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Install helm-ls with Homebrew, apk, Nix, scoop

Language server for Helm. Version 0.5.4 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install helm-ls

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add helm-ls

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · helm-ls · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#helm-ls

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/he/helm-ls/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install extras/helm-ls

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/helm-ls.json · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Language server for Helm

Commands and aliases

  • helm_ls

history

Project history and usage

helm-ls is a language server for Helm chart development. Its README describes it as a Helm Language Server Protocol implementation, with editor setup examples and integration with yaml-language-server for additional YAML capabilities.

The project reflects a shift in Kubernetes packaging from command-line-only chart authoring toward editor-assisted workflows with completion, hover, diagnostics, references, and values-file awareness.

Project history

The public repository was created in April 2022. GitHub release metadata shows the first tagged releases in March 2023, with the executable named `helm_ls`.

The README shows a design centered on Helm template files, values files, chart dependencies, `helm lint`, and optional yaml-language-server integration. That puts the tool between Helm's chart semantics and general-purpose editor LSP clients.

Adoption history

helm-ls entered editor and package-manager workflows through Homebrew, mise, Nix, Arch/AUR, Scoop, Mason for Neovim, manual downloads, and editor-specific integrations documented in the README.

The project is especially visible to Neovim, VS Code, Zed, and Emacs users because Helm templates are hard to edit well as plain YAML: Go template syntax, chart objects, values files, and generated Kubernetes resources all overlap.

How it is used

Users install the `helm_ls` binary and configure an editor LSP client to run it, often with `helm_ls serve`. For some editors, the README provides filetype detection and client configuration examples.

helm-ls can use yaml-language-server to process rendered or converted template content, generate schemas for values files, expose completion and hover data, run diagnostics from `helm lint`, and process dependency charts after `helm dependency build`.

Why package nerds care

helm-ls is packaging infrastructure for people who package Kubernetes applications. It makes charts feel like typed, navigable source code instead of loosely connected YAML, Go templates, and values files.

For package managers, it is also a clean example of an LSP server distributed as a standalone CLI: the binary is useful only when editors can find it, so package names, executable names, and editor integration docs matter.

Timeline

  • 2022: Public GitHub repository created.
  • 2023: v0.0.1 release published.
  • 2023: Early v0.0.x releases establish the standalone `helm_ls` binary.
  • 2020s: README documents package-manager installs, yaml-language-server integration, and editor configuration examples.

Related projects

  • Helm supplies the chart and template model.
  • yaml-language-server provides optional YAML diagnostics, hover, completion, and schema support.
  • Neovim LSP clients, coc.nvim, VS Code, Zed, and Emacs Eglot are documented editor integration targets.
  • helm-docs is a neighboring chart-authoring tool focused on generated README documentation rather than live editor assistance.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:server

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
helm_lscliglobal 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 version0.5.4
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.5.4

https://github.com/mrjosh/helm-ls

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:helm-ls
Version0.5.4
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/helm-ls
Homepagehttps://github.com/mrjosh/helm-ls
Repositoryhttps://github.com/mrjosh/helm-ls
Upstream docshttps://github.com/mrjosh/helm-ls#readme
LicenseMIT
Source archivehttps://github.com/mrjosh/helm-ls/archive/refs/tags/v0.5.4.tar.gz
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 Namehelm-ls
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%

helm-ls

nix profile install nixpkgs#helm-ls
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Helm Ls
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/he/helm-ls/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
apk95%

helm-ls 0.5.4-r6

Language server for Helm

https://github.com/mrjosh/helm-ls

sudo apk add helm-ls
  • License: MIT
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: helm-ls
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Helm Ls
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: helm-ls from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

helm-ls-doc 0.5.4-r6

Language server for Helm (documentation)

https://github.com/mrjosh/helm-ls

sudo apk add helm-ls-doc
  • License: MIT
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: helm-ls
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Helm Ls
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: helm-ls-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
Scoop95%

extras/helm-ls

scoop install extras/helm-ls
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Helm Ls
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/helm-ls.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1

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

  • ansible-language-serverShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp.
  • expertShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp.
  • fennel-lsShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp.
  • fortlsShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp.
  • goplsShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp.
  • haskell-language-serverShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, language-server, lsp.

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