# Install gabo with Homebrew

Generates GitHub Actions boilerplate. Version 1.17.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:gabo
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gabo
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:gabo
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.17.0
- **Source summary:** Generates GitHub Actions boilerplate
- **Homepage:** <https://ashishb.net/tech/common-pitfalls-of-github-actions/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ashishb/gabo>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-27T07:12:27Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gabo (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.17.0
## Project history and usage

gabo, short for GitHub Actions Boilerplate, is a Go command-line tool for generating and analyzing GitHub Actions workflow boilerplate with safer defaults.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in March 2023. Its README frames the tool as a response to common GitHub Actions pitfalls and emphasizes generated workflows with timeouts, path filters, concurrency cancellation, caching, and reduced GITHUB_TOKEN permissions.

### Adoption history

Upstream documents installation through go install, direct go run usage, and Homebrew. Public package-manager adoption appears intentionally narrow in the supplied facts, with Homebrew listed as the only package-manager entry.

### How it is used

The CLI can analyze a repository or generate workflow files under .github/workflows. Supported templates include Android, Docker, npm/yarn, Go, Python, shell, YAML, Markdown, OpenAPI, and GitHub Actions linting workflows.

### Why package nerds care

gabo is a small but package-relevant example of turning copied CI YAML into a versioned CLI. Its value is less about broad ecosystem history and more about encoding conservative workflow defaults into a repeatable tool.

### Timeline

- 2023: GitHub repository created.
- 2020s: Distributed through go install/direct go run and Homebrew according to upstream README and supplied package facts.

### Related projects

- gabo-generated workflows refer to ecosystem tools such as actionlint, zizmor, hadolint, vacuum, and oasdiff for specific CI checks.
- The README points readers to the author's GitHub Actions pitfalls article for background.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/ashishb/gabo>
- <https://github.com/ashishb/gabo>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashishb/gabo/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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