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boxen/our-boxen resource

Copy me for your team. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/boxen/our-boxen · homepage · Ruby · MIT (permissive) · archived observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

10/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases archived

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 5083
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 3068
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2569 stars · 852 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

A template repository for teams to fork and customize Boxen, a Puppet-based framework for automating macOS workstation setup. It bootstraps a machine with development tools and team-standard configuration via a single script.

Use cases

  • automate mac development machine setup for a new team member
  • provision developer workstations with puppet
  • standardize team macbook configuration
  • bootstrap a mac with xcode, homebrew, and dev tools
  • manage company-wide osx laptop configuration as code

When to choose

  • you maintain a legacy macOS fleet already provisioned with Boxen
  • you need Puppet-based declarative macOS setup and are comfortable with archived tooling

When to avoid

  • you are starting a new macOS provisioning project - the project was archived in 2018
  • you need cross-platform (Linux/Windows) machine provisioning
  • you want a modern alternative like Nix, Ansible, or MDM-based tooling

Facets

infra-config · maturity abandoned

configuration-management infrastructure-as-code deployment developer-tools developer-tools apple-ecosystem cli ruby puppet macos-provisioning workstation-setup team-onboarding archived devops automation macos

2 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
boxen/our-boxenmain10

For agents

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