Staying up to date

The CLI checks for a newer release in the background at most once every 24 hours. When one is found it's downloaded, checksum-verified, and atomically swapped in, so your next invocation runs the new version. Opt out by setting:

export SLOTHBOX_NO_UPDATE=1

Auto-update is also skipped automatically for dev builds, on Windows, and when the binary lives somewhere the current user can't rewrite (for example under /usr/local/bin without sudo). In those cases run slothbox update yourself with the right permissions.