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Boost your developers’ productivity while keeping your code secure

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Symbiotic Code is a security-first coding agent that runs in your terminal. To use it you will need:

• A terminal: Use the default terminal, or a modern terminal emulator like iTerm or Warp. It can also run in an IDE terminal (e.g., VS Code terminal).
• A Symbiotic Security account: Ask your admin or Symbiotic point of contact for access.

Installation

CLI install

Install Symbiotic Code with your preferred package manager:

npm install -g @symbioticsec/code

You can also use pnpm install -g @symbioticsec/code, yarn global add @symbioticsec/code, or bun install -g @symbioticsec/code. The installer is available for curl-based installations:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/SymbioticSec/symcode/releases/latest/download/install.sh | bash

Error during installation ?

Check that node and npm are properly installed:

  node -v
  npm -v

If they are not installed, install them and retry.

To launch Symbiotic Code, use the symbiotic command in your terminal:

symbiotic

IDE extension install

Download our extension and install it in all VSCode based IDEs.

Authentication

A Symbiotic Security account is required. If you don’t have access, contact your administrator or Symbiotic point of contact.

On first launch, you’ll be prompted to enter your personal access token:

Symbiotic Code detects whether it was installed with npm, pnpm, yarn, Bun, or the installer and uses the same method when checking for and applying updates.