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Open-source language and analyzer for software modeling. Version 6.2.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with apk: sudo apk add alloy.

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Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install alloy-analyzer

local Homebrew formula metadata

Windows

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%
winget install --id GrafanaLabs.Alloy -e

Windows Package Manager source index · GrafanaLabs.Alloy · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

overview

Package summary

Open-source language and analyzer for software modeling

Commands and aliases

  • alloy

history

Project history and usage

Alloy Analyzer is the tool for the Alloy modeling language, a relational-logic language for describing structures and checking properties by finding examples and counterexamples.

Project history

The official about page says Alloy was created in the Software Design Group at MIT. It describes Alloy as a language for evolving structures and the Analyzer as a solver-backed tool that explores models, checks properties, and displays structures graphically.

Alloy's design draws from the Z specification language, Tarski's relational calculus, Linear Temporal Logic with Past, and object-modeling notations such as OMT and UML. That background explains why the Analyzer sits between academic formal methods and practical software modeling.

The current AlloyTools GitHub repository begins in public git history on 2017-07-19. Its README describes Alloy 6 as a self-contained executable with Pardinus/Kodkod, SAT solvers, the standard Alloy library, tutorial examples, and Java 17 as the current runtime requirement.

Adoption history

The official about page points to uses ranging from finding holes in security mechanisms to designing telephone switching networks. The documentation and download pages present Alloy as a runnable jar and macOS DMG, while Homebrew packages it as alloy-analyzer with an alloy executable.

Alloy 6 broadened the analyzer's modeling surface by adding native behavioral and temporal modeling, moving users away from manually encoding traces in older Alloy models.

How it is used

Users write Alloy models, run commands or assertions, and inspect generated instances or counterexamples in the Analyzer. The official docs describe executing the jar directly with java -jar, and the repository notes the same jar can also be embedded as an API.

Since Alloy 6, temporal model checking can use external tools such as NuSMV or nuXmv when available on PATH, alongside the bundled SAT-based analysis stack.

Why package nerds care

Alloy Analyzer is important in package catalogs because it packages a complete formal-methods workbench as a command-line-launchable Java artifact. It brings SAT-backed modeling, examples, and visualization into a normal developer install flow instead of a bespoke academic setup.

Its dependency story is also interesting: the distribution is self-contained for common use, but its internals include Kodkod/Pardinus and multiple SAT solver paths, and Alloy 6's temporal mode can reach out to model checkers like NuSMV or nuXmv.

Timeline

  • MIT era: Alloy created in the Software Design Group at MIT.
  • 2017: Current AlloyTools GitHub repository public history begins.
  • 2019: v5.1.0 tag appears in repository history.
  • 2021: v6.0.0 tag appears in repository history.
  • 2024: v6.2.0 tag appears in repository history.

Related projects

  • Kodkod and Pardinus: model-finding engines included in the Alloy distribution.
  • SAT4J, MiniSat, Lingeling/Plingeling, and Glucose: SAT solver families referenced by the README.
  • NuSMV and nuXmv: external model checkers used for Alloy 6 temporal model checking.

Sources

  • Git history from https://github.com/AlloyTools/org.alloytools.alloy.git
  • Official Alloy 6 page: https://alloytools.org/alloy6.html
  • Official README: https://github.com/AlloyTools/org.alloytools.alloy
  • Official about page: https://alloytools.org/about.html
  • Official documentation: https://alloytools.org/documentation.html
  • Official download page: https://alloytools.org/download.html

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for alloy-analyzer. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.
  • Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
alloycliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-25
manager version6.2.0
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://alloytools.org

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://alloytools.orgnone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:alloy-analyzer
Version6.2.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/alloy-analyzer
Homepagehttps://alloytools.org
Repositoryhttps://github.com/AlloyTools/org.alloytools.alloy
Upstream docshttps://alloytools.org/about.html
LicenseApache-2.0
Source archivehttps://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/alloytools/org.alloytools.alloy.dist/6.2.0/org.alloytools.alloy.dist-6.2.0.jar
Dependenciesopenjdk
Bottleavailable (on all)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namealloy-analyzer
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Conflicts With
  • grafana-alloy
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

apk92%

alloy 1.16.3-r0

OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines

https://grafana.com/oss/alloy

sudo apk add alloy
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: alloy
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Alloy
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: alloy from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk92%

alloy-openrc 1.16.3-r0

OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines (OpenRC init scripts)

https://grafana.com/oss/alloy

sudo apk add alloy-openrc
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: alloy
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Alloy
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: alloy-openrc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
zypper92%

alloy 1.16.1-1.1

OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines

https://github.com/grafana/alloy

sudo zypper install alloy
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: alloy
  • 7 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Alloy
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: alloy from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
winget92%

GrafanaLabs.Alloy

winget install --id GrafanaLabs.Alloy -e
  • installed executable or alias match
  • Matched by: Alloy
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: GrafanaLabs.Alloy from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

package graph

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  • openjdkRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.

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