# Install chiko with Homebrew

Ultimate Beauty gRPC Client for your Terminal. Version 0.2.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:chiko
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install chiko
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:chiko
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.2.0
- **Source summary:** Ultimate Beauty gRPC Client for your Terminal
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/felangga/chiko>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/felangga/chiko>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-25T15:21:30-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- chiko (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.2.0
## Project history and usage

Chiko is a terminal user interface for testing and browsing gRPC APIs.

### Project history

The official README describes Chiko as a developer-friendly gRPC terminal interface built on grpcurl and tview. It focuses on server reflection, request metadata, payload generation, authorization, bookmarks, and importing or exporting grpcurl commands.

### Adoption history

The README documents Homebrew, go install, source builds, and prebuilt release binaries. Homebrew formula metadata lists chiko 0.2.0 with modest install counts, indicating niche but packaged CLI adoption.

### How it is used

Users run chiko, enter a gRPC server URL, configure authentication if needed, browse reflected services, generate a request payload, and send calls from the terminal UI.

### Why package nerds care

Chiko is package-nerd interesting as part of the modern Go single-binary TUI wave: it wraps grpcurl-style API testing in an interactive terminal app and ships through Homebrew, go install, source builds, and release binaries.

### Timeline

- 2026: Official README documents Homebrew, Go install, source, and prebuilt binary installation.
- 2026: Homebrew formula page lists stable chiko 0.2.0.

### Related projects

- grpcurl is named by the official README as an underlying gRPC command-line tool.
- tview is named by the official README as the terminal UI library.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/chiko>
- <https://github.com/felangga/chiko#readme>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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