From 1ca43a85e00fa896b912e1eeba620c0eb4ffcf20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colby McHenry <me@colbymchenry.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:20:53 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Installer now installs codegraph globally

The installer runs `npm install -g @colbymchenry/codegraph` so users
can simply run `codegraph init -i` instead of the full npx command.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 README.md               |  2 +-
 package.json            |  2 +-
 src/installer/banner.ts |  2 +-
 src/installer/index.ts  | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 66ba831..11f8315 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ For each project you want to use CodeGraph with:
 
 ```bash
 cd your-project
-npx @colbymchenry/codegraph init -i
+codegraph init -i
 ```
 
 That's it! Claude Code will now use CodeGraph tools automatically when a `.codegraph/` directory exists.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e1308dd..771f071 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@colbymchenry/codegraph",
-  "version": "0.2.3",
+  "version": "0.2.4",
   "description": "A local-first code intelligence system that builds a semantic knowledge graph from any codebase",
   "main": "dist/index.js",
   "types": "dist/index.d.ts",
diff --git a/src/installer/banner.ts b/src/installer/banner.ts
index 3630405..952f6e0 100644
--- a/src/installer/banner.ts
+++ b/src/installer/banner.ts
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ export function showNextSteps(location: 'global' | 'local'): void {
   if (location === 'global') {
     console.log(chalk.dim('  Quick start:'));
     console.log(chalk.dim('    cd your-project'));
-    console.log(chalk.cyan('    npx @colbymchenry/codegraph init -i'));
+    console.log(chalk.cyan('    codegraph init -i'));
   } else {
     console.log(chalk.dim('  CodeGraph is ready to use in this project!'));
   }
diff --git a/src/installer/index.ts b/src/installer/index.ts
index 6542aa4..c70edc5 100644
--- a/src/installer/index.ts
+++ b/src/installer/index.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  * with Claude Code.
  */
 
+import { execSync } from 'child_process';
 import { showBanner, showNextSteps, success, error, info, chalk } from './banner';
 import { promptInstallLocation, promptAutoAllow, InstallLocation } from './prompts';
 import { writeMcpConfig, writePermissions, hasMcpConfig, hasPermissions } from './config-writer';
@@ -25,11 +26,22 @@ export async function runInstaller(): Promise<void> {
   showBanner();
 
   try {
-    // Step 1: Ask for installation location
+    // Step 1: Install codegraph globally
+    console.log(chalk.dim('  Installing codegraph globally...'));
+    try {
+      execSync('npm install -g @colbymchenry/codegraph', { stdio: 'pipe' });
+      success('Installed codegraph command globally');
+    } catch {
+      // May fail if no permissions, but that's ok - npx still works
+      info('Could not install globally (try with sudo if needed)');
+    }
+    console.log();
+
+    // Step 2: Ask for installation location
     const location = await promptInstallLocation();
     console.log();
 
-    // Step 2: Write MCP configuration
+    // Step 3: Write MCP configuration
     const alreadyHasMcp = hasMcpConfig(location);
     writeMcpConfig(location);
 
@@ -39,7 +51,7 @@ export async function runInstaller(): Promise<void> {
       success(`Added MCP server to ${location === 'global' ? '~/.claude.json' : './.claude.json'}`);
     }
 
-    // Step 3: Ask about auto-allow permissions
+    // Step 4: Ask about auto-allow permissions
     const autoAllow = await promptAutoAllow();
     console.log();
 
@@ -54,7 +66,7 @@ export async function runInstaller(): Promise<void> {
       }
     }
 
-    // Step 4: For local install, initialize the project
+    // Step 5: For local install, initialize the project
     if (location === 'local') {
       await initializeLocalProject();
     }