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A modern, cross-platform Swiss-army toolkit for developers and makers

CI License: MIT Python 3.11+ Code style: Ruff PyPI version

Documentation • Installation • Quickstart • Plugins

🚀 Features

  • Multiple Interfaces: CLI, TUI, and GUI applications
  • Plugin Architecture: Extensible with custom plugins
  • Cross-Platform: Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux
  • Theme Support: System theme detection with manual switching
  • Rich Output: Beautiful terminal output with Rich
  • Modern UI: PyQt6 GUI with native look and feel
  • Developer Tools: JSON/YAML formatters, regex tester, and more

📦 Installation

Using pipx (Recommended)

pipx install killertools

Using Poetry

git clone https://github.com/VoxHash/KillerTools.git
cd KillerTools
poetry install
poetry run killertools --help

Using pip

pip install killertools

🏃 Quickstart

CLI Interface

# Show help
killertools --help

# List available plugins
killertools list-plugins

# Run a specific plugin
killertools files --help
killertools crypto --help

TUI Interface

# Launch the TUI dashboard
killertools tui

GUI Interface

# Launch the GUI application
killertools gui

🔌 Plugins

KillerTools comes with several built-in plugins:

Files Plugin

  • File hashing (MD5, SHA256, BLAKE3)
  • Duplicate file detection
  • Bulk file operations
  • Directory tree with sizes

Crypto Plugin

  • Hash functions and HMAC
  • JWT token decoding
  • UUID and ULID generation
  • Base64 encoding/decoding

DevTools Plugin

  • JSON/YAML/TOML formatters
  • Regex pattern testing
  • .env file parsing
  • README badge generation

Media Plugin (Coming Soon)

  • Audio/video conversion
  • Thumbnail generation
  • Media metadata extraction

Network Plugin (Coming Soon)

  • Ping and DNS lookup
  • HTTP probing
  • Speed testing

AI Plugin (Optional)

  • Text summarization
  • Translation
  • Code generation

🎨 Theming

KillerTools supports automatic system theme detection and manual theme switching:

  • System: Automatically detects your OS theme preference
  • Light: Force light theme
  • Dark: Force dark theme

Themes are consistent across CLI, TUI, and GUI interfaces.

🛠️ Development

Setup Development Environment

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/VoxHash/KillerTools.git
cd KillerTools

# Install dependencies
poetry install

# Install development dependencies
poetry install --with dev

# Set up pre-commit hooks
poetry run pre-commit install

Running Tests

# Run all tests
poetry run pytest

# Run with coverage
poetry run pytest --cov=killer_tools --cov=apps

# Run specific test file
poetry run pytest tests/test_plugins.py

Code Quality

# Run linters
poetry run ruff check killer_tools/ apps/ tests/

# Format code
poetry run black killer_tools/ apps/ tests/
poetry run isort killer_tools/ apps/ tests/

# Type checking
poetry run mypy killer_tools/ apps/

Building

# Build wheels
poetry build

# Build binaries
poetry run pyinstaller apps/cli/main.py --name killertools-cli --onefile
poetry run pyinstaller apps/tui/main.py --name killertools-tui --onefile
poetry run pyinstaller apps/gui/main.py --name killertools-gui --onefile --windowed

📚 Documentation

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.

  1. Fork the repository
  2. Create a feature branch
  3. Make your changes
  4. Add tests
  5. Submit a pull request

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

  • Typer for the CLI framework
  • Textual for the TUI framework
  • PyQt6 for the GUI framework
  • Rich for beautiful terminal output
  • Poetry for dependency management

📞 Contact


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