Starship Has a Free Shell Prompt — Beautiful, Fast, Customizable Terminal Prompt

Starship is a minimal, blazing-fast, and customizable prompt for any shell.

What You Get for Free

• Cross-shell — bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell, Nushell, Cmd, Elvish
• Cross-platform — Linux, macOS, Windows
• Git integration — branch, status, ahead/behind, stash count
• Language detection — shows Node.js, Python, Rust, Go, Java versions
• Cloud context — AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes namespace
• Docker context — current Docker context
• Battery — battery level indicator
• Time — command duration, timestamp
• Custom modules — build your own prompt segments
• Fast — written in Rust, <10ms render time

Quick Start

# Install
brew install starship  # or curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh

# Add to .zshrc
eval "$(starship init zsh)"

# Configure: ~/.config/starship.toml
[git_branch]
format = "[$symbol$branch]($style) "

[nodejs]
format = "[$symbol($version)]($style) "

[python]
format = "[$symbol$version]($style) "

Why Developers Switch

Oh-my-zsh themes are slow (100-500ms). Custom PS1 is unmaintainable:

• Fast — <10ms vs 100-500ms for oh-my-zsh
• Any shell — same prompt in bash, zsh, fish
• Smart defaults — shows relevant info only when needed
• TOML config — simple, readable configuration

A developer's zsh prompt took 400ms to render with oh-my-zsh. After switching to Starship, prompt renders in 8ms — terminal feels instant again, and the same prompt works when they SSH into bash servers.

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