Caret
The shadcn/ui for beautiful command-line tools
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Görkem YILDIZ

Caret - The shadcn/ui for beautiful command-line tools

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Caret is a design system for modern command-line tools. It brings the shadcn/ui copy-paste model to the terminal with beautiful components, tokens, and a practical spec. Add prompts, spinners, tables, progress bars, errors, and more directly into your repo. No runtime dependency, NO_COLOR-aware, theme-friendly, and built for AI-authored CLIs with Caret skills and caret.md.

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Görkem YILDIZ
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Hey Product Hunt, I’m Görkem, maker of Caret. I built Caret because modern CLIs still feel like every team starts from zero. Web apps have design systems, tokens, component libraries, and strong visual conventions. Terminals usually get random colors, mismatched prompts, inconsistent spinners, and error messages that all look different. Caret brings the shadcn/ui model to command-line tools. You copy components into your repo, own the code, and adapt everything to your product. No provider, no theme object, no runtime dependency. Just well-designed CLI primitives like prompts, spinners, progress bars, tables, key-value rows, errors, steps, messages, and more. A few things I cared about while building it: • Works with the user’s terminal, not against it • Respects NO_COLOR and non-interactive environments • Never touches the terminal background • Uses tokens and a practical spec instead of random styling • Ships with AI instructions so Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, and other agents can generate Caret-style CLI code correctly The goal is simple: make command-line tools feel as thoughtfully designed as modern web products. Would love your feedback, especially from people building CLIs, devtools, internal tools, or AI coding workflows.