# Syft: CLI and Go library for generating SBOMs from images and filesystems, README overview

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- updated: 2026-11-07T16:15:25.375Z
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The README presents Syft as a generator of SBOMs for images, filesystems and archives.

Source: https://github.com/anchore/syft

What it supplies: The README presents Syft as a generator of SBOMs for images, filesystems and archives.

Useful for: - Record the packages in a container image or directory as an SBOM.
- Export CycloneDX or SPDX for supply chain provenance checks.
- Feed the SBOM to Grype for vulnerability scanning.

First action: - Install with the script, Homebrew, Docker or another route from the installation docs.
- Run Syft against an image or folder and choose an output format.

Prerequisites and limits: The README text read gives no version requirements; see the installation docs.

- Piping an install script to a shell runs remote code; prefer a package manager if you can.
- Package coverage depends on the supported ecosystems.

Source-documented: a badge names Apache 2.0.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on intro, features, installation and licence badge README text only; other sections were not read in full. Nothing was installed or run.

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