# Install cubejs-cli with Homebrew

Cube.js command-line interface. Version 1.7.16 via Homebrew; verified 2026-08-01.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:cubejs-cli
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cubejs-cli
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:cubejs-cli
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.7.16
- **Source summary:** Cube.js command-line interface
- **Homepage:** <https://cube.dev/>
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-01T15:08:10Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- cubejs (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.7.16
## Project history and usage

cubejs-cli is the command-line entry point for Cube, the open-source semantic-layer project formerly associated with the Cube.js name.

### Project history

The cube-js/cube repository was created in 2018 and now presents Cube Core as an open-source semantic layer for analytics. Official Cube documentation describes Cube as an analytics platform built on that semantic layer, with Cube Core providing shared model definitions, access rules, caching, and APIs.

### Adoption history

Cube's documented audience has broadened from application and analytics developers to data engineers, analysts, business users, embedded analytics teams, and AI agents that need governed access to metrics.

### How it is used

The CLI is used for workspace administration and developer workflows around Cube projects. In package-manager terms it is the installable command surface for bootstrapping, managing, or operating Cube workspaces from a shell.

### Why package nerds care

cubejs-cli is notable because the package name preserves the older Cube.js branding while the upstream repository and docs now emphasize Cube Core and a broader semantic-layer platform. That makes repository and documentation normalization especially important for package metadata.

### Timeline

- 2018: Public cube-js/cube repository created.
- 2020s: Cube documentation presents Cube Core as the open-source semantic layer behind the Cube platform.
- 2020s: CLI documentation covers workspace administration and command reference.

### Related projects

- Cube Core, Cube Cloud, semantic layers, BI tools, embedded analytics, Cube Store.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/cube-js/cube>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/cube-js/cube>
- <https://cube.dev/docs/product/administration/workspace/cli>
- <https://cube.dev/docs/product/administration/workspace/cli/reference>
- <https://docs.cube.dev/docs/introduction>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for cubejs-cli. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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