charmbracelet

    charmbracelet/gum

    #280 this week

    A tool for glamorous shell scripts πŸŽ€

    cli
    bash
    shell
    Go
    MIT
    24.5K stars
    557 forks
    24.5K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 13, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    Ranks #280 of 1,950 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 14%).

    3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 19 days ago, with 72 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a collection of customizable CLI utilities to enhance shell scripts with interactive prompts, spinners, tables, and styled text without writing Go code.
    • Enables creating visually appealing and user-friendly shell scripts easily by leveraging Charmbracelet's Bubble and Lip Gloss libraries through simple commands.
    • Use for building interactive commit message prompts that guide users through conventional commit formatting in shell scripts.
    • Use for creating file selectors or fuzzy filters to quickly pick files or options from lists in terminal workflows.
    • Use for adding spinners, confirmation dialogs, and styled logs to shell scripts to improve user feedback and script usability.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

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    From the README

    A tool for glamorous shell scripts. Leverage the power of Bubbles and Lip Gloss in your scripts and aliases without writing any Go code!

    The above example is running from a single shell script (source).

    Gum provides highly configurable, ready-to-use utilities to help you write useful shell scripts and dotfiles aliases with just a few lines of code. Let's build a simple script to help you write Conventional Commits for your dotfiles.

    Prompt for the summary and description of changes:

    Check out the complete example for combining these commands in a single script.

    Excerpt from the charmbracelet/gum README on GitHub (MIT license). Β© its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    557+31

    Open issues

    208+29

    Compared with peers in CLI

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