# Install gama with Homebrew, Nix, zypper, winget

Manage your GitHub Actions from Terminal with great UI. Version 1.2.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-29. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#gama.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:gama
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gama
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#gama
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ga/gama/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install gama
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: gama from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id GamaPlatform.Gama -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: GamaPlatform.Gama from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:gama
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.2.1
- **Source summary:** Manage your GitHub Actions from Terminal with great UI
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/termkit/gama>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/termkit/gama>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-29T16:04:59+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gama (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.2.1
## Project history and usage

GAMA, short for GitHub Actions Manager, is a Go-based terminal user interface for listing, triggering, monitoring, and managing GitHub Actions workflows from a shell.

### Project history

The public GitHub repository was created in late 2023 and the first tagged 1.0.0 release appeared in January 2024. The project documentation presents it as a terminal-first companion for GitHub Actions, with configuration through a YAML file or a GitHub token environment variable.

The 2024 release stream quickly added workflow input handling, workflow history browsing, and usability fixes. By the 1.2 series in 2025, the README emphasized live refresh mode, Docker execution, and downloadable cross-platform binaries.

### Adoption history

GAMA's adoption trail is typical of a focused developer CLI: its own release artifacts cover Linux, macOS, and Windows, while the input package facts record availability in Homebrew, Nix, Winget, and zypper.

### How it is used

Users provide a GitHub token in ~/.config/gama/config.yaml or through GITHUB_TOKEN, then use the TUI to discover dispatchable workflows, inspect historical workflow runs, trigger workflows with inputs, and watch live status updates.

### Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, GAMA is a small example of the post-GitHub-Actions tooling wave: instead of wrapping git itself, it wraps the CI control plane and ships as a single Go binary suitable for common package managers.

### Timeline

- 2023: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2024: v1.0.0 released with binary assets.
- 2024: v1.1 releases continued workflow and usability work.
- 2025: v1.2 releases documented live mode and cross-platform binary downloads.

### Related projects

- GitHub Actions is the service GAMA manages.
- GitHub CLI can supply an authentication token for GAMA.
- Termkit is the GitHub organization publishing the project.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/termkit/gama>
- <https://github.com/termkit/gama>
- <https://github.com/termkit/gama/releases>


## 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: ~/.config/gama/config.yaml

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.config/gama/config.yaml
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - gama: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ga/gama/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- zypper - gama - 2.33-1.7: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: gama from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Adjustment of geodetic networks | https://www.gnu.org/software/gama/
- winget - GamaPlatform.Gama: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: GamaPlatform.Gama from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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