Install LaabhAI on your own computer

Before you start

• A Zerodha (Kite) account of your own.
• A Claude Pro or Max plan from Anthropic, for Claude Code. The free Claude plan does not include Claude Code.
• A Mac with macOS 13 or newer, or a PC with Windows 10 or 11, that stays on and awake during market hours.
• Telegram on your phone is recommended for the daily messages; email also works.

Install

1. Step 1

   Run the install command

   Mac: open Terminal (search for it in Spotlight), paste this and press Return.

   curl -fsSL https://laabhai.com/install.sh | bash

   Windows: open PowerShell (search for it in the Start menu), paste this and press Enter.

   irm https://laabhai.com/install.ps1 | iex

   It installs Node.js, Git and Claude Code if they are missing, then LaabhAI and its laabh command. Your computer may ask for your password to install software. If anything stops it partway, run the same command again; it picks up where it left off.

2. Step 2

   Sign in to Claude

   A browser window opens for you to sign in with your Claude Pro or Max account. When you are signed in, type /exit in the window that opened to carry on.

3. Step 3

   Accept the terms

   Setup shows you the risk disclosure in full and links to the terms of use, privacy notice and acceptable use rules (also on our Legal page). Read them, then type ACCEPT. You can also do this yourself in a terminal:

   laabh accept-terms

   LaabhAI will not finish setup or start until you accept. If a document changes later, it pauses and asks you to accept again.

4. Step 4

   Answer the setup questions

   Setup asks six questions, one at a time:

   1. Log in to Zerodha on Zerodha’s own page, using the link it shows you.
   2. How much money LaabhAI should manage, in rupees (at least ₹1,000). Your loss limits are measured against this amount.
   3. A loss-limit preset: Conservative (the default), Moderate or Aggressive. For example, Conservative stops new buys if a day’s loss reaches 2%.
   4. How LaabhAI reaches you: Telegram, email, both, or neither. You type your Telegram bot token or email password in a separate terminal window, never in the chat.
   5. Your existing Zerodha holdings: it shows the list and asks you to confirm that LaabhAI will manage them under the same rules.
   6. The mode. Paper is the default and the one we recommend to begin with.

   At the end it runs a health check and starts in the mode you picked.

What to expect on the first run

• LaabhAI first downloads about a year of NSE prices, which takes around 10 minutes in the background. You get a message when it starts and when it is done. No trades happen until it finishes. Keep the computer awake and online if you can; if it is interrupted, it carries on next time.
• From the next trading day, the Zerodha login link arrives on Telegram at 08:30. One tap each morning keeps it running.
• You then get the morning brief, order messages, the end-of-day report at around 16:05 and a weekly review on Sunday. See how it works.
• If anything looks wrong, run laabh doctor. It checks your setup and tells you what is missing.

Switching modes

To move between paper, watch-only and approve-each-order on Telegram, run setup again in Claude Code with /laabhai:setup, or run the command directly, for example:

laabh setup --finish --mode confirm

paper (default, recommended first), watch, confirm (approve each order) and live (autonomous) are the choices. Live needs your own acknowledgement that real money is at risk, typed as a flag:

laabh setup --finish --capital 50000 --preset conservative --mode live --i-understand-the-risks

Or switch later with laabh go-live --i-understand-the-risks. Before any real-money mode, laabh gate shows LaabhAI’s own test results as information; they do not block your choice. Live mode starts at half the computed size until 20 clean live days pass. To go back to paper at any time, use --mode paper. After changing mode, run laabh stop and then laabh start so the change takes effect.

Pausing, stopping and removing it

• Pause new buys: send /halt on Telegram, or run laabh halt. Selling to reduce risk is never blocked. To carry on, send /resume with a short reason, or run laabh resume with one.
• Pause one stock: send /pause and the stock’s symbol on Telegram.
• Stop it completely: laabh stop. It stays stopped, even after a restart, until you run laabh start.
• Remove it: see how to uninstall. Your Zerodha account and holdings stay exactly as they are.