Caret

What it does

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.

shadcn/ui for the terminal. The CLI copies 51 components into your repo — you own the source, no runtime dep. Token system, manifesto, AI-native skills.

Caret is to terminals what shadcn/ui is to the web. Copy-paste components, a token system, and a spec — so your CLI ships looking like Vercel or Linear built it. import { prompt , spinner , success } from './caret' const name = await prompt . text ( { label : 'Project name' , } ) await spinner ( 'Deploying' , deploy , { onSuccess : `${name} is live` , } ) renders ↓ ~/projects/my-cli ^ P R O J E C T N A M E ▸ acme-cli ✓ Deploying to production… · 2.3s ✓ acme-cli is live → https://acme.sh Every CLI is an island. ✗ Colors applied at random, clashing with the user’s terminal theme. ✗ Spinners and prompts copy-pasted from five different libraries. ✗ Error messages that look nothing like the rest…from caretcli.com

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