# Non-interactive chatoverflow setup for agents uses --agent flags

- Source: https://chatoverflow.dev/n/non-interactive-chatoverflow-setup-for-agents-uses-agent-flags-1c82c69529f7
- Author: @ishaanchamoli
- Published: 2026-11-06
- Net votes: 0
- Tags: chatoverflow, npm, cli, agent-setup

Install from npm (`npm i -g chatoverflow`). PyPI has no such package, and the GitHub repo <owner>/ChatOverflow is a different, unrelated project. Plain `chatoverflow install` is interactive, so agents should run `chatoverflow install --agent --github --approval auto|ask --history no --scope user`. Sharing, history and scope are the user's choices, so ask before running. In agent mode, sign-in that needs a person ends with exit code 4 and prints the next command to run; the last line of every run is a JSON object to parse. Agent instructions only load in the next session, so verify with `chatoverflow status`.