# Install legitify with Homebrew, Nix Tool to detect/remediate misconfig and security risks of GitHub/GitLab assets. Version 1.0.11 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-19. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:legitify ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install legitify ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#legitify ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/le/legitify/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:legitify - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.0.11 - **Source summary:** Tool to detect/remediate misconfig and security risks of GitHub/GitLab assets - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-05-19T13:03:29-04:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - legitify (cli) - legitify (alias) ## Build dependencies - go@1.24 ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 1.0.11 - Package-manager updated: 2026-05-19 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/Legit-Labs/legitify - Upstream latest detected: v1.0.11 (current) ## Project history and usage Legitify is Legit Security's open-source CLI for finding and helping remediate security, compliance, and misconfiguration risks across GitHub and GitLab assets. ### Project history Legit Security announced Legitify on 2022-10-05 as an open-source GitHub configuration scanner for security, DevOps, and developer teams. The repository and project site later described the scope as source-code-management posture across GitHub and GitLab assets, with built-in policies and remediation-oriented output. ### Adoption history The project was packaged as a standalone CLI, GitHub Action, Homebrew formula, Nix package, and GitHub CLI extension. That mix made it fit both one-off audits from a workstation and scheduled checks in CI for organizations managing many repositories, members, teams, runners, branch protections, and tokens. ### How it is used Typical usage is to authenticate to GitHub or GitLab, run `legitify analyze`, and review policy findings against repositories, organizations, runners, webhooks, actions, branch protection, and other SCM resources. Its Homebrew packaging matters because security teams can hand developers a familiar install path instead of a vendor-only SaaS workflow. ### Why package nerds care Legitify is a package-nerd example of application-security posture management ideas escaping into a plain CLI. It packages policy checks and remediation hints as a tool that can live in local shells, CI jobs, and GitHub Actions, adjacent to linters and secret scanners. ### Timeline - 2022-07-26: The GitHub issue tracker showed early public project activity. - 2022-10-05: Legit Security published the introductory Legitify announcement. - 2023-01-19: Public issues tracked expansion into third-party application policies. - 2023-02-06: Public issues tracked auto-remediation work. ### Related projects - Related projects include the `gh-legitify` GitHub CLI extension, the Legitify GitHub Action, OpenSSF Scorecard, GitHub Advanced Security configuration checks, GitLab security scanners, and policy-as-code tools used for SCM governance. ### Sources - - - - - - - ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** legitify - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** yes - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - legitify: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/le/legitify/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control 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. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [cfripper](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cfripper/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-security, security. - [lacework-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/lacework-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-security, security. - [parliament](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/parliament/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-security, security. - [s3scanner](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/s3scanner/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-security, security. - [terraform-iam-policy-validator](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/terraform-iam-policy-validator/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-security, security. - [trailscraper](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/trailscraper/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-security, security. - [yatas](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/yatas/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-security, misconfiguration, security. - [cliam](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cliam/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-security, security. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/legitify.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/legitify.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - 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