxy-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "rtk-proxy-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"

rtk-0.49.0-1.aarch64.rpm

rpm · ARM64 · 6.3 MB · 4 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-0.49.0-1.aarch64.rpm"
sudo dnf install ./"rtk-0.49.0-1.aarch64.rpm"

rtk-oss-0.49.0-1.aarch64.rpm

rpm · ARM64 · 5.4 MB · 3 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-oss-0.49.0-1.aarch64.rpm"
sudo dnf install ./"rtk-oss-0.49.0-1.aarch64.rpm"

rtk-oss.aarch64.rpm

rpm · ARM64 · 5.4 MB · 5 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk-oss.aarch64.rpm"
sudo dnf install ./"rtk-oss.aarch64.rpm"

rtk.aarch64.rpm

rpm · ARM64 · 6.3 MB · 5 downloads

Download

curl -LO "https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/releases/download/dev-1.2.0-rc.619/rtk.aarch64.rpm"
sudo dnf install ./"rtk.aarch64.rpm"

Install with a package manager

Homebrew

brew install rtk                                              # macOS / Linux

install script

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rtk-ai/rtk/refs/heads/master/install.sh | sh

Pipes a remote script into your shell. Read it before running.

Homebrew

brew install rtk-ai/tap/rtk-oss

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

Did you get it running?

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Has CLAUDE.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.
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.github/workflows/ci.yml

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INSTALL.md

README.md

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