# xcp mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:xcp
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install xcp
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#xcp
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:xcp
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.2.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Fast & lightweight command-line tool for managing Xcode projects, built in Swift
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/wojciech-kulik/XcodeProjectCLI>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/wojciech-kulik/XcodeProjectCLI>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- xcp (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.2.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

XcodeProjectCLI, installed as xcp, is a Swift command-line and library wrapper for making targeted edits to Xcode project files. It focuses on direct project maintenance tasks such as listing targets, moving groups and files, changing build settings, and managing asset catalog entries.

### Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository was created on 2025-10-28, with the first public release, v0.9.1, published on 2025-10-30 and v1.0.0 following on 2025-11-14. The README describes the project as a fast, lightweight CLI for managing Xcode projects, built entirely in Swift and powered by Tuist's XcodeProj library.

The author announced the tool on the Swift Forums in November 2025, explaining that it was initially built for the xcodebuild.nvim Neovim plugin but could be used generally to automate Xcode project-file work. The v1.0.0 release added support for relative .xcodeproj paths and build-setting get/set commands, moving the tool from basic structure manipulation toward broader project automation.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Because xcp is newer and narrower than XcodeGen or xcodes, its adoption history is still early. Its visible niche is automation around existing .xcodeproj files, especially editor and scripting workflows where opening Xcode just to add a file, move a group, or tweak a build setting is unnecessary.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Typical CLI usage calls xcp with subcommands for targets, groups, files, build settings, and assets. The same code can also be used as a Swift library, allowing macOS automation tools to open a project, manipulate groups or files, and save the pbxproj programmatically.

Compared with generators, xcp does not replace the .xcodeproj with a declarative spec. Its niche is smaller: script one operation against an existing project file, which is useful for editor integrations, refactoring scripts, and generated-file workflows.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

xcp is significant as a small composable Unix-style tool for an otherwise GUI-heavy file format. For package catalogues it sits between low-level pbxproj libraries and high-level project generators: one executable, a focused command set, and an automation-friendly Swift library underneath.

### Zeitleiste

- 2025-10-28: Repository created on GitHub.
- 2025-10-30: v0.9.1 first public release.
- 2025-11-14: v1.0.0 release added relative project paths and build-setting commands.
- 2025-11-19: Author presented XcodeProjectCLI in the Swift Forums Community Showcase.
- 2025-11-22: v1.2.1 release published.

### Related projects

- XcodeProj from Tuist is the underlying library named by the README as the foundation for XcodeProjectCLI.
- xcodebuild.nvim is related because the author said xcp was initially built for that Neovim-based iOS/macOS development workflow.

### Quellen

- <https://forums.swift.org/t/xcodeprojectcli-lightweight-cli-tool-for-managing-xcode-projects/83311>
- <https://github.com/tuist/XcodeProj>
- <https://github.com/wojciech-kulik/XcodeProjectCLI>
- <https://github.com/wojciech-kulik/XcodeProjectCLI/releases>
- <https://github.com/wojciech-kulik/xcodebuild.nvim>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

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