[FEATURE REQUEST] Add homebrew support for macOS

[jschmdt]

Please add homebrew support for macOS 🥰👍 It would be huge help for people like me who mainly use brew as their main package manager 🍺

• How to add new formulae to homebrew: https://docs.brew.sh/Adding-Software-to-Homebrew
• Website: https://brew.sh/

Thanks in advance!
Cheers

[o6uoq]

+1 for brew - I am surprised a lot of these AI/agent projects don't support brew out of the box!

[geekmush]

+1 for brew!! I use brew on MacOS as well as Linux, so double win!

[owpac]

+1 for Homebrew support!

Currently, npm install -g is the only installation method, which creates friction for users relying on Node version managers (mise, nvm, asdf...). Global npm packages are tied to a specific Node version, meaning they disappear or need reinstallation when switching versions.

A Homebrew formula would provide a stable, version-manager-agnostic installation, especially valuable for a CLI tool meant to be used across multiple projects.

Thanks for considering this!

[o6uoq]

I created my own homebrew-tap so you can install openspec via brew:

brew install o6uoq/tap/openspec

I guess I could PR this back upstream but this was easier in the short-term i.e. it works now!

cc: @jschmdt @geekmush @owpac

[misterlami]

@o6uoq any progress on this being merged?

[o6uoq]

@misterlami I haven't created a PR, I've only created the homebrew-tap to make brew install easier. The project still needs to add/tap openspec to be installed via this repo.

[JingBh]

I like openspec, but I want to install everything with homebrew, so I submitted it to the official formula tap, see https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/openspec.

Now everyone can just brew install openspec without any additional configuration 😃

Maybe someone should add this to the installation docs.

[o6uoq]

@JingBh awesome and thank you. How does that update when openspec updates their version? I have been using my own tap via via o6uoq/homebrew-tap and have a nightly cronjob which looks at the openspec repo and bumps the version in the tap if it's changed.

[clay-good]

Closing as shipped — brew install openspec works today. OpenSpec is in homebrew-core (Formula/o/openspec.rb), confirmed in-thread and re-verified now: brew info openspec reports openspec: stable 1.6.0 (bottled), with ~945 installs in the last 30 days. The one piece of residue — the README/docs not mentioning Homebrew as an install option — has an open docs PR: #1016. Follow that for the docs mention; the capability itself is done.