[Dev Tools] zkup vs zk_toolbox vs zk_inception vs zk_supervisor vs zks: Why are there so many CLIs?

[YeagerAI-Bulat]

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Testnet

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ZKsync CLI

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What's the difference between zkup, zk_toolbox, zk_inception, zk_supervisor and zks CLIs?
And why do you need so many different tools?

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[bxpana]

• zkup: "a script designed to simplify the installation of zk_toolbox. It allows you to install the tool from a local directory or directly from a GitHub repository." repo
• zk_toolbox: "Toolkit for creating and managing ZK Stack chains." repo
• zk_inception: "ZK Inception facilitates the creation and management of an Elastic Chain ecosystem and ZK chains using ZK Stack." docs
• zk_supervisor: "Tools for developing ZKsync." repo
• zks: not sure on this one but can double check. [EDIT]: it's related to running the chain, but for developing ZKsync, testing, linting, working with db, some additional tools

The tools that you mentioned are all for building a ZK Chain using the ZK Stack. zk_toolbox is the tool that you would use with the other commands you listed.