# Install cmdshelf with Homebrew

Better scripting life with cmdshelf. Version 2.0.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:cmdshelf
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cmdshelf
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:cmdshelf
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.0.2
- **Source summary:** Better scripting life with cmdshelf
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/toshi0383/cmdshelf>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/toshi0383/cmdshelf>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- cmdshelf (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.0.2
## Project history and usage

cmdshelf is a Rust command-line script manager that treats executables in repositories as runnable commands.

### Project history

The official README presents cmdshelf as a new way of scripting, emphasizing directory-separated namespaces, no PATH configuration, shell completion, inherited standard streams, and a portable .cmdshelf.toml environment.

### Adoption history

The official README documents Homebrew installation on macOS and Cargo installation from source, while the input facts show Homebrew packaging.

### How it is used

Users add a repository as a remote, after which cmdshelf records it in ~/.cmdshelf.toml and lazily clones it under ~/.cmdshelf/remote/ when commands are needed.

### Why package nerds care

cmdshelf sits in the shell tooling niche of turning version-controlled script collections into executable command namespaces without hand-editing PATH.

### Timeline

- 2018: GitHub releases page lists 1.0.2 as latest on August 18, 2018.

### Related projects

- The official docs position cmdshelf around Git-hosted script repositories rather than a larger related-project family.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/toshi0383/cmdshelf#readme>
- <https://github.com/toshi0383/cmdshelf/blob/master/docs/getting-started.md>
- source_facts.package-manager


## 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: ~/.cmdshelf.toml

## Combined YAML source

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