The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell. Starship is written in Rust and works across bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell, Ion, Elvish, Tcsh, Nushell, and Xonsh.
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name: "Starship Cross-Shell Prompt Configurator"
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description: "The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell. Starship is written in Rust and works across bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell, Ion, Elvish, Tcsh, Nushell, and Xonsh."
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source: "https://github.com/starship/starship"
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# Starship Cross-Shell Prompt Configurator
The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell. Starship is written in Rust and works across bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell, Ion, Elvish, Tcsh, Nushell, and Xonsh.
## Installation
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- python
- **[denysdovhan/robbyrussell-node](https://github.com/denysdovhan/robbyrussell-node)** – Cross-shell robbyrussell theme written in JavaScript.
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- A [Nerd Font](https://www.nerdfonts.com/) installed and enabled in your terminal (for example, try the [FiraCode Nerd Font](https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads)).
- ### Step 1. Install Starship
- Select your operating system from the list below to view installation instructions:
- Source: https://github.com/starship/starship
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/starship/starship/HEAD/README.md
## Source
- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/starship-cross-shell-prompt-configurator/)
