# Install commandbox with Homebrew, scoop, winget CFML embedded server, package manager, and app scaffolding tools. Version 6.3.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-15. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:commandbox ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install commandbox ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Windows - Scoop (92%): ```sh scoop install extras/commandbox ``` Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/commandbox.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id Box.Box -e ``` Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Box.Box from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:commandbox - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 6.3.3 - **Source summary:** CFML embedded server, package manager, and app scaffolding tools - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-05-15T23:57:27Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - box (cli) - box (alias) ## Dependencies - openjdk@21 ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on all ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 6.3.3 - Package-manager updated: 2026-05-15 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/commandbox - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage CommandBox is Ortus Solutions' CFML-oriented command-line environment: a CLI, package manager, REPL, embedded server, scaffolding tool, and automation surface for ColdFusion and Box-family projects. ### Project history The official manual describes CommandBox as a standalone native tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux, written in CFML and integrated with the Ortus Box ecosystem while remaining extensible for general CFML projects. Ortus also identifies it as open source under Apache 2.0. ### Adoption history CommandBox grew as infrastructure around modern CFML development: it integrates with ForgeBox for community package distribution, supports embedded CFML servers, and provides OS-specific installers and packages. The supplied package-manager metadata lists Homebrew, Scoop, and winget, showing that the tool is distributed through both Unix-like and Windows package-manager channels. ### How it is used Developers use the `box` executable to run shell commands, manage `box.json` packages, initialize and publish ForgeBox packages, start embedded CFML servers, scaffold applications, and automate workflows from native shells. ### Why package nerds care CommandBox is significant because it brings npm-style package metadata and CLI workflows to the CFML ecosystem. Its `box.json` descriptor, ForgeBox publishing flow, Git/HTTP/SVN endpoint support, and cross-platform binary distribution make it a package manager as much as a developer shell. ### Timeline - 2010s: CommandBox emerged under Ortus Solutions as Project Gideon for CFML CLI, package, REPL, and embedded-server workflows. - 2017: Ortus site metadata shows the CommandBox product page in the modern products navigation. - 2020s: CommandBox documentation covers Homebrew, Windows installers, Linux packages, ForgeBox publishing, embedded servers, and task runners. - 2026: Official manual identifies current documentation as CommandBox 6.3.x. ### Related projects - CommandBox is tied to ForgeBox, ColdBox, ContentBox, TestBox, Lucee, Adobe ColdFusion, and the wider Ortus Solutions Box ecosystem. ### Sources - - - ## Security Notes infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal. - **Geiger risk:** orange / medium - infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal ## 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: ~/.CommandBox/CommandBox.json ## Credential files - Unix: ~/.CommandBox/CommandBox.json ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** commandbox - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Scoop - extras/commandbox: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/commandbox.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget - Box.Box: installed executable or alias match | Windows Package Manager source index: Box.Box from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Related links - [Package publisher tools](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/package-publishers/) - Belongs to a package publishing or registry command family. - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [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. - [openjdk@21](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/openjdk-21/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [kirimase](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/kirimase/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, scaffolding, web-development. - [addons-linter](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/addons-linter/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, web-development. - [angular-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/angular-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, web-development. - [css-crush](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/css-crush/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, web-development. - [gatsby-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gatsby-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, web-development. - [gwt](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gwt/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, web-development. - [js-beautify](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/js-beautify/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, web-development. - [kcgi](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/kcgi/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, web-development. - [livereload](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/livereload/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, development, server. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/commandbox.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/commandbox.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 - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph