# asmuth/clip

Create charts from the command line

Repository: https://github.com/asmuth/clip
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/asmuth-clip
Homepage: https://clip-lang.org
Language: C++
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: plotting, plots, chart, charts, csv, cpp17, visualization, data-visualization
Last push: 2020-06-11T23:25:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5465, "days_push": 2274, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5145, forks 382 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:11.306930+00:00)

## What it is
clip is a command line program and library for creating charts and data-driven illustrations from declarative text descriptions, exporting images such as SVG. It reads chart definitions (with data from CSV files) and renders them as an automated drawing tool.

## Use cases
- create charts from csv files on the command line
- generate svg plots from a script
- render timeseries line charts from terminal
- automate chart generation in a build pipeline
- draw diagrams from a declarative text description

## When to choose
- you want scriptable, reproducible chart generation without a GUI
- you need to render charts from CSV data in shell scripts or CI
- you prefer a declarative text-based chart description over plotting libraries

## When to avoid
- you need interactive or exploratory plotting in Python or R
- you want charts embedded in a web application frontend
- you need chart types or styling beyond what clip's language supports

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: data-visualization, charts, cli, parser
- domain: data-visualization, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform
- tags: plotting, svg-export, csv-input, chart-language, cpp17, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- asmuth/clip (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:11.306930+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:01:57.840170+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/asmuth/clip (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:11.306930+00:00, sha a9f164c5b7f3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.