# hof mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:hof
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install hof
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install hof
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: devel/hof/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#hof
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:hof
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.6.10
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Flexible data modeling & code generation system
- **Homepage:** <https://hofstadter.io/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-27T14:32:25+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- hof (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.6.10
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

hof, the higher order framework, is a developer CLI centered on CUE. Its official README describes it as unifying data models, schemas, code generation, and a task engine, with later surfaces for TUI, agents, and editor tooling.

### Projektgeschichte

The hof repository history begins in 2020, and the tag stream moved quickly through early 0.x releases. The project emerged around CUE-powered code generation: describing application data and generator configuration declaratively, then producing code and other files from templates while preserving custom edits.

By the 0.6 series, the official documentation presented hof as more than a generator. The README and documentation list data modeling, code generation, task workflows, CUE command helpers, creators, modules, a terminal interface, and LLM-assisted chat as parts of the same CUE-centered developer experience.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

hof's adoption appears to be niche and developer-workflow oriented rather than broad platform infrastructure. The official README points users to GitHub releases as the preferred binary source and includes Homebrew installation through the hofstadter-io tap, while the supplied package facts show distribution through Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix.

The project is most likely to be adopted by teams already interested in CUE, schema-first application generation, declarative data models, and regenerable code. Its package-manager presence matters because a code generator has to be easy to pin in CI, local developer environments, and project bootstrap scripts.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Common hof usage centers on the hof CLI: hof gen for code generation, hof datamodel for model checkpoints and diffs, hof flow for CUE-powered workflows, hof mod for CUE module dependency management, and hof create for starter kits or blueprints. Documentation emphasizes committing generated code and using CUE as a source of truth.

The data-modeling docs are especially package-relevant because they describe commands that track history and include that history during code generation so migrations and conversion functions can be produced. That makes hof less like a one-shot scaffolder and more like a development-time tool that stays in the project loop.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

hof is package-nerd significant as a Go-distributed CLI in the CUE ecosystem. It packages a broad workflow into one executable, which is attractive for reproducible dev shells and CI but also means version pinning matters when generator output, templates, or model-history behavior changes.

For people who track language tooling, hof is also a marker of CUE's spread beyond validation into code generation, task orchestration, module workflows, and AI-assisted developer loops.

### Zeitleiste

- 2020: Repository history begins and v0.1.0 tag appears.
- 2021: v0.6.0 tag appears after the early generator-focused 0.x series.
- 2022: v0.6.1 release notes introduced data-modeling commands in the 0.6 line.
- 2023: v0.6.8 tag appears after a long beta and release-candidate cycle.
- 2024: v0.6.9 tag appears.
- 2026: v0.7.0 alpha tags appear with stabilizing work on newer features.

### Related projects

- CUE is the central related project because hof uses it as the declarative substrate. The hofmod-cli generator is related as an official Hofstadter generator for Go CLI projects. Dagger, VS Code extension work, and CUE module workflows are adjacent surfaces named by the official README.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof - official README for project scope, commands, installation, and CUE positioning.>
- <https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tags - official tag history.>
- <https://hofstadter.io/ - official documentation home for CUE-powered workflows and use cases.>
- <https://hofstadter.io/data-modeling/commands/ - official data-modeling command docs and history-tracking behavior.>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - hof: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ho/hof/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - hof: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/hof/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

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