Repo brief: x-motemen/gore

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Verdict

Healthy — Healthy across all four use cases

• Last commit 6w ago
• 2 active contributors
• MIT 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

gore is a Go REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) that executes arbitrary Go expressions, statements, and function declarations interactively with line editing, history, code completion via gopls, and package auto-importing. It solves the problem of interactive Go development by wrapping go run to provide a Bash-like shell experience for the Go language. Monolithic design: cmd/gore/main.go is the entry point; core logic lives in gore.go, session.go, and commands.go; terminal interaction is abstracted via liner.go (line editor) with platform-specific stubs (terminal_unix.go, terminal_windows.go); LSP integration via gopls.go; error handling and filtering in errfilter.go. CLI wrapping is minimal,…

Start here

Read these in order:

• command_name.go — Foundation: doesn't import anything internally and is imported by 2 other files. Read first to learn the vocabulary.
• cli/cli.go — Built on the foundation; imported by 1 downstream file.
• cli/cli_test.go — Built on the foundation; imported by 0 downstream files.
• cmd/gore/main.go — Layer 2 — application-level code that wires the lower layers together.

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.

git clone https://github.com/x-motemen/gore.git
cd gore
go install ./cmd/gore
gore

Optional: go install golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest for code completion. Verify your Go toolchain is installed and in PATH.

Daily commands:

Start the REPL:

gore

Then enter Go code at the prompt (e.g., fmt.Println("hello")), or use built-in commands like :help, :type <expr>, :doc <pkg>, :quit. Multi-line input is supported. History is saved to $GORE_HOME (default `~/…

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Key cautions & unknowns

• Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
• Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 97% of recent commits
• Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
• 1. Repeated execution: Every input is re-evaluated by re-running the accumulated code, so expressions like time.Now() will return different values on each input. This is a design trade-off documented in FAQ #67.…
• 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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