# Installer truetree avec Homebrew Cask

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install cask:truetree
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew Cask (100%):

```sh
brew install --cask truetree
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew cask metadata

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** cask:truetree
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew Cask
- **Version:** 0.8
- **Résumé source:** Command-line tool for pstree-like output
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://themittenmac.com/the-truetree-concept/>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- TrueTree (binaire)
- TrueTree (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.8
## Historique du projet et usages

TrueTree is a small macOS command-line process-tree utility aimed at incident responders and threat hunters who need a more useful process ancestry view than ordinary PID/PPID output.

### Historique du projet

The project grew out of Jaron Bradley's February 2020 write-up of the 'TrueTree' concept: on macOS, launchd and XPC often make ordinary process trees look flat or misleading, so the tool uses additional operating-system process metadata to reconstruct more helpful ancestry.

Its README later documented platform drift: after macOS 11 introduced runningboardd behavior that changed parentage observations, TrueTree was updated to use Application Services for some true-parent discovery while accepting that some terminated parents can no longer be recovered.

### Historique d'adoption

TrueTree appears to have remained a specialist macOS security tool rather than a broad Unix replacement for pstree. Its Homebrew cask packaging made a compiled release easy to install on analyst Macs, while the GitHub project stayed compact and focused.

### Modes d'utilisation

The tool is used from a root shell to print an enhanced process tree, optionally showing timestamps, parent-data sources, network information, or a standard PID/PPID tree for comparison.

In package-manager culture it is the kind of niche binary that belongs in a forensic or IR workstation bootstrap list: install it with Homebrew, run it during macOS triage, and compare its output with ps, Activity Monitor, and launchctl procinfo.

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

TrueTree matters to package nerds because it packages a very macOS-specific diagnostic idea as a single CLI. It is not a general-purpose process viewer; its value is that Homebrew users can install a purpose-built process-ancestry helper without compiling an Xcode project.

### Chronologie

- 2020: The TrueTree concept is published for macOS threat hunting and incident response.
- 2024: GitHub shows TrueTree 0.8 as the latest release.

### Related projects

- pstree and ps provide the traditional Unix process-tree baseline that TrueTree compares itself against.
- launchctl procinfo is the macOS source of several parentage clues described in the project write-up.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/themittenmac/TrueTree>
- <https://themittenmac.com/the-truetree-concept/>


## Notes de sécurité

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



## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph