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/usr/bin/witness

Witness is a pluggable framework for software supply chain risk management. It automates, normalizes, and verifies software artifact provenance.

From witness 0.12.0-r20 (os), captured 2026-11-07 by running witness --help (exit 0). permalink

Collect and verify attestations about your build environments

Usage:
  witness [command]

Available Commands:
  attestors   Get information about available attestors
  completion  Generate completion script
  help        Help about any command
  policy      Manage policies
  run         Runs the provided command and records attestations about the execution
  sign        Signs a file
  verify      Verifies a witness policy
  version     Prints out the witness version

Flags:
  -c, --config string                   Path to the witness config file
      --debug-cpu-profile-file string   Path to store the CPU profile. Profiling will be enabled if this is non-empty
      --debug-mem-profile-file string   Path to store the Memory profile. Profiling will be enabled if this is non-empty
  -h, --help                            help for witness
  -l, --log-level string                Level of logging to output (debug, info, warn, error) (default "info")

Use "witness [command] --help" for more information about a command.
Options (5)
OptionDescriptionSource
-c, --config stringPath to the witness config filehelp
--debug-cpu-profile-file stringPath to store the CPU profile.help
--debug-mem-profile-file stringPath to store the Memory profile.help
-h, --helphelp for witnesshelp
-l, --log-level stringLevel of logging to output (debug, info, warn, error) (default "info")help

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.