// CLIs & execution basics
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Shells, git, search, runtimes, containers and data CLIs: the low-level tools agents call most.
118 tools104 open sourcechecked 2026-10-22Compare side by side →
How to choose · start with these three
- · Search, packages, Git are what agents call most: install ripgrep, uv, GitHub CLI first
- · Runtimes (Node, Deno) are general tools — install per project
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GitHub CLI (gh) Open spec ripgrep Open spec uv Open spec CLI-Anything ★ 56k Makes many software products agent-native via CLI wrappers. Open source CLI OfficeCLI ★ 32k Office suite CLI purpose-built for AI agents to read and edit documents. Open source CLI OpenCLI ★ 31k Turns any website into a CLI and lets agents use your logged-in browser. Open source CLI googleworkspace/cli ★ 32k Official Google Workspace CLI for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets and more. Open source CLI larksuite/cli ★ 18k Official Lark/Feishu CLI for humans and agents. Open source CLI portless ★ 13k Replace port numbers with stable named local URLs for humans and agents. Open source CLI fff ★ 11k Fast accurate file search toolkit for AI agents. Open source CLI bun bun-v1.4.2 ★ 96k Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one Open source CLI syncthing v2.1.6 ★ 89k Open Source Continuous File Synchronization Open source API code-server v4.141.0 ★ 80k VS Code in the browser Open source API caddy v2.11.7 ★ 78k Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS Open source CLIAPI cpython v3.15.0 ★ 77k The Python programming language Open source CLI superset superset-helm-chart-0.22.8 ★ 75k Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform Open source API moby v0.6.2 ★ 72k The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems Open source CLIAPI ansible v2.21.5 ★ 71k Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com. Open source CLI nocodb 2026.09.1 ★ 65k 🔥 🔥 🔥 A Free & Self-hostable Airtable Alternative Open source API traefik v3.7.14 ★ 65k The Cloud Native Application Proxy Open source API FFmpeg n8.1.3 ★ 65k Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git Open source CLI tldr v2.3 ★ 64k Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands 📚. Open source CLI git v2.56.0 ★ 64k Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements. Open source CLI pocketbase v0.40.5 ★ 61k Open Source realtime backend in 1 file Open source API PowerShell v7.4.20 ★ 56k PowerShell for every system! Open source CLI prettier 3.9.9 ★ 52k Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. Open source CLI ClickHouse v26.9.14.10-stable ★ 50k ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system Open source APICLI ruff 0.17.0 ★ 50k An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust. Open source CLI pandas v3.0.6 ★ 50k Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more Open source SDK brew 7.0.9 ★ 50k 🍺 The Package Manager for Everywhere Open source CLI terraform v1.16.5 ★ 50k Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned. Open source CLI metabase v0.64.1.4 ★ 50k The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart: Open source API fd v10.5.0 ★ 45k A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' Open source CLI curl curl-8_22_0 ★ 43k A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, MQTTS, POP3, POP3S, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features Open source CLI aria2 release-1.37.0 ★ 43k aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. Open source CLI duckdb v1.5.6 ★ 42k DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system Open source CLISDK vim v9.2.1172 ★ 41k The official Vim repository Open source CLI nushell 0.116.1 ★ 41k A new type of shell Open source CLI shellcheck v0.11.0 ★ 40k ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts Open source CLI polars py-2.0.0 ★ 40k Extremely fast Query Engine for DataFrames, written in Rust Open source SDKCLI zoxide v0.10.0 ★ 40k A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells. Open source CLI compose v5.6.0 ★ 38k Define and run multi-container applications with Docker Open source CLI tailscale v1.104.1 ★ 37k The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA. Open source CLI pnpm v12.11.2 ★ 37k Fast, disk space efficient package manager Open source CLI just 1.58.0 ★ 36k 🤖 Just a command runner Open source CLI seaweedfs 4.48 ★ 35k SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, and Iceberg tables, designed to handle billions of files with O(1) disk access and effortless horizontal scaling. Open source API rustfs 1.0.1 ★ 34k RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph. Open source API fish-shell 4.9.3 ★ 34k The user-friendly command line shell. Open source CLI kafka 4.2.2 ★ 34k Apache Kafka - A distributed event streaming platform Open source API podman v5.8.8 ★ 33k Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods. Open source CLI delta 0.20.1 ★ 32k A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, rg --json, and blame output Open source CLI graphql-engine v2.51.0 ★ 32k Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events. Open source API jj v0.46.0 ★ 32k A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful Open source CLI nginx release-1.30.5 ★ 32k The official NGINX Open Source repository. Open source CLI opentofu v1.12.7 ★ 30k OpenTofu lets you declaratively manage your cloud infrastructure. Open source CLI hyperfine v2.0.0 ★ 29k A command-line benchmarking tool Open