# doc8 mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für doc8 in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:doc8
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install doc8
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:doc8
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.0.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Style checker for Sphinx documentation
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/PyCQA/doc8>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/PyCQA/doc8>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-13T01:24:09+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- doc8 (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2.0.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

doc8 is an opinionated reStructuredText and plain-text documentation style checker, historically useful for Sphinx-heavy Python documentation projects.

It is a small tool, but it occupies a recognizable niche: applying lint-style feedback to docs instead of code.

### Projektgeschichte

doc8 appeared on PyPI in 2014 and was associated with OpenStack documentation tooling before moving into the PyCQA organization in 2019.

The project now lives under PyCQA, which fits its role as a Python code-quality-adjacent checker for documentation repositories.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Adoption has been strongest in Python projects that already use Sphinx, tox, setup.cfg, pyproject.toml, or pre-commit style workflows.

The tool is distributed primarily through PyPI, with Homebrew packaging providing a convenient CLI install path for macOS and Linux users.

### Wie es verwendet wird

doc8 checks documentation trees for simple style requirements, supports common config files, and can be run from the command line or called programmatically.

Projects use it to catch line length, formatting, and reStructuredText issues before docs are built or published.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

doc8 is a tidy example of documentation linting becoming a normal part of CI, parallel to how flake8, ruff, and other Python linters treat source code.

Its PyCQA home matters: it signals that documentation quality tooling belongs in the same maintenance culture as code quality tooling.

### Zeitleiste

- 2014: doc8's early 0.1 and 0.3.x releases appeared on PyPI.
- 2019: OpenStack infrastructure status notes that openstack/doc8 on GitHub was transferred to the PyCQA organization.
- 2022: doc8 1.0.0 marked a stable major release under the PyCQA repository.
- 2025: doc8 2.0.0 raised the Python baseline and refreshed project metadata and build pipelines.

### Related projects

- Related projects include Sphinx, docutils, reStructuredText linters, pydocstyle, rstcheck, and PyCQA's broader family of Python quality tools.
- OpenStack documentation tooling is part of doc8's historical context.

### Quellen

- <https://pypi.org/project/doc8/>
- <https://pypi.org/project/doc8/0.3.5/>
- <https://github.com/PyCQA/doc8>
- <https://github.com/PyCQA/doc8/releases>
- <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Status>
- <https://doc8.readthedocs.io/>


## 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: ./doc8.ini, ./.config/doc8.ini, ./tox.ini, ./pep8.ini, ./setup.cfg, ./pyproject.toml

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/doc8.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/doc8.yml)


## Quellen

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