# malxau/yori

Yori is a CMD replacement shell that supports backquotes, job control, and improves tab completion, file matching, aliases, command history, and more.

Repository: https://github.com/malxau/yori
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/yori
Homepage: http://www.malsmith.net/yori/
Language: C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: windows, win32, cmd, shell, terminal, command-line, yori
Last push: 2026-08-15T03:26:49+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": 3076, "days_push": 18, "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 1316, forks 40 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:20.740971+00:00)

## What it is
Yori is a CMD replacement shell for Windows that adds backquotes, job control, and improved tab completion, file matching, aliases, and command history. It ships with a set of native Win32 command-line tools usable from any shell.

## Use cases
- replace cmd.exe with a more capable Windows shell
- get backquote command substitution on Windows
- better tab completion in the Windows command prompt
- run background jobs from the Windows command line
- handle long paths beyond MAX_PATH in scripts
- get a modern command-line experience on old Windows versions

## When to choose
- you live in the Windows command prompt and want CMD-compatible syntax with modern conveniences
- you need a lightweight native Win32 shell without POSIX emulation
- you must support very old Windows versions like NT 4

## When to avoid
- you want a full POSIX shell like bash or WSL
- you need a Unix-style environment with pipes and standard GNU tools
- you prefer PowerShell's object pipeline and scripting language

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, terminal-ui, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, windows
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: cmd-replacement, shell, win32, tab-completion, job-control, backquotes, command-line

## Member repositories
- malxau/yori (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:20.740971+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 2026-08-30T04:48:30.169277+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/malxau/yori (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:20.740971+00:00, sha 2937e9f50bad)
  - homepage: http://www.malsmith.net/yori/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:06:59.669457+00:00, sha 6015ec2f948f)
  - site_page: http://www.malsmith.net/yori/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T12:06:59.678366+00:00, sha 4f28a796b3c6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.