Homebrew Formula Development

Guide for researching, creating, testing, and maintaining Homebrew formulas in a custom tap.

When to Use This Skill

• Creating a new Homebrew formula for a project
• Debugging formula build or test failures
• Running local validation before CI
• Understanding Homebrew's Ruby DSL
• Setting up livecheck for automatic version detection

Template Pipeline

This skill includes a JSON Schema → Mustache template pipeline for generating formulas from structured data.

Workflow