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CLI Tool Pick06/26/2026, 01:19:59 AM

rura: a TUI scratchpad for building shell pipelines

rura (Rust, MIT, v1.6.0, 303★) is an interactive TUI that turns the terminal's edit-uparrow-rerun loop into a live pipeline editor — pipe data in, edit stages, watch output update in real time, with diff mode and context-aware completion.

CLI Tool Pick06/25/2026, 01:22:06 AM

swpui: the search-and-replace TUI your terminal workflow is missing

swpui (Rust, MIT/Apache-2.0, v0.9.0, 51★) — a case-aware search-and-replace TUI with per-file preview and zero runtime deps.

CLI Tool Pick06/24/2026, 01:22:53 AM

layerX: inspect Docker image layers — and fail the CI build if they're bloated

layerX (Go, MIT, v1.4.1, 72★) is a terminal TUI for Docker and Podman image layer inspection with two capabilities `dive` doesn't have: interactive side-by-side image comparison and a CI gate (`layerx ci`) with configurable thresholds and exit codes. Released June 12, 2026.

CLI Tool Pick06/23/2026, 01:21:48 AM

oyui: a TUI merge editor for jj and git

oyui (emilien-jegou/oyui) is a Rust ratatui TUI that replaces vimdiff as the interactive diff editor for Jujutsu (`jj split`, `jj diffedit`) and Git (`git difftool`) — 101 stars in two weeks from v0.1.0, scriptable via the Rune language with hot reload, GPL-3.0, install with `cargo install oyui`.

CLI Tool Pick06/22/2026, 01:19:00 AM

exosphere — SSH patch reports for your whole fleet

exosphere (mrdaemon/exosphere) is a Python CLI and TUI that SSHes into a fleet of Unix-like hosts in parallel and reports pending package updates and security advisories in a unified dashboard — no agent software on remote machines, no central server, just SSH key auth. MIT, 133 stars, 987 commits, 26 releases, v2.4.3. Install via `pipx install exosphere-cli`.

CLI Tool Pick06/21/2026, 01:18:37 AM

grabbit v5.0.2 — pull Reddit wallpapers from the terminal

grabbit (bbkane/grabbit) is a single statically-linked Go binary that pulls top images from any subreddit and drops them into a local directory for wallpaper rotation. v5.0.2 ships today, June 20, 2026, removing brew services support (migrate to launchd/systemd). MIT, 42 stars, 47 releases, zero dependencies, four install paths.

CLI Tool Pick06/20/2026, 01:20:30 AM

bmm: the Rust TUI bookmark manager built as a faster buku

bmm (dhth/bmm) is a 229★ MIT-licensed Rust TUI bookmark manager backed by SQLite and built on ratatui. Dhruv Thakur wrote it to replace buku after years of accumulated bookmarks caused performance degradation — the author benchmarks search at roughly 20× faster. Three install paths (Homebrew, cargo, prebuilt binaries for macOS/Linux). The ratatui maintainer Orhun Parmaksız publicly switched to it on release day. Main caveat: 14-month gap between feature releases; project is in slow maintenance mode but fully functional.

CLI Tool Pick06/19/2026, 01:20:58 AM

ku: the Kubernetes TUI that just got its MIT license

ku (bjarneo/ku) is a Go Bubble Tea Kubernetes TUI — lazygit-style layout, read-only by default, CRD support, 37 themes. Spent 5 days blocked by a missing license; MIT landed June 18. 338★ in 5 days from zero.

CLI Tool Pick06/18/2026, 01:19:39 AM

purple: manage your SSH fleet from the terminal

Rust/MIT TUI that syncs ~/.ssh/config with 16 cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Proxmox + 10 others), with live tunnel monitoring, Docker/Podman fleet management over SSH, and multi-host command execution. v3.22.1 shipped June 16, 2026 — 364 stars at roughly 3 per day since February.

CLI Tool Pick06/17/2026, 01:22:15 AM

clin: your Obsidian vault, terminal-native

Rust TUI that opens any Obsidian vault in the terminal — graph view, Canvas, encryption, v0.8.14.

CLI Tool Pick06/16/2026, 01:20:44 AM

jj-gh: manage GitHub PRs from the terminal, the jj way

`jj-gh` (Rust, MIT, v0.2.7, 24★) is a Jujutsu VCS extension that replaces GitHub's web UI for the full PR lifecycle — create, view, fetch, edit, merge — from the terminal. v0.2.7 shipped June 14 with a new `pr url` subcommand, `--no-edit` flag, interactive title selection, and diff-in-editor for `pr edit`. Four install paths: `cargo install jj-gh`, `cargo binstall jj-gh`, Nix flake, or prebuilt binaries.

CLI Tool Pick06/15/2026, 01:18:48 AM

dupehound: catch the code your AI wrote twice

dupehound (Rust, MIT, v0.1.0, 22★) scans your codebase for structurally identical functions regardless of renamed identifiers — a CI gate for AI-generated code slop. cargo install dupehound