Install Tome
Tome ships as a single self-contained binary. The semantic index, reranker, and local models are built in — there is nothing else to install to get search working.
Prerequisites
- Binary install (Homebrew / prebuilt): none. The binary is statically built for Linux and macOS.
cargo install: Rust 1.93 or newer, a C/C++ toolchain (for the bundled SQLite andsqlite-vecC extension), CMake, and a network connection (the ONNX Runtime used for inference is downloaded during the build).
Homebrew (macOS)
brew install aaronbassett/homebrew-tap/tome
Cargo
cargo install tome-mcp
The crate is published as tome-mcp; it installs a binary named tome.
From source
git clone https://github.com/devrelaicom/tome
cd tome
cargo build --release
# the binary is at target/release/tome
Platform support
| Platform | x86_64 | aarch64 |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | supported | supported |
| macOS | supported | supported |
| Windows | untested | untested |
Prebuilt binaries are provided for Linux and macOS on both x86_64 and
aarch64. Windows is not currently tested.
Verify the install
tome --version
If that prints a version, you're ready for the Quickstart.