Interest in Homebrew distribution, what's needed on the release side?
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Hey, I'm looking at packaging witchcraft (and pickbrain) for Homebrew so users on macOS can get a working install with `brew install witchcraft` / `brew install pickbrain` instead of the current `make` flow. Wanted to check alignment before opening PRs, since part of this touches your release process.
The formulas themselves would live in a separate tap, not this repo. But to make brew installs fast and not force every user through a full Rust toolchain build, the tap really needs prebuilt binaries per platform attached to GitHub Releases. Right now `v0.1.0` exists as a tag but there's no Release object and no `.github/workflows/`, so the only artifacts are GitHub's auto-generated source zips.
**What I think would need to happen in this repo:**
1. Promote tags to proper GitHub Releases (so formulas can pin to a release + checksum).
2. A release workflow that builds binaries on tag push for the platforms that matter, at minimum macOS arm64 and x86_64, with the recommended feature flags from the README baked in per target:
- arm64: `t5-quantized,metal,accelerate`
- x86_64: `t5-quantized,accelerate,hybrid-dequant,fbgemm`
3. Two binaries per platform in each release: `warp-cli` and `pickbrain`.
4. A decision on weights. I'd suggest not shipping them in the release artifact. We could either keep the current Python download flow, or add a `pickbrain setup` subcommand that fetches + quantizes on first run. Happy to do whichever you prefer.
**Open questions:**
- Do you want the tap under `dropbox/homebrew-witchcraft`, or are you fine with a community tap to start and potentially adopt later?
- Any objection to the CI additions above? I can open a PR with the workflow if so.
- For `pickbrain`, the brew formula would install the skill definition files and print caveats telling users how to register them with Claude Code / Codex (brew can't touch user config directly). Does that match how you'd want the skill installed, or do you want to keep `make pickbrain-install` as the official path and have brew only ship the binary?
- Linux support in scope, or macOS-only for v1?
Happy to do the CI work and send a PR if there's appetite. Just didn't want to land a release-pipeline change cold.
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