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Install cue with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget

Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration. Version 0.17.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#cue.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install cue

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install cue

MacPorts ports tree · devel/cue/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install main/cue

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/cue.json · source: api.github.com

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%
winget install --id CueLang.Cue -e

Windows Package Manager source index · CueLang.Cue · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

overview

Package summary

Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration

Commands and aliases

  • cue

history

Project history and usage

CUE is an open-source data validation language, inference engine, and command-line tool for schemas, configuration, policy, and data transformation.

Project history

The CUE documentation traces the language's roots to GCL, Google's configuration language for Borg, and to graph unification techniques used for large declarative systems. CUE returns to a constraint-based approach where types and values are unified in one model.

Adoption history

The project positions CUE for validation, configuration, querying, code generation, scripting, and integration with formats such as Go, JSON, YAML, TOML, XML, OpenAPI, Protobuf, and JSON Schema. The public cue-lang/cue repository was created in 2021, while the repository README carries copyright notices beginning in 2018.

How it is used

The cue command validates data, evaluates CUE files, vets configuration, generates or extracts schemas, and acts as the package's main user-facing interface. Official installation docs include release binaries, source installs, and container images.

Why package nerds care

CUE matters to package maintainers because it is both a language implementation and a standalone CLI used in build, validation, and configuration pipelines. The upstream README explicitly advises downstream packagers to build from git tags so cue version metadata is embedded correctly.

Timeline

  • 2018: CUE repository README copyright period begins.
  • 2021: Public cue-lang/cue repository created on GitHub.
  • 2020s: Official docs present CUE as a data validation language and inference engine rooted in GCL and graph unification.

Related projects

  • GCL, Borg, Kubernetes-era configuration systems, Go modules, JSON Schema, OpenAPI, Protobuf.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • 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.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
cuecliglobal 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 generated2026-07-26
manager version0.17.1
manager updated2026-07-25
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/cue-lang/cue

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:cue
Version0.17.1
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cue
Homepagehttps://cuelang.org/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/cue-lang/cue
Upstream docshttps://cuelang.org/docs
LicenseApache-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/cue-lang/cue.git
Last updated2026-07-25T14:20:52-04:00
Pulseupdated
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namecue
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • 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.

Nix95%

cue

nix profile install nixpkgs#cue
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cue
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cu/cue/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
pacman95%

cue 0.16.1-1

Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration

https://github.com/cue-lang/cue

sudo pacman -S cue
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cue
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: cue from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
MacPorts95%

cue

sudo port install cue
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cue
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: devel/cue/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Scoop95%

main/cue

scoop install main/cue
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cue
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/cue.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
winget95%

CueLang.Cue

winget install --id CueLang.Cue -e
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cue
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: CueLang.Cue from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • chaiscriptShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language, language-runtime.
  • abclShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime.
  • agdaShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime.
  • aldaShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime.
  • algol68gShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime.
  • ammonite-replShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

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