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Install infisical with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, winget

CLI for Infisical. Version 0.44.12 via Homebrew; verified 2026-11-03. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#infisical.

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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install infisical

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%

sudo port install infisical

MacPorts ports tree · security/infisical/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#infisical

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/in/infisical/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Windows

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%

winget install --id infisical.infisical -e

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

overview

Package summary

CLI for Infisical

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infisical

history

Project history and usage

Infisical CLI is the command-line interface for Infisical, an open-source security infrastructure platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management. The CLI focuses on secret retrieval, injection into processes, export, authentication, and automation.

Project history

Infisical's main open-source project frames the platform around making security tooling more accessible to developer teams. The separate CLI repository presents infisical as the official command-line tool for injecting secrets into applications and managing Infisical infrastructure.

The CLI grew around developer workflow needs: local login, project initialization, .infisical.json project settings, environment-variable injection through infisical run, machine-identity authentication, export to dotenv/YAML formats, and support for Infisical Cloud or self-hosted domains.

Adoption history

Infisical distributes the CLI through several channels: Homebrew, Scoop, winget, npm, Linux package repositories, Arch User Repository, and GitHub release binaries. The Linux repository migration from Cloudsmith to artifacts-cli.infisical.com shows that the CLI became important enough to warrant dedicated artifact hosting.

How it is used

Users install the CLI, run infisical login, initialize a project, and use infisical run to inject environment variables into local development, CI/CD, staging, or production commands. Non-interactive workflows can authenticate with machine identity credentials and pass an access token through INFISICAL_TOKEN.

The CLI also covers secret export and secret scanning. The usage docs warn that terminal history can retain commands that set secrets, which is a small but important operational detail for a secrets-management CLI.

Why package nerds care

Infisical CLI is a modern DevSecOps package: it exists so secrets-management workflows can be scripted, pinned, installed by package managers, and used in CI containers without a browser UI. For package maintainers, the important part is not only the binary but also the artifact-hosting, version-pinning, and environment-variable contract around it.

Timeline

2022: Infisical platform repository created as an open-source secrets-management project.
2024: Infisical CLI package-manager distribution appears across Homebrew, npm, winget, and other channels.
2025: CLI docs describe v0.4.0 behavior for choosing Infisical Cloud regions or self-hosted instances during login.
2026: CLI Linux package repository migration scheduled from Cloudsmith to artifacts-cli.infisical.com.

Related projects

The Infisical platform repository is the server and product counterpart. HashiCorp Vault is a related secrets-management category reference named in Infisical repository topics. npm, Homebrew, Scoop, winget, AUR, and Linux package repositories are part of the CLI distribution story.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for infisical. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 5 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.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: <project>/.infisical.yaml<project>/.infisical.json

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`infisical`	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 generated2026-11-04

manager version0.44.12

manager updated2026-11-03

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detectedv0.44.14

https://github.com/Infisical/cli

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:infisical
Version	0.44.12
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/infisical
Homepage	https://infisical.com/docs/cli/overview
Repository	https://github.com/Infisical/cli
Upstream docs	https://infisical.com/docs/cli/overview
License	MIT
Source archive	https://github.com/Infisical/cli/archive/refs/tags/v0.44.14.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-11-03T23:29:06Z
Pulse	updated
Build dependencies	go
Bottle	available (on arm64_golden_gate, arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_tahoe, 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	infisical
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.

Nix95%

infisical

nix profile install nixpkgs#infisical

normalized package name match
Matched by: Infisical

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/in/infisical/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

MacPorts95%

infisical

sudo port install infisical

normalized package name match
Matched by: Infisical

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: security/infisical/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

winget95%

infisical.infisical

winget install --id infisical.infisical -e

normalized package name match
Matched by: Infisical

Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: infisical.infisical from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

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/infisical.yml

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