Working recipes, by topic¶

As of 2026-09-01: 385 working recipes in packages/official/ and packages/seeds/. Every recipe here builds green from source under make dogfood against the Punix store (no Homebrew bridge, no prebuilt toolchain shortcuts).

Categories are coarse on purpose: each line is name version — one-sentence description from the recipe meta. Click through to the homepage for the actual project docs.

Counts by category:

Shell & Terminal¶

6 recipes.

• bash 5.3.9 : Bourne-Again SHell, a UNIX command interpreter
• fish 4.8.1 : User-friendly command-line shell for UNIX-like operating systems
• nushell 0.114.1 : Modern shell for the GitHub era
• tmux 3.7b : Terminal multiplexer
• zsh 5.9 : UNIX shell (command interpreter)
• zsh-syntax-highlighting 0.8.0 : Fish shell like syntax highlighting for zsh

Editors¶

2 recipes.

• fresh-editor 0.4.5 : Text editor for your terminal: easy, powerful and fast
• helix 25.07.1 : Post-modern modal text editor

Version Control¶

17 recipes.

• gh 2.96.0 : gh — GitHub's official command-line tool
• ghorg 1.11.14 : Quickly clone an entire org's or user's repositories into one directory
• ghq 1.10.1 : Remote repository management made easy
• git 2.54.0 : Distributed revision control system
• git-cliff 2.13.1 : Highly customizable changelog generator
• git-crypt 0.8.0 : Transparent file encryption in git (using OpenSSL)
• git-delta 0.19.2 : Syntax-highlighting pager for git and diff output
• git-lfs 3.7.1 : Git extension for versioning large files
• git-secrets 1.3.0 : Prevents you from committing sensitive information to a git repo
• git-town 24.0.0 : High-level command-line interface for Git
• gitleaks 8.30.1 : gitleaks — detect secrets in git repos
• glab 1.99.0 : glab — GitLab's CLI; mirrors gh for GitLab
• hut 0.8.0 : CLI tool for sr.ht
• jj 0.43.0 : jj — a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
• lazygit 0.63.1 : Simple terminal UI for git commands
• lefthook 2.1.10 : Fast and powerful Git hooks manager for any type of projects
• trufflehog 3.96.0 : Find and verify credentials

Build Tools & Compilers¶

41 recipes.

• abseil 20260526.0 : C++ Common Libraries
• asciidoc 10.2.1 : Formatter/translator for text files to numerous formats
• autoconf 2.73 : GNU autoconf — produces shell scripts to configure source code packages
• automake 1.18.1 : GNU automake — generates portable Makefile.in from Makefile.am
• bdw-gc 8.2.12 : Garbage collector for C and C++
• binutils 2.46.0 : GNU binary tools (ld, as, ar, objdump, nm, strings, ...) for native development
• bison 3.8.2 : GNU general-purpose parser generator (bison) — yacc replacement
• boost 1.90.0 : Collection of portable C++ source libraries
• clang-format 22.1.8 : Formatting tool for C, C++, Obj-C, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript
• cmake 4.3.3 : Cross-platform make / build system (cmake + ccmake + cpack + ctest)
• doxygen 1.17.0 : Source-code documentation generator for C++, C, Objective-C, Java, Python, …
• flex 2.6.4 : Fast Lexical Analyzer — generates scanners/tokenizers (lex replacement)
• gengetopt 0.9.5 : Generate C code to parse command-line arguments via getopt_long
• gmp 6.3.0 : GNU multiple precision arithmetic library (libgmp, libgmpxx)
• googletest 1.17.0 : Google Testing and Mocking Framework
• help2man 1.49.3 : Automatically generate simple man pages
• libmpc 1.4.1 : C library for the arithmetic of high precision complex numbers
• libtool 2.5.4 : GNU libtool — generic library support script (libtoolize + ltdl)
• lld 22.1.8 : LLVM Project Linker
• llvm 22.1.8 : Next-gen compiler infrastructure (clang + lld)
• llvm-20 20.1.8 : LLVM 20.1 series — clang + lld restricted build
• m4 1.4.21 : GNU macro processor (m4)
• maturin 1.14.1 : Build and publish Rust crates as Python packages
• meson 1.11.2 : Fast and user-friendly build system (Python; uses ninja as the backend)
• mpfr 4.2.2 : C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations
• nasm 3.01 : Netwide Assembler (NASM) is an 80x86 assembler
• ninja 1.13.2 : Small build system focused on speed
• pkgconf 2.5.1 : Package compiler/linker metadata toolkit (modern pkg-config drop-in)
• protobuf 35.1 : Protocol buffers (Google's data interchange format)
• qbe 1.2 : Compiler Backend
• ruby-build 20250916.1 : Install various Ruby versions and implementations (rbenv plugin / standalone)
• scdoc 1.11.4 : Tool for generating roff manual pages from a simple Markdown-ish syntax
• swiftformat 0.62.1 : Formatting tool for reformatting Swift code
• swiftgen 6.6.3 : Swift code generator for assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, etc.
• swig 4.4.1 : Generate scripting-language interfaces (Python, Ruby, Perl, ...) for C/C++
• tree-sitter 0.26.11 : Incremental parsing library
• wabt 1.0.41 : Web Assembly Binary Toolkit
• xclogparser 0.2.49 : Tool to parse the SLF serialization format used by Xcode
• xcodes 2.0.3 : Best command-line tool to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode
• xctesthtmlreport 2.5.1 : Xcode-like HTML report for Unit and UI Tests
• z3 5.0.0 : High-performance theorem prover

Languages & Runtimes¶

21 recipes.

• chezscheme 10.4.1 : Implementation of the Chez Scheme language
• chibi-scheme 0.12 : Small footprint Scheme for use as a C Extension Language
• chicken 5.4.0 : Compiler for the Scheme programming language
• go-bootstrap 1.23.4
• lua 5.5.0 : Powerful, lightweight programming language
• luajit 2.1.0-2026-03-15 : Just-In-Time Compiler for the Lua programming language
• micropython 1.28.0 : Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems
• minimal-racket 9.1 : Modern programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family (minimal)
• mit-scheme 12.1 : MIT/GNU Scheme development tools and runtime library
• perl 5.42.2 : Highly capable, feature-rich programming language
• php 8.5.6 : General-purpose scripting language
• php-8-1 8.1.34 : General-purpose scripting language (8.1)
• python-3-12 3.12.13 : Python programming language interpreter (3.12)
• python-3-13 3.13.13 : Python programming language interpreter (3.13)
• python-3-14 3.14.5 : Python programming language interpreter (3.14)
• python-setuptools 82.0.1 : Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages
• quickjs 2025-09-13-2 : Small and embeddable JavaScript engine
• ruby 4.0.5 : Powerful, clean, object-oriented scripting language
• ruby-3-3 3.3.11 : Powerful, clean, object-oriented scripting language (3.3 series)
• rustc-bootstrap 1.95.0
• swift-bootstrap host-5.10

Container & Orchestration¶

21 recipes.

• convox 3.24.6 : Command-line interface for the Convox PaaS
• cosign 3.0.6 : Container Signing
• crane 0.21.7 : Tool for interacting with remote images and registries
• ctlptl 0.9.4 : Making local Kubernetes clusters fun and easy to set up
• docker-buildx 0.36.0-rc2 : Docker CLI plugin for extended build capabilities with BuildKit
• docker-compose 5.3.1 : Isolated development environments using Docker
• docker-credential-helper-ecr 0.12.0 : Docker credential helper for AWS ECR (docker-credential-ecr-login)
• helm 4.2.3 : Kubernetes package manager
• helmfile 1.7.1 : Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts
• k3d 5.9.0 : Little helper to run CNCF's k3s in Docker
• k9s 0.50.18 : Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
• kind 0.31.0 : Run local Kubernetes cluster in Docker
• kubeconform 0.8.0 : FAST Kubernetes manifests validator, with support for Custom Resources!
• kubectx 0.11.0 : Tool that can switch between kubectl contexts easily and create aliases
• kustomize 5.8.1 : Customization of kubernetes YAML configurations
• lazydocker 0.25.2 : Lazier way to manage everything docker
• minio RELEASE.2025-10-15T17-29-55Z : High Performance, Kubernetes Native Object Storage
• nixpacks 1.41.0 : App source + Nix packages + Docker = Image
• stern 1.34.0 : Tail multiple Kubernetes pods & their containers
• syft 1.49.0 : CLI for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images
• trivy 0.72.0 : Vulnerability scanner for container images, file systems, and Git repos

Cloud CLIs¶

17 recipes.

• aws-vault 7.13.1 : Securely store and access AWS credentials in development environments
• awscli 1.45.21 : Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services
• azcopy 10.32.6 : Microsoft Azure Storage data-movement utility (azcopy v10)
• cfssl 1.6.5 : Cloudflare's PKI and TLS toolkit
• cloudflared 2026.7.3 : Cloudflare Tunnel client (formerly Argo Tunnel)
• doctl 1.164.0 : Command-line tool for DigitalOcean
• flyctl 0.4.54 : Command-line tools for fly.io services
• gomplate 5.2.0 : Command-line Golang template processor
• jfrog-cli 2.116.0 : Command-line interface for JFrog products
• oci-cli 3.83.0 : Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI
• opentofu 1.12.5 : Drop-in replacement for Terraform. Infrastructure as Code Tool
• s3cmd 2.4.0 : Command-line tool for the Amazon S3 service
• seaweedfs 4.28 : Fast distributed storage system
• sops 3.13.3 : Editor of encrypted files
• supabase 2.107.0 : Open source Firebase alternative
• tailscale 1.98.3 : Easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA
• terragrunt 1.1.1 : Thin wrapper for Terraform e.g. for locking state

Networking¶

23 recipes.

• aria2 1.37.0 : Download with resuming and segmented downloading
• bgpq3 1_0_4 : BGP filtering automation for Cisco, Juniper, BIRD and OpenBGPD routers
• bgpq4 1.16 : BGP filtering automation for Cisco, Juniper, BIRD and OpenBGPD routers
• c-ares 1.34.8 : Asynchronous DNS library
• dnsmasq 2.92 : Lightweight DNS forwarder and DHCP server
• httpie 3.2.4 : User-friendly cURL replacement (command-line HTTP client)
• iperf 2.2.1 : Tool to measure maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth
• iperf3 3.21 : Update of iperf: measures TCP, UDP, and SCTP bandwidth
• libnghttp3 1.18.0 : HTTP/3 library written in C
• libngtcp2 1.25.0 : IETF QUIC protocol implementation
• libssh 0.12.0 : C library SSHv1/SSHv2 client and server protocols
• libssh2 1.11.1 : C library implementing the SSH2 protocol
• llhttp 9.4.1 : Port of http_parser to llparse (Node.js HTTP parser)
• lynx 2.9.2 : Text-based web browser
• mtr 0.96 : 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single tool
• nextdns 1.47.3 : NextDNS CLI client
• nginx 1.31.0 : HTTP(S) server and reverse proxy, and IMAP/POP3 proxy server
• siege 4.1.7 : HTTP regression testing and benchmarking utility
• socat 1.8.1.1 : SOcket CAT: netcat on steroids
• sshpass 1.10 : Non-interactive SSH password auth
• tor 0.4.9.8 : Anonymizing overlay network for TCP
• unbound 1.25.1 : Validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver
• wget 1.25.0 : Internet file retriever

Security & Cryptography¶

21 recipes.

• brotli 1.2.0 : Generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm by Google
• ca-certificates 2026-05-14 : Mozilla CA certificate store (cacert.pem from curl.se)
• ccrypt 1.11 : Encrypt and decrypt files and streams
• clamav 1.5.3 : Anti-virus software
• cryptography 48.0.0 : Cryptographic recipes and primitives for Python
• gpgme 2.1.0 : Library access to GnuPG (runtime requires gpg on PATH)
• krb5 1.22.2 : MIT Kerberos network authentication system (libkrb5 + kinit/klist/kdestroy CLIs)
• libassuan 3.0.2 : Assuan IPC Library
• libgcrypt 1.12.2 : Cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG
• libgpg-error 1.61 : Common error values for all GnuPG components
• libksba 1.8.0 : X.509 and CMS library
• libsodium 1.0.22 : NaCl-based cryptography library, portable + cross-compilable
• libtasn1 4.21.0 : ASN.1 structure parser library (GNU libtasn1)
• nss 3.124 : Mozilla Network Security Services — TLS/SSL/PKI libraries
• openssl 3.4.0 : Cryptography and SSL/TLS toolkit (libssl, libcrypto)
• spdx-sbom-generator 0.0.15 : SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) generator (SPDX format)
• sqlcipher 4.17.0 : SQLite extension with full-database AES-256 encryption
• webp 1.6.0 : Image format providing lossless and lossy compression for web images
• xxhash 0.8.3 : Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm
• zizmor 1.28.0 : Find security issues in GitHub Actions setups
• zlib 1.3.2 : General-purpose lossless data-compression library (libz)

Databases¶

10 recipes.

• atuin 18.16.1 : atuin — replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, syncs across machines
• dolt 2.0.5 : Versioned SQL database — git for data
• gdbm 1.26 : GNU dbm database library (libgdbm + gdbm_dump/gdbm_load CLIs)
• memcached 1.6.42 : High performance, distributed memory object caching system
• redict 7.3.6 : Distributed key/value database
• redis 8.6.3 : Persistent key-value database, with built-in net interface
• sqlcmd 1.10.0 : Microsoft SQL Server command-line interface
• sqlite 3.53.1 : Self-contained embeddable SQL database (libsqlite3 + sqlite3 CLI)
• unixodbc 2.3.14 : ODBC 3 connectivity for UNIX
• valkey 9.1.1 : High-performance data structure server that primarily serves key/value workloads

Image, Video & Media¶

22 recipes.

• cairo 1.18.4 : Vector graphics library with cross-device output support (Quartz/image backends)
• exiftool 13.59 : Reader/writer for EXIF metadata in image, audio and video files
• fontconfig 2.17.1 : Library for configuring and customizing font access (libfontconfig + fc-* CLIs)
• freetype 2.14.3 : TrueType / OpenType font rendering library (libfreetype)
• fribidi 1.0.16 : Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (libfribidi + fribidi CLI)
• giflib 6.1.3 : GIF image library + gifclrmp/giffix/giftext/giftool/gifbuild CLIs
• graphite2 1.3.15 : Smart font renderer for non-Roman scripts
• harfbuzz 14.2.1 : OpenType text shaping engine (libharfbuzz + hb-shape CLI)
• jpeg-turbo 3.2.0 : JPEG image codec that aids compression and decompression
• jpegoptim 1.5.6 : Utility to optimize JPEG files
• leptonica 1.87.0 : Image processing and image-analysis library
• libmetalink 0.1.3 : C library to parse Metalink XML files
• libogg 1.3.6 : Ogg Bitstream Library
• libpng 1.6.58 : PNG image library (libpng) — read/write PNG files
• libtiff 4.7.1 : TIFF library and utilities
• libvmaf 3.2.0 : Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion
• little-cms2 2.19 : Color management engine supporting ICC profiles
• pango 1.57.1 : Framework for layout and rendering of i18n text (libpango + pango-view)
• pixman 0.46.4 : Low-level library for pixel manipulation (libpixman-1)
• py3cairo 1.29.0 : Python 3 bindings for the Cairo graphics library
• qpdf 12.3.2 : Tools for and transforming and inspecting PDF files
• weasyprint 68.1 : Convert HTML to PDF

Compression & Archives¶

8 recipes.

• libzip 1.11.4 : C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives
• lz4 1.10.0 : Extremely fast compression algorithm (liblz4 + lz4 CLI)
• lzo 2.10 : Real-time data compression library
• p7zip 17.06 : 7-Zip CLI (7z + p7z* utilities) — community port of original 7-Zip
• pigz 2.8 : Parallel gzip (pigz / unpigz)
• ugrep 7.8.2 : Ultra fast grep with query UI, fuzzy search, archive search, and more
• xz 5.8.3 : XZ Utils — LZMA/XZ compression toolkit (liblzma + xz CLIs)
• zstd 1.5.7 : Zstandard — fast real-time compression algorithm (libzstd + zstd CLI)

Text Processing¶

14 recipes.

• ast-grep 0.45.0 : Code searching, linting, rewriting
• bat 0.26.1 : Clone of cat(1) with syntax highlighting and Git integration
• broot 1.58.0 : New way to see and navigate directory trees
• cloc 2.10 : Count lines of code (requires Regexp::Common, Algorithm::Diff at runtime)
• fd 10.4.2 : Simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find
• fzf 0.74.1 : Command-line fuzzy finder written in Go
• gnu-sed 4.10 : GNU implementation of the famous stream editor
• jq 1.8.2 : Lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor
• moreutils 0.70 : Collection of tools that nobody wrote when UNIX was young (sponge, vidir, vipe, ts, ifne, pee, isutf8, errno, ...)
• recode 3.7.15 : Convert character set (charsets)
• ripgrep 15.1.0 : Search tool like grep and The Silver Searcher
• shfmt 3.13.1 : Autoformat shell script source code
• xmlstarlet 1.6.1 : XML command-line utilities (xml / xmlstarlet)
• yazi 26.5.6 : Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O

Documentation & Markup¶

10 recipes.

• asciidoctor 2.0.26 : Text processor and publishing toolchain for AsciiDoc
• docbook 5.2 : DocBook 5.2 XML schemas (RELAX NG + Schematron)
• docbook-xsl 1.79.2 : XSL stylesheets for processing DocBook XML (non-namespaced flavor)
• docbook2x 0.8.8 : Convert DocBook to UNIX manpages and GNU TeXinfo
• lcov 2.5 : Code coverage report generator for gcov (requires Capture::Tiny + Specio at runtime)
• source-highlight 3.1.9 : GNU source-code syntax highlighter
• sphinx-doc 9.1.0 : Tool to create intelligent and beautiful documentation
• terraform-docs 0.24.0 : Tool to generate documentation from Terraform modules
• texinfo 7.3 : Official documentation format of the GNU project (makeinfo, info, install-info)
• xmlto 0.0.29 : Convert XML to another format (based on XSL or other tools)

Python Ecosystem¶

20 recipes.

• ansible 13.7.0 : Automate deployment, configuration, and upgrading
• black 25.9.0 : Uncompromising Python code formatter
• certifi 2025.10.5 : Mozilla's CA bundle for Python
• cffi 2.0.0 : C Foreign Function Interface for Python
• cfn-lint 1.51.0 : Validate CloudFormation templates against the CloudFormation spec
• cycode 3.15.2 : Boost security in your dev lifecycle via SAST, SCA, Secrets & IaC scanning
• glances 4.5.4 : Alternative to top/htop
• hf 1.16.0 : Client library for huggingface.co hub
• pip 26.1.2 : PyPA installer for Python packages (bootstrap rung — Punix python is built --without-ensurepip)
• pipenv 2026.6.1 : Python dependency management tool
• pipx 1.7.1 : Install and run Python applications in isolated environments
• poetry 2.4.1 : Python package management tool
• pre-commit 4.0.1 : Framework for managing multi-language pre-commit hooks
• pycparser 3.0 : C parser in Python
• pydantic 2.13.4 : Data validation using Python type hints
• rpds-py 0.30.0 : Python bindings to Rust's persistent data structures
• supervisor 4.3.0 : Process Control System
• twine 6.1.0 : Utilities for publishing Python packages on PyPI
• virtualenv 21.3.3 : Tool for creating isolated virtual python environments
• yamllint 1.37.1 : Linter for YAML files

Rust Ecosystem¶

36 recipes.

• asciinema 3.2.1 : Record and share terminal sessions
• biome 2.4.15 : Toolchain of the web
• dysk 3.6.1 : Linux utility to get information on filesystems, like df but better
• fnm 1.39.0 : Fast and simple Node.js version manager
• himalaya 2.0.0 : CLI email client written in Rust
• hyperfine 1.20.0 : Command-line benchmarking tool
• just 1.57.0 : just — a command runner, like Make but simpler
• llmfit 0.9.23 : Find what models run on your hardware
• loc 0.4.1 : Count lines of code quickly
• mise 2026.7.15 : Polyglot runtime manager (asdf rust clone)
• pixi 0.74.0 : Package management made easy
• prek 0.4.11 : Fast Git hook manager written in Rust, drop-in alternative to pre-commit
• railway 5.30.1 : Develop and deploy code with zero configuration
• rtk 0.44.1 : CLI proxy to minimize LLM token consumption
• ruff 0.15.14 : Extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust
• rust-analyzer 2026-05-18 : Experimental Rust compiler front-end for IDEs
• rustup 1.29.0 : Rust toolchain installer
• rye 0.44.0 : Package Management Solution for Python
• sniffnet 1.5.1 : Cross-platform application to monitor your network traffic
• starship 1.26.0 : starship — minimal, blazing-fast, infinitely customizable prompt for any shell
• television 0.15.9 : General purpose fuzzy finder TUI
• tlrc 1.13.1 : Official tldr client written in Rust
• tokei 14.0.0 : Program that allows you to count code, quickly
• topgrade 17.8.0 : Upgrade all the things
• ty 0.0.40 : Extremely fast Python type checker, written in Rust
• typos-cli 1.48.0 : Source code spell checker
• typst 0.15.1 : typst — a modern markup-based typesetting system
• usage 4.0.0 : usage — tool for working with usage-spec CLIs (from jdx, author of mise)
• uutils-findutils 0.9.1 : Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU findutils
• uv 0.11.33 : uv — an extremely fast Python package and project manager (Punix uses it internally)
• wasm-tools 1.250.0 : Low level tooling for WebAssembly in Rust
• wasmtime 45.0.0 : Standalone JIT-style runtime for WebAssembly, using Cranelift
• worktrunk 0.69.2 : CLI for Git worktree management, designed for parallel AI agent workflows
• xsv 0.13.0 : Fast CSV toolkit written in Rust
• zellij 0.44.3 : zellij — a terminal workspace with batteries included (multiplexer)
• zoxide 0.10.0 : Shell extension to navigate your filesystem faster

Go Ecosystem¶

33 recipes.

• actionlint 1.7.12 : Static checker for GitHub Actions workflow files
• asdf 0.20.0 : Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Erlang & more
• bazelisk 1.29.0 : User-friendly launcher for Bazel
• carapace 1.7.3 : Multi-shell multi-command argument completer
• chezmoi 2.71.1 : Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely
• cliproxyapi 7.2.104 : Wrap Gemini CLI, Codex, Claude Code, Qwen Code as an API service
• duf 0.9.1 : Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative
• glow 2.1.2 : Render markdown on the CLI
• go-task 3.52.0 : Task is a task runner/build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use
• gogcli 0.34.1 : Google Suite CLI
• gopls 0.22.0 : Go language server (LSP) — official from the Go team
• grpcurl 1.9.3 : Like cURL, but for gRPC
• gum 0.17.0 : Tool for glamorous shell scripts
• html2markdown 2.5.2 : Convert HTML to Markdown
• hugo 0.164.0 : hugo — the world's fastest static site generator (extended build with Sass)
• k6 2.1.0 : Modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript
• karmadactl 1.17.2 : CLI for Karmada control plane
• license-eye 0.8.0 : Apache SkyWalking Eyes — license header + dependency licence checker
• mactop 2.1.5 : Mac-native top — CPU/GPU/network/power monitor for Apple Silicon
• mkcert 1.4.4 : mkcert — simple zero-config tool to make locally-trusted development certificates
• oh-my-posh 29.37.0 : Prompt theme engine for any shell
• openshift-cli 4.21.15 : OpenShift command-line interface tools (oc)
• oras 1.3.3 : OCI Registry As Storage
• overmind 2.5.1 : Process manager for Procfile-based applications and tmux
• rclone 1.74.4 : Rsync for cloud storage
• render 2.22.0 : Command-line interface for Render
• restic 0.19.1 : restic — fast, secure, efficient backup program
• s5cmd 2.3.0 : Parallel S3 and local filesystem execution tool
• scalingo 1.47.0 : CLI for working with Scalingo's PaaS
• scc 3.7.0 : scc — a very fast line-of-code counter; competes with cloc + tokei
• scw 2.59.0 : Command-line Interface for Scaleway
• sigtop 0.24.0 : Export messages, attachments and other data from Signal Desktop
• stripe-cli 1.44.0 : Command-line tool for Stripe

System & Process Utilities¶

24 recipes.

• act 0.2.89 : Run your GitHub Actions locally
• augeas 1.14.1 : Configuration editing tool and API
• bc 1.08.2 : Arbitrary precision numeric processing language
• cliclick 5.1 : Tool for emulating mouse and keyboard events
• coreutils 9.11 : GNU File, Shell, and Text utilities
• cowsay 3.8.4 : Apjanke's fork of the classic cowsay project
• direnv 2.37.1 : Load/unload environment variables based on $PWD
• duti 1.5.4 : Select default applications for documents and URL schemes on macOS
• fdupes 2.4.0 : Identify or delete duplicate files
• fswatch 1.22.0 : Monitor a directory for changes and run a shell command
• gnu-getopt 2.42 : GNU getopt(1) — command-line option parsing utility
• htop 3.5.2 : Improved top (interactive process viewer)
• logger 1.7.0 : Simple but sophisticated logging utility for Ruby (default gem)
• mint 0.18.0 : Dependency manager that installs and runs Swift command-line tool packages
• nvm 0.40.6 : Manage multiple Node.js versions
• parallel 20260422 : Shell command parallelization utility
• pstree 2.40 : Show ps output as a tree
• pwgen 2.08 : Password generator
• pyenv 2.8.1 : Python version management
• qrencode 4.1.1 : QR Code encoding library + CLI (qrencode)
• sloccount 2.26 : Source code line-counter
• smartmontools 7.5 : SMART hard drive monitoring
• tree 2.3.2 : Display directories as trees (with optional color/HTML output)
• uutils-coreutils 0.9.0 : Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

Foundational Libraries¶

32 recipes.

• dbus 1.16.2 : Message bus system, providing inter-application communication (libdbus-1 + dbus-daemon)
• expat 2.8.1 : Stream-oriented XML parser library (libexpat)
• gettext 0.22.5 : GNU internationalization (libintl + msgfmt/gettext CLIs)
• glib 2.88.1 : Core application library for C — provides GObject, GIO, and the GLib utility types
• gobject-introspection 1.86.0 : Generate introspection data (GIR/typelib) for GObject libraries
• icu4c 78.3 : ICU — International Components for Unicode (libicuuc, libicui18n, libicudata + uconv CLI)
• jansson 2.15.1 : C library for encoding/decoding/manipulating JSON (libjansson)
• libdatrie 0.2.14 : Double-array trie library (libthai's data store)
• libevent 2.1.12 : Asynchronous event notification library (event2/event.h)
• libffi 3.7.1 : Portable Foreign Function Interface library (libffi) — call C from any language
• libgit2 1.9.6 : C library of Git core methods that is re-entrant and linkable
• libjodycode 4.1.2 : Shared code used by several utilities written by Jody Bruchon
• libnghttp2 1.69.0 : HTTP/2 C library (library-only build)
• libscrypt 1.22 : Library for scrypt password-based key derivation
• libthai 0.1.30 : Thai language support library (word break, character class, …)
• libtirpc 1.3.7 : Port of Sun's Transport-Independent RPC library (libtirpc); provides rpc/*.h and xdr APIs
• libunibreak 7.0 : Implementation of the Unicode line- and word-breaking algorithms
• libunistring 1.4.2 : GNU C library for manipulating Unicode strings (libunistring)
• libuv 1.52.1 : Multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O
• libxml2 2.15.3 : GNOME XML library — parser, XPath, XInclude, …
• libxslt 1.1.45 : C XSLT library for GNOME (libxslt + libexslt + xsltproc)
• libyaml 0.2.5 : YAML 1.1 parser and emitter library (libyaml)
• mpdecimal 4.0.1 : Library for arbitrary-precision decimal floating-point arithmetic (libmpdec)
• ncurses 6.6 : Terminal handling and screen optimization (libncursesw + tic/infocmp)
• nspr 4.39 : Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime — platform-neutral system/libc-like API
• oniguruma 6.9.10 : Regular-expression library for many character encodings (libonig); jq uses it
• pcre2 10.47 : Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions library, version 2
• popt 1.19 : Library like getopt(3) with a number of enhancements
• pygobject3 3.56.3 : GNOME Python bindings (based on GObject Introspection)
• re2 2025-11-05 : Alternative to backtracking PCRE-style regular expression engines
• readline 8.3 : GNU command-line editing library (libreadline + libhistory)
• utf8proc 2.11.3 : Clean C library for processing UTF-8 Unicode data

Other¶

7 recipes.

• bonnie_plus_plus 2.00a : Benchmark suite for file systems and hard drives
• curl 8.20.0 : Command-line tool and library for transferring data with URLs
• fisher 4.4.8 : Plugin manager for fish (the friendly interactive shell)
• jdupes 1.31.1 : Duplicate-file finder (jdupes — fork of fdupes)
• mutt 2.3.2 : Mongrel of mail user agents
• ncdu 1.20 : NCurses Disk Usage analyser (C edition; 1.x branch)
• pinentry 1.3.2 : Passphrase entry dialog used by GnuPG (TTY frontend only)