mayuki/Cocona

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3457 stars · 96 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Cocona is a micro-framework for building .NET console applications with an ASP.NET Core-like minimal API style. It provides UNIX-style command-line option parsing, built-in help, shell completion, and native support for DI, logging, and configuration.

Use cases

• build a cli tool in c#
• create console application with subcommands on .net
• parse command-line options like unix tools in dotnet
• add shell completion to a dotnet cli app
• build multi-command console app with dependency injection
• generate help text for a command-line tool

When to choose

• you want an ASP.NET Core-like development experience for console apps
• you need getopt-style option semantics and sub-commands
• you want built-in help, validation, and bash/zsh completion out of the box
• you want DI, logging, and configuration integrated into a CLI

When to avoid

• you are not on the .NET platform
• you need a zero-dependency minimal CLI parser (though Cocona.Lite exists)
• you only need simple argument parsing without framework features
• the project's release cadence suggests limited recent activity for critical needs

Facets

framework · maturity active

cli web-framework developer-tools routing middleware developer-tools cross-platform dotnet cross-platform cli csharp console-applications minimal-api dependency-injection shell-completion getopt command-line

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