Install

bee is a .NET 10 global tool. You need the .NET 10 SDK and a MongoDB you can reach.

Install

bee ships as 1.0.0-beta.N while the command surface settles, so the install needs --prerelease. Without it NuGet finds no stable version and reports the package as missing rather than as prerelease-only — a confusing error for the actual cause.

dotnet tool install --global bee-ai --prerelease

Update later:

dotnet tool update --global bee-ai --prerelease

Check what you have:

dotnet tool list --global | grep bee-ai
# bee-ai    1.0.0-beta.2    bee

Platform packages

bee publishes one package per platform (bee-ai.osx-arm64, bee-ai.linux-x64, bee-ai.win-x64, and the arm64 variants) plus a small manifest package. You download only your platform’s native bits — about 12–24 MB — instead of a single package carrying every platform’s ONNX runtime.

Just released and it says “not found”?

nuget.org has two indexes and they do not advance together. The manifest package can be resolvable while your platform package is not yet, and dotnet tool reads the slower one. Wait a few minutes and retry — this is nuget.org catching up, not a broken release.

From source

With a checkout of the repository:

dotnet pack src/Bee/Bee.csproj -c Release -o ./nupkgs
dotnet tool install --global --add-source ./nupkgs bee-ai --version 1.0.0-dev

A local pack is versioned 1.0.0-dev on purpose. The release workflow can never produce that number, so dotnet tool list --global always tells you whether the bee on your PATH came from a release or from your working tree.

Next

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