This is the companion post to the boxr usage walkthrough video, the same commands in text form so you can copy them. It assumes Article 1's install is done: one static binary on your PATH, state in ~/.boxr .

One honest note up front, carried over from the video: this was recorded as root in a throwaway test VM, so boxr info in the video shows Rootless Mode: false. On your machine as a normal user the whole flow below runs fully rootless. Nothing in this walkthrough needs sudo.

Look at the empty shelves

boxr images

Enter fullscreen mode

Exit fullscreen mode

Empty table, just the header row. You have not pulled anything yet.

Pull an image

boxr pull library/alpine:latest

Enter fullscreen mode

Exit fullscreen mode

One spelling note: use library/alpine:latest , not docker.io/library/alpine:latest . boxr currently does not normalize the docker.io/ prefix, so that spelling misses the image cache and re-pulls on every run. Same image bytes, but the short spelling is the one the cache recognizes.…