Aqua Backend

Aqua tools may be used natively in mise. Aqua is encouraged as a backend for new tools if they cannot be used with ubi as aqua tools directly fetch tarballs from the vendor without requiring unsafe code execution in a plugin.

The code for this is inside the mise repository at ./src/backend/aqua.rs.

Usage

The following installs the latest version of ripgrep and sets it as the active version on PATH:

$ mise use -g aqua:BurntSushi/ripgrep
$ rg --version
ripgrep 14.1.1

The version will be set in ~/.config/mise/config.toml with the following format:

[tools]
"aqua:BurntSushi/ripgrep" = "latest"

Some tools will default to use aqua if they're specified in registry.toml to use the aqua backend. To see these tools, run mise registry | grep aqua:.