mike-engel/jwt-cli

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1507 stars · 80 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

jwt-cli is a fast command-line tool written in Rust for decoding and encoding JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). It supports custom headers, arbitrary JSON claim bodies, and any signing secret, with prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Use cases

• decode a jwt token from the command line
• encode a jwt with custom claims and secret
• debug jwt headers and payloads in a terminal
• generate signed json web tokens for testing apis
• inspect jwt claims quickly without a web tool

When to choose

• you need fast, scriptable JWT encode/decode in shell scripts or CI
• you want custom claim bodies and headers beyond typical JWT tools
• you need a portable cross-platform binary with no runtime dependencies

When to avoid

• you need a GUI or web-based JWT debugger
• you need full JWT library features inside an application rather than a CLI
• you're on a 32-bit or unsupported platform without a Rust toolchain

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli security serialization json developer-tools security apis cli windows rust cross-platform jwt json-web-token token-decoding token-encoding authentication-debugging command-line macos linux

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