# Install intelli-shell with Homebrew, Nix, pacman

Like IntelliSense, but for shells. Version 3.4.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-26. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#intelli-shell.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:intelli-shell
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install intelli-shell
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#intelli-shell
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S intelli-shell
```

  Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: intelli-shell from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:intelli-shell
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.4.5
- **Source summary:** Like IntelliSense, but for shells
- **Homepage:** <https://lasantosr.github.io/intelli-shell/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/lasantosr/intelli-shell>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-26T12:48:34Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- intelli-shell (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 3.4.5
## Project history and usage

IntelliShell is a Rust command-template and snippet manager for shells. Its official docs position it as complementary to shell history: history recalls what a user already typed, while IntelliShell stores reusable command recipes with variables, aliases, sharing, TLDR imports, and optional AI-assisted generation.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in January 2023. Early public releases in March and May 2023 show the project beginning as a focused terminal productivity tool, while later 3.x releases expanded its template, suggestion, shell-integration, and AI features. The project documentation grew into an mdBook hosted on GitHub Pages.

### Adoption history

IntelliShell spread through direct install scripts, standalone binaries, Homebrew, Nix, and Arch packaging. Its official README advertises support for Bash, Zsh, Fish, Nushell, and PowerShell, which helps explain why it is packaged as a cross-shell tool rather than as a plugin for one shell ecosystem.

### How it is used

The normal workflow is interactive: users bookmark commands from the terminal, search them through keybindings, fill `{{variables}}`, and import or export reusable command libraries. Project-local `.intellishell` files let teams share task recipes without adding a separate task runner.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, IntelliShell is part of the post-Atuin wave of shell-history-adjacent tools: it does not replace chronological history, but turns repeated command lines into structured data. It is also a tidy Rust CLI packaging case because it ships one binary, cross-shell integration, completions, and prebuilt release assets.

### Timeline

- 2023: The repository was created and early 0.1/0.2 releases were published.
- 2025: The 3.3 release series was published through GitHub releases.
- 2026: The 3.4 release series continued the tool's cross-shell command-library workflow.

### Related projects

- The docs explicitly compare IntelliShell with built-in shell history and Atuin. Its TLDR import feature also places it near tldr-pages, cheatsheet tools, and command-snippet managers.

### Sources

- Official README, official mdBook, GitHub release metadata, GitHub repository metadata, and Homebrew formula metadata.


## Security Notes

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Geiger risk:** yellow / medium
- generalized runtime or code generation signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - intelli-shell: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/in/intelli-shell/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman - intelli-shell - 3.4.5-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: intelli-shell from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Like IntelliSense, but for shells | https://github.com/lasantosr/intelli-shell


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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