pact

pact

An open-source TUI tool for creating, signing, and shipping documents — from anywhere.

Why?

Microsoft dominates document workflows, and signing a contract in 2026 still feels like it was designed in 1996. PACT takes two steps back to take one step forward: a simple, terminal-based tool that runs everywhere — laptops, servers, and yes, your fridge (as long as you can wire up a keyboard and it has a kernel).

No cloud. No subscription. No binary blobs stapled to your file. Just a single, self-contained document with a real signature baked in.

Features

• Document creation — compose structured documents in a distraction-free TUI
• Templates — save any document as a reusable template
• Signing — sign documents directly in the terminal; the signature lives inside the file, not alongside it
• Single-file output — everything ships as one portable file, no attachments, no sidecars

Building from source

Requires Go 1.24.4 or later.

# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourname/pact
cd pact

# 2. Make sure Go is in your PATH
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

# 3. Build
go build .

# 4. (Optional) Install system-wide
go install .