equip

Equip

Install and configure Coral companion tooling for Claude Code.

Verb Mapping

• /equip <pkg> -> coral-cli expansion equip <pkg>
• /equip --list -> coral-cli expansion list
• /equip --update <pkg> -> coral-cli expansion update <pkg>
• /equip uninstall <pkg> -> coral-cli expansion unequip <pkg>
• If this surface exposes it, /equip info <pkg> -> coral-cli expansion info <pkg>
• Internal catalog-removal diagnostics map to coral-cli expansion remove-catalog <pkg> when that CLI surface is exposed.

Runtime Model

coral-cli expansion manages engines through the Expansion lifecycle. Engine identity is package-local; commands should route by declared metadata (id, tier, fills, status) instead of hard-coding package semantics.

• fills declares the runtime binding(s) an engine can provide, such as kb.fts, kb.vector, or kb.embedding.
• If an engine fills kb.vector, vector search can use it for vector queries. If no vector engine is equipped, vector queries fail with binding_empty until a vector engine is equipped.
• If an engine fills kb.embedding, engines that require embeddings can use that binding after the embedder is equipped.
• If an engine fills kb.fts, text search can use it for full-text queries.

Tier Semantics

coral-cli expansion list and coral-cli expansion info <pkg> expose tier on engine entries.

tier	Status source	User verbs
bundled	Coordinator bundled fallback pass; list/info show tier: 'bundled', status: 'equipped'	equip and unequip return expansion_bundled_immutable
installed	Installed-tier state row; list/info show tier: 'installed' plus state-row-derived status	equip, unequip, and update manage install and activation

Bundled engines auto-equip at coordinator boot via the bundled fallback pass. They do not appear in expansion_state (that table tracks installed-tier engines only). See coral-cli expansion list for status.

Execution

No argument or --list

1. Bash(coral-cli expansion list)
2. Parse the single-line JSON result.
3. Route read responses by top-level status:

status	Action
catalog	Present the catalog as a table with id, name, tier, package description, provides when present, translated activation, status, and statusDescription when present. Render provides as sibling collections: provides.capabilities as a comma-separated capability label/name list and provides.retrievalRoles as a comma-separated role label list, for example provides: capabilities=[Text (FTS), Vector (Semantic)]; retrievalRoles=[Text, Vector, Graph]. Do not group capabilities by typeTag; it is opaque metadata
info	Show the single package entry using the same package-status routing table below, including tier, fills/slot when present, provides when present using the same sibling collection rendering as catalog rows, and the translated activation label
error	Show userMessage and remediation. Show suggestions when present, then stop. For debugging, show code and any context fields

4. For each catalog entry, route inner status as follows:

status	Meaning
equipped	Active in the coordinator
catching_up	Registered and replaying the corpus
installed-not-active	Installed, but boot recovery failed. Check the last error and satisfy missing dependencies before retrying /equip <name>
inactive	Installed but not registered. Run /equip <name> to reactivate
unavailable	Required local artifact missing or coordinator unreachable. Run /equip <name> to repair or reactivate
disabled_pending_reinstall	Load failed. Run /equip <name> to reinstall
installing	Another /equip is currently holding install.lock
not_equipped	Installed-tier engine is not installed/equipped locally
not_installed	Install-only package is not installed locally
installed	Install-only package is installed locally and ready to use

5. When rendering activation, translate internally:
   • activation: 'equip' -> Active in Coordinator
   • activation: 'none' -> Install-only (use directly via the installed path)
6. For bundled engines, do not suggest /equip <name> or /equip uninstall <name> as a repair action. These verbs return expansion_bundled_immutable; use expansion list to inspect status.
7. Ask the user which package to install.

<package>

1. Bash(coral-cli expansion equip <package>)
2. Parse the single-line JSON result.
3. Route by status:

status	Action
already_installed	Inform user; expansion equip continues activation when applicable
already_up_to_date	Inform user with version; expansion equip continues activation when applicable
installed	Show method used. For install-only packages, show command when present
updated	Show method and version. For install-only packages, show command when present
equipped	Expansion is installed and active in the coordinator (equipment-backed packages only)
catching_up	Expansion is activating; tell the user to poll /equip --list until it reaches equipped
already_equipped	Inform the user the expansion is already active
error	Show userMessage and remediation. Show suggestions when present, then stop. For debugging, show code and any context fields

4. Onboarding runs inside coral-cli expansion equip <package> before install/activate:
   • engine_env_var_missing: show the missing envVar and remediation exactly. Do not suggest restart/retry loops.
   • binding_required: show suggestions when present; otherwise show candidate ids from context.candidates when present. The user should equip one engine that fills the missing binding, then retry the original package.
   • user_cancelled: stop without retrying automatically.
5. Do not run coral-cli expansion equip <package> a second time unless the user has changed the missing setup state or equipped a required peer engine.

--update <package>

1. Bash(coral-cli expansion update <package>)
2. Parse the single-line JSON result.
3. Route by status:

status	Action
already_up_to_date	Inform user with version. If command is present for an install-only expansion, show the installed path; no further action
updated	Show method and version. If command is present for an install-only expansion, show the installed path
equipped	Expansion is updated and active in the coordinator
catching_up	Expansion is updated and activating; tell the user to poll /equip --list until it reaches equipped
already_equipped	Inform the user the updated expansion is already active
error	Show userMessage and remediation. Show suggestions when present, then stop. For debugging, show code and any context fields

4. update is equivalent to equip when the local version differs from the catalog version; /equip <package> also updates implicitly. Use /equip --update <package> when the user is explicitly asking to bump or refresh the installed version.

uninstall <equipment-name>

1. Bash(coral-cli expansion unequip <equipment-name>)
2. Parse the single-line JSON result.
3. Route by status:

status	Action
uninstalled	Confirm the installed-tier engine was removed through the coordinator-owned catalog-removal transaction
not_equipped	Inform user the engine was already not equipped; treat as success
error	Show userMessage and remediation. Show suggestions when present, then stop. For debugging, show code and any context fields

4. unequip for installed-tier engines asks the coordinator to remove the catalog entry transactionally, which disposes any live scope without running bundled fallback, unregisters manifest-scoped capability declarations when allowed, and then removes local artifacts. For install-only packages, it removes the local binary.

Notes

• Install-only binaries and engine artifacts both land under the engine data tree (~/.coral/data/engines/<engine>/, or ~/.coral/data-dev/engines/<engine>/ when CORAL_FLAVOR=dev); the CLI reports the exact installed path as command
• Corpus indexes stay under ~/.coral/data/kb/
• Under a non-default CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, these data paths nest beneath ~/.coral/by-config/<slot>/ — the daemon is isolated per config dir; the default config dir keeps the paths above unchanged
• Some installed engines may have native artifacts or model downloads; follow the userMessage and remediation returned by the CLI for missing prerequisites.
• On Windows, unequip after activation may require a Coral restart when a loaded native addon remains mapped for the coordinator process lifetime.