# wx-cli mit Homebrew installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:wx-cli
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install wx-cli
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:wx-cli
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.3.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** WeChat 4.x local data CLI with daemon architecture
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/jackwener/wx-cli>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jackwener/wx-cli>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-17T17:22:03+09:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- wx (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.3.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

wx-cli is a modern Rust command-line tool for querying local WeChat 4.x data. Its README frames it as a local-only CLI with a daemon architecture for chats, contacts, group members, favorites, statistics, export, and agent-friendly JSON/YAML output.

### Projektgeschichte

The public GitHub repository presents wx-cli as a single-binary, cross-platform tool for local WeChat data. The project is young compared with the other packages in this batch; GitHub currently shows a small release history with v0.3.0 marked latest on May 15, 2026.

The README says the project was inspired by ylytdeng/wechat-decrypt but redesigned around wx-cli's own daemon, cache, and query commands. Its technical focus is WeChat 4.x SQLCipher databases, extracting keys from local process memory, and reusing decrypted database shards when file modification times are unchanged.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Despite its youth, wx-cli had visible GitHub interest by 2026, with thousands of stars and over a thousand forks shown on the repository page. That adoption appears tied to agent and local-data workflows: the README explicitly documents installation as an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and similar tools.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users initialize wx-cli while WeChat is running, then query sessions, unread messages, chat history, full-text search, contacts, group members, favorites, statistics, social-feed data, official-account articles, and attachments. The daemon starts on first use and keeps decrypted databases under ~/.wx-cli/cache for faster subsequent queries.

The tool is designed for local inspection rather than cloud sync. The README warns that it is for learning and research on one's own WeChat data and documents platform-specific memory-reading mechanisms on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

wx-cli is package-nerd significant as a 2020s example of CLIs built explicitly for local personal data and AI-agent consumption. The package exposes messy desktop-app state as stable command output, with metadata fields that help scripts and agents reason about freshness and source coverage.

### Zeitleiste

- 2026-05-15: GitHub shows v0.3.0 as the latest release.
- 2026: README documents AI Agent Skill installation and daemon-backed querying of WeChat 4.x local data.

### Related projects

- wx-cli is related to WeChat local database decryptors, ylytdeng/wechat-decrypt, SQLCipher tooling, and local-first personal-data command-line tools.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/jackwener/wx-cli>
- <https://github.com/jackwener/wx-cli#readme>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für wx-cli wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.



## 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: ~/.wx-cli/config.json

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.wx-cli/all_keys.json

## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

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