mise¶

mise (formerly rtx) installs and switches between versions of developer tools like Node, Python, Ruby and any tool reachable through its plugin backends.

Note

mpm is system-scoped, so this wrapper reports every tool version present on disk regardless of which mise.toml (global or project) requested it. Project-pinned versions are not surfaced as a separate scope.

Note

Backend-prefixed tool IDs (pipx:ruff, cargo:ubi-cli, asdf:mise-plugins/mise-poetry) round-trip as-is. The colon is part of the package ID; mpm install pipx:ruff resolves the backend through mise itself.

Caution

mise outdated --json only reports tools tracked in a mise.toml (global or project). A tool installed bare with mise install <tool> and never pinned with mise use will not appear in the outdated list, so mpm outdated --mise understates the upgrade surface for those entries.

Home page: https://mise.jdx.dev
Source: meta_package_manager/managers/mise.py
Version requirement: >=2025.5.10

Platforms¶

🅱️ BSD
🐧 Linux
🍎 macOS
⨂ Unix
🪟 Windows

Operations¶

Operation	Supported	Notes
`installed`	✓
`outdated`	✓
`search`	✓	exact search backfilled by `mpm`
`install`	✓
`upgrade`	✓
`upgrade_all`	✓
`remove`	✓
`sync`	✓
`cleanup`	✓

Ecosystem¶

Accepted purl types: pkg:mise

Usage¶

$ mpm --mise installed
$ mpm --mise search "query"
$ mpm --mise upgrade --all
$ mpm install pkg:mise/hello
$ mpm --dry-run --mise upgrade --all

Every example above accepts --dry-run, which simulates the underlying manager calls without touching the system: the safe way to watch what mpm would do before trusting it.

Deselect the manager for a single run with --no-mise, disable it from your configuration, or tune its invocation attributes with per-manager overrides.

Command line¶

CLI names, in lookup order: mise

The version is probed by running:

$ mise --version
2026.6.3 macos-arm64 (2026-06-13)

and extracted with:

r"^(?P<version>\d+\.\d+\.\d+)"

Privilege escalation¶

mpm runs this manager as the current user and never prepends sudo by default. Flip the policy for its privileged operations with --sudo or the per-manager sudo override.

See privilege escalation for the full policy.

Cooldown¶

State of mise’s release-age gating, from the cooldown support table:

Status: 🟡 Shipped upstream
Mechanism: minimum_release_age env MISE_MINIMUM_RELEASE_AGE / --minimum-release-age (default 24h)
Reference: mise settings

With --cooldown set, mpm skips this manager’s install and upgrade operations rather than run them unguarded (fail-closed); --allow-unsupported-managers opts back in.

Reference traces¶

Raw native outputs captured in the manager source: the reference mpm’s parsers were written against. If you know mise well and a transcript below looks wrong, or a newer release changed its output format, report it.

$ mise ls --installed --json
{
  "node": [
    {
      "version": "20.10.0",
      "install_path": "~/.local/share/mise/installs/node/20.10.0",
      "source": {"type": "mise.toml",
                 "path": "~/.config/mise/config.toml"}
    }
  ],
  "pipx:ruff": [
    {
      "version": "0.6.9",
      "install_path": "~/.local/share/mise/installs/pipx-ruff/0.6.9"
    }
  ]
}

$ mise outdated --json
{
  "node": {
    "requested": "20",
    "current": "20.0.0",
    "latest": "20.10.0"
  }
}