Top Rust CLI repositories on GitHub
Command-line tools, terminal UIs, and shell utilities. Filtered to projects whose primary language is Rust.
Ranked by stars across 1,639 Rust repositories tagged cli. Refreshed daily.
- 1rtk-ai/rtk★ 85,607 · ⑂ 5,479
CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies
- agentic-coding
- ai-coding
- anthropic
- claude-code
- cli
- command-line-tool
- 2BurntSushi/ripgrep★ 69,711 · ⑂ 4,164
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
- ripgrep
- recursively-search
- search
- regex
- gitignore
- grep
- 3tw93/Pake★ 62,829 · ⑂ 12,932
Turn any website into a lightweight desktop app with one command, on macOS, Windows and Linux.
- rust
- tauri
- no-electron
- chatgpt
- youtube
- gemini
- 4sharkdp/bat★ 61,083 · ⑂ 3,041
A cat(1) clone with wings.
- command-line
- tool
- syntax-highlighting
- git
- terminal
- cli
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- 5herdrdev/herdr★ 48,203 · ⑂ 3,869
the runtime your coding agents live on
- agent
- agent-orchestration
- ai
- ai-agents
- claude-code
- cli
- 6sharkdp/fd★ 44,955 · ⑂ 1,266
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
- command-line
- tool
- filesystem
- search
- regex
- rust
- 7sxyazi/yazi★ 43,240 · ⑂ 1,059
💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
- asyncio
- concurrency
- file-manager
- linux
- macos
- rust
- 8codewhale-hq/Codewhale★ 41,157 · ⑂ 3,569
Open-source agent for the terminal written in Rust. Use any provider or model. Issues & PRs always welcome
- cli
- rust
- tui
- ai-agent
- coding-agent
- agent-orchestration
- 9ajeetdsouza/zoxide★ 40,461 · ⑂ 941
A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.
- z
- command-line
- rust
- zsh
- autojump
- bash
- 10googleworkspace/cli★ 32,121 · ⑂ 1,986
Google Workspace CLI — one command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
- google-workspace
- agent-skills
- ai-agent
- automation
- cli
- discovery-api
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- 11sharkdp/hyperfine★ 29,210 · ⑂ 640
A command-line benchmarking tool
- command-line
- tool
- benchmark
- rust
- cli
- terminal
- 12t8y2/dbx★ 29,177 · ⑂ 2,662
25 MB lightweight cross-platform database client for 100+ databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, DuckDB, SQL Server, and Dameng. Built-in AI, MCP Server, CLI, desktop and Docker. | 轻量级跨平台数据库管理工具，支持 MySQL、PostgreSQL、SQLite、Redis、MongoDB、达梦等 100+ 数据库，提供桌面端、Docker、CLI、内置 AI 助手和 MCP。
- clickhouse
- database
- database-client
- database-management
- gui
- mongodb
- 13ratatui/ratatui★ 23,166 · ⑂ 820
A Rust crate for cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) 👨🍳🐀 https://ratatui.rs
- rust
- terminal
- tui
- cli
- widgets
- ratatui
- 141jehuang/jcode★ 21,501 · ⑂ 2,509
High performance coding agent harness written in Rust, built for heavy multi-agent dev workflows
- ai
- claude
- cli
- coding-agent
- llm
- mcp
- 15Rigellute/spotify-tui★ 19,416 · ⑂ 584
Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀
- spotify
- spotify-api
- spotify-tui
- rust
- terminal-based
- terminal
- 16Orange-OpenSource/hurl★ 19,304 · ⑂ 752
Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.
- curl
- http
- testing-tools
- cli
- integration-testing
- http-client
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- 17xerj-org/xerj★ 19,148 · ⑂ 1,479
AI search engine and MCP server for bots and agents. One Rust binary indexes code, docs, logs, JSONL/CSV and PDFs for BM25 full-text, vector and hybrid search, code search without grep, agent memory and RAG. Elasticsearch-compatible API; Corpus Hub serves hundreds of reference memory corpora.
- elasticsearch
- hybrid-search
- search-engine
- vector-search
- agent-memory
- ai-agents
- 18asciinema/asciinema★ 17,941 · ⑂ 1,048
Terminal session recorder, streamer and player 📹
- asciicast
- terminal
- recording
- cli
- asciinema
- streaming
- 19denisidoro/navi★ 17,836 · ⑂ 584
An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
- command-line
- cheatsheets
- terminal
- shell
- snippets
- rust
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