# ki mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:ki
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ki
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#ki
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:ki
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.5.2
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Kotlin Language Interactive Shell
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-interactive-shell>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-interactive-shell>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-05-19T07:49:15-04:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- ki (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.5.2
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Kotlin Language Interactive Shell, usually invoked as `ki`, is JetBrains' richer terminal REPL for Kotlin: a shell with syntax highlighting, type inference commands, runtime Maven dependency loading, and symbol listing.

### Projektgeschichte

The project grew out of Sparklin. The repository README describes it as the former Sparklin shell migrated to Kotlin's newer scripting and REPL infrastructure and generalized into the Kotlin Language Interactive Shell. Early GitHub releases in 2018 were still named Sparklin; by 2021 the release stream and JetBrains announcement presented it as `ki`.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The README documents distribution through Maven Central archives, SDKMAN!, Arch Linux AUR, Homebrew, and MacPorts. JetBrains' 2021 Kotlin blog post positioned `ki` as a better standalone shell alongside the built-in `kotlinc` and IntelliJ IDEA REPL options.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Package users install `ki` to try Kotlin snippets, load JVM dependencies from Maven coordinates during an interactive session, inspect declared symbols, and run a Kotlin REPL from a terminal without opening an IDE.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

`ki` matters because it is an official Kotlin-team package that turns a language REPL into something closer to a shell-oriented package-manager experience: install a launcher, pull dependencies by coordinates, and explore JVM libraries interactively.

### Zeitleiste

- 2017: Kotlin/kotlin-interactive-shell repository created on GitHub.
- 2018: GitHub releases were published under the Sparklin name.
- 2021: JetBrains announced `ki` as the next interactive shell for Kotlin.
- 2022: The 0.4.x release series continued under the Kotlin Language Interactive Shell repository.

### Related projects

- The README points to Kotlin/kotlin-spark-shell as the Apache Spark adaptation and keeps the earlier Sparklin version in a separate repository branch.

### Quellen

- <https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2021/04/ki-the-next-interactive-shell-for-kotlin/>
- <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-interactive-shell>
- <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-interactive-shell/releases>
- <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-spark-shell>


## Sicherheitshinweise

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** yellow / mittel
- generalized runtime or code generation signal

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - ki: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ki/ki/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/ki.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/ki.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