# Install tccutil with Homebrew

Utility to modify the macOS Accessibility Database (TCC.db). Version 1.5.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:tccutil
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install tccutil
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:tccutil
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.5.1
- **Source summary:** Utility to modify the macOS Accessibility Database (TCC.db)
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/jacobsalmela/tccutil>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jacobsalmela/tccutil>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- tccutil (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.5.1
## Project history and usage

tccutil.py is a macOS command-line utility for manipulating the Transparency, Consent, and Control database used for privacy and Accessibility permissions.

### Project history

The upstream README frames the tool as a response to Apple's built-in /usr/bin/tccutil, which only supports resetting the database. Jacob Salmela's version was created to add command-line operations such as listing, inserting, removing, enabling, and disabling entries in TCC.db.

The GitHub repository was created in 2014, and later README text documents both system-wide and per-user TCC database handling, plus the practical constraint that disabling SIP may be required for direct database modification.

### Adoption history

Its package-manager interest comes from being a small macOS administration tool that Homebrew can place earlier in PATH than Apple's similarly named utility, giving administrators a more scriptable interface for permission resets and Accessibility database edits.

### How it is used

Common usage is macOS-only and administrative: list TCC database entries, add or remove bundle IDs and paths, enable or disable Accessibility access, or delegate reset operations to Apple's native tccutil.

### Why package nerds care

Package nerds care because it represents a familiar Homebrew pattern: wrapping a narrow, platform-specific system gap in a tiny CLI that can be installed, versioned, audited, and scripted instead of copied around as an ad hoc admin script.

### Timeline

- 2014: GitHub repository for jacobsalmela/tccutil created.
- 2020: tccutil.py copyright notice in the source identifies active project authorship.
- 2025: README documents global and per-user TCC database handling.

### Related projects

- Apple /usr/bin/tccutil is the native reset-only utility that this project wraps and extends.
- The README names Privacy Manager Services, tccmanager.py, go-tccutil, tccplus, and DocSystem/tccutil as related approaches.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/jacobsalmela/tccutil>
- <https://github.com/jacobsalmela/tccutil#readme>
- <https://github.com/jacobsalmela/tccutil/blob/main/tccutil.py>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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