Productivity booster for dev tools

Reignite Dev Experience

Klim is a productivity booster for dev tools: it maps what your projects depend on, turns tools into portable environment contracts, and automates install, audit, diff, upgrade, and restore workflows through native package managers.

Humans get one clear view of their toolchain.

Teams get versioned environment contracts.

CI and agents get deterministic primitives.

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Environment contract

$ klim check --output json

{

"project": ".klim.yaml",

"status": "needs_action",

"missing": ["terraform"],

"outdated": ["kubectl"]

}

$ klim diff teammate.yaml

git match

docker differs

terraform remote only

$ klim security audit --sbom

CycloneDX written to stdout

One binary for the whole developer toolchain

Klim connects inventory, environment contracts, native package managers, security posture, and automation into one deterministic workflow.

Map your environment

Discover installed tools, versions, sources, binary paths, GitHub metadata, project references, and pack provenance in one local inventory.

Standardize project requirements

Use .klim.yaml, packs, generated CI workflows, Dockerfiles, and devcontainers to turn setup instructions into versioned environment contracts.

Automate through native package managers

Install, upgrade, remove, proxy, watch, and script tool changes while delegating execution to brew, winget, apt, scoop, choco, snap, and npm.

Compare, restore, and share toolchains

Export manifests, create share tokens, capture trail snapshots, diff machines, and reproduce known-good environments across operating systems.

Audit security and compliance

Find unmanaged installs, PATH risks, archived upstreams, stale projects, license exposure, vulnerabilities, and SBOM data for compliance pipelines.

Give agents deterministic primitives

Let AI agents and CI call stable Klim commands with predictable exit codes and JSON output instead of improvising shell commands from scratch.

Built-in capabilities

One binary covers discovery, validation, automation, security, and sharing. Every command works from the terminal, the TUI, CI, and AI agents — same flags, same JSON, same exit codes.

Interactive TUI

Nine tabs covering My Tools, Marketplace, Project, Dashboard, My Profile (with My Score breakdown), Health (PATH explorer + interactive fix wizard), Security, Backup, and Config.

klim plan

Terraform-plan-style preview of pending changes — grouped by package manager, with 0-100% upgrade confidence per change, risk analysis, disk impact, and time estimate.

klim apply

Run pending changes with an auto-checkpoint, then four-check postcheck (shell resolution, binary validation, PATH consistency, manager integrity) that flags real regressions and prints the rollback command.

klim checkpoint + rollback

Named YAML snapshots of versions, sources, and PATH stored under ~/.klim/checkpoints/. klim rollback produces a restore plan; klim apply auto-captures pre-apply-<UTC> before every run.

klim health

Top-level health command with a PATH conflict explorer (klim health path), interactive fix wizard in the TUI, and an auto-PATH-backup written before any fix touches your $PATH.

Manifests (.klim.yaml)

Codify required tools and version ranges. klim init scaffolds one from your repo files automatically.

klim check / klim score

CI-friendly validation of project requirements plus a 0–100 environment health grade (My Score) with full per-category breakdown and shields.io badges.

klim trail

Git-style content-addressed snapshots of your environment with capture, label, log, show, diff, and prune.

klim env

Capture the full environment fingerprint (tools, favorites, custom packs, OS, audit). Diff and apply across machines.

klim diff

Compare local toolchain against a manifest, share token, or env profile with side-by-side output and CI exit codes.

klim generate

Turn .klim.yaml into a GitHub Actions workflow, Dockerfile, or devcontainer.json — same source, three targets.

klim onboard

Role-based wizard (web, devops, data, mobile, systems, security) that ranks tools and installs in one shot.

klim try

Install a tool temporarily, run your command, then keep-or-remove. Like npx, but for any CLI.

klim proxy

Auto-install shims that fetch a tool on first use. Lazy installation for the long-tail of CLIs.

klim watch

Cron-friendly update notifier across the whole toolchain with --output json for notification scripts.

klim why

Reverse dependency map: where a tool is referenced (projects, packs, related tools, supplying package managers).

Security audit + vulns

OSV-backed CVE/GHSA lookup, license inventory, archived-upstream warnings, PATH hygiene, and CycloneDX SBOM export.

