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Unified CLI Tool for Bookmark, Snippet, and Knowledge Management. Version 7.6.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22.
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Package summary
Unified CLI Tool for Bookmark, Snippet, and Knowledge Management
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Commands and aliases
- bkmr
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Project history and usage
bkmr is a local-first CLI for bookmarks, snippets, shell commands, markdown notes, files, and agent memory. In package terms it sits between personal knowledge management and developer workflow tooling.
Project history
The GitHub repository was created in 2023, and the crate was published on crates.io soon after. The README describes bkmr as 'Knowledge Management for Humans and Agents' and highlights local full-text and semantic search, JSON output, a built-in LSP server, and structured agent-memory workflows.
Adoption history
bkmr remains a relatively small but active package, distributed through crates.io and Homebrew. Its README notes appearance as This Week in Rust crate of the week 482, which helped place it in the Rust CLI ecosystem.
How it is used
Users add URLs, snippets, shell commands, markdown, text, local files, or agent memories with tags, then search or dispatch them through commands such as search, hsearch, sem-search, add, open, import-files, tags, and lsp. Configuration is generated to ~/.config/bkmr/config.toml, with a local database created by the user.
Why package nerds care
bkmr is interesting because it combines older bookmark-manager and snippet-manager ideas with newer local embeddings and AI-agent memory conventions. For package watchers it is a compact Rust example of the 'local knowledge base as CLI primitive' trend.
Timeline
- 2023: bkmr repository is created on GitHub.
- 2023: bkmr crate is published on crates.io.
- 2023: The project is featured as This Week in Rust crate of the week 482.
- 2020s: bkmr adds agent-memory, semantic-search, JSON, and LSP-oriented workflows.
Related projects
- bkmr overlaps with bookmark managers, snippet managers, local note systems, and command launchers, but differs by exposing its store through a scriptable CLI and JSON output.
- The README positions its agent-memory mode as a reusable protocol, including a bundled bkmr-memory skill.
Sources
- https://crates.io/crates/bkmr
- https://github.com/sysid/bkmr#readme
- https://github.com/sysid/bkmr/wiki
- source_facts.package-manager
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for bkmr. 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 6 platform targets.
- Installs with 2 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
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Configuration and credential file locations
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Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.config/bkmr/config.toml
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
bkmr | cli | global 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 generated2026-07-08
manager version7.6.5
manager updated2026-06-22
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv7.6.5
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:bkmr |
|---|---|
| Version | 7.6.5 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/bkmr |
| Homepage | https://github.com/sysid/bkmr |
| Repository | https://github.com/sysid/bkmr |
| Upstream docs | https://github.com/sysid/bkmr#readme |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Source archive | https://github.com/sysid/bkmr/archive/refs/tags/v7.6.5.tar.gz |
| Last updated | 2026-06-22T14:02:53-07:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | onnxruntime, openssl@3 |
| Build dependencies | rust |
| Uses from macOS | python |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | bkmr |
| 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 |
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source trail
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View the package source record on GitHub.
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- 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
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment