# Install chiko with Homebrew

Ultimate Beauty gRPC Client for your Terminal. Version 0.2.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:chiko
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install chiko
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:chiko
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/chiko>
- **Version:** 0.2.0
- **Source summary:** Ultimate Beauty gRPC Client for your Terminal
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/felangga/chiko>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/felangga/chiko>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/felangga/chiko/archive/refs/tags/v0.2.0.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-25T15:21:30-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- chiko (cli)
- chiko (alias)

## Build dependencies

- go

## 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: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 0.2.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-07-25
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/felangga/chiko
- Upstream latest detected: v0.2.0 (current)
## Project history and usage

Chiko is a terminal user interface for testing and browsing gRPC APIs.

### Project history

The official README describes Chiko as a developer-friendly gRPC terminal interface built on grpcurl and tview. It focuses on server reflection, request metadata, payload generation, authorization, bookmarks, and importing or exporting grpcurl commands.

### Adoption history

The README documents Homebrew, go install, source builds, and prebuilt release binaries. Homebrew formula metadata lists chiko 0.2.0 with modest install counts, indicating niche but packaged CLI adoption.

### How it is used

Users run chiko, enter a gRPC server URL, configure authentication if needed, browse reflected services, generate a request payload, and send calls from the terminal UI.

### Why package nerds care

Chiko is package-nerd interesting as part of the modern Go single-binary TUI wave: it wraps grpcurl-style API testing in an interactive terminal app and ships through Homebrew, go install, source builds, and release binaries.

### Timeline

- 2026: Official README documents Homebrew, Go install, source, and prebuilt binary installation.
- 2026: Homebrew formula page lists stable chiko 0.2.0.

### Related projects

- grpcurl is named by the official README as an underlying gRPC command-line tool.
- tview is named by the official README as the terminal UI library.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/chiko>
- <https://github.com/felangga/chiko#readme>


## 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:** chiko
- **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


## Related links

- [Source-control packages](https://pkg.so/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Secret-risk packages](https://pkg.so/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Text processing packages](https://pkg.so/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [go](https://pkg.so/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [grpcurl](https://pkg.so/brew/grpcurl/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: api-client, cli, developer-tools, go, grpc.
- [grpcui](https://pkg.so/brew/grpcui/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: api-client, cli, developer-tools, go, grpc.
- [protoc-gen-go-grpc](https://pkg.so/brew/protoc-gen-go-grpc/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go, grpc.
- [jjui](https://pkg.so/brew/jjui/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go, tui.
- [posting](https://pkg.so/brew/posting/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: api-client, cli, developer-tools, tui.
- [go-size-analyzer](https://pkg.so/brew/go-size-analyzer/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go, tui.
- [ghz](https://pkg.so/brew/ghz/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, go, grpc.
- [evans](https://pkg.so/brew/evans/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: api-client, cli, developer-tools, grpc.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/chiko.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/chiko.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph