Ziplark

Install

# macOS — Homebrew
brew install --cask zhitongblog/tap/ziplark   # desktop app
brew install zhitongblog/tap/ziplark          # CLI + MCP (ziplark, ziplark-mcp)

# Windows — Scoop (CLI + MCP)
scoop bucket add ziplark https://github.com/zhitongblog/scoop-bucket
scoop install ziplark
# winget (pending review): winget install zhitongblog.Ziplark

Or grab a build for any platform from the releases page (macOS .dmg, Windows .msi/.exe, Linux .deb/.AppImage, and CLI archives).

RAR and ISO are extract-only: RAR's compression format is proprietary, and ISO is a disc-image container (we read ISO 9660 + Joliet with our own dependency-free parser). Everything else can be created as well as read.

Why Ziplark

• Small. Size-optimized release profile (opt-level=z, LTO, stripped, panic=abort). The desktop app uses the OS webview (no bundled Chromium).
• Safe. Every extraction path is funneled through a single zip-slip guard — no entry can ever escape the destination directory.
• One engine. The GUI, CLI and MCP server are thin shells over ziplark-core; whatever the CLI does, the app does identically.

Repository layout

crates/ziplark-core   the archive engine (all formats, the security guard)
crates/ziplark-cli    the `ziplark` command-line tool
crates/ziplark-mcp    the MCP server (drive Ziplark from any LLM)
src-tauri           the Tauri 2 desktop app (Rust commands)
ui                  the desktop frontend (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS)

1. Desktop app

# dev run (opens the window)
cargo tauri dev            # or: cargo run -p ziplark-gui

# build a release .app + .dmg (macOS), .exe/.msi (Windows), AppImage/deb (Linux)
cargo tauri build

Drag an archive onto the window to inspect & extract it, or switch to Create to drag in files/folders, pick a format + compression level (and optional password), and save.

2. CLI — ziplark

cargo build --release -p ziplark-cli      # binary at target/release/ziplark

ziplark list  movie.rar
ziplark extract photos.zip -o ./out
ziplark create backup.tar.zst ./src ./README.md --level best
ziplark create secret.zip ./private --password hunter2
ziplark test  download.7z
ziplark info  mystery.bin

Every command takes --json for scripting. --include <PAT> filters entries on extract; --level store|fast|default|best and --password apply to create.

Right-click (file-manager) integration

Add Extract here with Ziplark and Compress to ZIP with Ziplark to your OS file manager's context menu:

ziplark shell-integration install      # enable
ziplark shell-integration status       # show what's installed
ziplark shell-integration uninstall    # remove

Per platform: macOS installs two Automator Quick Actions (Finder → right-click → Quick Actions); Windows adds per-user (HKCU, no admin) shell verbs on archive file types and on files/folders; Linux installs KDE service menus and Nautilus scripts. Every entry just calls the ziplark CLI (extract-here / compress-zip), so it follows wherever the binary lives. Both helper commands are also usable directly:

ziplark extract-here movie.zip         # → ./movie/ next to the archive
ziplark compress-zip ./photos ./a.txt  # → ./Archive.zip next to them

3. MCP server — ziplark-mcp

A Model Context Protocol server (JSON-RPC over stdio). Read tools (ziplark_info, ziplark_list, ziplark_test) are always available; the write tools (ziplark_extract, ziplark_create) require --allow-write.

cargo build --release -p ziplark-mcp

Register it with an MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ziplark": {
      "command": "/path/to/target/release/ziplark-mcp",
      "args": ["--allow-write"]
    }
  }
}

Building & testing

cargo test                 # engine round-trip + security tests
cargo build --release      # all crates, size-optimized

License

MIT © 2026 doaipm — a doaipm project. See LICENSE.

Ziplark bundles third-party open-source components under their own licenses, acknowledged in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md. Note in particular that RAR extraction uses the UnRAR library, which is under the UnRAR license (not MIT) and may not be used to re-create the RAR compression algorithm.