zx

Shell scripting for people who gave up on bash.

What it is sold for

Writing automation scripts in JavaScript instead of bash.

Same shelf

The rest of terminal and cli, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.

• agx
  Runs coding agents as long-lived workers with objectives and memory, so a session survives being interrupted.
• AICommits
  A small CLI that writes the commit message from the staged diff.
• Amazon Q Developer CLI
  Amazon Q in the terminal: completion for hundreds of CLIs, natural language chat and command generation.
• bat
  A replacement for cat with syntax highlighting, line numbers and git markers, paged by default.
• Butterfish
  Puts a model inside the shell itself, so the prompt and the terminal are the same prompt.
• ccr
  A searchable shell history that is project-aware, synced and encrypted, replacing reverse search.
• codachi
  A virtual pet that lives in the Claude Code status line and reacts to what you are doing.
• exa did not answer
  A modern ls with colours, icons and git awareness. The site timed out; the project is now maintained as eza.

All 18 in terminal and cli