# ki mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:ki
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ki
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#ki
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:ki
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ki>
- **Version:** 0.5.2
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Kotlin Language Interactive Shell
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-interactive-shell>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-interactive-shell>
- **Lizenz:** Apache-2.0
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-interactive-shell/archive/refs/tags/v0.5.2.tar.gz>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-05-19T07:49:15-04:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- ki (cli)
- ki (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- openjdk@21

## Build-Abhängigkeiten

- maven

## 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: 0.5.2
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-05-19
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-interactive-shell
- neueste erkannte Version: v0.5.2 (aktuell)
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Kotlin Language Interactive Shell, usually invoked as `ki`, is JetBrains' richer terminal REPL for Kotlin: a shell with syntax highlighting, type inference commands, runtime Maven dependency loading, and symbol listing.

### Projektgeschichte

The project grew out of Sparklin. The repository README describes it as the former Sparklin shell migrated to Kotlin's newer scripting and REPL infrastructure and generalized into the Kotlin Language Interactive Shell. Early GitHub releases in 2018 were still named Sparklin; by 2021 the release stream and JetBrains announcement presented it as `ki`.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The README documents distribution through Maven Central archives, SDKMAN!, Arch Linux AUR, Homebrew, and MacPorts. JetBrains' 2021 Kotlin blog post positioned `ki` as a better standalone shell alongside the built-in `kotlinc` and IntelliJ IDEA REPL options.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Package users install `ki` to try Kotlin snippets, load JVM dependencies from Maven coordinates during an interactive session, inspect declared symbols, and run a Kotlin REPL from a terminal without opening an IDE.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

`ki` matters because it is an official Kotlin-team package that turns a language REPL into something closer to a shell-oriented package-manager experience: install a launcher, pull dependencies by coordinates, and explore JVM libraries interactively.

### Zeitleiste

- 2017: Kotlin/kotlin-interactive-shell repository created on GitHub.
- 2018: GitHub releases were published under the Sparklin name.
- 2021: JetBrains announced `ki` as the next interactive shell for Kotlin.
- 2022: The 0.4.x release series continued under the Kotlin Language Interactive Shell repository.

### Related projects

- The README points to Kotlin/kotlin-spark-shell as the Apache Spark adaptation and keeps the earlier Sparklin version in a separate repository branch.

### Quellen

- <https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2021/04/ki-the-next-interactive-shell-for-kotlin/>
- <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-interactive-shell>
- <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-interactive-shell/releases>
- <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-spark-shell>


## Sicherheitshinweise

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** yellow / mittel
- generalized runtime or code generation signal

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** ki
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** yes
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - ki: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ki/ki/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.
- [Secret-risk packages](https://pkg.so/de/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/de/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Language runtime packages](https://pkg.so/de/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata.
- [openjdk@21](https://pkg.so/de/brew/openjdk-21/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [maven](https://pkg.so/de/brew/maven/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [frege-repl](https://pkg.so/de/brew/frege-repl/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, jvm, language-runtime, repl.
- [ammonite-repl](https://pkg.so/de/brew/ammonite-repl/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, repl.
- [psysh](https://pkg.so/de/brew/psysh/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, repl.
- [planck](https://pkg.so/de/brew/planck/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, language-runtime, repl.
- [clojure](https://pkg.so/de/brew/clojure/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, jvm, language-runtime, repl.
- [kawa](https://pkg.so/de/brew/kawa/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, jvm, language-runtime, repl.
- [kotlin](https://pkg.so/de/brew/kotlin/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, jvm, language-runtime.
- [groovysdk](https://pkg.so/de/brew/groovysdk/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, jvm, language-runtime.
- [frege](https://pkg.so/de/brew/frege/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, jvm, language, language-runtime, openjdk.
- [arf](https://pkg.so/de/brew/arf/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, language, language-runtime, repl, runtime.

## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

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