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zoxide

Smarter cd that learns your habits

provisional — pending verificationMITself-hostable

Arete score

4.8 / 5

Autonomy5

Return4

Efficiency5

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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

Why it's listed

zoxide is listed in terminal & shell because it competes on utility: smarter cd that learns your habits. It's built by an independent, bootstrapped team — no growth-at-all-costs pressure, no ad-tax passed to you. 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: Indie OSS
Self-hostable: Yes
Replaces: cd
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

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