cruft/cruft
Allows you to maintain all the necessary cruft for packaging and building projects separate from the code you intentionally write. Built on-top of, and fully compatible with, CookieCutter. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2537
- days_rel: 616
- days_push: 616
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
1585 stars · 101 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Cruft is a Python CLI tool that creates projects from Cookiecutter templates and keeps them in sync with template updates over time. It is fully compatible with existing Cookiecutter templates and can validate template drift in CI pipelines.
Use cases
- scaffold a new python project from a cookiecutter template
- keep project boilerplate in sync with template updates
- check if a project is using the latest template version in CI
- update multiple projects when their shared template changes
- create projects from templates with interactive prompts
When to choose
- you maintain many projects generated from the same Cookiecutter template
- you want automated updates of boilerplate as the template evolves
- you need CI checks that projects stay in sync with their template
When to avoid
- you only need one-off project generation without ongoing sync
- your templates are not Cookiecutter-based
- you need general-purpose templating beyond project scaffolding
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
cli templating boilerplate build-tool developer-tools developer-tools web-development python cli cross-platform cookiecutter project-templates template-sync scaffolding project-scaffolding automation
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/cruft/cruft · fetched 2026-08-28 · 0c7be8da6c30
- homepage: https://cruft.github.io/cruft/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 21509fb3f79f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| cruft/cruft | main | 23 |
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