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Z-Shell

Open-source society passionate about Zsh


We build and maintain an ecosystem of open-source tools, plugins, and extensions for the Zsh shell. Our projects span plugin management, syntax highlighting, completion systems, shell modules, developer tooling, and documentation — all designed to make Zsh more powerful, customizable, and enjoyable.


Zsh Tooling
Zsh Tooling
Plugin managers, modules, shell frameworks, and package management
Plugins
Plugins & Extensions
Syntax highlighting, completions, integrations, and shell enhancements
Ecosystem
Ecosystem
Annexes, meta-plugins, packages, and community-maintained tools
Community
Community
Documentation, playground environments, discussions, and collaboration

🗂️ Project Categories

Core

Project Description
zi ✨ A Swiss Army Knife for Zsh — Unix Shell Stars
zpmod ⚙️ Zsh module — transparent script compilation Stars
zi-console ⚙️ Console UI built on zsh/zcurses and ZUI Stars

Plugins

Project Description
F-Sy-H ⚙️ Feature-rich Syntax Highlighting Stars
H-S-MW ⚙️ History search for multiple words Stars
zsh-eza ⚙️ Replace GNU/ls with eza Stars
zsh-zoxide ⚙️ Zoxide smart directory navigation Stars
zsh-navigation-tools ⚙️ Curses-based tools — n-history, n-cd, n-env Stars
zsh-diff-so-fancy ⚙️ diff-so-fancy integration Stars
zsh-fancy-completions ⚙️ Enhanced completion configuration Stars

Developer Tools

Project Description
zsh-lint 🔍 Linter for Zsh scripting language Stars
zsdoc 📄 Doxygen for Shell — Zsh and Bash scripts Stars
zui ⚙️ Rapid TUI development library for Zsh Stars
playground 🐳 Docker-based user configuration playground Stars

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📚 Resources

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions across all repositories — bug fixes, documentation improvements, new plugins, or feature suggestions. Check individual repository guidelines or join the discussions to get started.


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  1. zi zi Public

    ✨ A Swiss Army Knife for Zsh - Unix Shell

    Shell 892 45

  2. wiki wiki Public

    ✨ Z-Shell Wiki

    MDX 20 9

  3. F-Sy-H F-Sy-H Public

    ⚙️ Feature-rich Syntax Highlighting for Zsh

    Shell 204 29

  4. zsh-eza zsh-eza Public

    ⚙️ Zsh plugin to replace command gnu/ls with eza-community/eza

    Shell 117 17

  5. zsh-zoxide zsh-zoxide Public

    ⚙️ The ajeetdsouza/zoxide init for Zsh

    Shell 51 9

  6. H-S-MW H-S-MW Public

    ⚙️ History search for multiple words

    Shell 33 7

Repositories

Showing 10 of 97 repositories
  • .github Public

    ✨ Z-Shell GitHub Organization

    z-shell/.github’s past year of commit activity
    Python 10 GPL-3.0 5 0 0 Updated Apr 19, 2026
  • zsh-diff-so-fancy Public

    ⚙️ The diff-so-fancy for Zsh

    z-shell/zsh-diff-so-fancy’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 30 4 0 0 Updated Apr 19, 2026
  • z-a-meta-plugins Public

    🌀 An annex delivers the capability to install a group of plugins via a single, friendly label

    z-shell/z-a-meta-plugins’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 15 GPL-3.0 8 1 0 Updated Apr 19, 2026
  • wiki Public

    ✨ Z-Shell Wiki

    z-shell/wiki’s past year of commit activity
    MDX 20 GPL-3.0 9 0 0 Updated Apr 19, 2026
  • status Public

    📈 Uptime monitor

    z-shell/status’s past year of commit activity
    Markdown 8 MIT 1 1 0 Updated Apr 19, 2026
  • docs Public

    🧙‍♂️ Z-Shell Docs

    z-shell/docs’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 10 GPL-3.0 3 0 5 Updated Apr 16, 2026
  • z-shell/z-shell.github.io’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 9 GPL-3.0 1 1 1 Updated Apr 13, 2026
  • zsh-string-lib Public

    A string library for Zsh. Its founding function was parsing of JSON.

    z-shell/zsh-string-lib’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 11 2 0 1 Updated Mar 31, 2026
  • zbrowse Public

    ⚙️ Zbrowse - Ctrl-B to check if "$variable" is invoked multiple times.

    z-shell/zbrowse’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 10 GPL-3.0 3 0 1 Updated Mar 31, 2026
  • zsh-lsd Public

    Zsh plugin replace GNU/ls with next generation Peltoche/lsd

    z-shell/zsh-lsd’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 16 MIT 3 1 0 Updated Mar 26, 2026

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