# Installer sourcekitten avec Homebrew, MacPorts

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:sourcekitten
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install sourcekitten
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install SourceKitten
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: devel/SourceKitten/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:sourcekitten
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.38.0
- **Résumé source:** Framework and command-line tool for interacting with SourceKit
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/jpsim/SourceKitten>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/jpsim/SourceKitten>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-26T22:32:47Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- sourcekitten (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.38.0
## Historique du projet et usages

SourceKitten is a Swift framework and command-line tool for interacting with Apple's SourceKit service, exposing source structure, syntax, completion, indexing, module information, and documentation extraction as JSON-friendly CLI subcommands.

### Historique du projet

The GitHub repository was created in August 2014. The README describes SourceKitten as a framework and CLI that links to `sourcekitd.framework` to parse Swift ASTs, extract comment docs for Swift or Objective-C projects, get Swift syntax data, and issue raw SourceKit requests.

The changelog shows continuous tracking of Swift and Xcode evolution: Swift 3-era API changes, Swift 4 and Swift 5 requirements, SwiftPM and Xcode documentation support, Bazel support, and syntax/declaration kind updates through Swift 6.

### Historique d'adoption

The README lists many projects built with SourceKitten, including SwiftLint, Jazzy, Sourcery, SourceKittenDaemon, SourceDocs, Cuckoo, IBAnalyzer, and Taylor. That list makes SourceKitten infrastructure for a broad slice of Swift developer tooling.

### Modes d'utilisation

The `sourcekitten` CLI provides subcommands including `complete`, `doc`, `format`, `index`, `module-info`, `request`, `structure`, `syntax`, and `version`. It can be installed with Homebrew, Swift Package Manager, Bazel, Make, or a release package.

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

Package nerds care because SourceKitten turns a platform-private compiler service into a packageable Unix-style CLI and library. It is the substrate behind linters, documentation generators, mock generators, editor completion bridges, and other Swift ecosystem tools.

### Chronologie

- 2014: SourceKitten repository created.
- 2015: 0.3.0-era public releases were being published.
- 2016: 0.15.0 adapted APIs for Swift 3 and Xcode 8.
- 2019: 0.30.0 required Swift 5.1 or higher.
- 2022: 0.33.0 added Bazel build support and Xcode 14 documentation support.
- 2025: 0.37.0 added Swift 6 compiler and syntax/declaration support.
- 2026: 0.37.3 continued dependency maintenance.

### Related projects

- SwiftLint, Jazzy, Sourcery, SourceDocs, Cuckoo, IBAnalyzer, Taylor, and SourceKittenDaemon are listed by the README as projects built with SourceKitten.
- SourceKit and `sourcekitd.framework` are the Apple tooling components SourceKitten communicates with.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/jpsim/SourceKitten#readme>
- <https://github.com/jpsim/SourceKitten/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md>
- <https://github.com/jpsim/SourceKitten/releases>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- MacPorts - SourceKitten: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/SourceKitten/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/sourcekitten.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/sourcekitten.yml)


## Sources

- 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