vigenphp / installer

v1.0.0 2026-09-16 15:57 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2
• symfony/console: ^7.0
• vigenphp/vigen: ^1.0

MIT

• framework
• php
• installer
• scaffolding
• vigen

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-09-16 15:57 UTC

README

Vigen Installer

The global Vigen installer - vigen create my-app, the same way laravel/installer gives you laravel new.

Install

composer global require vigenphp/installer

Make sure Composer's global vendor/bin directory is on your PATH (usually ~/.composer/vendor/bin or ~/.config/composer/vendor/bin):

export PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

On Windows that directory is %APPDATA%\Composer\vendor\bin, which you add through Edit the system environment variables → Environment Variables → Path.

Use

vigen create my-app

Answer three questions - interface (CLI/GUI), default AI provider, and model - and Vigen scaffolds a complete project: folder structure, composer.json, .env, and the project's own vigen entry point.

cd my-app
composer install
php vigen chat "Create a user management system"   # if you chose CLI
php vigen gui                                      # if you chose GUI
php vigen migrate                                  # create the tables your migrations describe
php vigen serve                                    # run your app at http://127.0.0.1:8808

chat and gui are two front ends onto the same generator - use whichever you picked. gui opens the chatbox in a browser; chat takes the prompt as an argument. serve is a different thing entirely: it runs your application, so there is nothing to serve until you have generated some code.

The global vigen command only creates projects. Once inside one, all further work goes through the project's own ./vigen script - exactly like Laravel splits the global laravel binary from the per-project artisan.

Non-interactive use

For scripting or CI:

vigen create my-app --interface=cli --provider=ollama --model=qwen2.5-coder:14b