# Install yor with Homebrew, Nix

Extensible auto-tagger for your IaC files. Version 0.1.200 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#yor.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:yor
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install yor
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#yor
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:yor
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.200
- **Source summary:** Extensible auto-tagger for your IaC files
- **Homepage:** <https://yor.io/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/bridgecrewio/yor>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-25T21:32:49+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- yor (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.1.200
## Project history and usage

Yor is Bridgecrew's open-source auto-tagger for infrastructure-as-code files. It adds consistent tags and trace identifiers to Terraform, CloudFormation, Serverless Framework, and related IaC so cloud resources can be traced back to code, owners, commits, and change history.

### Project history

Yor was publicly launched on 2021-05-27, shortly after Palo Alto Networks acquired Bridgecrew. Palo Alto's announcement framed it as an open-source IaC tag-and-trace tool for developer workflows, with local CLI, pre-commit, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD usage.

The README describes Yor as an open-source tool that adds informative and consistent tags across IaC frameworks, with built-in support for Terraform, CloudFormation, and Serverless Frameworks, plus custom taggers, skip annotations, dry runs, and Git-based tags.

### Adoption history

Yor's adoption story is tied to cloud governance rather than app deployment. Help Net Security covered it as a tool for traceability and auditability, noting that organizations can run it retroactively across infrastructure resources or build it into CI/CD so ownership and other tags come from IaC and git history.

Packaging followed developer workflow channels: Homebrew, Chocolatey, Docker, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps snippets, and pre-commit hooks are all documented entry points.

### How it is used

The common command is `yor tag --directory terraform/`, with options to recurse or not, include or skip tag groups, target specific frameworks, add simple custom tags, preview with dry-run, write JSON output, and skip directories or resource types.

The most package-relevant mode is automated CI: Yor can run as a GitHub Action or pre-commit hook that modifies IaC files so trace and owner tags travel from source repositories into provisioned cloud resources.

### Why package nerds care

Yor matters because it packages cloud tagging policy as a repeatable source-code transformation. It is a small CLI, but its runtime effect is on Terraform and other IaC files that later become cloud inventory, billing, security, and incident-response metadata.

It is also an example of DevSecOps tooling where the package manager is part of governance distribution: install the CLI in CI, pin the hook/action version, and every repository can apply the same tagging logic.

### Timeline

- 2021-05-27: Palo Alto Networks announces Yor as an open-source automated IaC tag-and-trace tool.
- 2021-05-27: Security press covers Yor as an IaC traceability and auditability tool built by Bridgecrew.
- 2020s: Yor documents usage as CLI, Docker image, GitHub Action, Azure DevOps step, and pre-commit hook.

### Related projects

- Bridgecrew and Prisma Cloud/Cortex Cloud are the commercial ecosystem around the project.
- bridgecrewio/yor-action is the GitHub Action integration.
- Terraform, CloudFormation, Serverless Framework, Kubernetes, pre-commit, Docker, and GitHub Actions are major adjacent technologies in documented workflows.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/bridgecrewio/yor>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bridgecrewio/yor/main/README.md>
- <https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/05/27/yor-tags-iac-resources/>
- <https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2021/05/yor-automated-iac-tag-and-trace/>
- <https://yor.io/1.Welcome/welcome.html>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - yor: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/yo/yor/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/yor.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/yor.yml)


## Sources

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