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Skill G1Joshi/Agent-Skills/skills/devops/homebrew

Homebrew macOS/Linux package manager. Use for system tools.From its SKILL.md

Install
npx -y skills add G1Joshi/Agent-Skills --skill homebrew

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One thing to look at

  • 12 stars12 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.

SKILL.md

1.1 KB, 275 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it

Homebrew

Homebrew is the standard package manager for macOS. v4.2 (2025) is faster (JSON API) and supports declarative Brewfile.

When to Use

  • macOS Dev Setup: Installing Node, Python, Git, Docker, Postgres.
  • Casks: Installing GUI apps (VS Code, Slack, Chrome).
  • Dotfiles: Automating machine setup.

Quick Start

# Install wget
brew install wget

# Install VS Code (Cask)
brew install --cask visual-studio-code

Core Concepts

Formulae

CLI tools compiled from source (or bottles).

Casks

macOS native applications (drag-and-drop apps automation).

Brewfile

Dependency list. brew bundle installs everything listed.

Best Practices (2025)

Do:

  • Use Brewfile: Commit a Brewfile to your dotfiles repo. brew bundle dump generates it.
  • Cleanup: brew cleanup frees up GBs of old versions.
  • Pin versions: If you need stability, use brew pin postgresql@14.

Don't:

  • Don't run as sudo: Homebrew manages permissions.

References

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.

Keep looking

Skills are one crate of 325,949. Ordering is by how many stacks a row turns up in, so the top of any crate is what has actually been picked rather than what has the most stars.