Check your platform

Command

Before your first lifecycle, make sure cckit can run here: a supported platform, its dependencies, and GitHub signed in.

1. Confirm your platform is supported.

   Platform	Supported
   macOS	Yes — native
   Linux	Yes — native
   Windows	Yes — via WSL or Git Bash (not native cmd/PowerShell)

2. Check — and install — dependencies. You need bash 4+, git, and gh (the GitHub command-line tool); jq (a JSON reader) is recommended. cckit doctor finds what’s missing and, when you run it in a terminal, asks before installing anything:

   Check what's missing — and offer to fix it

   cckit doctor

   Say yes and it installs each piece for you (Homebrew, gh, jq, …); say no and it just prints the exact commands to run yourself. To skip the question, use --fix:

   Install the missing pieces without the prompt

   cckit doctor --fix

3. Sign in to GitHub. Once gh is installed, authenticate once — then re-run cckit doctor to confirm everything is in place.

   gh auth login

New to the terminal? Start here

The terminal is the text window where you type commands. gh is GitHub’s official command-line tool. Run cckit doctor, approve the prompt, and it installs gh (and anything else missing) for you; then gh auth login signs you in.