registry: add github: fallback backends for locally-verified tools

[matracey]

Summary

Add github: fallback backend entries to 34 registry files for tools that are already in the registry. Each new entry is inserted immediately after the existing aqua: entry, providing a Tier 1 GitHub releases fallback for users who have aqua disabled (e.g. via MISE_DISABLE_BACKENDS=aqua) or unavailable, before falling through to lower-tier backends (asdf:, vfox:, cargo:, etc.).

Per the AGENTS.md backend-tier guidance, aqua: is the preferred Tier 1 backend and github: is the recommended fallback. Many existing registry entries currently fall through from aqua: directly to asdf: plugins (which AGENTS.md discourages for new entries on supply-chain grounds) or to runtime-backed backends (cargo:, go:, pipx:). This PR fills the gap.

For tools where the github: backend downloads binaries with platform-specific or versioned filenames (shfmt, yq, pre-commit), the entries use the [[backends]] table form with rename_exe to ensure the binary is callable by its expected short name.

Popularity

No popularity-check section is needed because this PR does not add any new tools to the registry. It only adds a github: backend for tools that are already accepted registry entries.

Verification

All github:owner/repo@latest installs were verified on Windows 11 x86_64 via:

$env:MISE_DATA_DIR = "<temp-dir>"
mise install "github:<owner>/<repo>@latest"
# Then: mise exec "github:<owner>/<repo>@latest" -- <tool> --version

Each install was verified for both successful installation (exit 0) AND binary callability by the tool's expected short name. Tools where the binary was not callable were either fixed with rename_exe or removed from the PR.

Caveat: Verification was performed on a single host platform (Windows x86_64). Cross-platform asset availability was not exhaustively checked.

Candidate set and results

Modified — inline backends array (31 tools, github: inserted after aqua:)

Installed tool	Registry file	github: backend added
act	act.toml	github:nektos/act
actionlint	actionlint.toml	github:rhysd/actionlint
age	age.toml	github:FiloSottile/age
bat	bat.toml	github:sharkdp/bat
cargo-binstall	cargo-binstall.toml	github:cargo-bins/cargo-binstall
cargo-insta	cargo-insta.toml	github:mitsuhiko/insta
cmake	cmake.toml	github:Kitware/CMake
cmdx	cmdx.toml	github:suzuki-shunsuke/cmdx
coreutils	coreutils.toml	github:uutils/coreutils
delta	delta.toml	github:dandavison/delta
fd	fd.toml	github:sharkdp/fd
fzf	fzf.toml	github:junegunn/fzf
git-cliff	git-cliff.toml	github:orhun/git-cliff
github-cli / gh	github-cli.toml	github:cli/cli
hk	hk.toml	github:jdx/hk
htmlq	htmlq.toml	github:mgdm/htmlq
jq	jq.toml	github:jqlang/jq
lua-language-server	lua-language-server.toml	github:LuaLS/lua-language-server
ninja	ninja.toml	github:ninja-build/ninja
pkl	pkl.toml	github:apple/pkl
pnpm	pnpm.toml	github:pnpm/pnpm
rclone	rclone.toml	github:rclone/rclone
ripgrep / rg	ripgrep.toml	github:BurntSushi/ripgrep
rust-analyzer	rust-analyzer.toml	github:rust-lang/rust-analyzer
shellcheck	shellcheck.toml	github:koalaman/shellcheck
sops	sops.toml	github:getsops/sops
stylua	stylua.toml	github:JohnnyMorganz/StyLua
taplo	taplo.toml	github:tamasfe/taplo
usage	usage.toml	github:jdx/usage
uv	uv.toml	github:astral-sh/uv
yamlfmt	yamlfmt.toml	github:google/yamlfmt

Modified — converted to [[backends]] table form with rename_exe (3 tools)

These tools ship binaries with platform-specific or versioned filenames that the github: backend doesn't automatically rename. The rename_exe option ensures the binary is callable by its expected short name.

Installed tool	Registry file	github: backend	rename_exe
shfmt	shfmt.toml	github:mvdan/sh	"shfmt"
yq	yq.toml	github:mikefarah/yq	"yq"
pre-commit	pre-commit.toml	github:pre-commit/pre-commit	"pre-commit"

[matracey]

Wow! Can't believe I'm PR #10000 for this repo! 😅 🎉

[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request adds the github: backend to various tool definitions in the registry. Review feedback highlights that for tools like black, jq, pnpm, shfmt, and yq, the github: backend fails to rename platform-specific binaries to the standard command name, and suggests using the ubi: backend instead. Additionally, the github: backend is noted as invalid for cargo-insta and pre-commit because those repositories do not provide standalone executable binaries in their releases.

[greptile-apps]

Greptile Summary

This PR adds github: fallback backends to 34 registry entries, inserting them after existing aqua: entries. Three entries (shfmt, yq, pre-commit) were converted from inline arrays to the [[backends]] table form with [backends.options] carrying a rename_exe hint.

• 31 registry files receive a simple inline \"github:owner/repo\" insertion — straightforward and correct.
• 3 files use rename_exe; the TOML format is valid but rename_exe is only consumed in the archive-extraction branch of install_artifact, making it a no-op for raw-binary and .pyz releases used by shfmt and pre-commit.
• E2e tests are correctly updated to account for the new backends.

Confidence Score: 4/5

Safe to merge the 31 simple inline additions; shfmt and pre-commit github fallback backends need rename_exe changed to bin before they will work on Linux

The rename_exe option in install_artifact is only read inside the archive-extraction code path. shfmt distributes raw binaries on Linux and pre-commit distributes .pyz Python zipapps — both raw format. For both tools the option is silently skipped and the binary is left with a versioned filename, making it uncallable by its expected name when the github fallback is used.

registry/shfmt.toml and registry/pre-commit.toml — rename_exe should be replaced with bin to handle raw-binary and .pyz release formats

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
registry/shfmt.toml	Converted to [[backends]] table form; rename_exe=shfmt has no effect on raw binary releases on Linux — binary is installed as shfmt_, not shfmt
registry/pre-commit.toml	Converted to [[backends]] table form; rename_exe=pre-commit has no effect on .pyz raw files — binary ends up named pre-commit-.pyz
registry/yq.toml	rename_exe=yq is redundant but harmless; clean_binary_name already handles yq_linux_amd64 → yq correctly
e2e/backend/test_disable_backends	Correctly updated: disables both aqua and github to force asdf fallback
e2e/cli/test_registry	Correctly updated expected registry output to include github:cli/cli for gh
registry/github-cli.toml	Expanded to multi-line backends with github:cli/cli inserted after aqua: — correct
registry/uv.toml	Added github:astral-sh/uv after aqua: entry — correct
registry/act.toml	Added github:nektos/act after aqua: entry — correct

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