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Package summary

Swagger (OpenAPI) Specification code generator

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autorest

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Project history and usage

AutoRest is Microsoft's OpenAPI/Swagger code generation tool for producing client libraries and SDKs, especially around Azure. It turns OpenAPI descriptions plus configuration files into generated code for languages such as C#, Java, Python, TypeScript, Go, PowerShell, and others.

Project history

The Azure/autorest repository was created in February 2015. Official repository metadata describes it as an OpenAPI, formerly Swagger, specification code generator supporting multiple languages.

AutoRest evolved around a configuration-heavy model. The official docs emphasize command-line flags, YAML/JSON/Markdown configuration files, and literate readme.md files that combine human documentation with machine-readable generation settings.

Adoption history

AutoRest adoption is strongly tied to Azure SDK generation and the azure-rest-api-specs repository. The official generation docs reference Azure SDK language repositories and management-plane generation, showing that AutoRest became infrastructure for large-scale, multi-language SDK production rather than just a standalone end-user CLI.

The Homebrew input lists only a Homebrew package for this batch, but official GitHub metadata shows thousands of stars and hundreds of forks for Azure/autorest, consistent with a prominent role in Azure developer tooling.

How it is used

Basic usage is autorest with an input OpenAPI file and a language flag, for example autorest --input-file=pets.json --python --output-folder=myFolder/. The preferred documented workflow moves those options into a configuration file and runs autorest readme.md.

AutoRest supports YAML, JSON, and Markdown configuration. Markdown literate configuration is especially important: docs say readme.md can serve as both project documentation and the storage for generation settings, using code blocks and the magic string that identifies AutoRest configuration.

Why package nerds care

AutoRest matters to package nerds because it is generator infrastructure at cloud-provider scale. It explains why SDK repositories can contain large generated surfaces, language-specific generator packages, pinned core versions, and readme.md files that are executable configuration rather than just documentation.

Timeline

2015: Azure/autorest GitHub repository created.
2010s: AutoRest becomes associated with Swagger/OpenAPI-based Azure SDK generation.
2020s: AutoRest docs emphasize multi-language generation, literate configuration, and Azure management-plane workflows.

Related projects

azure-rest-api-specs supplies many OpenAPI inputs used with AutoRest.
Azure SDK language repositories consume generated output from AutoRest workflows.
OpenAPI/Swagger is the specification family AutoRest reads.

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green risk · low confidence · appliance

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Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ./readme.md./*.md./*.markdown<config-file>.md<config-file>.json<config-file>.yaml

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`autorest`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

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page generated2026-08-03

manager version3.8.0

manager updated2026-07-17

local dataunknown

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latest detectednot detected

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install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:autorest
Version	3.8.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://github.com/Azure/autorest
Last updated	2026-07-17T13:51:08+09:00
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

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