Install and run

The crew always runs on your machine, as Claude Code sessions. Tares, which keeps the plan, the tickets, the reviews and your answers, runs on Tares Cloud or on your local machine.

What your machine needs

Claude Code, signed in, on a plan that allows background sessions.
gh, signed in, with write access to the repos the crew works in.
git, jq and curl.

The tares CLI:


uv tool install tares     # or: brew install glassflow/tap/tares

The tares package includes the Tares plugin for Claude Code that the crew uses.

Run Tares

Tares Cloud

Sign up at console.tares-glassflow.com and create a workspace with Software Factory chosen. Then connect your machine:


tares login

Choose the workspace in the browser. The crew and every tares factory command use it from then on.

To run Tares on your own private cloud, use the enterprise version. Contact us at help@glassflow.ai.

Connect GitHub

Choose Connect GitHub under Get your factory going on the console’s home, and pick the repos the crew works in. Tares follows each pull request, its review and its checks.

Start the crew


tares factory crew up

The first run asks how far the crew may go, then the crew waits for a project. Run the crew has the settings, and Plan a project gives it its first project.

Upgrade


uv tool upgrade tares     # or: brew upgrade glassflow/tap/tares

Tares Cloud workspaces are upgraded for you.