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How to diagnose and repair an ACRYL install that will not boot with Acryl

Use Acryl doctor and Acryl repair to find and fix a broken install, with backups and undo.

Who it is forA user whose ACRYL install fails to start after an update or a partial install and who needs to recover without reinstalling everything.

The problemA broken install blocks the workspace and agents, and reinstalling may lose settings.

The outcomeThe install is diagnosed, repaired with backups kept, and can be undone if the repair causes problems.

What you need first

  • macOS, Windows, or Linux machine
  • Installed coding agent such as Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini CLI, if you want to launch it from ACRYL
  • Node.js ^22.19.0 or >=24.0.0 and Corepack, only for running from source

Steps

  1. Run acryl doctor to diagnose the install.
  2. Read the findings and confirm which problems the report lists.
  3. Run acryl repair to fix the install.
  4. Run acryl to confirm ACRYL boots.
  5. If the repair causes a problem, use the undo option that the README says comes with repair.

Prompt for your agent

Using the acryl repo at github.com/acryldev/acryl, run the ACRYL diagnostic on this machine, then run the repair if problems are found. Report the list of issues found and whether ACRYL boots afterward, and verify with `acryl` that the app starts.

Caveat. The README does not describe the undo command syntax, so check the documentation before relying on it.

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