Compliance policy

Define allowed sources, allowed/blocked licenses, blocked/required tools, and a max vulnerability severity threshold.

Marketplace + custom packs

110+ curated tools across categories. Bundle related tools into packs. Add internal or community marketplace URLs.

Share tokens

Compact klim:v1:... tokens for chat. Recipients run klim open <token> to install your toolchain.

Shell completion + hooks

Bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell completions plus a cd-hook that quietly checks .klim.yaml when you enter a project.

Local-first and offline-friendly

No auth, no telemetry, no required network. Marketplace catalog cached locally; native managers do the work.

See klim in action

Nine TUI tabs and an optional local web view. Same data, same actions, same JSON — whichever surface you prefer.

Installed — Every tool, every version, every install source — in one local inventory with category, platform, and tag filters. — Installed

Every tool, every version, every install source — in one local inventory with category, platform, and tag filters.

Dashboard — Environment score, tool coverage, GitHub highlights, package-manager mix, and category breakdown at a glance. — Dashboard

Environment score, tool coverage, GitHub highlights, package-manager mix, and category breakdown at a glance.

Marketplace — 110+ curated tools, ranked by GitHub stars, with category, description, and policy / blocked indicators. — Marketplace

110+ curated tools, ranked by GitHub stars, with category, description, and policy / blocked indicators.

Curated packs — Bundles like Cloud Essentials, Kubernetes Starter, and Go Developer with completion progress. — Curated packs

Bundles like Cloud Essentials, Kubernetes Starter, and Go Developer with completion progress.

For You — Personalised recommendations ranked by overlap with what you already use. — For You

Personalised recommendations ranked by overlap with what you already use.

Project scan — Detect required tools from .github/, go.mod, package.json, and friends. One Enter and .klim.yaml is written. — Project scan

Detect required tools from .github/, go.mod, package.json, and friends. One Enter and .klim.yaml is written.

Compliance — Policy violations broken down by tool: disallowed sources, disallowed licenses, blocked tools, and missing required tools. — Compliance

Policy violations broken down by tool: disallowed sources, disallowed licenses, blocked tools, and missing required tools.

Search — Type to filter the marketplace by name, tag, or description without leaving the keyboard. — Search

Type to filter the marketplace by name, tag, or description without leaving the keyboard.

Local browser — Prefer a browser? `klim browser` serves the same data as a local web app — same actions, same recommendations. — Local browser

Prefer a browser? `klim browser` serves the same data as a local web app — same actions, same recommendations.

Start with a local environment map

Install Klim, run klim, and turn your current machine into a productivity booster for dev tools.

macOS / Linux — Quick Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nassiharel/klim/main/install.sh | bash

Windows — PowerShell

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nassiharel/klim/main/install.ps1 | iex

Homebrew (macOS / Linux)

brew install nassiharel/tap/klim

winget (Windows)

winget install nassiharel.klim

Each release auto-submits a PR to microsoft/winget-pkgs, published system-wide through winget.

Scoop (Windows)

scoop bucket add nassiharel https://github.com/nassiharel/scoop-bucket
scoop install klim

Go Install

go install github.com/nassiharel/klim/cmd/klim@latest

Pre-built binaries also available on GitHub Releases for macOS, Linux, and Windows (amd64 & arm64).

Klim is the layer above packages, scripts, and prompts

Package managers install packages. Scripts automate one workflow. Agents translate intent. Klim provides the environment contract and deterministic operations layer they can all rely on.

Capability	Package Managers	Version Managers	Ad-hoc Scripts	AI Agent + Shell	klim
Complete local tool inventory	One manager at a time	Managed runtimes only	Hand-rolled	Re-discovers per prompt	Unified environment map
Project environment contract	No	Partial	Informal	Prompt drift	.klim.yaml
Cross-OS reproduction	Per platform	Limited	Fragile branches	Non-deterministic	Native PM mapping
Machine-readable CI interface	Inconsistent	Partial	Custom	Tokens per build	Stable JSON + exit codes
Security and compliance posture	Package-local	No	Manual	Best effort	Audit, score, SBOM
Toolchain history and diff	No	No	Manual files	Forgets sessions	Trail + diff
Agent-safe operations	Low-level commands	Low-level commands	Opaque	Improvises	Deterministic primitive