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A prompt theme engine for any shell
A cross-platform prompt theme engine that works with any shell including PowerShell, Bash, Zsh, and Fish. Customize your terminal prompt with rich themes, dynamic segments, and real-time information from Git repos, Kubernetes clusters, cloud providers, battery status, and execution time. The most versatile prompt customization tool available, with hundreds of community themes and a visual config editor.
Find which AI models actually run on your hardware in one command
llmfit is a Rust-based terminal tool that matches over 200 LLM models from 30+ providers against your exact hardware specs. The interactive TUI scores each model on fit, speed, VRAM usage, and context length, helping you avoid downloading models that won't run on your machine. It supports Ollama, llama.cpp, MLX, Docker Model Runner, and LM Studio backends.
Pipe terminal output to LLMs with beautiful markdown rendering
Mods by Charmbracelet is an AI-powered CLI tool that lets you pipe any shell output directly to LLMs with beautiful markdown rendering in the terminal. It follows Unix philosophy — composable with existing tools via stdin/stdout pipes. Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, and other providers with bring-your-own-key model. 9,800+ GitHub stars, MIT license. Part of the Charm ecosystem known for gorgeous terminal UIs including Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Glow.
Swiss-army MCP server for local system automation
DesktopCommanderMCP is a general-purpose MCP server that gives AI agents the ability to execute local programs, read and write files, search the filesystem, and edit text files. It acts as a comprehensive local system actuator, enabling coding agents to interact with the development environment beyond just code editing.
Resume interrupted CLI agent sessions
A modular rules engine that manages and distributes coding standards, style guides, and AI instructions across projects. Centralizes team conventions in shareable rule sets that AI coding agents can follow, ensuring consistent code quality and patterns. Supports inheritance and composition so teams can build organization-wide standards while allowing project-specific customizations.
Making all software agent-native from the CLI
A visual development environment that combines no-code UI building with AI-powered code generation. Drag-and-drop interface for layouts and components with AI assistance for logic, APIs, and data handling. Bridges the gap between visual prototyping and production code, letting designers and developers collaborate in a single environment that outputs clean, deployable applications.
The minimal, blazing-fast shell prompt
Open-source Firebase alternative providing a full backend-as-a-service on PostgreSQL. Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs from your schema, real-time subscriptions, built-in auth with 20+ social providers and Row Level Security, S3-compatible file storage with CDN, and Deno-powered Edge Functions. Visual dashboard with SQL editor and table editor. Supports vector embeddings via pgvector for AI apps. Self-hostable or managed with a generous free tier. 75K+ GitHub stars.
AI-powered command-line productivity tool
AI-powered database query tool that lets you ask questions in plain English and get SQL results. Connects to PostgreSQL, MySQL, and BigQuery. Ideal for non-technical team members who need data insights without learning SQL, and for developers who want to speed up exploratory queries and ad-hoc reporting.
Rust-powered coding agent and pair programmer by OVH
AI-powered documentation generator that automatically creates and maintains technical documentation from your codebase. Analyzes code structure, comments, and patterns to produce API references, architecture guides, and onboarding docs. Keeps documentation in sync with code changes through CI integration, solving the perpetual problem of outdated docs that plagues every engineering team.
AI coding agent with hash-anchored edits, LSP, subagents, and browser tools
AI-powered code migration tool that automates framework upgrades, language migrations, and API version transitions. Analyzes your codebase to generate migration plans, then applies changes systematically across affected files. Reduces the risk and effort of major upgrades by handling the tedious, error-prone aspects of codebase-wide transformations that would take developers weeks to complete manually.
Powerful shell with programmable completion
Open-source LLM inference server optimized for high-throughput, low-latency serving of large language models. Supports continuous batching, tensor parallelism, and quantized models for efficient GPU utilization. Production-ready with OpenAI-compatible API endpoints. The standard for self-hosting open-source models at scale, trusted by enterprises running custom LLM deployments with strict latency and cost requirements.
The missing package manager for macOS
The default package manager for macOS (also available on Linux) that installs CLI tools, developer utilities, GUI applications (via Casks), and fonts with simple terminal commands. Massive repository of 7,000+ formulae and 5,000+ casks maintained by the community. Features dependency resolution, bottled (pre-compiled) packages for fast installs, automatic updates, and cleanup. Essential tool for any Mac developer's setup. 42K+ GitHub stars and the largest macOS package ecosystem.
Simple, fast alternative to find
Fast, user-friendly alternative to the Unix find command written in Rust. Features intuitive syntax, colorized output, regex and glob pattern support, smart case sensitivity, parallel execution, and automatic .gitignore respect. Significantly faster than find for most use cases. Integrates well with other tools via piping. Part of the modern CLI toolkit alongside ripgrep, bat, eza, and fzf. 35K+ GitHub stars.
