# lmorg/murex

A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)

Repository: https://github.com/lmorg/murex
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/murex
Homepage: https://murex.rocks
Language: Go
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: repl, shell, language, murex, go, terminal, tmux, bash, fish, zsh, scripting, devops, developer-tools, console, yaml, csv, sql, json, linux, macos
Last push: 2026-08-26T11:34:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 84/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 56, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3447, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 212, "gap_med": 83.0, "n_releases_24m": 7}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1910, forks 40 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:53.129128+00:00)

## What it is
Murex is a smarter shell and scripting language written in Go, with typed pipelines supporting JSON, YAML, XML, and CSV natively. It adds usability features like spell checking, context-sensitive hints, auto-completions, and built-in error handling and testing frameworks for shell scripts.

## Use cases
- replace bash with a smarter shell
- write shell scripts with proper error handling
- pipe and query JSON and YAML from the command line
- get auto-completions and spell checking in my terminal
- script DevOps workflows with typed data
- learn a more readable shell scripting language

## When to choose
- you want typed structured data handling in shell pipelines
- you need try/catch and unit testing in shell scripts
- you want a modern interactive shell with better ergonomics

## When to avoid
- your scripts must run on systems with only POSIX bash
- your team relies heavily on bash/zsh-specific tooling and plugins
- you need a minimal shell for embedded or low-resource environments

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: cli, interpreter, programming-language, developer-tools, testing
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: windows, bsd, cli, cross-platform
- tags: shell, scripting-language, repl, yaml, csv, xml, devops, terminal, command-line, automation, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- lmorg/murex (main) score 84

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:53.129128+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 2026-08-30T03:11:04.400843+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lmorg/murex (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:53.129128+00:00, sha ccf7fea0f488)
  - homepage: https://murex.rocks (fetched 2026-08-29T10:50:04.198595+00:00, sha 4757487c2aaf)
  - site_page: https://murex.rocks/install.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:50:04.204435+00:00, sha f2392af2307c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.