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Use Context

Upgrade, uninstall and sign out

Upgrade

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context upgrade

Checks your workspace’s current release and, when it’s newer, downloads it, verifies it and switches to it. context upgrade --force reinstalls the current version.

If a context worker is running, restart it after upgrading.

Uninstall

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context uninstall

Removes the program and the context command. It keeps this computer’s pairing, task files and the engine’s folder, so a reinstall needs no new approval and finds them again.

  • context uninstall --dry-run lists what would be removed and what would stay, and removes nothing. Run this first.
  • context uninstall --purge also removes the pairing, the task files and the engine’s folder (its plugins, browser profiles and saved browser sign-ins, keys and logs).
  • context uninstall --purge --keep-data removes the pairing but keeps each task’s files.

Only files the command itself wrote are removed.

Sign out or unpair a computer

  • From the web: in Settings › Terminal › Paired machines, unpair the computer. It stops receiving tasks right away. The program stays installed.
  • From the computer: delete its pairing file, ~/.config/context/device.json.

To pair it again later, run context login.

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