Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install cobalt

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#cobalt

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/co/cobalt/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%

sudo pacman -S cobalt

Arch Linux sync databases · cobalt · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

Windows

Scoopverifiziert · 92%

scoop install main/cobalt

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/cobalt.json · Quelle: api.github.com

Windows Package Managerverifiziert · 92%

winget install --id cobalt-org.cobalt -e

Windows Package Manager source index · cobalt-org.cobalt · Quelle: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Static site generator written in Rust

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

cobalt

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Cobalt is a Rust static site generator distributed as the `cobalt` command, packaged for Homebrew and as the `cobalt-bin` crate on crates.io. Its package-nerd appeal is that it is an early Rust-era take on the Jekyll-style static site workflow: source files, front matter, Liquid-style templates, and a small native CLI.

Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository was created in 2014, and the changelog records `0.2` as the initial release. The project later organized around the `cobalt-org/cobalt.rs` repository and publishes the binary crate as `cobalt-bin`.

Cobalt's changelog shows the tool growing into a fuller site generator through 2016 and 2017, adding `serve`, `watch`, `new`, custom paths, RSS improvements, draft support, syntax highlighting experiments, generated binaries for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and a move from getopt to clap.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Cobalt remains a niche but durable Rust CLI. crates.io lists `cobalt-bin` with tens of thousands of downloads, while Homebrew, Nix, Arch, Scoop, and WinGet packaging in the input show that the tool crossed beyond Cargo-only installation.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users create a site with Cobalt's directory conventions and configure site-wide behavior in `_cobalt.yml`. The official docs describe `_cobalt.yml` as the default config file for site options, source and destination directories, front matter defaults, syntax highlighting, pages, posts, and assets.

The day-to-day CLI shape is familiar for static site generators: initialize or create content, build static output, and use local serving/watch workflows while editing.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Cobalt is useful as a package-history marker for the period when Rust CLIs began replacing scripting-language developer tools. Its significance is not mass adoption; it is the way it packages a static-site workflow into a native binary and ships across Cargo and OS package managers.

The package is also a reminder that package names can be ambiguous: crates.io has an unrelated `cobalt` crate, while the static site generator's executable package is `cobalt-bin`.

Zeitleiste

2014: `cobalt-org/cobalt.rs` GitHub repository created.
2016: `cobalt-bin` crate created on crates.io.
2017: Changelog records generated binaries for macOS, Windows, and Linux in the 0.5 era and a larger 0.7.0 feature release.
2022: 0.18.0 drops `cobalt import` and improves local serving behavior.
2025: 0.20.0 switches Sass support from libsass to grass.
2026: 0.20.4 release published.

Related projects

Cobalt sits in the static-site-generator family with Jekyll, Hugo, Zola, and mdBook, and it uses Rust ecosystem pieces such as Cargo distribution and Rust templating/parsing libraries.
Its own docs are built and maintained separately in `cobalt-org/cobalt-org.github.io`, which the official documentation links as the docs source.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Build-Metadaten listen 1 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: _cobalt.yml

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`cobalt`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-25

Manager-Version0.20.4

Manager aktualisiert

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamaktuell

neueste erkannte Versionv0.20.4

https://github.com/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs

InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:cobalt
Version	0.20.4
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cobalt
Homepage	https://cobalt-org.github.io/
Repository	https://github.com/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://cobalt-org.github.io/docs
Lizenz	Apache-2.0 OR MIT
Quellarchiv	https://github.com/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs/archive/refs/tags/v0.20.4.tar.gz
Build-Abhängigkeiten	rust
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	cobalt
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Nix95%

cobalt

nix profile install nixpkgs#cobalt

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Cobalt

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/cobalt/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

pacman95%

cobalt 0.20.4-2

Static site generator written in Rust

https://cobalt-org.github.io/

sudo pacman -S cobalt

License: MIT
Architecture: x86_64
2 Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Cobalt

Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: cobalt from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

Scoop95%

main/cobalt

scoop install main/cobalt

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Cobalt

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/cobalt.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

winget95%

cobalt-org.cobalt

winget install --id cobalt-org.cobalt -e

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Cobalt

Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: cobalt-org.cobalt from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/cobalt.yml

Verwendete Quellen

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

cobalt mit Homebrew, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget installieren