# cai mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für cai in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:cai
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cai
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#cai
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:cai
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cai>
- **Version:** 0.13.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** CLI tool for prompting LLMs
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/ad-si/cai>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ad-si/cai>
- **Lizenz:** ISC
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/ad-si/cai/archive/refs/tags/v0.13.0.tar.gz>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- cai (cli)
- cai (Alias)

## Build-Abhängigkeiten

- pkgconf
- rust

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-04
- Manager-Version: 0.13.0
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/ad-si/cai
- neueste erkannte Version: v0.13.0 (aktuell)
- Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

cai is a Rust CLI for running LLM, image, OCR, speech, coding-context, and automation prompts from the terminal.

### Projektgeschichte

The public repository was created on 2024-03-28 and the changelog marks 0.1.0 as the initial release on the same date. Early releases added provider subcommands, proper clap-based argument handling, local Ollama support, stdin prompt input, Anthropic support, multi-model prompting through cai all, and markdown syntax highlighting.

Through 2024 and 2025 cai expanded from a simple prompt CLI into a multi-provider terminal assistant, adding JSON output, raw output, OCR, file renaming, changelog generation, programming-language context commands, DeepSeek, Cerebras, xAI, Google Gemini, image generation, transcription, rewrite, and shell-adjacent helper commands.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

cai belongs to the wave of post-ChatGPT command-line LLM clients. Its official README positions it as a user-friendly CLI with providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Groq, Cerebras, DeepSeek, xAI, Ollama, and Llamafile, and it is distributed through Cargo and Homebrew.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Typical usage is short natural-language prompts, stdin pipelines, provider-specific model shortcuts, simultaneous prompting across providers, OCR, image generation, shell command generation, database querying, and coding-context prompts. The README documents API key setup on first run and support for local LLM servers.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

cai is a good snapshot of how AI tooling entered package managers: a fast-moving Rust CLI that maps commercial and local model providers into Unix-style commands, stdin/stdout workflows, and package-manager installation.

### Zeitleiste

- 2024: Initial 0.1.0 release.
- 2024: Provider subcommands, Ollama, Anthropic, multi-model prompts, and JSON/raw output added.
- 2025: OCR, file renaming, programming contexts, DeepSeek, Cerebras, xAI, Gemini, image generation, and transcription features added.
- 2026: 0.13.0 adds more commands including photo, say, config, query, edit, and commit.

### Related projects

- The official README lists related CLI LLM tools such as AIChat, clai, Ell, Goose, llm, smartcat, and tgpt.
- cai integrates with hosted providers and local runtimes including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Groq, Cerebras, DeepSeek, xAI, Ollama, and Llamafile.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/ad-si/cai>
- <https://github.com/ad-si/cai#readme>
- <https://github.com/ad-si/cai/blob/main/changelog.md>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## 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

- Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cai/config.yaml, ~/.config/cai/config.yaml

## Credential files

- Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cai/secrets.yaml, ~/.config/cai/secrets.yaml
## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** cai
- **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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - cai: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ca/cai/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Verwandte Links

- [Source-control packages](https://pkg.so/de/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [MCP tool packages](https://pkg.so/de/mcp-tools/) - Mentions MCP or Model Context Protocol.
- [AI and agent packages](https://pkg.so/de/ai-agent-tools/) - Matched AI model, agent, coding-agent, orchestration, or MCP metadata.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/de/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [pkgconf](https://pkg.so/de/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [rust](https://pkg.so/de/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [toktop](https://pkg.so/de/brew/toktop/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, anthropic, cli, llm, model-tools.
- [ollama](https://pkg.so/de/brew/ollama/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, llm, model-tools.
- [llmfit](https://pkg.so/de/brew/llmfit/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, llm, model-tools.
- [ramalama](https://pkg.so/de/brew/ramalama/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, llm, model-tools.
- [promptfoo](https://pkg.so/de/brew/promptfoo/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, llm, model-tools.
- [localai](https://pkg.so/de/brew/localai/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, llm, model-tools.
- [oterm](https://pkg.so/de/brew/oterm/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, llm, model-tools.
- [gollama](https://pkg.so/de/brew/gollama/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, llm, model-tools.
- [rapid-mlx](https://pkg.so/de/brew/rapid-mlx/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: ai, cli, llm, model, model-tools.
- [tenere](https://pkg.so/de/brew/tenere/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: ai, cli, llm, llms, model.

## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph