Top CLI repositories on GitHub
Command-line tools, terminal UIs, and shell utilities.
Ranked by stars across 7,068 repositories tagged cli. Refreshed daily.
- 1morluto/rea★ 428,091 · ⑂ 106,523
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.
- cli
- mcp
- agent-skills
- dsh-plugin
- claude-code
- rea
- 2n8n-io/n8n★ 209,503 · ⑂ 61,364
Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.
- automation
- ipaas
- n8n
- workflow
- typescript
- self-hosted
- 3yt-dlp/yt-dlp★ 205,062 · ⑂ 18,014
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
- youtube-dl
- python
- sponsorblock
- yt-dlp
- youtube-downloader
- cli
- 4ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh★ 190,304 · ⑂ 28,036
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,500+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
- shell
- zsh-configuration
- theme
- terminal
- productivity
- zsh
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- 5google-gemini/gemini-cli★ 108,713 · ⑂ 14,917
An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
- gemini
- gemini-api
- ai
- ai-agents
- cli
- mcp-client
- 6Panniantong/Agent-Reach★ 108,529 · ⑂ 9,685
Give your AI agent eyes to see the entire internet. Read & search Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili, XiaoHongShu — one CLI, zero API fees.
- agent-infrastructure
- ai-agent
- ai-search
- automation
- bilibili
- claude-code
- 7sherlock-project/sherlock★ 95,529 · ⑂ 11,392
Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
- osint
- reconnaissance
- linux
- cli
- sherlock
- python3
- 8OpenHands/OpenHands★ 92,606 · ⑂ 12,352
🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development
- agent
- artificial-intelligence
- llm
- chatgpt
- claude-ai
- cli
- 9rtk-ai/rtk★ 85,503 · ⑂ 5,470
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
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- 12BurntSushi/ripgrep★ 69,688 · ⑂ 4,185
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
- ripgrep
- recursively-search
- search
- regex
- gitignore
- grep
- 13tldr-pages/tldr★ 64,117 · ⑂ 5,652
Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands 📚.
- shell
- man-page
- tldr
- documentation
- terminal
- command-line
- 14tw93/Pake★ 62,801 · ⑂ 12,923
Turn any website into a lightweight desktop app with one command, on macOS, Windows and Linux.
- rust
- tauri
- no-electron
- chatgpt
- youtube
- gemini
- 15Raphire/Win11Debloat★ 61,635 · ⑂ 2,730
A simple, lightweight PowerShell script that allows you to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to declutter and customize your Windows experience. Win11Debloat works for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
- windows
- windows-10
- windows10
- powershell
- ps1
- bloatware
- 16sharkdp/bat★ 61,056 · ⑂ 3,068
A cat(1) clone with wings.
- command-line
- tool
- syntax-highlighting
- git
- terminal
- cli
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- 17wagoodman/dive★ 54,698 · ⑂ 2,011
A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
- docker
- docker-image
- inspector
- explorer
- cli
- tui
- 18kepano/obsidian-skills★ 50,712 · ⑂ 3,584
Agent skills for Obsidian. Teach your agent to use Obsidian CLI and open formats including Markdown, Bases, JSON Canvas.
- claude
- codex
- obsidian
- skills
- clawdbot
- cli
- 19Aider-AI/aider★ 49,934 · ⑂ 5,135
aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
- chatgpt
- cli
- command-line
- gpt-4
- openai
- gpt-3
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