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Version and updates

  • See your version: the interactive terminal shows it in the startup banner, and houston -v prints it.
  • Update notices: once a day, Houston quietly checks for a newer release. If there is one, it prints a short notice the next time it draws a prompt, with the command that upgrades this copy, such as brew update && brew upgrade houston, npm i -g @houston-code/cli@latest, or re-running the install script (or the download link when it can't tell how Houston was installed).
  • One-shot runs: a -p run prints the same notice on stderr after its answer, only when stderr is a terminal, and never in CI or with --json.
  • Never in the way: the check never blocks startup or delays a run. A failed check (offline, timed out, rate limited) is silent, keeps the last known result, and is retried after an hour.
  • Turn it off: set HOUSTON_NO_UPDATE_CHECK=1 (or NO_UPDATE_NOTIFIER).

The desktop app updates itself separately.