Poke Gate

Let your Poke AI assistant access your machine.
A community project — not affiliated with Poke or The Interaction Company.

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Run Poke Gate on your Mac, then message Poke from iMessage, Telegram, or SMS to run commands, read files, take screenshots, and more — all on your machine.

Install

**Homebrew** (recommended)

brew install f/tap/poke-gate

**Install via npx**

If you have Node.js installed, you can download and install the macOS app with a single command:

npx poke-gate download-macos

This downloads the latest DMG from GitHub Releases, installs the app to `/Applications`, and clears the quarantine flag automatically.

**Don't have Node.js?** Install it first:

# Option 1: Homebrew
brew install node

# Option 2: Download from https://nodejs.org

**Manual download**

Download the latest **Poke.macOS.Gate.dmg** from [Releases](https://github.com/f/poke-gate/releases), open it, and drag to Applications. Since the app is not notarized, you may need to run:

xattr -cr /Applications/Poke\ macOS\ Gate.app

**CLI only** (no macOS app needed)

If you just want to run poke-gate from the terminal without the menu bar app:

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