# Install gitkraken-cli with Homebrew Cask

CLI for GitKraken. Version 3.1.70 via Homebrew Cask; verified 2026-07-13. Also installable with winget: winget install --id GitKraken.cli -e.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install cask:gitkraken-cli
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew Cask (100%):

```sh
brew install --cask gitkraken-cli
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew cask metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** cask:gitkraken-cli
- **Package manager:** Homebrew Cask
- **Version:** 3.1.70
- **Source summary:** CLI for GitKraken
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/gitkraken/gk-cli>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-13T16:50:03Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gk (binary)
- gk (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 3.1.70
## Project history and usage

GitKraken CLI is the `gk` command-line companion to GitKraken. It brings GitKraken's multi-repository work-item model, provider authentication, Git passthrough, AI-assisted commits and pull requests, and an MCP server into terminal workflows.

### Project history

The public GitHub repository for `gk-cli` was created in February 2023. Its README describes the CLI as GitKraken on the command line and centers the product around Work Items, a workflow abstraction for coordinating changes across one or more repositories.

The project evolved as a vendor-maintained release and documentation repository, with binary releases for macOS, Unix-like systems, and Windows. By 2026, release tags in the 3.x series and Homebrew cask packaging showed the CLI as a regularly packaged GitKraken product surface.

### Adoption history

Adoption is tied to the existing GitKraken ecosystem rather than to a language runtime community. The CLI targets developers who already use Git hosting providers, issue trackers, and GitKraken accounts, then exposes those workflows through `gk auth`, `gk provider`, `gk work`, `gk workspace`, and Git passthrough commands.

The MCP server documented in the README made the tool relevant to AI-assisted development workflows by exposing local Git, GitHub, Jira, and GitKraken actions to compatible assistants.

### How it is used

Practitioners authenticate with `gk auth login`, enter a repository, create a work item with `gk work create`, commit with `gk work commit --ai`, push with `gk work push`, and create pull requests with `gk work pr create --ai`. The README also documents using `gk` as a passthrough for ordinary Git commands such as `gk status`.

### Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, GitKraken CLI is a vendor CLI distributed as a Homebrew cask because it ships prebuilt binaries rather than a formula-built open-source package. The cask token `gitkraken-cli` preserves the distinction between the terminal product and the broader GitKraken desktop brand.

### Timeline

- 2023: Public `gk-cli` repository created.
- 2023: README documented Work Items and Git command passthrough.
- 2026: v3.1.x release series published through GitHub Releases.
- 2026: Homebrew cask packaged the `gk` binary as `gitkraken-cli`.

### Related projects

- Related surfaces include GitKraken, GitHub, Jira, Git hosting providers, Homebrew Cask, Snap, Winget, and Model Context Protocol clients.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/gitkraken/gk-cli>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/gitkraken-cli>
- <https://github.com/gitkraken/gk-cli>
- <https://github.com/gitkraken/gk-cli/releases/tag/v3.1.69>
- <https://help.gitkraken.com/cli/gk-cli>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gitkraken/gk-cli/main/README.md>


## Security Notes

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


## Other Package-Manager Records

- winget - GitKraken.cli: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: GitKraken.cli from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
- MacPorts - gk: installed executable or alias match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/gk/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - main/gk: installed executable or alias match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/gk.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/gitkraken-cli.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/gitkraken-cli.yml)


## Sources

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