# cspell mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:cspell
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cspell
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#cspell
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:cspell
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 10.0.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Spell checker for code
- **Homepage:** <https://cspell.org>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-01T13:13:33Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- cspell (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 10.0.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

CSpell is a spell checker for code, distributed as a Node-based CLI and library. Its niche is checking identifiers, comments, documentation, and source trees with dictionaries tuned for programming languages.

### Projektgeschichte

The package README says cspell is a command-line tool and library for spell checking code, and that it was initially built as the spell-checking service for the Code Spell Checker extension for Visual Studio Code. The top-level README describes the current repository as the CSpell mono-repo.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

CSpell moved from editor-extension infrastructure into a standalone CLI used in local projects and CI. The official docs document npm, Yarn, pnpm, Bun, npx, and GitHub Action use, while the repository lists packages for the CLI, library, bundled dictionaries, ESLint plugin, glob handling, trie tools, and related support libraries.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Official docs show typical CLI usage such as cspell . or cspell lint patterns, plus configuration discovery from JSON, YAML, JavaScript, TypeScript, TOML, package.json, and .vscode files. The package README emphasizes code-aware parsing, CamelCase and snake_case handling, language-specific dictionaries, and custom word lists.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

CSpell is interesting to packagers because it is both a user-facing CLI and a dependency graph of dictionary and parser packages. Homebrew packaging gives non-Node users a simple cspell executable, while npm remains the canonical upstream distribution channel.

### Zeitleiste

- 2017: npm package cspell 1.0.0 was published.
- 2023: GitHub releases show v7.3.1 in the available releases page.
- 2026: npm and Homebrew metadata list cspell 10.0.1 as current.

### Related projects

- The package README links CSpell to the Code Spell Checker extension for VS Code, and the repository lists cspell-dicts as the place for dictionary word changes.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell#readme>
- <https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell/tree/main/packages/cspell#readme>
- <https://cspell.org/docs/getting-started>
- <https://cspell.org/docs/Configuration>
- <https://cspell.org/docs/installation>
- <https://registry.npmjs.org/cspell>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cspell>


## 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: ./cspell.json
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

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


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

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