Chat with Sugar Glider in One Command

The fastest way to try the i14 API is to chat with it in Pi, a terminal AI assistant. One command installs Pi if you need it, connects it to i14 with your API key, and opens the chat.

You need to create an i14 API key at platform.i14.ai. i14 sent you an email that explains how to create your key. If you did not get one, you can join the waitlist. See Get your API key. Pi needs Node.js 22.19 or newer. If you do not have it, the command offers to install it for you.

Run the command

macOS and Linux

Paste this into your terminal:

curl -fsSL https://i14.ai/docs/install.sh | sh

When it asks What is your i14 API key?, paste your key and press Enter. The key stays hidden: nothing shows on screen while you paste or type it. The key never lands in your shell history. Pi then opens on i14-sugarglider-nemotron3-super-120B-v1, ready for your first message.

Pi works in a folder named i14-playground in your home folder. The command creates it if it is missing. Every file Pi writes is saved there. To open the folder, run:

open ~/i14-playground

On Linux, open ~/i14-playground in your file manager.

Windows

Open PowerShell and paste this:

irm https://i14.ai/docs/install.ps1 | iex

When it asks What is your i14 API key?, paste your key and press Enter. The key stays hidden: you see only asterisks (*) while you paste or type it. Pi then opens on i14-sugarglider-nemotron3-super-120B-v1, ready for your first message.

Pi works in a folder named i14-playground in your home folder. The command creates it if it is missing. Every file Pi writes is saved there. To open the folder, run:

explorer $HOME\i14-playground

The command installs Pi with npm if you need it. Pi runs commands with Git Bash on Windows. If Git for Windows is missing, the command offers to install it. See Pi on Windows.

Chat again later

Start Pi on the i14 model at any time. Start it in the i14-playground folder, so your files stay there:

macOS and Linux

cd ~/i14-playground && pi --model i14/i14-sugarglider-nemotron3-super-120B-v1

If your terminal says pi: command not found, open a new terminal and run the command again. Or run Pi by its full path in place of pi. The setup shows this path in its “Next time, run” line, for example ~/.pi/agent/bin/pi.

Windows

cd $HOME\i14-playground; pi.cmd --model i14/i14-sugarglider-nemotron3-super-120B-v1

Skip the prompt

To pass your key without the prompt, for example on a remote machine, set I14_API_KEY first.

macOS and Linux

Run these commands in bash or zsh. read -rs keeps the key out of your shell history. When you run it, paste your key and press Enter (nothing is shown while you type):

read -rs I14_API_KEY && export I14_API_KEY
curl -fsSL https://i14.ai/docs/install.sh | sh

Windows

Run Read-Host -AsSecureString so the key stays hidden and out of your PowerShell history:

$env:I14_API_KEY = [Net.NetworkCredential]::new('', (Read-Host -AsSecureString)).Password
irm https://i14.ai/docs/install.ps1 | iex

Note

The command never takes the key as an argument, so the key doesn’t show up in your process list or your shell history. To set up Pi by hand instead, see the Pi integration guide.

What the command does

1. Installs Node.js and Pi if you need them (it asks first).
2. Checks your API key and saves it, readable only by you.
3. Adds i14 to Pi and starts a chat in ~/i14-playground.

For full details, see the script for macOS and Linux or Windows.