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    spf13/cobra

    A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

    cli
    cli-app
    cobra
    cobra-generator
    cobra-library
    command
    Go
    Apache-2.0
    44.8K stars
    4.5K forks
    383 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 7, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 339 days ago, with 309 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #73 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 12, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a Go library to create modern, powerful CLI applications with subcommands and POSIX-compliant flags.
    • Enables rapid CLI development with automatic help, suggestions, shell autocompletion, and man page generation.
    • Use for building complex CLI tools with nested commands and flexible flag management in Go projects.
    • Use for integrating seamless command-line interfaces in Go applications requiring intelligent user guidance.
    • Use for generating scaffolding and command files quickly using the cobra-cli tool to bootstrap new CLI apps.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Cobra is a library for creating powerful modern CLI applications.

    Cobra is used in many Go projects such as Kubernetes, Hugo, and GitHub CLI to name a few. This list contains a more extensive list of projects using Cobra.

    Cobra is a library providing a simple interface to create powerful modern CLI interfaces similar to git & go tools.

    Excerpt from the spf13/cobra README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 14: +11Aug 15: -33Aug 16: +2Sep 28: +2Oct 8: +6Nov 8: +10

    +387 stars over 87 days across 14 snapshot days; best day +11 on Aug 14.

    Forks

    4.5K+1.3K

    Open issues

    493+63

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