# Install mob with Homebrew, Nix, scoop

Tool for smooth Git handover in mob programming sessions. Version 5.4.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-29. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#mob.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:mob
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mob
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#mob
```

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

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/mob
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mob.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:mob
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 5.4.2
- **Source summary:** Tool for smooth Git handover in mob programming sessions
- **Homepage:** <https://mob.sh>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/remotemobprogramming/mob>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-29T17:05:00+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mob (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 5.4.2
## Project history and usage

mob is a Go command-line tool from the remotemobprogramming project for handing source changes between participants in pair or mob programming sessions. Its GitHub repository was created in 2018, and the project site describes it as an open-source CLI that uses Git to keep the working branch clean while moving work-in-progress changes through temporary branches.

### Project history

The tool's practical workflow is intentionally small: a typist starts a session with `mob start`, hands off with `mob next`, and finishes with `mob done`, which squashes the temporary WIP branch back into staged changes. Documentation and practitioner writeups emphasize remote mob programming, fast typist rotation, and integration with timers, with later use cases extending to local mob sessions and solo checkpointing.

### How it is used

In package-manager terms, mob sits in the collaboration-and-Git niche rather than acting as a general Git porcelain. Homebrew packages it as `mob`, and the same record family also maps it to Nix and Scoop, reflecting a cross-platform CLI audience for teams that prefer local editors and Git-based handoff over a shared remote IDE.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/remotemobprogramming/mob>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mob>
- <https://github.com/remotemobprogramming/mob>
- <https://mob.sh/>
- <https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/2023/03/typist-wechsel-dich-remote-edition-code-uebergabe-mit-dem-mob-tool/>


## 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: ~/.mob, ./.mob
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - mob: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mo/mob/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - main/mob: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mob.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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