gh-dash

• dlvhdr/gh-dash: A beautiful CLI dashboard for GitHub

• GitHub/CLI extension written in Go on Charm's Bubble Tea, showing pull requests, issues and notifications as filterable sections in the terminal. Each section is a GitHub search filter.

  • Features

    • 📋 Sections — pull requests and issues grouped by search filter, one tab per section
    • 🔍 Search — any GitHub search syntax works as a section's filter
    • ⚡ Actions from the dashboard — check out, comment, approve, merge, without leaving the terminal
    • 👀 Diff view — reads through the configured pager
    • 🎨 Themable — colors, layout, and keybindings are all configurable

  • Why it is installed here

    • Pull request triage in the terminal instead of a browser tab per PR. The default screen is My Pull Requests, Needs My Review and Involved, which is the triage it was adopted for.
    • Declared in the dotfiles at chezmoi/dot_config/gh/extensions.txt — see GitHub/CLI/Extension
  • wishlist
    • gh-dash/Wishlist

  • Configuration

    • Reads $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gh-dash/config.yml, and writes its own full defaults there on first run if the file is missing.
      • That matters when judging the tool: a 116-line real-world config sounds configuration-heavy, but ~90 of those lines are byte-identical to what gh-dash generated for itself. A long config file is not evidence of a configuration-heavy tool when the tool prints its own defaults into it.
      • The dotfiles track that generated file as gh-dash wrote it, at dotfiles/chezmoi/dot_config/gh-dash/config.yml, following My/Dotfiles/Technique/Track Default Configs. gh-dash writes the file only when it is missing, so a deployed config leaves it with nothing to write. Copied at v4.25.2 — copy it again on an upgrade that changes the defaults.
    • Settings worth reaching for later, none of them needed yet
      • repoPaths — maps repo names onto the local checkout tree, so keybindings can act on a working copy
      • prsLimit — default 20 per section
      • theme — catppuccin publishes a gh-dash theme

  • Facts

    • MIT, v4.25.2 released 2026-07-10, ~12.3k stars
    • GitHub only. Four upstream attempts at other forges, none merged — there is no glab equivalent.