# jatoben/CommandLine

A pure Swift library for creating command-line interfaces

Repository: https://github.com/jatoben/CommandLine
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jatoben-commandline
Language: Swift
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: swift, swift-library, commandline
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-12-28T23:47:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4414, "days_push": 2805, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1072, forks 144 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:28.436478+00:00)

## What it is
CommandLineKit is a pure Swift library for building command-line interfaces with argument and option parsing. The project is no longer maintained and is preserved for historical interest only.

## Use cases
- parse command-line arguments in swift
- build a cli tool in swift
- handle flags and options in a swift command-line app
- swift argument parser library

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight, dependency-free Swift CLI argument parser and can maintain it yourself
- you're working with an older Swift codebase already using it

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - the library is unmaintained since 2018
- you need modern Swift concurrency support or ongoing bug fixes
- you want actively maintained alternatives like Apple's swift-argument-parser

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: cli, parser
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: argument-parsing, swift-library, unmaintained, command-line, swift

## Member repositories
- jatoben/CommandLine (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:28.436478+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 2026-08-30T06:53:42.003582+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jatoben/CommandLine (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:28.436478+00:00, sha 7bff68c7ef90)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.