urfave/cli

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A declarative, simple, fast, and fun package for building command line tools in Go

About the project

A Go library for declaratively building command line tools: commands and subcommands, flags, help, shell completion for bash/zsh/fish/powershell, with no external dependencies.

Useful for

Build a Go CLI tool with commands, subcommands, and flags without external dependencies
Add shell completion for bash, zsh, fish, and powershell to a console program
Generate man pages and Markdown docs for a CLI via the urfave/cli-docs module

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0.6 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 3, 2026, 14:03 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

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Why it’s trending

GitHub Trending Go today: #19, +2 stars.

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Numbers

Total stars: 24,274
Today: 0 · ≈ 0 by evening
Forks: 1,833
Issues and pull requests: 2,319
Watchers: 284
Language: Go
License: MIT
Latest release: v3.14.0 · October 2, 2026
Created: July 13, 2013
Last push: October 2, 2026

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

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October 3, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #19, +2 stars

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