asta-cli

Asta CLI Installer

Installs the asta CLI for agents that don't install it automatically via a plugin hook.

When to invoke

• asta is not on PATH (e.g., command -v asta returns nothing, or running asta ... reports "command not found")
• A subcommand, option, or output field that should exist according to another skill is missing — that signals an outdated install

Install or update

Prerequisites: Python 3.11+ and uv.

PLUGIN_VERSION=0.110.0
INSTALL_URL="git+https://github.com/allenai/asta-plugins.git@v$PLUGIN_VERSION"

if ! command -v asta &> /dev/null; then echo "📦 Installing Asta CLI $PLUGIN_VERSION..." uv tool install "$INSTALL_URL" else CLI_VERSION=$(asta --version 2>/dev/null | grep -oE '[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+') if [ "$CLI_VERSION" != "$PLUGIN_VERSION" ]; then echo "🔄 Updating Asta CLI from $CLI_VERSION to $PLUGIN_VERSION..." uv tool install --force "$INSTALL_URL" fi fi

If `asta` is still not on PATH after install, run `uv tool update-shell` (or open a new shell) so `~/.local/bin` is on PATH.

## After install

Re-run the original command. If it still fails, the problem is not the CLI version — surface the actual error to the user instead of reinstalling again.