Modern replacement for ls
Modern replacement for the Unix ls command written in Rust with color-coded output, Git integration showing file status, tree view, icon support, extended attributes display, and hyperlink support for terminals. Faster than ls with features like recursive directory listing, grid/long/tree layouts, and filtering by file type. Maintained fork of the discontinued exa project. Part of the modern CLI toolkit alongside bat, fd, ripgrep, and zoxide. 14K+ GitHub stars.
Blazingly fast recursive search
Ultra-fast recursive text search tool written in Rust that respects .gitignore rules automatically. Searches directories significantly faster than grep with smart defaults like line numbers, syntax highlighting, and compressed file support. The de facto replacement for grep among developers, combining the speed of Rust with sensible defaults that eliminate the need for complex command-line flags.
A cat clone with wings
Modern replacement for the Unix cat command with syntax highlighting for 200+ languages, automatic paging, line numbers, Git integration showing file modifications, and themes including integration with terminal color schemes. Supports plain text output mode for piping. Extremely fast with Rust-based implementation. Can be used as a drop-in cat replacement via aliasing. 51K+ GitHub stars. Part of the modern CLI toolkit alongside fd, ripgrep, and eza.
Smarter cd command
Smarter cd command that learns your most-used directories and lets you jump to them with partial name matches. Written in Rust for speed, it replaces the standard cd command with intelligent fuzzy matching based on frequency and recency of access. A small quality-of-life tool that saves developers hundreds of keystrokes daily by eliminating tedious path typing.
Magical shell history
Shell history manager that replaces the default history with a SQLite-backed, encrypted, and synchronized command history across all your machines. Features full-text search with fuzzy matching, directory-based context filtering, session tracking, and statistics about command usage. Syncs via an encrypted server (self-hostable or hosted). Supports bash, zsh, and fish shells. 22K+ GitHub stars. Transforms shell history from a simple list into a searchable, cross-machine knowledge base.
Terminal UI for Docker
Terminal UI for Docker and Docker Compose that provides an interactive dashboard for managing containers, images, volumes, and networks without memorizing CLI commands. Features real-time logs, stats (CPU/memory), container shell access, bulk cleanup of unused resources, and Docker Compose service management. Navigate with keyboard shortcuts in a panel-based layout. By the creator of lazygit. 40K+ GitHub stars. The fastest way to manage Docker from the terminal.
Simple terminal UI for git
Terminal-based Git UI that provides an intuitive, interactive interface for Git operations without memorizing commands. Features staging/unstaging hunks and lines, interactive rebase with drag-and-drop, conflict resolution, commit graph visualization, cherry-picking, branch management, stash operations, and custom commands. Navigate with keyboard shortcuts in a panel-based layout. Integrates with your existing Git config. 55K+ GitHub stars. The go-to TUI for Git users who prefer the terminal.
Command-line fuzzy finder
General-purpose command-line fuzzy finder written in Go that adds interactive filtering to any list — files, command history, processes, Git branches, and more. Blazing fast even on millions of entries. Integrates with bash, zsh, fish, and vim/neovim for history search (Ctrl+R), file finding, and directory jumping. Supports preview windows, multi-select, and custom key bindings. 67K+ GitHub stars. One of the most essential CLI productivity tools in the modern developer toolkit.
Framework for managing Zsh config
Community-driven framework for managing Zsh configuration with 300+ plugins, 150+ themes, and an auto-update mechanism. Provides aliases, functions, and completions for Git, Docker, Node.js, Python, Kubernetes, and most developer tools out of the box. Popular themes like Powerlevel10k and agnoster for informative prompts. Simple plugin activation via .zshrc. 176K+ GitHub stars — the most starred developer tool on GitHub. Essential for Zsh users who want productivity without manual configuration.
A new type of shell
AI-first code editor built for pair programming with AI. Features multi-file editing, inline code generation, and a conversational AI sidebar for codebase Q&A. Supports all major LLM providers with deep codebase understanding. The most popular AI code editor, known for pioneering agent-mode development and setting the standard for AI-native IDE experiences.
The friendly interactive shell
User-friendly interactive shell for Linux and macOS that works great out of the box with zero configuration needed. Features autosuggestions based on command history (accept with right arrow), syntax highlighting as you type, tab completions with inline descriptions, web-based configuration UI for themes and settings, and a scripting syntax that is simpler than bash/zsh. Not POSIX-compatible by design. Popular among developers who want a productive shell without customization effort.
