# abiosoft/ishell

Library for creating interactive cli applications.

Repository: https://github.com/abiosoft/ishell
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ishell
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cli, cli-app, ishell, shell, readline, go
Last push: 2023-10-08T14:18:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4071, "days_push": 1060, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1759, forks 213 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:32.547400+00:00)

## What it is
A Go library for building interactive CLI applications with a REPL-style shell. It provides command registration, password input, multiline input, multiple-choice prompts, and interrupt handling.

## Use cases
- build an interactive shell for my go cli app
- create a repl-style command prompt in go
- read passwords securely from the terminal
- add multiline input to a command-line tool
- implement multiple choice prompts in a cli
- handle ctrl-c interrupts in an interactive shell

## When to choose
- you are writing a Go CLI that needs an interactive command loop
- you want built-in readline features like password masking and multiline input
- you want a simple API to register shell commands with help text

## When to avoid
- you need a non-interactive one-shot CLI (use cobra or urfave/cli instead)
- your project is not in Go
- you need a full POSIX shell or scripting environment

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: go, cross-platform, cli
- tags: interactive-shell, readline, terminal, prompt, command-line

## Member repositories
- abiosoft/ishell (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:32.547400+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 2026-08-30T03:27:16.109962+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/abiosoft/ishell (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:32.547400+00:00, sha 20e3c631f492)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.