# spf13/cobra

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

- Magnitude: 2.1 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 44,665 total · +5 stars today, ≈ 8 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Go · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2013-09-03 · Last push: 2026-07-11
- GitHub: https://github.com/spf13/cobra · Homepage: https://cobra.dev · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/spf13/cobra

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 5 stars so far today, about 8 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #15, +10 stars.
- About 34 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 4,343
- Issues and pull requests: 2,477
- Watchers: 370
- Average over the last week: 8 per day
- Usual pace: 6 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v1.10.2 (2025-12-04)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-29 … 2026-09-27: 6, 9, 13, 10, 3, 5, 8, 5, 3, 5, 11, 6, 7, 5, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 6, 8, 3, 6, 12, 8, 6, 5, 10, 5

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Go today: #15, +10 stars

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-27 16:22 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.