source CLI postgrest v16.4 ★ 28k REST API for any Postgres database Open source API eslint v10.12.0 ★ 28k Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code. Open source CLI biome [email protected] ★ 26k A toolchain for web projects, aimed to provide functionalities to maintain them. Biome offers formatter and linter, usable via CLI and LSP. Open source CLI pulumi v3.268.0 ★ 26k Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀 Open source CLISDK HandBrake 1.11.2 ★ 25k HandBrake's development repository Open source CLI age v1.3.2 ★ 24k A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. Open source CLI eza v0.23.5 ★ 23k A modern alternative to ls Open source CLI nats-server v2.15.1 ★ 21k High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system. Open source API mypy v2.4.0 ★ 21k Optional static typing for Python Open source CLI fx 40.0.0 ★ 21k Terminal JSON viewer & processor Open source CLI golangci-lint v2.14.0 ★ 19k Fast linters runner for Go Open source CLI ImageMagick 7.1.2-32 ★ 18k ImageMagick is a free, open-source software suite for creating, editing, converting, and displaying images. It supports 200+ formats and offers powerful command-line tools and APIs for automation, scripting, and integration across platforms. Open source CLI aws-cli 2.37.12 ★ 17k Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services Open source CLI arrow apache-arrow-26.0.0 ★ 17k Apache Arrow is the universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics Open source SDK task v3.54.0 ★ 16k A fast, cross-platform build tool inspired by Make, designed for modern workflows. Open source CLI yq v4.54.1 ★ 16k yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML, HCL and properties processor Open source CLI cloudflared 2026.10.0 ★ 16k Cloudflare Tunnel client Open source CLI pre-commit v4.6.2 ★ 16k A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks. Open source CLI tokei v15.0.0 ★ 15k Count your code, quickly. Open source CLI dbt v2.0.5 ★ 14k dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications. Open source CLI pgcli v4.7.1 ★ 13k Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting Open source CLI llm 0.36 ★ 13k Access large language models from the command-line Open source CLI mycli v2.28.2 ★ 12k Rich MySQL Terminal Client with AutoCompletion, Syntax Highlighting, and Dataframes Open source CLI great_expectations 1.24.0 ★ 12k Always know what to expect from your data. Open source SDK libvips v8.18.7 ★ 12k A fast image processing library with low memory needs. Open source CLISDK datasette 0.65.5 ★ 12k An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data Open source API sqlite version-3.54.0 ★ 11k Official Git mirror of the SQLite source tree Open source CLI fq v0.18.0 ★ 11k fq - jq for binary formats. Tool, language and decoders for working with binary formats. Open source CLI pip 26.2.1 ★ 10k The Python package installer Open source CLI usql v0.21.6 ★ 10k Universal command-line interface for SQL databases Open source CLI miller v6.22.0 ★ 10k Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON Open source CLI sqlfluff 4.4.0 ★ 9.9k A modular SQL linter and auto-formatter with support for multiple dialects and templated code. Open source CLI datafusion 55.2.0 ★ 9.4k Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine Open source SDKCLI sh v3.14.1 ★ 9.1k A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash and zsh support; includes shfmt Open source CLI server mariadb-13.0.2 ★ 8.4k MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry. Open source SQL sd v1.1.0 ★ 7.4k Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative) Open source CLI watchexec v2.8.0 ★ 7.2k Executes commands in response to file modifications Open source CLI csvkit 2.2.0 ★ 6.4k A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats. Open source CLI rsync v3.5.1 ★ 5.3k An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases. Open source CLI exiftool 13.59 ★ 5.1k ExifTool meta information reader/writer Open source CLI azure-cli azure-cli-2.91.0 ★ 4.6k Azure Command-Line Interface Open source CLI workers-sdk @cloudflare/[email protected] ★ 4.6k ⛅️ Home to Wrangler, the CLI for Cloudflare Workers® Open source CLI openssh-portable V_10_6_P1 ★ 4.0k Portable OpenSSH Open source CLI qsv 24.0.0 ★ 3.8k Blazing-fast Data-Wrangling toolkit Open source CLI devcontainers/cli v0.89.0 ★ 3.0k A reference implementation for the specification that can create and configure a dev container from a devcontainer.json. Open source CLI sqlite-utils 4.2.1 ★ 2.2k Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases Open source CLI bfs Open spec Docker Desktop 4.94.0 Open source fzf Open spec Git for Windows (Git Bash) Open spec GNU Bash Open spec GNU Wget Open spec jq Open spec tmux Open spec ugrep Open spec Visual Studio Code 1.141.0 Closed / commercial WSL Closed / commercial Zsh Open spec node v26.11.1 ★ 122k Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨ Open source CLI supabase v0.8.2 ★ 113k The Postgres development platform. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications. Open source API frp v0.71.0 ★ 110k A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet. Open source CLI deno v2.9.7 ★ 109k A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. Open source CLI
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- Default order is “recommended”: editorial picks first, then by popularity; general-purpose developer software and archived projects are listed last.
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