Too many to read? See the shortlist of the 8 most-used terminal cli plugins — one page, ranked by stars.
Home/Categories/Terminal & CLIToo many to read? See the shortlist of the 8 most-used terminal cli plugins — one page, ranked by stars.
Terminal & CLI
Terminal interfaces, command line tools and CLI wrappers for DSH.
Command-line surfaces and shell integrations. For people who would rather type a command than open a window. We track 29 repositories in this bucket, 4% of the 714 projects in the directory. Together they hold about 15.2k GitHub stars, though the median project sits near 65 — the headline number comes from a handful of very large repos, as usual in a young ecosystem.
By language the mix is TypeScript (16), JavaScript (5), Python (3); by license it is MIT (25), Apache-2.0 (2). 29 of 29 have been pushed since August 2026, so the bucket is still moving. The three largest projects by stars are dsh-TUI, petdex, cc-safety-net.
Check shell support first. A plugin written for zsh will behave differently under fish or PowerShell. Sort by last update rather than stars for anything you plan to depend on, and open the README before installing: a plugin that is three months stale may still work, but you want to know that going in.
Browsing the whole set instead? The full plugin index lists all 714 repositories with stars, language and last-update date in one table. Adjacent categories worth a look: UI & Themes, Models & Routing, Desktop Apps, Agents & Teams. If you are still choosing a runtime, read the install guide first.
What the data shows: all 29 projects analysed →