Add a new `brew mcp-server` command for a Model Context Protocol (MCP)
server for Homebrew. This integrates with AI/LLM tools like Claude,
Claude Code and Cursor.
It currently supports the calls needed/used by the MCP Inspector and
Cursor (where I've tested it).
It provides as `tools` the subcommands output by `brew help` but should
be fairly straightforward to add more in future.
It is implemented in a slightly strange way (a standalone Ruby command
called from a shell command) as MCP servers need a faster startup time
than a normal Homebrew Ruby command allows and fail if they don't get
it.
There are a few Ruby libraries available but, given how relatively
simplistic the implementation is, it didn't feel worthwhile to use and
vendor them.
This flag allows you to specify formulae to upgrade, even if
`$HOMEBREW_BUNDLE_NO_UPGRADE` is set.
This is useful for upgrading specific formulae without upgrading all
formulae.
While we're here, let's add Sorbet signatures to the `Bundle` module
because I needed to add a new method there anyway.
This uses the logic in `brew.sh` for deciding whether or not to run
`brew update --auto-update` and makes it a dedicated command that can
be used instead of `brew update` in scripts to be really fast in the
no-op case.
`brew update` will always do at least some updating which is a nicer
default but is much slower.
We've had requests for this in Homebrew/bundle a few times so let's
implement it both for there and for `brew edit`.
Tested on my machine with `cursor` and working as expected.
- use e.g. `$HOMEBREW_*` for cases where only the environment variable
is the entire backtick-quoted string
- use e.g. `${HOMEBREW_*}` for cases where the environment variable is
part of a backtick-quoted string to make clear what parts are variable
and what parts are not
- use `export HOMEBREW_*=...` for cases where we're talking about
setting the environment variable (because it likely needs to be
exported to work how they want)
Inspired by https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/pull/1579 making
similar changes for Homebrew/homebrew-bundle.
We already have `--skip-post-install` and this adds similar behaviour
for e.g. `brew bundle` (and other users) to be able to install a
formula but skip the `brew link` stage afterwards.
This removes fish command completions (but keeps argument completions)
for commands in the `COMPLETIONS_EXCLUSION_LIST` list.
It also removes unnecessary exclusions of `*instal` aliases in command
suggestions in bash and fish completions, since those were removed from
`internal_commands_list.txt` in Homebrew#10229. This makes
`COMPLETIONS_EXCLUSION_LIST` the single source of truth for commands to
exclude from completions.
Add `brew tab`, a new command to edit tab information, as previously
discussed in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/17125#issuecomment-2068473483.
Currently, this supports marking or unmarking formulae as installed on
request.
Sample usage:
$ brew tab --installed-on-request curl
==> curl is now marked as installed on request.
$ brew autoremove --dry-run
[no output]
$ brew tab --no-installed-on-request curl
==> curl is now marked as not installed on request.
$ brew autoremove --dry-run
==> Would autoremove 2 unneeded formulae:
curl
rtmpdump
Co-authored-by: Mike McQuaid <mike@mikemcquaid.com>
