Join the network

Install the logged binary on an Apple Silicon Mac and start serving.

You need an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 14 or later. Sign in on the site first. The curl path does not need Xcode.

curl -fsSL https://mifr-install-production.up.railway.app/install-provider.sh | sh

That downloads the logged mifrd, verifies checksum and cdhash, installs ~/.mifr/bin/mifr, and starts the LaunchAgent. It then walks you into Apple attestation. Linking the Mac to your account is a separate step. When install finishes, run:

mifr login

That opens a one-time code on the site. The coordinator never sees the account. The token lands in ~/.mifr/account.json.

Daily serve:

mifr start
mifr stop
mifr restart
mifr whoami
mifr models list

mifr start without a TTY opens a model picker. Piped install skips the picker and starts qwen3-4b so curl | sh never hangs.

The service is a per-user LaunchAgent. It starts at login and restarts on crash. For an always-on headless Mac, enable automatic login so that user session exists after a reboot. A login-less boot would need a root daemon, which the per-user Secure Enclave key rules out.

From a checkout, developers who want to build instead of download can run scripts/mifr-provider install. That path needs the pinned Xcode and Metal toolchain. Operators should use the curl installer.