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charmbracelet/fang

The CLI starter kit observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/charmbracelet/fang · Go · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

71/100

  • Activity 80
  • Release rhythm 74
  • Longevity 46
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 9
  • age_days: 649
  • days_rel: 175
  • days_push: 121
  • n_releases_24m: 10

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1942 stars · 45 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Fang is a Go library that wraps Cobra CLI applications with batteries-included styling and features. It provides styled help and error output, automatic version flags, shell completions, and manpage generation with minimal setup.

Use cases

  • add styled help output to my cobra cli
  • generate shell completions for a go command-line tool
  • auto-generate manpages for my cli app
  • add a --version flag to my go cli
  • make cli error messages look nicer
  • theme my command-line tool's help pages

When to avoid

  • you don't use Cobra for your CLI
  • you need fine-grained control over help rendering or a non-Cobra framework

Facets

library · maturity experimental

cli developer-tools templating documentation developer-tools go cross-platform cli cobra shell-completions manpages theming cli-styling command-line

1 source

Member repositories

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