# Installer kin avec Homebrew

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:kin
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install kin
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:kin
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.1.15
- **Résumé source:** Sane PBXProj files
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/Serchinastico/Kin>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/Serchinastico/Kin>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-15T15:58:29Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- kin (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 2.1.15
## Historique du projet et usages

Kin is a small command-line syntax checker for Xcode project.pbxproj files. Its README frames the tool around a familiar iOS/macOS team problem: broken Xcode projects after merges.

### Historique du projet

Kin was built as a minimal parser-backed checker rather than a full Xcode project editor. The project uses ANTLR 4 to generate the pbxproj parser and keeps a thin command-line layer around that grammar.

The repository's license block is dated 2023, and GitHub listed 30 releases with version 2.1.14 published on 2025-05-08. That points to a maintained niche tool rather than a one-off gist.

### Historique d'adoption

Kin's adoption is narrow but real: the GitHub repository showed about 1.1k stars, Homebrew installation is documented in the README, and the package is available as a Homebrew formula in this batch.

The README also names flycheck-pbxproj as an editor integration, showing that Kin's parser work became useful beyond one direct CLI invocation.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users run kin from an Xcode project directory and let it auto-detect project.pbxproj, or pass a project.pbxproj path explicitly. A successful parse prints CORRECT; parse failures return a line and grammar error.

It is most useful in pre-commit hooks, CI checks, and merge-conflict recovery for teams that store Xcode project files in Git.

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

Kin is package-nerd interesting because it turns an opaque Apple project-file grammar into a tiny reproducible CLI check. It is not a broad developer platform, but it solves one painful file-format failure mode in a scriptable way.

The package also shows why Homebrew carries niche tools: if a project.pbxproj merge breaks a build, a small parser utility can save more time than a much larger IDE plugin.

### Chronologie

- 2023: The repository license block credits Serchinastico.
- 2025: GitHub listed Kin 2.1.14 as a release dated 2025-05-08.
- 2026: The README documented pipx, easy_install, and Homebrew installation paths.

### Related projects

- ANTLR 4 is the parser generator used by Kin.
- Xcode project.pbxproj files are the target file format.
- flycheck-pbxproj is the Emacs integration named by the README.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/Serchinastico/Kin>


## 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

- macOS: *.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj

## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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