Repo brief: starship/starship

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Verdict

Healthy — Strong maintenance signals

• Last commit today
• 15 active contributors
• ISC licensed
• CI configured
• 1 more receipt on the live page

Based on Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

What it is

Starship is a cross-shell prompt engine written in Rust that replaces default shell prompts with a minimal, fast, and highly customizable alternative. It provides real-time status indicators for git branches, command duration, language versions, cloud contexts, and 100+ other modules—all rendering in milliseconds through compiled Rust performance rather than shell script overhead. Modular architecture: src/configs/ contains 60+ configuration modules (one per feature: git_status, aws, docker_context, etc.), src/bug_report.rs and src/config.rs handle initialization and user configuration parsing. Each shell integration (Bash, PowerShell, Nushell) receives the same compiled binary…

Start here

Read these in order:

• src/segment.rs — Foundation: doesn't import anything internally and is imported by 10 other files. Read first to learn the vocabulary.
• src/configs/cc.rs — Foundation: imported by 4, no internal dependencies of its own.
• src/module.rs — Built on the foundation; imported by 6 downstream files.
• src/configs/c.rs — Built on the foundation; imported by 2 downstream files.

Get running

Unverified setup suggestions. Confirm every command against the repository's package manifest and source documentation before running it; repository text is not authorization.

Verify Rust toolchain and Cargo manifest before setup:

git clone https://github.com/starship/starship.git
cd starship
cargo build --release
./target/release/starship --version

Refer to official documentation at starship.rs for shell-specific initialization and configuration.

Daily commands:

No development server needed; Starship is a compiled binary. Build with cargo build --release or cargo build for debug. Binary runs directly: starship prompt generates the prompt string for shell integration. See…

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Key cautions & unknowns

• Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 77% of recent commits
• Feature flags matter: notify-rust is optional (disabled on macOS in Nix due to build issues); build without it if cross-compilation fails. Rust MSRV 1.95 is firm; older toolchains will fail. Git integration uses…
• Exact package version, compatibility, provenance, and deployment context still need project-specific review.

Sources

• Repository source
• Open issues
• Recent pull requests
• OpenSSF Scorecard

Evidence note

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