Install intercept with Homebrew

Project links

• Homepage
• Repository

Commands and aliases

• intercept

Project history

The GitHub repository was created in March 2020 under `xfhg/intercept`. Public release metadata shows a 1.0 series in 2024 and 2025, with the v1.0.11 notes calling out GitHub Actions integration, compliant output examples, performance optimizations, hooks signatures, auth options, and a remote policy execution endpoint.

Adoption history

INTERCEPT's adoption footprint is modest and security-specialist oriented. Homebrew packaging gives it a simple macOS/Linux install path, while the official docs and release notes focus on CI, audit output, and policy execution rather than library embedding.

How it is used

The documented workflow starts from a YAML policy file, then runs `intercept audit` to cycle through loaded policies and produce compliance reports or `intercept observe` to monitor paths and trigger policy audits. The docs describe policy types such as scan, assure, API, JSON, YAML, TOML, INI, runtime, and Rego.

Why package nerds care

INTERCEPT is notable less as a large ecosystem and more as a packageable example of the policy-as-code trend entering single-binary CLI tooling. It bundles security scanning, compliance report generation, and daemon-style observation behind a package-manager-installable command.

Timeline

• 2020: The GitHub repository was created.
• 2024: The v1.0 release series added CI and compliant-output focused features.
• 2025: The v1.0.13 release continued Windows/file-integrity-monitoring work in the 1.0 line.

Related projects

• INTERCEPT's policy-as-code and Rego support place it near Open Policy Agent workflows, while its SARIF output ties it to GitHub code-scanning and SAST tooling conventions.

Sources

• Official repository README, official documentation, GitHub release metadata, GitHub repository metadata, and Homebrew formula metadata.