Ask HN: Which CLI tools do you use daily?

Re:Ask HN: Which CLI tools do you use daily? by verdverm on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:03AM (#47626773)

The Dagger TUI is pretty sweet. They have an awesome renderer for OTEL spans (how they emit and view the steps). Built on the Charm suite, it is a better way (imo) to define, build, and run containers and containerized workflows (not at scale).

I back my agents and sessions with it for superpowers beyond sandboxing.

My personal CLI/TUI is https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof and starts from a CUE centric developer experience. The above is also a part of it

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Re:Ask HN: Which CLI tools do you use daily? by elC0mpa on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:23AM (#47626990)

hof looks pretty nice, definitely deserves a star, will also take a look at The Dagger. Thanks

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Re:Ask HN: Which CLI tools do you use daily? by verdverm on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:47AM (#47627281)

Thanks, hof has 3-6 cli/tui depending on how you count. A subset of Dagger and CUE cli commands are embedded for convenience. There is an old tcell TUI inspired by the bloomberg terminal and the start of a new Charm based TUI in the agentic area. There may still be a repl in there, not sure if it's wired up currently.

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Re:Ask HN: Which CLI tools do you use daily? by elC0mpa on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:52AM (#47627334)

Don't know if you have any experience with golang or aws, but maybe it worth taking a look at aws-doctor (https://github.com/elC0mpa/aws-doctor). This is a CLI tool I built myself, in the future want to make it more interactive and I am looking for some CLI apps to take ideas from there

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Re:Ask HN: Which CLI tools do you use daily? by verdverm on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:58AM (#47627408)

I'm a gopher but stay away from AWS

Google recently launched a cli for gmail and docs that I've been meaning to try.

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