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Transform your Claude Code terminal with atomic precision statusline. Features flexible layouts, real-time cost tracking, MCP monitoring, prayer times, and beautiful themes.
An intelligent CLI tool that intercepts terminal errors and provides instant, context-aware solutions using LLM's. Transform natural language into terminal commands and never get stuck on cryptic error messages again! Currently in early development.
ask is an AI-powered CLI tool for developers who live in the terminal. It brings multi-provider LLM support, agent capabilities, and shell-native intelligence to your fingertips.
A modular statusline for Claude Code CLI - real-time context usage, rate limits, costs, git status, and 20+ customizable modules
CLI tool that uses Codex to turn natural language commands into their Bash/ZShell/PowerShell equivalents
Custom status line for Claude Code showing model, tokens, rate limits, and git info in real-time
mcpc is a CLI client for MCP. It supports persistent sessions, stdio/HTTP, OAuth 2.1, JSON output for code mode, proxy for AI sandboxes, and much more.
| Tool | Stars | Language | License | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| x-cmd | ★ 4.2k | Awk | Apache-2.0 | 45 |
| claude-code-statusline | ★ 407 | Shell | MIT | 47 |
| Shellsage | ★ 77 | Python | Apache-2.0 | 31 |
| ask | ★ 46 | Shell | MIT | 35 |
| Barista | ★ 20 | Shell | MIT | 33 |
| Codex-CLI | ★ 2.3k | Python | MIT | 35 |
| wcgw | ★ 651 | Python | Apache-2.0 | 45 |
| ClaudeCodeStatusLine | ★ 350 | Shell | — | 47 |
| mcp-cli | ★ 413 | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | 39 |
| runprompt | ★ 421 | Python | MIT | 36 |
The top cli tools tools include x-cmd, claude-code-statusline, Shellsage. These are ranked by our composite score based on GitHub stars, community activity, and code quality.
Most tools listed here are open-source. 9 out of 10 have explicit open-source licenses, making them free to use and modify.
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