WhatA drop-in replacement suite for GitHub CLI and similar vendor CLIs that is fully open-source, zero-telemetry by design, and community-governed.
SignalDevelopers are deeply frustrated that essential tooling they depend on is silently adding telemetry that cannot easily be disabled, and many are actively looking to pin old versions or switch away entirely.
Why NowGitHub CLI adding default-on telemetry in April 2026 is a forcing function — developers are actively searching for alternatives right now, and the broader trend of vendor CLIs adding tracking is accelerating.
Market30M+ developers using GitHub; competitors are the official gh CLI and fragmented shell scripts/curl wrappers; no polished zero-telemetry alternative exists with feature parity.
MoatCommunity trust and open governance model — once developers migrate and build workflows around a privacy-respecting tool, switching costs keep them.
GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetryView discussion ↗ · Article ↗ · 447 pts · April 22, 2026
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