Claude Code has pulled me back into the terminal full-time. These are the top tools for productivity boost in your terminal:

1. Fish shell

   • An alternative to zsh and bash with autocomplete for commands, options, flags, and git branches

   • Syntax highlighting: immediately shows you if a command is valid or not

   • Automatically activates Python virtual environments

   • fishshell.com

2. Starship

   • A fully customizable prompt

   • Shows your current folder, git branch, and active Python/TS environment at a glance

   • starship.rs

3. Cship (Starship for Claude Code)

   • Brings Starship-level customization to the Claude Code status line

   • By default the status line is very barebones

   • Cship adds information on token usage, when your window resets, all in a customizable way.

   • cship.dev

4. Yazi

   • A graphical file manager that runs inside your terminal

   • Replaces the ls and cd loop with a fast, visual interface

   • Shows a preview of every file (code, images, even PDFs)

   • yazi-rs.github.io/featu…

5. Ripgrep

   • Search your codebase for regex patterns faster than grep

   • Respects .gitignore, so no false positives in your .venv or node_modules folders

6. Atuin

   • Replaces Ctrl+R with a searchable, filterable history across sessions

   • Useful when you need to find the exact command you ran two weeks ago

   • Allows syncing across machines. Searching for that command you run on your other computer? Atuin allows you to.

   • atuin.sh

Are you using these? What else should I add to this list?