Nushell Structured Data Shell

---
name: "Nushell Structured Data Shell"
slug: "nushell-structured-data-shell"
description: "A modern shell that treats all input as structured data rather than plain text streams. Nushell provides built-in support for JSON, YAML, TOML, CSV, SQLite, and Excel, with typed pipelines that enable safe filtering, sorting, and transformation without string parsing."
github_stars: 38872
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/nushell/nushell"
category: "Developer Tools"
framework: "Custom Agents"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "nushell/nushell"
  github_stars: 38872
  npm_package: "nushell"
  npm_weekly_downloads: 1013
---

# Nushell Structured Data Shell

A modern shell that treats all input as structured data rather than plain text streams. Nushell provides built-in support for JSON, YAML, TOML, CSV, SQLite, and Excel, with typed pipelines that enable safe filtering, sorting, and transformation without string parsing.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- brew install nushell

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- # => │ 3 │ docker │ dir │ 0 B │ 2 weeks ago │

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- ![Example of nushell](assets/nushell-autocomplete6.gif "Example of nushell")
- To quickly install Nu:
- bash

- Source: https://github.com/nushell/nushell
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nushell/nushell/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/nushell-structured-data-shell/)