Installation

Prerequisites

Before installing Sigil Wallet, ensure you have:

• Node.js 18 or later — Download
• pnpm (recommended) or npm — npm i -g pnpm
• A supported operating system: macOS, Linux, or Windows

Sigil Wallet uses your OS Keychain for key storage, which requires:

On Linux, you may need to install libsecret if it's not already available:

# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install libsecret-1-dev

# Fedora
sudo dnf install libsecret-devel

Install via npm

Install the Sigil Wallet CLI globally:

npm i -g sigil-wallet

Or with pnpm:

pnpm add -g sigil-wallet

Verify Installation

sigil --version

You should see the installed version number printed to the terminal.

Next Step

Run the initialization wizard to set up your workspace:

sigil init

This will walk you through:

1. Configuring your first LLM provider
2. Generating your first agent wallet
3. Setting up the local database

See Quick Start for the full walkthrough.