# kin mit Homebrew installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:kin
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install kin
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:kin
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kin>
- **Version:** 2.1.15
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Sane PBXProj files
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/Serchinastico/Kin>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Serchinastico/Kin>
- **Lizenz:** Apache-2.0
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f7/2d/d4d20d47503442712758f31215f1d38a67910babd3fb2a4ff02deb4fad53/kin-2.1.15.tar.gz>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-15T15:58:29Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- kin (cli)
- kin (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- python@3.14

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf all

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-04
- Manager-Version: 2.1.15
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-07-15
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/Serchinastico/Kin
- Info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Kin is a small command-line syntax checker for Xcode project.pbxproj files. Its README frames the tool around a familiar iOS/macOS team problem: broken Xcode projects after merges.

### Projektgeschichte

Kin was built as a minimal parser-backed checker rather than a full Xcode project editor. The project uses ANTLR 4 to generate the pbxproj parser and keeps a thin command-line layer around that grammar.

The repository's license block is dated 2023, and GitHub listed 30 releases with version 2.1.14 published on 2025-05-08. That points to a maintained niche tool rather than a one-off gist.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Kin's adoption is narrow but real: the GitHub repository showed about 1.1k stars, Homebrew installation is documented in the README, and the package is available as a Homebrew formula in this batch.

The README also names flycheck-pbxproj as an editor integration, showing that Kin's parser work became useful beyond one direct CLI invocation.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run kin from an Xcode project directory and let it auto-detect project.pbxproj, or pass a project.pbxproj path explicitly. A successful parse prints CORRECT; parse failures return a line and grammar error.

It is most useful in pre-commit hooks, CI checks, and merge-conflict recovery for teams that store Xcode project files in Git.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Kin is package-nerd interesting because it turns an opaque Apple project-file grammar into a tiny reproducible CLI check. It is not a broad developer platform, but it solves one painful file-format failure mode in a scriptable way.

The package also shows why Homebrew carries niche tools: if a project.pbxproj merge breaks a build, a small parser utility can save more time than a much larger IDE plugin.

### Zeitleiste

- 2023: The repository license block credits Serchinastico.
- 2025: GitHub listed Kin 2.1.14 as a release dated 2025-05-08.
- 2026: The README documented pipx, easy_install, and Homebrew installation paths.

### Related projects

- ANTLR 4 is the parser generator used by Kin.
- Xcode project.pbxproj files are the target file format.
- flycheck-pbxproj is the Emacs integration named by the README.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/Serchinastico/Kin>


## 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

- macOS: *.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

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


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- [Developer build packages](https://pkg.so/de/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [python@3.14](https://pkg.so/de/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [xcbeautify](https://pkg.so/de/brew/xcbeautify/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, xcode.
- [cocoapods](https://pkg.so/de/brew/cocoapods/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, xcode.
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- [yamllint](https://pkg.so/de/brew/yamllint/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, files, python.
- [syntaxerl](https://pkg.so/de/brew/syntaxerl/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: checker, cli, developer, developer-tools, files.

## Combined YAML source

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


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- pkg.so package database
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- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
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- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
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