Getting Started with Ratelord

Ratelord is a local-first constraint control plane. This guide will help you install the daemon, configure your first identity, and start managing constraints.

Installation

Ratelord is distributed as a single binary. You can download the latest release from GitHub or build from source.

# Install via Go
go install github.com/rmax-ai/ratelord/cmd/ratelord@latest

# Verify installation
ratelord version

Quick Start

To start the daemon with default configuration (SQLite storage in ~/.ratelord):

ratelord daemon start

Registering an Identity

Before any agent can negotiate for resources, it must have an identity.

ratelord identity create --name "agent-001" --role "scraper"

This will return an API key that your agent should use in all subsequent requests.