# Installer btcli avec Homebrew, Nix

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:btcli
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install btcli
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#btcli
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: btcli from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:btcli
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 9.23.2
- **Résumé source:** Bittensor command-line tool
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://docs.learnbittensor.org/btcli>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-19T18:46:05+09:00
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- btcli (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 9.23.2
## Historique du projet et usages

btcli is the command-line client for the Bittensor network. It packages wallet, subnet, staking, delegation, governance, and node-management workflows into a terminal tool distributed through PyPI, Homebrew, and source installs.

### Historique du projet

The standalone opentensor/btcli repository began with public commits in July 2024 and an MIT-licensed README for the Bittensor CLI. Its first listed tag in the local git history is v8.0.0 in September 2024.

The README frames btcli as a tool for common Bittensor operations: creating wallets, registering subnets or neurons, delegating TAO, viewing Senate proposals, and voting.

### Historique d'adoption

btcli adoption follows Bittensor ecosystem adoption rather than classic Unix utility adoption. The official README documents installation from PyPI, Homebrew, and source, plus use with the broader bittensor SDK through the bittensor[cli] extra.

The Homebrew formula gives macOS users a package-manager path alongside Python packaging, which matters because the README recommends Homebrew-installed Python/OpenSSL on macOS.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users run btcli to manage Bittensor wallets, chain configuration, subnet and neuron registration, staking and delegation, and governance voting. The tool reads common defaults from ~/.bittensor/config.yml, stores wallet material under ~/.bittensor/wallets, and supports command-level help with --help.

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

btcli is interesting as a blockchain-network CLI crossing Python packaging and Homebrew. It is young compared with the other tools in this batch, but it shows how Web3 and AI-network projects ship operational CLIs into general-purpose package managers for developer onboarding.

### Chronologie

- 2024: Public git history for opentensor/btcli starts with README and Typer-related commits.
- 2024: v8.0.0 appears as an early standalone btcli tag.
- 2026: The repository history shows v9.23.1, indicating active release cadence.

### Related projects

- The README links btcli to the Bittensor SDK repository, the btwallet repository, and the Bittensor whitepaper.
- The bittensor[cli] Python extra is documented as a way to install btcli alongside the SDK.

### Sources

- Local git history from https://github.com/opentensor/btcli shows first commits in 2024, tag v8.0.0 in 2024, and tag v9.23.1 in 2026.
- Official README describes btcli as the Bittensor CLI and lists wallet, subnet, staking, delegation, Senate proposal, and voting operations: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/opentensor/btcli/main/README.md
- Official README documents PyPI, Homebrew, source, and SDK-extra installation paths: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/opentensor/btcli/main/README.md
- Package-manager adoption from source_facts.package-manager.


## Notes de sécurité

Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour btcli. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.



## 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: ~/.bittensor/config.yml, ~/.bittensor/btcli.yaml

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.bittensor/wallets
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - btcli: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: btcli from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix


## Combined YAML source

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