# quarto-dev/quarto-cli

Open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc.

Repository: https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/quarto-cli
Homepage: https://quarto.org
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-08-26T17:34:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 97/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 94, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2168, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 40, "gap_med": 29.0, "n_releases_24m": 21}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5963, forks 455 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:33.784735+00:00)

## What it is
Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc that renders Markdown documents with embedded executable Python, R, Julia, and Observable JavaScript code. It supports output to HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub, presentations, dashboards, websites, and books, with a project system and an extension ecosystem.

## Use cases
- render jupyter notebooks to html and pdf reports
- write a reproducible data science report with embedded python code
- build a documentation website or blog from markdown
- create a multi-chapter technical book with cross-references
- make revealjs or powerpoint presentations from markdown
- convert r markdown workflows to a multi-language publishing system
- publish dashboards with python or r and shiny
- generate citations and cross-referenced figures in technical writing

## When to choose
- you need reproducible documents combining narrative text and executable code
- you want one tool to publish to many formats (HTML, PDF, Word, ePub, slides)
- you are building websites, blogs, or books from markdown with cross-references and citations
- you work across Python, R, Julia, or Observable and want a unified authoring workflow

## When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose static site generator with heavy custom theming or JS frameworks
- you only need simple markdown-to-html conversion without code execution
- your pipeline depends on tooling incompatible with Pandoc-based rendering

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: static-site-generator, documentation, markdown, templating, cli, data-visualization
- domain: documentation, data-science, web-development, developer-tools, education
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform
- tags: pandoc, scientific-publishing, literate-programming, jupyter, r-markdown, reproducible-research, notebooks, books, presentations, dashboards, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- quarto-dev/quarto-cli (main) score 97

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:33.784735+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 2026-08-29T17:50:11.173553+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:33.784735+00:00, sha 52cd41a22c81)
  - homepage: https://quarto.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:31.424262+00:00, sha 22cab53fbaa6)
  - site_page: https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:31.433957+00:00, sha cc5def239c91)
  - site_page: https://quarto.org/docs/guide/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:31.436148+00:00, sha bf1f111395df)
  - site_page: https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:31.438099+00:00, sha 41bd50538de5)
  - site_page: https://quarto.org/docs/reference/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:31.440658+00:00, sha 90b2c332e8f9)
  - site_page: https://quarto.org/docs/gallery/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:31.443051+00:00, sha 62ac2aefac1f)
  - site_page: https://quarto.org/docs/faq/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:31.444710+00:00, sha 37628f2d3b11)
  - site_page: https://quarto.org/docs/computations/python.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:31.446996+00:00, sha 8d11c0773cc7)
  - site_page: https://quarto.org/docs/computations/r.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:31.449460+00:00, sha 21f8c58d2711)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.