# zot mit Homebrew, apk, MacPorts installieren
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für zot in AI-Agent-Workflows.
## Installation
```sh
sudo av install brew:zot
```
Weitere Installationsbefehle:
### macOS
- Homebrew (100%):
```sh
brew install zot
```
Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata
- MacPorts (94%):
```sh
sudo port install zot
```
Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: llm/zot/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
### Linux
- apk (92%):
```sh
sudo apk add zot
```
Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zot from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
## Paketfakten
- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:zot
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.3.31
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Lightweight coding agent harness written in Go
- **Homepage:**
- **Repository:**
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-08-03T15:09:16Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00
## Executables
- zot (Alias)
## Installationsverhalten
- Bottle: nicht verfügbar
## Version und Aktualität
- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.3.31
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
zot is a young Go-based coding-agent harness packaged as a single command-line binary. Its niche is the post-Codex/Claude-Code generation of terminal agent tools: local TUI, print, JSON, and RPC modes wrapped around model providers and a small built-in tool set.
### Projektgeschichte
The GitHub repository was created in April 2026 by Patrice Eckhart. The project README describes zot as a lightweight coding-agent harness written in Go, with one static binary, four built-in tools, and provider integrations for OpenAI/Codex, Anthropic, Gemini, Kimi, DeepSeek, Ollama/local models, and other API-compatible backends.
The public documentation emphasizes embeddability and extensibility rather than a large default plugin ecosystem: zot can run interactively, emit JSON events, serve an RPC protocol for external apps, load SKILL.md instruction packs, and install extensions that communicate over subprocess JSON-RPC.
### Adoptionsgeschichte
zot's adoption story is early-stage. GitHub repository metadata showed a few hundred stars and several dozen forks by July 2026, and the batch package metadata already lists Homebrew, Alpine, and MacPorts package names, which is notable for a project created only months earlier.
Its practical audience is developers experimenting with local coding-agent harnesses who want a single binary rather than a Node, Python, or Docker-shaped stack.
### Wie es verwendet wird
Typical use is to run `zot` for the terminal UI, pass a prompt directly, use `-p` for print mode, use `--json` for newline-delimited events, or run `zot rpc` when embedding it in another program. Authentication is handled through provider API keys or supported subscription login flows, with state under `$ZOT_HOME`.
For package users, the important behavior is that zot installs like a normal CLI while still exposing agent-specific features such as session resume, model/provider selection, extension loading, skills, and a Telegram bridge.
### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
zot is package-nerd interesting because it turns a fast-moving AI-agent pattern into the old reliable artifact shape: one binary on `$PATH`. That makes it easy to compare with Codex CLI, Claude Code-style tools, OpenCode, and other terminal harnesses without first adopting their runtime stack.
### Zeitleiste
- 2026-04-17: The public `patriceckhart/zot` GitHub repository is created.
- 2026: The README documents a single-binary Go harness with TUI, print, JSON, and RPC modes.
- 2026: Package metadata in this batch records zot in Homebrew, Alpine, and MacPorts.
### Related projects
- OpenAI Codex CLI and Anthropic Claude Code are upstream workflow reference points because zot documents subscription login flows and provider behavior related to them.
- OpenCode, Ollama, Gemini, Kimi, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, and other provider backends are adjacent surfaces in zot's model-provider layer.
### Quellen
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- input.json source_facts.package-manager
## Sicherheitshinweise
Für zot 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: $ZOT_HOME/config.json
## Credential files
- Unix: $ZOT_HOME/config.json
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge
- apk - zot - 2.1.17-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zot from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Vendor-neutral OCI-native container image registry | https://zotregistry.dev/
- apk - zot-cli - 2.1.17-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zot-cli from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Vendor-neutral OCI-native container image registry - CLI tools | https://zotregistry.dev/
- apk - zot-cli-bash-completion - 2.1.17-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zot-cli-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Bash completions for zot-cli | https://zotregistry.dev/
- apk - zot-cli-fish-completion - 2.1.17-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zot-cli-fish-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Fish completions for zot-cli | https://zotregistry.dev/
- apk - zot-cli-zsh-completion - 2.1.17-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zot-cli-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Zsh completions for zot-cli | https://zotregistry.dev/
- apk - zot-doc - 2.1.17-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zot-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Vendor-neutral OCI-native container image registry (documentation) | https://zotregistry.dev/
- apk - zot-exporter - 2.1.17-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zot-exporter from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Vendor-neutral OCI-native container image registry - metrics exporter | https://zotregistry.dev/
- apk - zot-openrc - 2.1.17-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: zot-openrc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Vendor-neutral OCI-native container image registry (OpenRC init scripts) | https://zotregistry.dev/
- MacPorts - zot: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: llm/zot/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/zot.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/zot.yml)
## Quellen
- pkg.so package database
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph