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OpenSrc lists 73 repositories about CLI Tools with open issues for new contributors, and 41 of them are first-PR friendly. Between them they have 1,395 open good first issues and 2,241 help-wanted issues. The median welcome score is 74/100, and the best-scored right now are microsoft/terminal, rizinorg/rizin and uutils/coreutils. Most are written in Rust, Go and TypeScript. Many also touch Machine Learning & AI and DevOps & Cloud.

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  • microsoft/terminal

    The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

    15good first issues+483 help wanted
    • C++
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:105K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~7h
    Score96 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • rizinorg/rizin

    UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.

    67good first issues+39 help wanted
    • C
    • Field: Security
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:3.9K
    • LGPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~9h
    Score96 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • uutils/coreutils

    Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

    19good first issues
    • Rust
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:24.2K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~2h
    Score95 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • nexu-io/open-design

    🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop…

    68good first issues+206 help wanted
    • TypeScript
    • Field: Web Frontend
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Stars:98.6K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~6m
    Score91 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • radareorg/radare2

    UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

    62good first issues
    • C
    • Field: Security
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:24.9K
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~4h
    Score91 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • zellij-org/zellij

    A terminal workspace with batteries included

    11good first issues+39 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:35.6K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~34h
    Score90 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • topgrade-rs/topgrade

    Upgrade all the things

    10good first issues+17 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Field: OS
    • Stars:4.6K
    • GPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~10h
    Score90 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • OpenHands/OpenHands

    🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development

    24good first issues
    • TypeScript
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:89.5K
    • MIT
    • replies in ~18m
    Score86 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • rtk-ai/rtk

    CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero…

    197good first issues+358 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:82K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score86 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • career-ops-hq/career-ops

    Open-source AI job search agent: scan job portals, evaluate listings into a structured A-H report with a…

    14good first issues+20 help wanted
    • JavaScript
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:73K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • contour-terminal/contour

    Modern C++ Terminal Emulator

    29good first issues+12 help wanted
    • C++
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Field: OS
    • Stars:3K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~8d
    Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • PipedreamHQ/pipedream

    Connect APIs, remarkably fast. Free for developers.

    161good first issues+169 help wanted
    • JavaScript
    • Field: Backend
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:11.7K
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score83 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • agent-of-empires/agent-of-empires

    Manage multiple Claude Code, OpenCode agents from either TUI or Web for easy access on mobile. Also supports…

    4good first issues+1 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Stars:3.3K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~6h
    Score83 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il

    Command-line cloud music player for Linux with support for Spotify, Google Play Music, YouTube, SoundCloud…

    34good first issues+46 help wanted
    • C
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Field: OS
    • Stars:1.7K
    • LGPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score83 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • beetbox/beets

    music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger

    10good first issues
    • Python
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:15.7K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~3d
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • dotnet/sdk

    Core functionality needed to create .NET Core projects, that is shared between Visual Studio and CLI

    25good first issues+25 help wanted
    • C#
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:3.2K
    • MIT
    • replies in ~6h
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • yagcioglutoprak/dusty

    Free, open-source CleanMyMac alternative for macOS. Preview disk cleanup by path and size, inspect memory by…

    21good first issues+22 help wanted
    • Swift
    • Field: Editors
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:77
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • ember-cli/ember-cli

    The Ember.js command line utility.

    15good first issues+1 help wanted
    • JavaScript
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:3.2K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score81 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • VirtusLab/scala-cli

    Scala CLI is a command-line tool to interact with the Scala language. It lets you compile, run, test, and…

    12good first issues
    • Scala
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:644
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~4d
    Score81 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior

    Taskwarrior - Command line Task Management

    4good first issues+5 help wanted
    • C++
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:6.1K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~12h
    Score80 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • cline/cline

    Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.

    3good first issues+5 help wanted
    • TypeScript
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Field: Editors
    • Stars:69.5K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score79 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • spaceship-prompt/spaceship-prompt

    🚀✨ Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt

    19good first issues+24 help wanted
    • Shell
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:20.6K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score79 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • o2sh/onefetch

    Command-line Git information tool

    7good first issues+3 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:12.1K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~2h
    Score79 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • f3d-app/f3d

    Fast and minimalist 3D viewer.

    14good first issues+111 help wanted
    • C++
    • Field: Graphics
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:4.7K
    • BSD-3-Clause
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~15h
    Score79 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • simple-acme/simple-acme

    A simple cross platform ACME client (for use with Let's Encrypt et al.)

    5good first issues
    • C#
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Field: OS
    • Stars:628
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~18h
    Score79 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • Azure/azure-functions-core-tools

    Command line tools for Azure Functions

    11good first issues+1 help wanted
    • C#
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:1.5K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score78 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • ExtractPDF4J/ExtractPDF4J

    Java PDF table extraction & OCR library. Extract structured tables from text-based and scanned PDFs using…

    22good first issues+13 help wanted
    • Java
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Stars:522
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score78 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • rolecraft-sh/rolecraft

    The security-first skill manager for AI agents — every install runs a security scan. Manage skills & MCP…

    10good first issues+11 help wanted
    • JavaScript
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Field: Editors
    • Stars:83
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score78 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • gyscos/cursive

    A Text User Interface library for the Rust programming language

    5good first issues+4 help wanted
    • Rust
    • Field: CLI Tools
    • Field: Web Frontend
    • Stars:4.8K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score77 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • fossology/fossology

    FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit you can run…

    17good first issues
    • HTML
    • Field: Databases
    • Field: Web Frontend
    • Stars:1K
    • GPL-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~3d
    Score77 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

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