# Installer wrkflw avec Homebrew, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de wrkflw pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:wrkflw
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install wrkflw
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#wrkflw
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:wrkflw
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/wrkflw>
- **Version:** 0.8.0
- **Résumé source:** Validate and execute GitHub Actions workflows locally
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/bahdotsh/wrkflw>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/bahdotsh/wrkflw>
- **Docs amont:** <https://github.com/bahdotsh/wrkflw#readme>
- **Licence:** MIT
- **Archive source:** <https://github.com/bahdotsh/wrkflw/archive/refs/tags/v0.8.0.tar.gz>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-05-11T18:23:42-04:00
- **Généré:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## exécutables

- wrkflw (cli)
- wrkflw (alias)

## Dépendances de compilation

- pkgconf
- rust

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-07-08
- version du gestionnaire: 0.8.0
- gestionnaire mis à jour: 2026-05-11
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://github.com/bahdotsh/wrkflw
- dernière version détectée: v0.8.0 (à jour)
## Historique du projet et usages

wrkflw is a Rust command-line tool for validating and executing GitHub Actions workflows locally. It is a young project, created in 2025, but it has enough primary-source history to describe its niche: local CI workflow feedback before pushing to GitHub.

The project overlaps with tools such as `act`, but its README emphasizes validation, a terminal UI, multiple runtimes, expression evaluation, workflow dependency handling, reusable workflows, matrix builds, artifacts, cache, and secrets support.

### Historique du projet

The `bahdotsh/wrkflw` repository and crates.io package were created on 29 March 2025. GitHub releases show a fast early cadence in 2025, including 0.3.0 in April, 0.4.0 later that month, and several 0.5 through 0.7 releases in August.

By April 2026, wrkflw had reached version 0.8.0. The author's 2026 project note frames wrkflw as both a serious CI-tooling project and a way to learn Rust deeply, specifically citing hard parts such as the expression evaluator, async executor/runtime boundaries, and error design.

### Historique d'adoption

wrkflw's adoption is early but nontrivial for a new CLI: GitHub metadata shows thousands of stars within its first year, while crates.io records the package and version history. Its niche is the developer desire to test GitHub Actions locally rather than discovering workflow syntax or job-ordering problems only after a push.

The project also reflects a 2020s shift in CI tooling from remote-only validation toward local emulation. Its README lists Docker, Podman, plain emulation, and secure emulation runtimes, while the author note explains secure emulation as a compromise for users without containers who still need guardrails before running workflow steps locally.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users run wrkflw in repositories with GitHub Actions workflow files to validate workflow syntax and execute jobs locally. The tool supports selecting jobs, respecting `needs` dependencies, evaluating GitHub expression syntax, handling matrices, watching files, and using a TUI for workflow, execution, DAG, logs, trigger, secrets, and help views.

For package users, the important runtime distinction is container-backed execution versus emulation. The author's note is explicit that secure emulation does not provide full filesystem isolation; it validates commands, strips risky environment variables, applies timeouts, and blocks obvious dangerous patterns, while Docker or Podman remain the stronger boundary.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

wrkflw is significant as a modern local-CI CLI in Rust. It packages a large slice of GitHub Actions behavior into a local executable, giving developers faster feedback loops and package managers another option in the same broad problem space as `act`.

Its package-nerd interest is also architectural: CI workflow files combine YAML, expression language semantics, dependency graphs, containers, secrets, and artifacts. A single binary that attempts to validate and emulate that surface is useful even when users still rely on GitHub-hosted runners for final truth.

### Chronologie

- 2025-03-29: The GitHub repository and crates.io package are created.
- 2025-04-21: wrkflw 0.3.0 is published on GitHub.
- 2025-04-30: wrkflw 0.4.0 is published on GitHub.
- 2025-08-13: wrkflw 0.7.0 is published on GitHub.
- 2026-04-21: wrkflw 0.8.0 is published on GitHub and crates.io.
- 2026: The author documents the design motivation behind secure emulation.

### Related projects

- nektos/act is the best-known adjacent tool for running GitHub Actions locally.
- GitHub Actions is the workflow format and hosted CI service that wrkflw validates and emulates.
- Docker and Podman are supported runtimes for container-backed local workflow execution.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/bahdotsh/wrkflw>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/bahdotsh/wrkflw/releases>
- <https://blog.gokuls.in/posts/why-i-built-wrkflw.html>
- <https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/wrkflw>
- <https://github.com/bahdotsh/wrkflw>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Détails de la base source

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** wrkflw
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - wrkflw: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/wr/wrkflw/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Liens liés

- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [rust](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [pinact](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/pinact/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: ci, cli, developer-tools, github-actions.
- [litani](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/litani/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: ci, cli, developer-tools.
- [actionlint](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/actionlint/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: ci, cli, developer-tools, github-actions.
- [actions-up](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/actions-up/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: ci, cli, developer-tools, github-actions.
- [travis](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/travis/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: ci, cli, developer-tools.
- [act](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/act/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, github-actions.
- [action-docs](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/action-docs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, github-actions.
- [action-validator](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/action-validator/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, github-actions.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/wrkflw.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/wrkflw.yml)


## Sources

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