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GitHub CLI

GitHub in your terminal

provisional — pending verificationMITself-hostable

Arete score

3.8 / 5

Autonomy3

Return4

Efficiency4

Transparency4

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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending.

Why it's listed

GitHub CLI is listed in git tooling because it competes on utility: github in your terminal. Its funding model is disclosed on the listing. Licensed MIT; pricing: free. Technically it's lean — it runs comfortably on modest hardware, which is exactly the proof-of-work efficiency we rank for. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: MIT
Pricing: Free
Funding model: Corporate OSS (GitHub)
Self-hostable: Yes
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

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