Download the Backplane runner.
The runner is a single binary that picks up cards from your board and executes them on your own machine, with your own coding-agent subscriptions. Pick your platform, verify the checksum, run it.
Current release
v0.7.0Six static binaries, 23 to 26 MB each, with no installer and no dependencies. Versioned URLs never change once published. The latest/ folder mirrors the current release byte for byte, and the plain-text LATEST file holds the current version string if you script your downloads.
The Windows binaries are cross-compiled and have passed their first live runs, but they still have far less mileage than macOS and Linux, the proven hosts.
SHA256SUMS — checksums for every file in this release
Verify before you run.
Every release ships a SHA256SUMS manifest next to the binaries. Thirty seconds of checking beats running an unverified download.
curl -fsSO https://storage.googleapis.com/backplane-artifacts/runner/v0.7.0/SHA256SUMS
curl -fsSO https://storage.googleapis.com/backplane-artifacts/runner/v0.7.0/backplane-runner-darwin-arm64
grep darwin-arm64 SHA256SUMS | shasum -a 256 -c -
chmod +x backplane-runner-darwin-arm64
./backplane-runner-darwin-arm64 --versioncurl.exe -fsSO https://storage.googleapis.com/backplane-artifacts/runner/v0.7.0/SHA256SUMS
curl.exe -fsSO https://storage.googleapis.com/backplane-artifacts/runner/v0.7.0/backplane-runner-windows-amd64.exe
(Get-FileHash backplane-runner-windows-amd64.exe -Algorithm SHA256).Hash -eq (Select-String windows-amd64 SHA256SUMS).Line.Split(" ")[0].ToUpper()
.\backplane-runner-windows-amd64.exe --versionAfter you download
You will need git, uv, and the CLI of your coding agent: for example claude logged in, or a CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN. For repository work, add gh or a GH_TOKEN.
Run ./backplane-runner with no arguments and an interactive wizard walks you through connecting it to your instance.
Already exported a config bundle from your instance? Start the runner straight from it:
VALARIS_API_KEY=$VALARIS_API_KEY ./backplane-runner -config runner-<name>.yamlAdd -doctor for a read-only preflight that checks every prerequisite and connection without executing anything.
Other ways to run it
Container image
Multi-arch (amd64 and arm64), anonymous pull, also tagged :latest.
docker pull ghcr.io/valaris-studio/backplane-runner:0.7.0A container deployment must mount both the runner YAML and the MCP JSON at the exact paths the YAML references; the runner reads both at startup.
Just connecting an agent?
The MCP server connects an agent like Claude to a workspace, reading and updating boards from a conversation. It is a separate tool, not the runner, and installs from PyPI:
uvx backplane-mcpThe full setup walkthrough lives in your instance's built-in documentation, at your-instance/documentation.