urfave/cli

Also known as
urfave-cli

What is urfave/cli?

An open-source Go library that streamlines CLI development with support for commands, subcommands, help text generation, shell completion, and flexible flag parsing. Designed to be simple, fast, and developer-friendly.

Independently observed

urfave/cli pricing

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Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI

Security & compliance

Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for urfave/cli, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 70 / 100
low · 20%updating
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Dependent projects790.065.0
Release cadence920.054.8
Development activity500.094.7
Security score650.042.7
Stars830.032.2
Capabilities00.080.0-
Integrations00.070.0-
Security posture50.070.0-
Package downloads00.140.0-
Developer Q&A activity00.060.0-

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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Activity

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d37mediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars24,204highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90%
Dependent repos57,081highsource · 2026-08-26 · 85%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryGohighsource · 2026-08-26 · 90%

License

AttributeValueEvidence
SpdxMIThighsource · 2026-08-26 · 95%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60%
Modelopen_sourcemediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60%
Price levelfreemediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60%

Release

AttributeValueEvidence
Cadence days15mediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 70%
History20 itemsmediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 70%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60%
Scorecard6.5highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90%
VulnerabilitiesCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Furfave%2Fcli&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90%