# xcsift mit Homebrew installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für xcsift in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:xcsift ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install xcsift ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:xcsift - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 1.3.1 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Swift tool to parse xcodebuild output for coding agents - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream-Dokumentation:** - **Lizenz:** MIT - **Quellarchiv:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-16T21:41:10Z - **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00 ## Executables - xcsift (cli) - xcsift (Alias) ## 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: 1.3.1 - Manager aktualisiert: 2026-06-16 - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/ldomaradzki/xcsift - neueste erkannte Version: v1.3.1 (aktuell) ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung xcsift is a 2025 Swift command-line formatter for xcodebuild and Swift Package Manager output, designed primarily for coding agents and LLM-driven development workflows rather than human-readable pretty printing. ### Projektgeschichte The repository was created on 2025-07-10 and shipped its first release, v1.0.1, the same day. The README states the core distinction plainly: unlike xcbeautify and xcpretty, xcsift prioritizes information density and machine readability over human-oriented terminal formatting. The project grew with features that mirror the needs of agentic coding sessions and CI logs: JSON and TOON output, structured compiler and linker errors, test-failure extraction, coverage conversion from .profraw and .xcresult data, build timing, GitHub Actions annotations, and a .xcsift.toml configuration file. Its 2026 releases continued to harden parsing, including a v1.3.1 fix to avoid reporting failed or truncated builds as success. ### Adoptionsgeschichte Because xcsift is new, adoption history is mostly early ecosystem positioning rather than long-term usage. Its README and plugin files explicitly target Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, CI, and LLM consumption; a third-party MCP wrapper also appeared to expose xcsift output through the Model Context Protocol. The author's blog post about not letting agents read whole xcodebuild output frames xcsift as part of a wider shift from human-pretty logs to machine-parseable summaries. That makes the project notable even while its conventional package history is short. ### Wie es verwendet wird Typical usage pipes xcodebuild build, xcodebuild test, swift build, or swift test through xcsift with stderr captured. Users can choose JSON, TOON, or GitHub Actions output, enable coverage extraction, treat warnings as errors, exit on failures, or initialize a .xcsift.toml template for project defaults. The tool is most useful where raw build logs are too verbose for an AI assistant or CI annotation stream. It extracts the file, line, target, warning, error, test, coverage, and timing facts an agent needs without spending context on the entire build transcript. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren xcsift is package-nerd significant as a sign of the coding-agent era entering Apple-platform tooling. Where xcpretty and xcbeautify made xcodebuild pleasant for humans, xcsift optimizes the same stream for token budgets, structured parsing, and automated remediation loops. ### Zeitleiste - 2025-07-10: Repository created on GitHub. - 2025-07-10: v1.0.1 first public release. - 2026-03-22: v1.2.0 release published. - 2026-05-22: v1.3.0 release published. - 2026-06-16: v1.3.1 fixed parsing issues around runtime noise and truncated failed builds. ### Related projects - xcbeautify and xcpretty are direct comparison points because they format xcodebuild output for humans, while xcsift targets agents and machine-readable formats. - xcsift-mcp is a related wrapper that exposes xcsift to AI assistants through MCP. ### Quellen - - - - - - ## 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: ./.xcsift.toml ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** xcsift - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Requirements:** xcode - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## 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. - [rulesync](https://pkg.so/de/brew/rulesync/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, coding-agents. - [happy-coder](https://pkg.so/de/brew/happy-coder/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, coding-agents. - [gemini-cli](https://pkg.so/de/brew/gemini-cli/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, coding-agents. - [opencode](https://pkg.so/de/brew/opencode/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, coding-agents. - [rtk](https://pkg.so/de/brew/rtk/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, coding-agents. - [qwen-code](https://pkg.so/de/brew/qwen-code/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, coding-agents. - [pi-coding-agent](https://pkg.so/de/brew/pi-coding-agent/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, coding-agents. - [worktrunk](https://pkg.so/de/brew/worktrunk/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: ai, cli, coding-agents. - [bmad-method](https://pkg.so/de/npm/bmad-method/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: agents, ai, cli, coding, coding-agents. - [repomix](https://pkg.so/de/npm/repomix/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: agents, ai, cli, coding, coding-agents. - [tokenjuice](https://pkg.so/de/npm/tokenjuice/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: agents, ai, cli, coding, coding-agents. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/xcsift.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/xcsift.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 - cross-ecosystem install command graph