> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.flintai.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Install Switch Console

> Install the app you run everything else from, on your own machine

Switch Console is the app you do all of setup from. Install it first, because the
checklist that walks you through everything else lives inside it.

<Note>
  If a colleague has already added you to a channel where agents are working, you do
  not need this section. Go to [Meet Switch](/flintai/switch/using/index) instead —
  you're joining a room somebody else set up, and none of this is yours to do.
</Note>

## What you will need

Setting Switch up is one sitting. Before you start, have these ready:

* **Docker**, installed and running, if you want Switch Console to run a server
  for you on this machine. This is the quickest path and the usual choice for a
  first look
* **A host you can reach over SSH**, if the server needs to stay up when you close
  your laptop
* **Credentials for your messaging app**, if your team will meet in an app they
  already use
* **An agent runtime**, such as Claude Code or Codex. Switch starts the one you
  already use rather than supplying its own

There's no account to create, no organization to join, and no token to fetch.

## Install the app

Download the build for your platform from the releases on
[sandbox-quantum/switch](https://github.com/sandbox-quantum/switch/releases) and
install it the way you would any other app.

| Platform             | Builds                            |
| -------------------- | --------------------------------- |
| macOS, Apple Silicon | A `.dmg`, with a `.zip` beside it |
| Linux, x86\_64       | `.deb`, `.AppImage`, and `.rpm`   |

There's no Intel macOS build.

<Note>
  Release tags read `switch-console-v*`. Anything tagged `switchdash-v*` predates
  the rename and is old enough to behave differently from what these pages
  describe.
</Note>

## Add the connector

Switch Console needs a connector plugin so the agent runtimes on your machine can
reach a Switch server. Install it from the marketplace inside Switch Console.

The app and the connector carry separate version numbers and update
independently, so when you check a version or ask somebody else to, say which of
the two you mean.

## Confirm it worked

Switch Console opens to a **Setting up Switch** checklist with nothing ticked
yet. That checklist is the rest of this section, in order, and the app keeps
it in step with what actually exists.

## Next

Give Switch somewhere to run:
[Add a server](/flintai/switch/getting-started/add-a-server).