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BrianPugh

cyclopts

Intuitive, easy CLIs based on python type hints.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

cyclopts has 98.6M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 4.20.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2023.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of attrs, docstring-parser and rich. It is used by 369 tracked packages, including prefect, together and pyvista.

GitHub topics include argument-parser, shell and typehints.

Downloads
Day
2.9M
Week
25.0M
Month
98.6M
Stars
1.2K
Forks
45
Issues
15
Version
4.20.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
59
Adoption
80
Community
40
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
98,601,205
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
98,601,205
Stars
1,194
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
3,573,605
Month daily avg
3,286,707
Momentum
+8.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache-2.0
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
7 days ago
Total releases
143
Releases/year
53.4
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
29
Monthly downloads
98,601,205
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
43
 
Issue Burden
12.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
64.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 2.3M
Windows 65.8K
macOS 30.2K

Python Versions

3.13
60.9% 1.4M
3.12
25.0% 593.1K
3.11
8.1% 193.3K
3.10
3.4% 80.9K
3.14
2.6% 61.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
2.0M
2. SG SG
123.5K
3. IN IN
34.7K
4. DE DE
28.2K
5. IE IE
22.8K
6. JP JP
19.3K
7. CA CA
18.8K
8. CN CN
18.6K
9. AU AU
17.1K
10. SE SE
16.4K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
November 3, 2023
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
4.20.0
Total Releases
143
Contributors
29
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Brian Pugh
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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