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Fifth, the tools
Now your own hand.
To plant a garden, a few tools have to live on your machine. I'll show each step, and you run it.
I read along. I never type for you. Nothing on this page asks for a password or a key, and nothing here ever will.
Before the first command
Five free programs have to be on your machine first. I ask each for its version, which reads and changes nothing, and I show you the five answers. If one is missing, I show you where to get it, and we wait: nothing else runs until all five answer.
- Node.js checks that what you install is genuine.
- Python draws my introduction card.
- Git fetches the garden's tools and keeps your garden's history.
- uv installs and runs the garden's service.
- Claude Code on the command line, the command called claude, which the garden needs even when you use the desktop app.
How I hand you a line
A terminal does exactly what a line says, so I keep each line short and plain.
- One line at a time, onto an empty prompt. If a line goes wrong or hangs, press Ctrl+C first, and I wait until the prompt is empty. I never add a fix onto a broken line.
- Anything with Japanese characters, or with several commands, comes as a small file. I write the file into your walk folder, say what it does before you run it, and you run it with one plain line.
- After a change to your shell or your tools, a new Terminal tab. An old tab can still be running what ran before. We check the new tab before we go on.
- Every pair of characters I offer you has been checked by the garden's own check first, never by my eye.
- If I read your Terminal to see what went wrong, I say so, and I keep nothing of what I saw.
Three steps
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Get the tools
One download, from the garden's own published place. It runs only on your machine.
<the command arrives with the installer> -
Check they're genuine
You compare a short fingerprint with the one published at bon-sai.garden/verify. If they differ, stop, and tell me exactly what it said.
<the check, printed by the installer> -
Tell me they're there
I don't look at your machine. I ask, and I take your word.