name: ouch
binary: ouch
aliases: []
category: archive
summary: User-friendly archive compression and extraction CLI.
homepage: https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch
docs: https://github.com/ouch-org/ouch#readme
detect:
version_args: ["--version"]
local:
files: []
dirs: []
package_json:
package_manager_prefixes: []
use_when:
- Compress or extract archives without remembering format-specific flags
avoid_when:
- Exact tar or zip flags are required for reproducible packaging
risk:
level: medium
effects:
- read_files
- write_files
requires_auth: false
destructive: false
confirmation_required_for:
- extracting over existing files
guardrails:
- List archive contents before extracting untrusted files.