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44Health
Library Go

spinner

A lightweight Go library that adds a configurable terminal spinner or progress indicator to any CLI application, with 90 built-in character sets.

2,530
Apache 2.0
Used by 6
95Health
Tool npm

Supabase CLI

Run the full Supabase stack locally and ship migrations, edge functions, and types from your terminal.

2,412
MIT
Used by 6
59Health
Library npm

umzug

Framework-agnostic migration tool for Node.js with a clean, typed API for running and rolling back migrations.

2,211
MIT
Used by 6
60Health
Framework npm

citty

A zero-dependency, type-safe CLI framework for Node.js built on native util.parseArgs, with nested subcommands, lifecycle hooks, and a plugin system.

1,316
MIT
Used by 6
62Health
Library Go

jsonschema

A compliant, dependency-light Go library for compiling and validating JSON Schema across five draft versions, with rich hierarchical errors.

1,268
Apache 2.0
Used by 6
68Health
Library PyPI

termcolor

ANSI color formatting for terminal output in Python

325
MIT
Used by 6
89Health
Tool PyPI

openai-codex-cli-bin

Platform-specific wheel that bundles the compiled Codex CLI binary for pip-based installs of OpenAI's terminal coding agent.

124,118
Apache 2.0
Used by 5
58Health
Tool npm

Yarn

A fast, reliable, and secure dependency manager for JavaScript projects, caching every download for deterministic, offline-capable installs.

41,478
Other
Used by 5
91Health
Library Cargo

portable-pty

Cross-platform Rust API for pseudo-terminals, with runtime-selectable implementations

28,892
MIT
Used by 5
92Health
Tool PyPI

IPython

A productive interactive Python shell with rich introspection, tab completion, and magic commands.

16,781
BSD 3
Used by 5
84Health
Tool npm

quicktype

Generate strongly-typed models and serializers from JSON, Schema, TypeScript, or GraphQL

13,868
Apache 2.0
Used by 5
95Health
Tool Go

Open Policy Agent (OPA)

Open source policy engine for unified authorization and compliance decisions across your stack.

12,234
Apache 2.0
Used by 5
98Health
Tool npm

npm

The default command-line package manager for Node.js and the JavaScript ecosystem

10,114
Used by 5
83Health
Tool npm

Anthropic Sandbox Runtime

Wraps any command in OS-native filesystem and network sandboxing, without requiring a container.

5,233
Apache 2.0
Used by 5
70Health
Library Go

progressbar

A thread-safe, dependency-light progress bar and spinner library for Go CLI applications.

4,704
MIT
Used by 5
52Health
Library Go

survey

Interactive, accessible command-line prompts for Go — select, input, confirm, and multi-select components for POSIX and Windows terminals.

4,104
MIT
Used by 5
63Health
Library Go

kingpin

A fluent, type-safe command-line flag and argument parser for Go, with nested subcommands and rich usage help.

3,568
MIT
Used by 5
64Health
Library Go

go-pretty

A Go library for rendering pretty console tables, lists, progress bars, and styled text with deep customization.

3,528
MIT
Used by 5
44Health
Library npm

progress

A lightweight, dependency-free ASCII progress bar for Node.js command-line tools.

2,987
MIT
Used by 5
72Health
Tool npm

atmn

The command-line tool for managing Autumn pricing — define plans and features in TypeScript, then push, pull, and preview them without leaving the terminal.

2,676
MIT
Used by 5
50Health
Tool npm

Peggy

Parser generator for JavaScript using parsing expression grammars (PEG)

1,179
MIT
Used by 5
70Health
Library Go

go-runewidth

Computes the terminal cell width of runes and strings, handling CJK, emoji, and combining characters correctly.

723
MIT
Used by 5
69Health
Library npm

yargs-parser

The mighty, standalone option parser powering yargs

519
Other
Used by 5
72Health
Library PyPI

wcwidth

Measures the displayed width of Unicode strings in a terminal, so CLI/TUI output lines up correctly across CJK, emoji, and combining characters.

465
MIT
Used by 5

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