# Installer ad avec Homebrew, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de ad pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:ad
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ad
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#ad
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:ad
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.4.0
- **Résumé source:** Adaptable text editor inspired by vi, kakoune, and acme
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/sminez/ad>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/sminez/ad>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-05-26T23:37:48-04:00
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- ad (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.4.0
## Historique du projet et usages

`ad` is an adaptable Rust text editor that combines modal editing ideas from vi and Kakoune with Plan 9 Acme-style external-tool integration.

### Historique du projet

The README presents `ad` as a personal, experimental editor rather than a polished replacement for Vim, Kakoune, or Emacs. Its design centers on text that can be executed as well as edited, a filesystem interface inspired by Acme, and command-language ideas from Sam.

The GitHub repository was created in 2023 and is developed on the `develop` branch. Its setup task creates a `~/.ad` dotfile directory and copies default configuration, plumbing rules, helper scripts, libraries, colorschemes, and syntax data.

### Historique d'adoption

The project is available through Homebrew and Nix according to the supplied package-manager facts, but the README warns that user-facing documentation is limited and that the editor is not yet recommended as a primary editor.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users install or build `ad`, run `cargo xtask setup-dotfiles` for the default dotfiles, and then use the editor's built-in `:help` command. The tool is aimed at users who want a small hackable editor with external-program integration.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

`ad` is interesting to package maintainers as a compact Rust editor with nontrivial runtime data files. Packaging is less about a single binary and more about whether default dotfiles and helper directories are installed or generated cleanly.

### Chronologie

- 2023: GitHub repository `sminez/ad` was created.
- 2023: README documented `ad` as an Acme, Sam, vi, and Kakoune-inspired adaptable editor.
- 2026: Repository metadata shows active development and Homebrew/Nix package availability is present in the supplied facts.

### Related projects

- The README explicitly cites vi, Neovim, Kakoune, Acme, Sam, Plan 9, Tree-sitter, LSP, and the author's extracted `structex` crate as influences or related components.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/sminez/ad>
- <https://github.com/sminez/ad#readme>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sminez/ad/develop/xtask/src/setup.rs>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## 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: ~/.ad/config.toml
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph