ktools
ktools is a command line application that provides useful developer tools. It's built as a kotlin multiplatform project
and is currently available for macos (both X64 and ARM), linux and windows targets.
Commands
ktools --help - View all available commandsktools uuid - Creates a random UUID (v4 or v7), or inspects one with uuid inspectktools unixtime - Unix time conversionsktools hash - Provides hash value for given file or stringktools encode - Encodes some text content to specified formatktools decode - Decodes some text content from specified formatktools prettyprint - Pretty print commonly used text like jsonktools update - Updates ktools to the latest releasektools init - Installs the ktools skills into your AI coding agents- ... and growing
Commands are written using Clikt and have help messages that can be viewed
using --help option. Learn more about these commands here.
Agent skills
ktools ships skills that teach AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, OpenCode and
others) when and how to use it. Run ktools init to install them into every agent on your machine; run it again after
ktools update to pick up the skills for the new version. See plugins/ktools for the
skills and other ways to install them.
Docs
The function definitions for common code can be viewed here.
Installation
Download the latest executable from the releases page. You may have to
provide executable permission for the file based on your setup.
To update an installed ktools, run ktools update. It downloads the latest release for your platform, checks it
against the release's SHA-256 checksums to catch a corrupted or truncated download, and replaces the executable. Run
ktools update --check to only see whether an update is available.
Note for MacOS: The OS may prevent opening the executable since the app has not been notarized. You can temporarily
override the settings to allow execution by heading to privacy and security settings and allowing execution as
mentioned here.
Why?
For fun, mostly. I use the terminal extensively but often have to switch away from it to do time unit conversions,
hashing, etc. I wanted a handy tool that runs in the terminal and also wanted to test kotlin multiplatform as a solution
for scalable cross-platform applications.
License
This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details
