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Caret
The shadcn/ui for beautiful command-line tools
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.
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.
About Caret on Product Hunt
“The shadcn/ui for beautiful command-line tools”
Caret was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 5 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #82 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
On the analytics side, Caret competes within Design Tools, Open Source, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 882.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Caret performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Caret?
Caret was hunted by Görkem YILDIZ. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Caret including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Görkem YILDIZ