zero 1.6.15
Fixed
- Adding a Google account works again. After signing in through Google you could hit "Couldn't add account: signed in but couldn't read the account email", with no way forward, on both the installer and the disk image. zero read your address from the sign-in tool's response by scanning for a single line of data, but the tool now prints that response across several lines, so the address always came back empty. zero now reads the whole response, and if an account genuinely cannot be read it shows the real reason (for example the Gmail API not being enabled) instead of a dead end.
Installing
Requires macOS 26 (Tahoe, Apple Silicon). zero is signed ad-hoc, not notarized by
Apple, so a downloaded copy is quarantined and Gatekeeper refuses to launch it —
expected for a source-available app. The quarantine flag must be removed once.
Easiest — one command does everything (installs prerequisites, removes the
quarantine flag, launches):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drewling/zero/master/macapp/install-zero.sh | bash
By hand: open the DMG, drag zero to Applications, then in Terminal:
/usr/bin/xattr -cr /Applications/zero.app
Use the full /usr/bin/xattr path — a Python or Homebrew xattr earlier in your
PATH may not support the recursive flag and will silently fail, leaving the app
blocked. (On macOS 26 the old right-click → Open trick no longer works for
ad-hoc-signed apps.)
Full setup (Google + Claude CLIs, first run) is in the README.