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Documentation

The full docs live at docs.bento.build — ported from the open-source repo so the CLI and its documentation can't drift apart. The map below is just a shortcut.

Install

curl -fsSL https://bento.build/install | sh

Installs bento and bento-mcp to ~/.local/bin. The CLI is MIT + Apache 2.0 and works entirely offline against a local cache — the hosted cache is opt-in.

Use the hosted cache

bento login

# bento.toml
[cache]
remote = "bento://cache.bento.build"
remote_token_env = "BENTO_CACHE_TOKEN"

The hosted cache is in closed beta — request access and we'll admit you in the next batch. Everything else in the CLI works without an account.

Agents

bento-mcp is a local stdio MCP server that ships alongside the CLI; register it in every client you use with bento mcp install. There is no hosted MCP endpoint — the server runs on your machine, against your checkout.

Start here
Install →One line for bento + bento-mcp.Quickstart — new project →A polyglot monorepo with bento from day one.Adopting bento →Existing repo, cold checkout to green CI.
CLI
Configuration →Every field of bento.toml and dish.toml.bento build →Content-addressed task execution.bento why →The full input manifest behind a cache key.bento deploy →Railway, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages + Workers.
Cloud
Hosted cache →bento login, then four lines of TOML.Tokens →Minting, scopes, revocation, CI usage.Usage & billing →Metering and plan tiers.Self-hosting on S3 →Any S3-compatible bucket, no account.
Agents
MCP server →bento mcp install — Claude Code, Cursor, Zed, …AX principles →What "agent-native" commits us to.Error codes →Stable machine-readable failure kinds.