spf13/cobra

A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

Developer toolsGo#cobra#cobra-library#cobra-generator#posix-compliant-flags#command-cobra

2.1 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 27, 2026, 15:40 UTC.

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About the project

A Go library for building CLI applications with subcommands, POSIX flags, shell autocompletion and generated help. Used by Kubernetes, Hugo and GitHub CLI.

Useful for

Build a CLI tool with nested subcommands like app server and app fetch
Add shell autocompletion for bash, zsh, fish and powershell to an app
Scaffold a new CLI project with cobra-cli

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

5 stars so far today, about 8 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending Go today: #15, +10 stars.
About 35 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 44,665
Today: 5 · ≈ 8 by evening
Forks: 4,341
Issues and pull requests: 2,477
Watchers: 370
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v1.10.2 · December 4, 2025
Created: September 3, 2013
Last push: July 11, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 27, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #15, +10 stars

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