# Install cmdshelf with Homebrew

Better scripting life with cmdshelf. Version 2.0.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:cmdshelf
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cmdshelf
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:cmdshelf
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cmdshelf>
- **Version:** 2.0.2
- **Source summary:** Better scripting life with cmdshelf
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/toshi0383/cmdshelf>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/toshi0383/cmdshelf>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/toshi0383/cmdshelf#readme>
- **License:** Apache-2.0 OR MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/toshi0383/cmdshelf/archive/refs/tags/2.0.2.tar.gz>
- **Generated:** 2026-07-09T07:20:21+00:00

## Executables

- cmdshelf (cli)
- cmdshelf (alias)

## Build dependencies

- rust

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-09
- Package-manager version: 2.0.2
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/toshi0383/cmdshelf
- Upstream latest detected: 2.0.2 (current)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Project history and usage

cmdshelf is a Rust command-line script manager that treats executables in repositories as runnable commands.

### Project history

The official README presents cmdshelf as a new way of scripting, emphasizing directory-separated namespaces, no PATH configuration, shell completion, inherited standard streams, and a portable .cmdshelf.toml environment.

### Adoption history

The official README documents Homebrew installation on macOS and Cargo installation from source, while the input facts show Homebrew packaging.

### How it is used

Users add a repository as a remote, after which cmdshelf records it in ~/.cmdshelf.toml and lazily clones it under ~/.cmdshelf/remote/ when commands are needed.

### Why package nerds care

cmdshelf sits in the shell tooling niche of turning version-controlled script collections into executable command namespaces without hand-editing PATH.

### Timeline

- 2018: GitHub releases page lists 1.0.2 as latest on August 18, 2018.

### Related projects

- The official docs position cmdshelf around Git-hosted script repositories rather than a larger related-project family.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/toshi0383/cmdshelf#readme>
- <https://github.com/toshi0383/cmdshelf/blob/master/docs/getting-started.md>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## 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

- Unix: ~/.cmdshelf.toml
## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** cmdshelf
- **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


## Related links

- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [rust](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [gptscript](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gptscript/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, scripting.
- [retry](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/retry/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, shell.
- [rust-parallel](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rust-parallel/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, rust.
- [sexpect](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/sexpect/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, shell.
- [shell2http](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/shell2http/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, shell.
- [watchexec](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/watchexec/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, rust.
- [ahoy](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ahoy/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools.
- [clive](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/clive/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools.

## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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