install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install kiota

local Homebrew formula metadata

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%

scoop install main/kiota

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

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%

winget install --id Microsoft.OpenAPI.Kiota -e

Windows Package Manager source index · Microsoft.OpenAPI.Kiota · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

overview

Package summary

OpenAPI based HTTP Client code generator

Project links

Commands and aliases

kiota

history

Project history and usage

Kiota is Microsoft's OpenAPI-based HTTP API client generator, distributed as a command-line tool and supported by Microsoft Learn documentation, a GitHub repository, package-manager formulas, and a Visual Studio Code extension.

Project history

Microsoft announced Kiota's general availability on March 16, 2023, describing it as an open source generator for HTTP APIs described by OpenAPI. Its goal was to reduce the need for a separate hand-written SDK for every API while preserving strongly typed clients, authentication abstractions, retry handling, redirects, compression, and path filtering.

The Kiota repository is part of Microsoft's broader OpenAPI and Microsoft Graph tooling work. Its README describes supported generation targets including C#, Go, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, TypeScript/JavaScript, and Dart, with shared abstractions for serialization, authentication, and HTTP transport.

Adoption history

After the March 2023 general availability announcement, Microsoft announced a Visual Studio Code extension on April 10, 2023. Package availability expanded across developer-tool channels represented in the input facts, including Homebrew, Scoop, and WinGet, making Kiota a cross-platform CLI rather than only a .NET-local tool.

How it is used

Kiota users point the CLI or VS Code extension at an OpenAPI description, inspect and filter the desired API paths, and generate a typed client for an application. This workflow is especially useful when developers need a smaller API surface than a full vendor SDK or want the same request-builder style across multiple APIs.

Why package nerds care

Kiota matters to package nerds because it is Microsoft shipping a general-purpose SDK generator as a standalone open source tool. It intersects with OpenAPI, Microsoft Graph, NuGet/.NET tooling, Homebrew, WinGet, Scoop, and editor extensions rather than living only inside a single language ecosystem.

Timeline

2023-03-16: Microsoft announced Kiota general availability.
2023-04-10: Microsoft announced the Kiota Visual Studio Code extension.
2023-09-28: GitHub release v1.7.0-preview.202309280001 was published.
2023-10-05: GitHub release v1.7.0 was published.
2026-06-26: GitHub release v1.32.4 was published.

Related projects

Kiota builds on Microsoft.OpenAPI.NET and is used around Microsoft Graph scenarios. It sits beside older and broader OpenAPI generator ecosystems such as AutoRest and OpenAPI Generator while emphasizing request builders, path filtering, and shared runtime abstractions.

Sources

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:http,client

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Installs with 1 runtime 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

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`kiota`	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 version1.33.0

manager updated2026-07-07

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detectedv1.33.0

https://github.com/microsoft/kiota

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:kiota
Version	1.33.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kiota
Homepage	https://aka.ms/kiota/docs
Repository	https://github.com/microsoft/kiota
Upstream docs	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openapi/kiota
License	MIT
Source archive	https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/archive/refs/tags/v1.33.0.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-07-07T02:25:15Z
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	dotnet
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	kiota
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
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.

Scoop95%

main/kiota

scoop install main/kiota

normalized package name match
Matched by: Kiota

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/kiota.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

winget95%

Microsoft.OpenAPI.Kiota

winget install --id Microsoft.OpenAPI.Kiota -e

normalized package name match
Matched by: Kiota

Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: Microsoft.OpenAPI.Kiota 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.

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.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/kiota.yml

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

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