# symfony/console

Eases the creation of beautiful and testable command line interfaces

Repository: https://github.com/symfony/console
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/console
Homepage: https://symfony.com/console
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: php, symfony, component, symfony-component, console, cli, command-line, terminal
Last push: 2026-08-25T14:25:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5671, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 11, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 86}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9810, forks 266 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:37.318495+00:00)

## What it is
Symfony Console is a PHP component that eases the creation of beautiful and testable command-line interfaces. It provides command registration, argument and option parsing, styled output, and helpers for building CLI applications and recurring tasks.

## Use cases
- build a cli application in php
- create console commands for cronjobs and batch jobs
- parse command line arguments and options
- add colored formatted output to a terminal tool
- make cli commands testable
- build a single-command php script

## When to choose
- you are building a PHP CLI tool or adding console commands to a PHP project
- you want a mature, widely adopted component with extensive documentation
- you need testable commands with argument/option parsing and styled output

## When to avoid
- you are building CLIs in a language other than PHP
- you need a full standalone CLI framework with scaffolding rather than a component
- you want an interactive TUI with complex terminal UI widgets

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: cli, developer-tools, testing
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: php, cli, cross-platform
- tags: symfony-component, command-line-interface, console-commands, terminal-output, php-library, command-line, php

## Member repositories
- symfony/console (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.318495+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 2026-08-29T17:20:57.819166+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/symfony/console (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.318495+00:00, sha 0cb9f2053668)
  - homepage: https://symfony.com/console (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:36.085308+00:00, sha c53080cf9cbd)
  - site_page: https://symfony.com/doc (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:36.094940+00:00, sha 44889134f4fb)
  - site_page: https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/console.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:36.097331+00:00, sha 9e7f306046c4)
  - site_page: https://symfony.com/projects/phpmyfaq (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:36.099860+00:00, sha e9c38f954f59)
  - site_page: https://symfony.com/releases (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:36.102210+00:00, sha 3c529c629210)
  - site_page: https://symfony.com/blog/category/releases (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:36.104257+00:00, sha 373d532304d3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.