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asimov mit Homebrew installieren

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

Installationsbefehl Sicherheitshinweise

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install asimov

local Homebrew formula metadata

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Automatically exclude development dependencies from Time Machine backups

Projektlinks

Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

asimov

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Asimov is a macOS command-line utility that excludes development dependency directories from Time Machine backups. It is deliberately narrow: scan for restorable dependency trees such as `node_modules`, then ask Apple's `tmutil` to exclude them so backups waste less space.

Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository was created in October 2017. The README presents the motivating problem for developers using Time Machine: project dependency directories can be large, generated, and recoverable from package manifests, so backing them up is often unnecessary.

Release metadata shows v0.1.0 in October 2017, v0.2.0 in November 2017, and v0.3.0 in June 2020. The README continues to describe a small shell-oriented utility rather than a daemon-heavy system service.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Asimov's adoption is Homebrew-centered. The official README calls Homebrew the easiest installation route, documents `brew install asimov`, and shows `sudo brew services start asimov` for running the scheduled job automatically once a day.

The input facts list only Homebrew packaging, which matches the macOS-only scope. It is a package-manager convenience wrapper around native macOS backup controls rather than a cross-platform backup system.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users either run `asimov` on demand or install it as a Homebrew service. Asimov scans for recognized dependency directories next to corresponding project files, checks whether they are already excluded, and uses `tmutil` to mark them as excluded from Time Machine.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Asimov matters to package nerds because it encodes a practical truth about dependency managers: generated dependency directories are expensive to back up and cheap to recreate. It turns that convention into a small macOS maintenance package.

Zeitleiste

2017: GitHub repository created.
2017: v0.1.0 and v0.2.0 releases published.
2020: v0.3.0 release published.
2024: Repository still received pushes.

Related projects

Apple Time Machine is the backup system Asimov configures.
`tmutil` is the native macOS command Asimov wraps.
Homebrew services is documented as the scheduled-run installation path.

Quellen

https://api.github.com/repos/stevegrunwell/asimov/releases
https://github.com/stevegrunwell/asimov
source_facts.package-manager

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: orange

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. formula declares a Homebrew service.

Risikoklassifikator

orange Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · infrastructure

Warum

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
formula declares a Homebrew service

Signale

metadata:service
text:backup

Installationsverhalten

Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`asimov`	Executable	indexiertes Executable	Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt.

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

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Seite generiert2026-08-03

Manager-Version0.12.0

Manager aktualisiert2026-07-30

lokale Datenunbekannt

Upstreamnicht verfügbar

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:asimov
Version	0.12.0
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://github.com/AsimovMac/asimov
Repository	https://github.com/AsimovMac/asimov
Zuletzt aktualisiert	2026-07-30T19:37:44Z
Pulse	updated
Bottle	nicht erfasst
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/asimov.yml

Verwendete Quellen

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