Open.Flexible.Cross-Platform

pi-cli is the flexible cross-platform framework for building modern CLI terminals for your company, product, service, SaaS, PaaS, development, and testing needs.

Users, customers, and enterprises across engineering, manufacturing, technology, digital industries, digital twins, IoT, artificial intelligence, machine learning, finance, media, creative design, etc., can create CLI apps with few flags or advanced CLIs with roots, groups, sub-commands, arguments, and options.

Take your app, service, or tool to the command line with Unicode support and build CLI terminals in any user language.

• Build and configure your CLI terminal using microservices-based architecture principles, Dependency Injection(DI services), and options pattern.
• Use default handlers or provide custom implementations to handle terminal UX, command parsing, error handling, command validations, storage, and type checking.
• Provide self-hosting implementations for stores and hosts in an environment of your choice, e.g., Windows, Linux, macOS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Build deployment agnostic CLI terminals with all dependencies, test them in local environments and deploy the production terminals on-premise, cloud (public, private, or government), or hybrid.
• Enable enterprise-grade secured CLI applications for your products and services similar to GitHub CLI, .NET CLI, Stripe CLI, or build CLI terminals with custom formats.
• Collaborate in an open-source environment, troubleshoot issues, and provide your feedback on the features and documentation.
• Use demo license for quick onboarding, testing, and evaluating ready-to-use samples on GitHub. No account is needed.

The framework handles the entire CLI infrastructure, so your focus is building modern CLI apps and services. The software license and pricing model is flexible and fits all, whether you are a community member, solo entrepreneur, small-medium business, large enterprise, or a service vendor. Our ready-to-use templates and sample tutorials will get you started in no time.

In short, if what you want to achieve is doable in the .NET ecosystem, it is possible with pi-cli.

See our website, pricing, documentation, and GitHub repository for more information.