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broot

A new way to see and navigate directory trees

workhorse Rust Canop/broot
50% pass rate
4/7 principles met

Spec Coverage

How many of the spec's requirements were verified for this tool. See /coverage for the full matrix.

Level Total Verified Unverified
MUST 23 7 16
SHOULD 16 0 16
MAY 7 0 7

human-tui Scored as a TUI: the non-interactive checks (P1) and the SIGPIPE check (P6) have been suppressed — TUI apps intercept the TTY by design and install their own signal handlers.

This is an informational signal, not an authoritative verdict — see methodology. The per-check evidence below is the ground truth.

Top Issues

All Checks

P1: Non-Interactive by Default

N/A by human-tui Non-interactive by default suppressed by audit_profile: human-tui
N/A by human-tui Non-interactive gate flag advertised in --help suppressed by audit_profile: human-tui
SKIP Flags advertise env-var bindings in --help target exposes no flags in --help

P2: Structured, Parseable Output

SKIP Structured output support no --output/--format flag detected

P3: Progressive Help Discovery

PASS Help flag produces useful output
PASS Version flag works

P4: Fail-Fast, Actionable Errors

PASS Rejects invalid arguments

P6: Composable, Predictable Command Structure

N/A by human-tui Handles SIGPIPE gracefully suppressed by audit_profile: human-tui
WARN Pager-using CLI ships --no-pager escape hatch pager referenced in --help but no --no-pager escape hatch advertised
FAIL Respects NO_COLOR output contains ANSI escape sequences despite NO_COLOR=1

P7: Bounded, High-Signal Responses

WARN Quiet mode available no --quiet/-q flag detected in --help output

Details

Version scored
1.56.2
Audit date
2026-05-01 10:09:15 UTC
Duration
41ms
Platform
linux/x86_64
Mode
command
Anc build
0.3.0
Install
brew install broot

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Reproduce this scorecard for broot locally and inspect the failing checks:

anc check --command broot --audit-profile human-tui --output json

Install anc first if you don't have it. Add --output json to get the same JSON shape committed under scorecards/.