cli-template

A batteries-included Rust CLI template with structured errors, config management, CI/CD pipelines, and automated releases.

What You Get

• Clap argument parsing with derive macros
• snafu structured error handling
• tokio async runtime
• tracing observability
• TOML config system with CLI get/set commands
• reqwest HTTP client singletons
• GitHub Actions CI/CD (lint, test, release)
• cargo-dist cross-platform binary builds
• npx distribution — users run your CLI without Rust installed
• Agent-friendly output: JSON stdout, logs stderr

Quick Start

cargo generate rararulab/cli-template
cd my-awesome-cli
cargo run -- --help

See Getting Started for the full walkthrough.