Install

The CLI

The CLI is a single standalone binary: no Node, no npm, no registry account. The installer downloads the build for your platform from the latest release:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/manchtools/open-docref/main/install.sh | sh

It lands in ~/.local/bin/docref (override with DOCREF_INSTALL_DIR) and updates itself in place with docref self-update. On Windows, download docref-windows-x64.exe from the releases page. Building from source is covered in Contributing.

The VS Code extension

Install it straight from the CLI. It downloads the .vsix from the latest release and installs it into every VS Code-family editor it finds on PATH.

docref install-extension

Or do it by hand: download the .vsix from the GitHub releases and run Extensions: Install from VSIX… in the editor, or:

code --install-extension open-docref-vscode-<version>.vsix

docref self-update refreshes both the binary and the installed extension together, so the editor never lags the CLI.

Not on the Marketplace

The extension is intentionally not published to the VS Code Marketplace; the .vsix (via docref install-extension or a manual download) is the distribution.