# urfave/cli

> 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.

- Magnitude: 0.6 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 24,274 total · +0 stars today, ≈ 0 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Go · License: MIT · Created: 2013-07-13 · Last push: 2026-10-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/urfave/cli · Homepage: https://cli.urfave.org · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/urfave/cli

## 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

## Why it’s here

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

## 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: 1,833
- Issues and pull requests: 2,319
- Watchers: 284
- Average over the last week: 4 per day
- Usual pace: 2 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v3.14.0 (2026-10-02)

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

2026-09-04 … 2026-10-03: 2, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 0, 2, 2, 2, 5, 0, 2, 0, 1, 4, 0, 3, 2, 0, 12, 9, 4, 3, 1, 2, 0

## Spotted in now

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

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