Asta CLI

Asta CLI Installer

Installs the asta CLI for agents that don't install it automatically via a plugin hook.

When to invoke

• asta is not on PATH (e.g., command -v asta returns nothing, or running asta ... reports "command not found")
• A subcommand, option, or output field that should exist according to another skill is missing — that signals an outdated install

Install or update

Prerequisites: Python 3.11+ and uv.

PLUGIN_VERSION=0.103.0
INSTALL_URL="git+https://github.com/allenai/asta-plugins.git@v$PLUGIN_VERSION"

if ! command -v asta &> /dev/null; then
  echo "📦 Installing Asta CLI $PLUGIN_VERSION..."
  uv tool install "$INSTALL_URL"
else
  CLI_VERSION=$(asta --version 2>/dev/null | grep -oE '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+')
  if [ "$CLI_VERSION" != "$PLUGIN_VERSION" ]; then
    echo "🔄 Updating Asta CLI from $CLI_VERSION to $PLUGIN_VERSION..."
    uv tool install --force "$INSTALL_URL"
  fi
fi

If asta is still not on PATH after install, run uv tool update-shell (or open a new shell) so ~/.local/bin is on PATH.

After install

Re-run the original command. If it still fails, the problem is not the CLI version — surface the actual error to the user instead of reinstalling again.