# simeji/jid

json incremental digger

Repository: https://github.com/simeji/jid
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jid
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: json, jid, cli, tool, golang, go
Last push: 2026-08-02T01:25:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 96/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 95, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3740, "days_push": 32, "days_rel": 32, "gap_med": 10.0, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7136, forks 157 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:56.146140+00:00)

## What it is
jid is an interactive command-line tool for incrementally drilling down into JSON data using jq-like and JMESPath filter queries. It provides real-time suggestions, auto-completion, and highlighted matching keys as you explore JSON from stdin or files.

## Use cases
- interactively explore large json files in the terminal
- drill down into json api responses from curl
- build and test jmespath queries interactively
- extract a nested value from json with tab completion
- incrementally filter json piped from a command

## When to choose
- you want to visually navigate json step by step instead of writing full jq queries
- you need auto-completion and suggestions while filtering json
- you want to test jmespath expressions against live json data

## When to avoid
- you need non-interactive scripted json transformation - use jq instead
- you need to process yaml or other formats - jid is json-only
- you need to modify or rewrite json, not just query it

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, developer-tools, json, search-engine
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: cli, windows, go, cross-platform
- tags: json-explorer, interactive-terminal, jmespath, auto-completion, tui, command-line, json, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- simeji/jid (main) score 96

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:56.146140+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 2026-08-29T17:40:02.813383+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/simeji/jid (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:56.146140+00:00, sha 5c051e4894e3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.