# Install envelope with Homebrew, MacPorts

Environment variables CLI tool. Version 0.8.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with macports: sudo port install envelope.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:envelope
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install envelope
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install envelope
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/envelope/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:envelope
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.8.0
- **Source summary:** Environment variables CLI tool
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/mattrighetti/envelope>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/mattrighetti/envelope>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- envelope (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.8.0
## Project history and usage

envelope is a Rust command-line tool for managing environment variables in a per-project SQLite database named .envelope.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in September 2023. The README describes an environment variables CLI backed by SQLite, with commands for initializing, adding, listing, importing, exporting, history, diffing, and locking the database.

### Adoption history

The input package metadata lists Homebrew and MacPorts packages. Homebrew currently tracks the 0.8.0 source archive from the official GitHub release.

### How it is used

Users initialize a project database with envelope init, add environment variables under named environments, export them into shell workflows, import from .env files, and lock or unlock the database for sensitive projects.

### Why package nerds care

The project is interesting to package users because it replaces scattered .env files with a single SQLite-backed CLI database while retaining import/export workflows for traditional dotenv tooling.

### Timeline

- 2023: GitHub repository created
- 2023: 0.1.7a published on GitHub releases
- 2026: 0.8.0 published on GitHub releases and tracked by Homebrew

### Related projects

- The README explicitly positions envelope around .env file migration and shell/CI environment variable workflows.

### Sources

- GitHub releases API: 0.1.7a published 2023-10-14 and 0.8.0 published 2026-04-19
- GitHub repository API: created_at 2023-09-21, language Rust, topics, and metadata
- Homebrew formula API: stable version 0.8.0 and official source archive
- Official README: SQLite-backed .envelope storage, migration, security best practices, and command examples


## 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: .envelope

## Credential files

- Unix: .envelope
## Other Package-Manager Records

- MacPorts - envelope: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/envelope/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph