# charmbracelet/skate

A personal key value store 🛼

Repository: https://github.com/charmbracelet/skate
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/skate
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-16T00:15:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1934, "days_push": 18, "days_rel": 545, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1824, forks 50 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:41.234416+00:00)

## What it is
Skate is a personal key-value store accessed from the command line, written in Go by Charmbracelet. It supports storing and retrieving text and binary data, with list filtering and multiple named databases.

## Use cases
- store snippets from the terminal
- save key value pairs in a cli
- remember small bits of data across shell sessions
- store binary blobs like images from the command line
- pipe key value data into shell scripts

## When to choose
- you want a simple, fast local key-value store for shell workflows
- you need to persist text or binary data without a full database
- you like Charm's terminal tooling ecosystem

## When to avoid
- you need cloud sync between machines (removed as of v1.0.0)
- you need queries beyond simple key lookup and listing
- you need concurrent multi-user access or a network service

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: database, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform
- tags: key-value-store, charmbracelet, personal-database, go, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- charmbracelet/skate (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:41.234416+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 2026-08-30T03:19:43.218097+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/charmbracelet/skate (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:41.234416+00:00, sha 1b4d62526a02)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.