Target the installation you have

Inspect the command contract locally

These commands do not contact a Controller. Compare supported command families before connecting to an older installation.

rippflow commands --installation-version 1.0.4 --json
rippflow commands --installation-version 1.8.1 --json

Resolve the target explicitly

Discovery uses the Controller installation/release endpoint. An explicit --installation-version X.Y.Z or RIPPFLOW_INSTALLATION_VERSION selects the target contract. Unsupported commands fail closed with an actionable version diagnostic.

Controls start at 1.4.0, governed tools/MCP at 1.7.0, Enterprise group RBAC at 1.8.0 and signed release management at 1.8.1 in the current catalog. Capabilities and permissions still apply.

Develop locally first

Doctor, scaffold/examples, validation, dev/test, reports, TUI, profiling and Docker support iteration. On macOS (Rippflow.app), Windows, and Linux (./install.sh / rippflow install), installing Rippflow Studio places rippflow on your PATH, registers Rippflow Studio in your Applications menu, Desktop tile, and taskbar, and provides the built-in rippflow studio (aliases rippflow app / rippflow shell) desktop workspace (GPUI + Longbridge gpui-kit + alacritty_terminal with guided 5-step onboarding, System/Light/Dark Rippflow theme toggle, and AppBar CLI authentication state). Local mode uses in-memory state and trusted executables. It does not emulate all cloud retry, durability, IAM or failover guarantees.

See Quickstart and local development.

CLI self-update also verifies its signed release metadata. Use only a supported release channel/trust root; a newer CLI cannot manufacture a missing installer or installation capability.