Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/charmbracelet/crush/vs/cli/cli
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/charmbracelet/crush/vs/cli/cli.md
Description: crush and cli share 4 technologies: charm.land/lipgloss/v2, charm.land/bubbletea/v2, charm.land/bubbles/v2, and charm.land/glamour/v2. Both are written in Go.

# crush vs cli

crush and cli share 4 technologies: charm.land/lipgloss/v2, charm.land/bubbletea/v2, charm.land/bubbles/v2, and charm.land/glamour/v2. Both are written in Go.

- [charmbracelet/crush](https://seerepo.com/r/charmbracelet/crush): Glamourous agentic coding for all 💘
- [cli/cli](https://seerepo.com/r/cli/cli): GitHub’s official command line tool

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: charm.land/lipgloss/v2, charm.land/bubbletea/v2, charm.land/bubbles/v2, charm.land/glamour/v2
- Only in crush: net/http, SQLite, github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3, github.com/pressly/goose/v3, MCP, PostHog, github.com/charmbracelet/ultraviolet, github.com/gen2brain/beeep, golang.org/x/oauth2, Model Context Protocol, github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown, github.com/disintegration/imaging, github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery, github.com/invopop/jsonschema, gopkg.in/natefinch/lumberjack.v2
- Only in cli: twirp, github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2, github.com/briandowns/spinner, github.com/zalando/go-keyring, github.com/yuin/goldmark

## Side by side

| | crush | cli |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 200,570 lines written, 464 code files | 314,233 lines written, 528 code files |
| Who writes it | 6.9% of its commits signed by AI. With Crush, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot | 7.5% of its commits signed by AI. With GitHub Copilot and Claude Code |
| Activity | Last push November 8, 2026, 4,177 commits, 28,993 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 9,185 commits, 46,891 stars |
| Tests | 433 test files. 80.4% of its code files have a test that imports them | 469 test files. 82.6% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, crush or cli?

cli, with 314,233 lines written; crush has 200,570.

The proof: [cli/cli's code at commit eeb44bc](https://github.com/cli/cli/tree/eeb44bc432c0107de002dadd34a61b4e2bd15882)

### Which has more GitHub stars, crush or cli?

cli, with 46,891 stars; crush has 28,993.

The proof: [cli/cli on GitHub](https://github.com/cli/cli)

### Which has more tests, crush or cli?

cli, with 469 test files; crush has 433.

The proof: [cli/cli's code at commit eeb44bc](https://github.com/cli/cli/tree/eeb44bc432c0107de002dadd34a61b4e2bd15882)

### Which was updated more recently, crush or cli?

crush: its last push was on November 8, 2026, and cli's on November 5, 2026.

The proof: [charmbracelet/crush's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, crush or cli?

cli: an AI signed 7.5% of its commits, with GitHub Copilot and Claude Code; in crush, 6.9%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in cli/cli](https://seerepo.com/r/cli/cli/ai)

## Sources

- charmbracelet/crush: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit 8f1f029 (https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/tree/8f1f02951cabc30b82e497fd916ca434bad1e6f4)
- cli/cli: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit eeb44bc (https://github.com/cli/cli/tree/eeb44bc432c0107de002dadd34a61b4e2bd15882)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.