# Install kickstart with Homebrew, Nix

Scaffolding tool to get new projects up and running quickly. Version 0.6.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#kickstart.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:kickstart
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install kickstart
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#kickstart
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:kickstart
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.6.0
- **Source summary:** Scaffolding tool to get new projects up and running quickly
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/Keats/kickstart>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Keats/kickstart>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- kickstart (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.6.0
## Project history and usage

kickstart is a Rust CLI for project scaffolding from templates, using `template.toml` metadata and Tera rendering to generate new project directories.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in 2018, with early releases beginning at v0.1.6 on 2018-08-02. The README frames kickstart as a more powerful Rust counterpart to Python Cookiecutter and as an alternative to Node.js scaffolders such as Yeoman and Slush.

### Adoption history

kickstart is distributed as a crates.io package and as prebuilt GitHub release binaries. The Homebrew input record also lists Homebrew and Nix formulas, reflecting its use as a small standalone developer utility rather than a framework-bound generator.

### How it is used

Users run kickstart against local or Git-hosted templates, answer prompts described in `template.toml`, and generate files whose contents, file names, and directory names can be rendered through Tera.

### Why package nerds care

kickstart is a neat package-manager-era scaffolder because it packages the generator as a single Rust binary while keeping templates language-agnostic and plain-file based.

### Timeline

- 2018: Repository created and v0.1.6 published.
- 2020: v0.2.x releases published.
- 2021: v0.3.0 release published.
- 2025: v0.6.0 release published on 2025-12-21.

### Related projects

- The README compares kickstart with Cookiecutter, Yeoman, and Slush, and documents Tera as its template engine.

### Sources

- <https://crates.io/crates/kickstart>
- <https://github.com/Keats/kickstart>
- <https://github.com/Keats/kickstart/releases>
- <https://keats.github.io/tera/docs/>


## 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: template.toml
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - kickstart: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ki/kickstart/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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