Developer Utilities

Kythia Workspace provides a built-in package manager for essential developer toolchains and CLI utilities. Instead of manually downloading installers and messing with Windows environment variables, you can install everything you need with a single click.

Supported Toolchains

Kythia CLI

The master command-line interface for managing Kythia Workspace itself.

Composer

Dependency manager for PHP.

WP-CLI

The command-line interface for WordPress.

PNPM

Fast, disk space efficient package manager for Node.js.

Yarn

Reliable and secure dependency management for JavaScript.

Git

The world's most popular distributed version control system.

Managing Utilities

Install a Tool

Navigate to the Utilities tab in the sidebar. Find the tool you need (e.g., Composer) and click Install. Kythia will automatically download the binary and place it in an isolated directory.

Global PATH Integration

By default, installed utilities are isolated. To make a tool available globally in your terminal (so you can just type composer install from anywhere), toggle the Set as Global Default switch. Kythia will automatically inject the tool into your Windows System PATH.

Use the CLI

Open your terminal (PowerShell, Command Prompt, or Git Bash) and start using your newly installed tools immediately! (You may need to restart your terminal for PATH changes to take effect).