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1

Get the beta

Sign up with your email at aliengh.com and we’ll send you the download link with the beta notes. Already have the email? Open its link and download the installer for your computer.
2

Install it with Rhino closed

Quit Rhino fully (on macOS, Cmd+Q: closing its windows isn’t enough), then run the installer. It installs for your user only and needs no admin rights or password.The installers aren’t signed yet, so your computer warns you once. Installation shows how to get past it.
3

Place an Alien component

Start Rhino, type Grasshopper, and place an Alien component from the Alien tab, under Script.
4

Open the panel and link a key

Click PANEL on the component (or double-click it). The first time, the panel opens on Help and walks you through connecting OpenRouter, which takes about three minutes:
  1. Create an OpenRouter account (Google, GitHub or email).
  2. Add some credit. US5goesalongway:describingacomponentcostsaboutUS5 goes a long way: describing a component costs about US0.002.
  3. Create an API key, set a credit limit on it if you like, and copy it.
  4. Paste it into Help and click Link key. Alien checks it with OpenRouter and shows the credit you have left.
Prefer to keep everything on your machine? Point Alien at a local Ollama model instead. See Settings.
5

Describe your first component

With the component selected, type what it should do in the panel and press Enter:
Alien writes the script, runs it and fixes its own errors. In a few seconds the component has its pins (for example a curve in, points out) and a slider for the count. Wire in a curve. (In the next beta you can also click Select in Rhino on the component and pick one in the viewport.)
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Change it by saying so

Type a follow-up, such as space the points by distance instead. Alien edits the same component. Wires stay connected (they’re matched by pin name) and the earlier version is kept, so you can go back.

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What next

Try a ready-made component

Open the panel’s library (the Nodes tab) and place vic_site_map. Type a Victorian address and watch the site arrive.

Build on your canvas

Select a few components, describe a new one that uses them, and it lands beside them, already wired.

Bring your agent

Connect Claude Code or Cursor and let it build and wire components while you watch.

Know what it costs

Only model calls cost anything, and AI components only call a model when you press Generate.