# Powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k

Powerlevel9k was a tool for building a beautiful and highly functional CLI, customized for you. P9k had a substantial impact on CLI UX, and its legacy is now continued by P10k.

Repository: https://github.com/Powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/powerlevel9k
Homepage: https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k
Language: Shell
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: zsh, powerline-fonts, terminal, terminal-themes, tools, eye-candy
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-04-23T18:43:47+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": 4234, "days_push": 2323, "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 13411, forks 913 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:03.258857+00:00)

## What it is
Powerlevel9k was a popular ZSH theme that provided a beautiful, fast, and highly customizable terminal prompt using Powerline fonts. It is now deprecated and unmaintained, with its legacy continued by Powerlevel10k.

## Use cases
- customize my zsh prompt with powerline segments
- make my terminal prompt show git status and AWS info
- get a beautiful zsh theme that works with oh-my-zsh
- show unit test coverage in my shell prompt
- speed up my slow zsh prompt

## When to choose
- you are maintaining a legacy zsh setup that already uses powerlevel9k
- you need to reference its configuration for historical or migration purposes

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new zsh setup - use Powerlevel10k instead
- you want an actively maintained theme with bug fixes and support
- you use bash or fish rather than zsh

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: abandoned
- function: developer-tools, terminal-ui, theme
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: zsh, zsh-theme, powerline, prompt, shell, deprecated, eye-candy, command-line, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- Powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:03.258857+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 2026-08-29T17:13:19.361089+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:03.258857+00:00, sha 3043942ded1b)
  - homepage: https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k (fetched 2026-08-29T08:08:12.394750+00:00, sha 40e04e0abdef)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.