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macOS

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brew install litani

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overview

Package summary

Metabuild system

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litani

history

Project history and usage

Litani is an AWS Labs metabuild tool for accumulating command jobs into a dependency graph, running them through Ninja, and producing both a JSON run record and an HTML dashboard. It is aimed at builds where job metadata, failure policy, and reportability matter as much as command execution.

Project history

The project is published from the `awslabs/aws-build-accumulator` repository and documents itself as a command-line build system rather than a new build language. Its workflow starts with `litani init`, adds jobs with dependencies, and runs the resulting graph with `litani run-build`.

Litani's documentation emphasizes build accumulation: commands can be generated by scripts, Makefiles, or other systems, while Litani records return codes, runtimes, stdout, stderr, and other metadata in JSON and renders that data into an HTML report.

Adoption history

Adoption evidence is modest and mostly package-manager oriented. GitHub releases provide Debian packages and Homebrew installation instructions, and the Homebrew formula exposes the `litani` command for macOS users.

How it is used

Users define jobs, dependencies, and failure behavior from the command line, then inspect `litani dump-run` output or the generated dashboard. The tool is most useful when an existing build needs reporting, dependency ordering, and durable run metadata without rewriting the build in a new DSL.

Why package nerds care

Litani is package-nerd interesting because it is a thin orchestration layer over familiar tools: shell commands, Ninja, JSON, and static HTML. Its value is in making build execution observable and packageable, not in replacing compilers or build file formats.

Timeline

2023-04-19: Release 1.24.0 provided Homebrew and Ubuntu package installation notes.
2026-03-02: Release 1.28.0 included Homebrew and Ubuntu package installation notes.
2026-06-12: Release 1.29.0 was published with Homebrew and Ubuntu package installation notes.

Related projects

Related projects include Ninja, Make, CMake, Graphviz, Gnuplot, Jinja, and other build-reporting or continuous-integration tools.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: yellow

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

Risk classifier

yellow risk · medium confidence · runtime

Why

generalized runtime or code generation signal

Signals

text:build system

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`litani`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version1.29.0

manager updated

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:litani
Version	1.29.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://awslabs.github.io/aws-build-accumulator/
Repository	https://github.com/awslabs/aws-build-accumulator
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/litani.yml

Used sources

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

Install litani with Homebrew