CLI & terminal tools: top picks for 2026

An MCP server that lets AI agents reverse engineer native binaries, JavaScript/Electron apps, .NET assemblies, websites and more, with evidence for each finding.

Fair-code workflow automation platform for building AI agents and workflows, with a visual canvas, custom code, and 1500+ integrations.

A feature-rich command-line tool for downloading audio and video from thousands of websites, forked from youtube-dl.

An agentic coding tool that runs in your terminal, reads your codebase, and handles coding tasks, code explanations, and git workflows through natural language.

A CLI and skill set that gives AI agents read and search access to Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili, XiaoHongShu and other sites, with automatic backend selection.

Patches developer fonts such as Hack and Source Code Pro with thousands of icon glyphs from popular icon sets like Font Awesome and Devicons.

A smarter cd command that learns your most-used directories so you can jump to them with a few keystrokes.

Multi-agent orchestration layer for Claude Code that coordinates specialized agents, team pipelines, and parallel execution from a terminal CLI or in-session skills.

An open-source AI coding agent that reads your project, edits files and runs commands and tests from your terminal, desktop, browser or editor.

Glances is a cross-platform terminal system monitor (a top/htop alternative) with a web UI, REST API, and data export.

A CLI tool that finds leaked credentials across Git, cloud storage, chat and other sources, and checks whether each one is still live.

Lightweight cross-platform database client for 100+ databases, with desktop, Docker, CLI, a built-in AI SQL assistant and an MCP server.

A graphical interface that lets you discover, install, update and uninstall software across many package managers from one window.

Python tool and library that removes image backgrounds, usable as a CLI, library, HTTP server, or Docker container.

A mobile, web and CLI front end for running Claude Code and Codex sessions from your phone, with end-to-end encrypted sync between devices.

A Rust CLI and library that automatically decodes or decrypts layered encodings and ciphers without a key, cipher name, or hints.

Desktop, mobile, web and CLI app for running and orchestrating multiple coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode in parallel worktrees.

A cross-platform command-line replacement for Xcode that builds, signs and installs iOS apps from SwiftPM packages on Linux, Windows and macOS.

Pipedream is a hosted integration platform for building event-driven automations that connect APIs with pre-built steps or custom Node.js, Python, Go, or Bash code.

A minimal Rust CLI that exposes a local TCP port to a remote server, so localhost services can be reached from the public internet.

A CLI and TypeScript SDK from OpenAI for scanning code for security vulnerabilities, validating findings, and generating fixes.

A collection of 45+ practical tips for using Claude Code, plus a status line script and the dx plugin of everyday dev skills.

Free, open-source AI Office suite that edits real .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and PDF files locally, with an AI agent and a genoffice CLI.

CLI tool to fine-tune and post-train LLMs from a single YAML config, with layer streaming for training 8B models on a 4 GB GPU.

A CLI and browser extension that let AI agents work inside your logged-in Chrome or Edge while you keep using the browser.

Open-source CLI and TUI for defining, booting and managing persistent teams of Claude Code and Codex agents in tmux.

An interactive terminal viewer and monitor for NVIDIA GPU devices and the processes running on them, with Python APIs for building custom tools.

An MCP server that connects Claude Code to your locally running TradingView Desktop app for AI-assisted chart analysis and Pine Script work.

A self-hosted web workspace for the Hermes Agent, combining chat, files, terminal, memory, skills and multi-agent controls in one UI.

A CLI that manages a team's AI assets (skills, rules, agents, MCP servers, models) in a git repo and syncs them to coding agents automatically.

A Go tool for searching and downloading music from many Chinese and international streaming platforms, via CLI, Web, TUI, or desktop app.

An open-source agent runtime and terminal app for long-horizon research and file-based work, with ReAct and parallel Agent Team modes.

A terminal tool that replays Git commits as animated typing sessions with syntax highlighting and file tree transitions.

WebGPU shader effects packaged as drop-in components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid and plain JavaScript, with a visual editor that exports code.

A keyboard-driven terminal UI (TUI) for connecting to and querying many SQL databases, inspired by lazygit.

A CLI that compiles raw documents into an interlinked, LLM-maintained wiki knowledge base, using vectorless reasoning-based retrieval for long documents.

Browser-based terminal forwarder that lets you watch and control your Mac or Linux shell sessions from any device, aimed at monitoring AI coding agents.

Free, open-source desktop app for recording your screen and editing the result into polished product demos and walkthroughs.

A web-based visual configuration generator for the Ghostty terminal that exports a minimal config file containing only non-default settings.

An open sidebar and bottom workbench for DSH (DeepSeek Harness) with a plugin API for registering new sidebar pages.

A public gallery and CLI for browsing, installing, and submitting animated pixel-art pets for Codex and other coding agents.

CLI and MCP server that extracts a website's full design system (colors, type, spacing, motion) from the live DOM into tokens and framework-ready files.

A code editor for iPad that brings desktop-style editing, Git, a terminal and language runtimes to iPadOS, built on Monaco Editor and SwiftUI.

Free, open-source system cleaner and security scanner for Windows, macOS, and Linux that removes caches, malware, and startup bloat.

CLI tool that extracts a website's design system (colors, typography, spacing, shadows, components) into W3C design tokens in one command.

A terminal (TUI) download manager written in Go that splits files into parallel chunks and can run as a background server.

Terminal network diagnostics tool in Rust that shows live connections, throughput, packets and latency, and flags network issues.

A Rust CLI and WASM tool that snaps messy, AI-generated pixel art onto a consistent pixel grid and quantized palette.

A CLI tool that opens a local GitHub-style web viewer for reviewing Git commit diffs, with comments you can copy as AI prompts.

A Go CLI that queries multiple internet search engines (Shodan, Censys, FOFA, ZoomEye and more) to find exposed hosts for recon and automation.

A Rust terminal weather app that shows real-time conditions from Open-Meteo as ASCII animations of rain, snow, storms and day/night.

A terminal user interface (TUI) for managing Bluetooth devices on Linux through BlueZ.

A Rust command-line tool that fetches data from dozens of websites such as Bilibili, Reddit and Hacker News with a single command.

A CLI and web dashboard that benchmarks free coding LLMs across many providers and installs the one you pick into your coding tool.

Terminal UI tool written in Go that discovers and explores devices on your local network using mDNS, SSDP, and ARP.

A CLI that extracts a website's, repo's, or local project's design system into a folder of files Claude Code can read to build matching UI.

A lightweight, user-friendly terminal UI for writing disk images to USB drives and SD cards, a safer alternative to dd.

A terminal UI for browsing git commit history as a visual graph, rendered with terminal image protocols.

A CLI that runs coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or Copilot through a graph of work, independent review, and repair loops before code is accepted.

A terminal API client for HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC and WebSocket that keeps requests as plain .http files you can version in git.