Shed

macOS menu bar · CLI

Shed

A calm place to keep agent & CLI tools current — detect, confirm, update.

Requires macOS 14+ and Node.js 20+. Not on the Mac App Store — the app must run brew/npm/update commands outside Apple’s sandbox. The GitHub release is the storefront.

Shed menu bar panel showing tool freshness

Install

Menu bar app

  1. Download the latest .zip from Releases
  2. Move Shed.app to /Applications
  3. Right-click → Open (first launch), or xattr -cr /Applications/Shed.app

CLI only

npx shed-cli status
npx shed-cli check
npx shed-cli update