Trying it

There is no hosted trial. You install Bee Box on a machine you control, then create a box: your own directory, kept under version control with git, holding the cards the system works with.

The container path is the primary one. Docker with Compose v2 plus a clone of the repository, since no image is published yet. The sequence is four steps: create the box in a directory you choose, sign in to the coding agent, start the container, then open the printed local URL (the guide gives the exact commands). By default the box listens only on your own machine, so nothing else on your network can reach it until you decide otherwise. Details: install/docker.md. That guide documents the Claude login; the documentation does not describe logging Codex in inside the container.

The from-source path is for modifying the engine. It needs Node 24, pnpm, and several system binaries, and it ends with a doctor command that checks every prerequisite and prints a remedy for anything missing. Details: dev/developer-install.md.

The agent-driven install. The project publishes an install guide written for your own coding agent, so you can ask Claude Code or Codex to do the install with you: install/agent-install.md. That guide tells the agent to treat the instructions as advice rather than authority, and to ask you before anything that affects your machine, your data, or your accounts. Four decisions are yours: run it or hack on it, where the box lives, your own agent login, and whether the box is exposed beyond loopback.

The first hour. Start with the inputs that need no external account: type into chat, record a voice memo, photograph things and talk about them. Scheduled processing is off on a fresh box, so nothing runs on its own until you turn it on. Connecting Google, which unlocks Gmail and Calendar, is the slower step; the documentation suggests leaving it for later.

Updating means fetching the latest version of the project and rebuilding. On start, the container migrates the box's card data and refreshes its generated agent docs. See status and maturity, which also notes what the update story does not yet cover.