# toktop mit Homebrew installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:toktop
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install toktop
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:toktop
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.5
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** LLM usage monitor in terminal
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/htin1/toktop>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/htin1/toktop>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- toktop (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.1.5
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

toktop is a small terminal dashboard for monitoring OpenAI and Anthropic token usage and costs. Its own README frames it as "htop but for llm tokens", placing it in the recent wave of developer tools that turn cloud AI spend into a live terminal workflow.

### Projektgeschichte

The official repository is a compact Rust project with a README, Cargo metadata, and a short changelog. The changelog records early 0.1.x releases in November and December 2025, with work focused on cost API fixes, chart rendering, filtering, grouping by model or API key, and richer usage summaries.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Available history is limited to the official project repository and package metadata. Homebrew carries the tool as `toktop`, and the upstream README documents `cargo install toktop --locked`, so adoption appears centered on Rust/Cargo and Homebrew users who want terminal-native LLM account monitoring.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The README documents running `toktop` after setting `OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY` and `ANTHROPIC_ADMIN_KEY`, passing an env file with `toktop -e .env`, or letting the program prompt for API keys. In package-manager terms, it is a single executable meant to sit beside other terminal observability tools.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, toktop is interesting less as infrastructure history and more as a marker of a new CLI niche: local, terminal-first accounting for metered LLM APIs. Its packaging surface is intentionally small: one binary, MIT license, Cargo install path, and a Homebrew formula.

### Zeitleiste

- 2025: Changelog records early 0.1.x releases focused on LLM usage and cost dashboard behavior.
- Current: README documents OpenAI and Anthropic admin-key based terminal monitoring.

### Related projects

- The README explicitly compares the experience to htop and notes that it is built with Ratatui, aligning it with terminal UI observability tools.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/htin1/toktop#readme>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/htin1/toktop/main/CHANGELOG.md>
- source_facts.description
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

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