# Install draw-things-cli with Homebrew

Local inference and LoRA training CLI for Draw Things. Version 1.20260716.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-20.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:draw-things-cli
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install draw-things-cli
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:draw-things-cli
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.20260716.0
- **Source summary:** Local inference and LoRA training CLI for Draw Things
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/drawthingsai/draw-things-community>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/drawthingsai/draw-things-community>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-20T04:25:43Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- draw-things-cli (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.20260716.0
## Project history and usage

Draw Things CLI is the command-line packaging of Draw Things' local image-generation and LoRA-training stack, exposed from the public Draw Things community repository rather than from the app's private monorepo.

### Project history

The public repository was created in November 2023 as a community-facing sync of code used by the Draw Things app. Its README explains that the app itself is managed in a private monorepo, while public-facing code for model implementations, samplers, data models, trainer logic, gRPC server support, and the CLI is synchronized into the community repository.

### Adoption history

Adoption is tied to Draw Things users who want local, scriptable image generation outside the GUI. Homebrew installs it from a tagged source archive, while the README also documents a tap-based HEAD install for users who want the unreleased CLI surface.

### How it is used

The CLI is built as a Swift Package Manager executable product named draw-things-cli. The README documents help output, a minimal generate command, a default macOS model directory shared with the sandboxed Draw Things app, and the DRAWTHINGS_MODELS_DIR override.

### Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, draw-things-cli is interesting because it turns a Mac-first AI image-generation app into a reproducible command-line tool with SwiftPM products, Homebrew distribution, model-directory conventions, and a related self-hosted gRPC server path for local inference setups.

### Timeline

- 2023: Public draw-things-community repository created.
- 2024: Repository releases begin using date-stamped v1.yyyymmdd tags.
- 2026: Homebrew stable formula packages draw-things-cli from a tagged draw-things-community source archive.

### Related projects

- Draw Things app is the parent GUI application whose public-facing model and trainer code is mirrored into the community repository.
- gRPCServerCLI is a sibling executable in the same Swift package for self-hosting Draw Things server-offload workflows.
- _MediaGenerationKit is a library product in the same Swift package.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/drawthingsai/draw-things-community>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drawthingsai/draw-things-community/main/README.md>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drawthingsai/draw-things-community/main/Package.swift>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/draw-things-cli>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/draw-things-cli.json>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for draw-things-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/draw-things-cli.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/draw-things-cli.yml)


## Sources

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