# Install summarize with Homebrew

Multi-modal AI tool to extract and summarize content. Version 0.21.7 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-29.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:summarize
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install summarize
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:summarize
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.21.7
- **Source summary:** Multi-modal AI tool to extract and summarize content
- **Homepage:** <https://summarize.sh>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/steipete/summarize>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-29T04:18:42Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- summarize (alias)
- summarizer (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.21.7
## Project history and usage

summarize is a Homebrew- and npm-installable AI summarization tool that combines a terminal CLI with browser side-panel extensions for summarizing URLs, files, videos, podcasts, PDFs, and other media.

### Project history

The public GitHub repository was created in December 2025 and describes the project as both a Chrome Side Panel/Firefox Sidebar extension and a CLI. Its README emphasizes media-aware extraction, slide/OCR support for video, and integrations with multiple AI provider backends.

### Adoption history

The project is distributed through npm and Homebrew, with the README documenting `npm i -g @steipete/summarize`, `npx`, and `brew install summarize`. Its package-manager relevance comes from packaging an AI/browser workflow as a normal command-line tool that can also run a local daemon.

### How it is used

Typical use is `summarize <url-or-file>` from a shell, optionally paired with a browser extension and daemon for local media extraction, native messaging, cached diagnostics, OCR, transcription fallback, and provider configuration.

### Why package nerds care

Package-manager users care about summarize because it turns a fast-moving AI workflow into a reproducible CLI install, while still exposing optional native dependencies such as ffmpeg, yt-dlp, and tesseract for heavier media jobs.

### Timeline

- 2025: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2026: v0.20.x releases documented in the official GitHub releases feed.

### Related projects

- The README lists Codex, Claude, Gemini, Cursor Agent, OpenClaw, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, OpenRouter, Ollama, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, tesseract, and browser extensions as related providers or companion tools.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/steipete/summarize>
- <https://github.com/steipete/summarize/releases>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/steipete/summarize/main/README.md>
- source_facts.package-manager-url


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for summarize. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## 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: ~/.summarize/config.json

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.summarize/config.json

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/summarize.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/summarize.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation