marcosnils/bin

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1270 stars · 70 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

bin is a lightweight cross-platform CLI tool for downloading, installing, and managing prebuilt binary releases from sources like GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Docker images, and HTTP release servers. It requires no root privileges and supports version tracking, updates, rollback, and pinning of installed binaries.

Use cases

• install prebuilt binaries from github releases without sudo
• manage and update standalone cli tools from one command
• pin specific versions of installed binaries
• bootstrap a dev environment with a list of required binaries
• rollback a binary to a previous version
• install tools from docker images as local binaries

When to choose

• you want a lightweight, zero-config alternative to homebrew/apt for single-binary tools
• you lack root access and need user-level binary installs
• your tools are distributed as prebuilt binaries on GitHub/GitLab releases
• you want declarative, reproducible binary setups via 'bin ensure'

When to avoid

• you need to manage libraries or language packages, not standalone binaries
• you prefer full package managers with dependency resolution like apt, brew, or nix
• you need packages not published as prebuilt release artifacts

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

package-manager cli deployment developer-tools developer-tools windows cross-platform cli binary-manager version-manager prebuilt-binaries github-releases no-root single-binary command-line devops automation linux macos

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