Add cyclopts

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Project

cyclopts

Checklist

• I read CONTRIBUTING.md - awesome-python is a shortlist, not a catalog
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• Placed in an existing use case (new sections and subcategories are maintainer-only)
• Meets all Quality Requirements: active, stable, documented, at least 1 month old

Which Tier

• Obvious choice
• Challenger - not yet the obvious choice, but a credible successor to one. Give adoption-trajectory evidence, not popularity alone.

Explain: cyclopts builds CLIs from type-hinted functions, like typer, but without depending on Click, and it generates help text from docstrings.

• 69.2M downloads/month. It was created in 2023-11, so it has grown from zero to that level in under 3 years.
• Repo last pushed 2026-10-09, not archived, regular releases (v5.2.0)

Displacement

CLI Development > General is at its cap (5). This PR replaces fire:

• fire's last commit on its default branch was 2025-08-16, more than 12 months ago, so it no longer meets the "Active" quality requirement.
• fire has 17.7M downloads/month, versus cyclopts' 69.2M.
• Both do the same job: turning plain Python functions or objects into a CLI with very little code. cyclopts does it with type hints and validation, while fire has none.

Evidence fetched 2026-10-09: downloads from pypistats.org recent (last_month), repo state from the GitHub API. make test passes (142 passed).

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