# manifoldco/promptui

Interactive prompt for command-line applications

Repository: https://github.com/manifoldco/promptui
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/promptui
Homepage: https://www.manifold.co
Language: Go
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: golang, command-line, interface, input, cli
Last push: 2024-08-06T06:39:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3243, "days_push": 757, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6402, forks 343 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:43.127524+00:00)

## What it is
Promptui is a Go library for building interactive command-line prompts, offering single-line input with validation and masking plus searchable, paginated select lists. It integrates easily with CLI frameworks like cobra and urfave/cli.

## Use cases
- ask users for input in a go cli tool
- interactive select menu from a list in terminal
- prompt with validation and masked password input in go
- build interactive command-line application prompts
- searchable dropdown selection in a terminal app

## When to choose
- you are writing a Go CLI and need interactive prompts or select menus
- you want lightweight, dependency-free terminal input with validation and templating

## When to avoid
- you need a TUI framework with panels and complex layouts
- your project is not in Go
- you need a library under very active development, as maintenance is minimal

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, terminal-ui, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: go, cli, cross-platform
- tags: interactive-prompts, user-input, select-menu, cobra-integration, command-line

## Member repositories
- manifoldco/promptui (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:43.127524+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 2026-08-29T17:45:00.706377+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/manifoldco/promptui (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:43.127524+00:00, sha f93f45c48845)
  - homepage: https://www.manifold.co (fetched 2026-08-29T08:41:59.026841+00:00, sha 534d653045d3)
  - site_page: https://docs.snyk.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:41:59.040193+00:00, sha 6e54bf85d166)
  - site_page: https://snyk.io/about/leadership (fetched 2026-08-29T08:41:59.041904+00:00, sha d1f0f65e20e7)
  - site_page: https://snyk.io/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:41:59.043623+00:00, sha 1a1f4aed042b)
  - site_page: https://snyk.io/plans (fetched 2026-08-29T08:41:59.036326+00:00, sha 1d3054a4fa9e)
  - site_page: https://snyk.io/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T08:41:59.038627+00:00, sha ecdc364cd61c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.