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Shelby

Shelby is a fast ⚡️ , lightweight ☁️ , minimal✨, shell prompt written in Go.

Shelby is an open-source shells and prompts project on GitHub under the GPL-3.0 license (strong copyleft), with 197 stars. It is built with Go. Its last push was 5 years ago.

Stars
197
License
GPL-3.0
Activity
Quiet
Latest release
v1.0.3

Code on GitHub Website

Judgement

What it is
Developer tool
What it does
A small Go shell prompt for bash and zsh that shows git status, virtualenvs and the host when connected over SSH.
Adopt it when
You want a tiny, minimal prompt binary and are fine with no further development.
Watch out
There has been no push since February 2022, so it is abandoned.
Ready for
Experimental
Runs as
Command line
Built with
Go
How established
Established: started 7 years ago, latest release v1.0.3.
What the license allows
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

Judged on 2026-11-06 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Go

Follow it down: Shelby → Go → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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