# Install aws-spiffe-workload-helper with Homebrew

Helper for providing AWS credentials to workloads using their SPIFFE identity. Version 0.0.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:aws-spiffe-workload-helper
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install aws-spiffe-workload-helper
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:aws-spiffe-workload-helper
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.0.5
- **Source summary:** Helper for providing AWS credentials to workloads using their SPIFFE identity
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/spiffe/aws-spiffe-workload-helper>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/spiffe/aws-spiffe-workload-helper>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-27T09:34:50-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- aws-spiffe-workload-helper (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.0.5
## Project history and usage

AWS SPIFFE Workload Helper is a SPIFFE project helper for obtaining AWS credentials from SPIFFE workload identities.

### Project history

The official README describes the helper as a lightweight tool for providing workloads with AWS credentials using SPIFFE identity, with support for X.509 SVIDs through AWS Roles Anywhere and JWT SVIDs through AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity.

### Adoption history

The repository is a SPIFFE tiny-project and remains a narrow integration tool rather than a broad CLI ecosystem. Its GitHub releases reached v0.0.5 on February 16, 2026.

### How it is used

Users configure AWS SDKs and CLIs by setting `credential_process` in `~/.aws/config` to invoke `aws-spiffe-workload-helper`. The helper can return credentials to stdout or write a user-specified credential file for legacy consumers.

### Why package nerds care

The package is notable because it bridges SPIFFE Workload API identity, AWS Roles Anywhere, AWS STS, and the AWS external credential process contract in a single distributable binary.

### Timeline

- 2024: Initial public development began in the official repository.
- 2025: Early v0.0.x releases were published.
- 2026: v0.0.5 was published on GitHub Releases.

### Related projects

- SPIFFE and the SPIFFE Workload API provide the identity source.
- AWS Roles Anywhere and AWS STS AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity provide AWS credential exchange targets.
- AWS rolesanywhere-credential-helper is the AWS tool the README compares this helper against.

### Sources

- <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/STS/latest/APIReference/API_AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity.html>
- <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-sourcing-external.html>
- <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rolesanywhere/latest/userguide/introduction.html>
- <https://github.com/spiffe/aws-spiffe-workload-helper#readme>
- <https://github.com/spiffe/aws-spiffe-workload-helper/releases>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- 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

- Unix: ~/.aws/config

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/aws-spiffe-workload-helper.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/aws-spiffe-workload-helper.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