feat(cli): add usage diff for spec compatibility checking - #1171
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Shell-example lint validation
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Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new compatibility checker can classify added defaults and newly introduced commands as compatible even when they change the value or resolution of previously valid invocations, allowing a release gate to miss breaking changes; the related lint change can also emit false example-parse warnings. These are concrete correctness issues that warrant fixing or explicit owner acceptance before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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SpecReader-->>Diff: return old and new Spec
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Five findings from Bugbot's review of #1171, all real: - **A renamed command was never compared to what it became.** `cmd-renamed` returned without recursing, so a flag removed in the same release as the rename hid behind the alias covering its name. It now recurses, located under the old name: what a reader wants to know is what typing the old word does now, and the rename line above says which command that reaches. - **`renamed_to` was believed without checking.** A config property naming a target that is not in the new spec — a typo, or a target removed in the same edit — read as a compatible rename and kept the exit status green. It is a removal, and the message says the target is missing. - **`default_if` was not compared at all.** A conditional default resolves a value where none was resolved before, so it now reads the way an unconditional one does: gaining one fills a hole, losing one takes ground away. - **`var_min` was compared on arguments but not on flags.** A flag that needs two values where it needed one rejects a command line that used to work. The comparison is now a helper both paths call, as `var_max` already was. - **Listing a value in a non-strict set was reported as newly accepted.** It was already accepted; the list decides what is offered. Keyed on the *old* strictness, which is the mirror of the removal path's rule. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Instruction counts
2 benchmark(s) above the 1% gate: Only instruction counts gate. Wall clock is shown for context — on identical hardware it moves 4-20% run to run. Measured by tak — instruction-counted CLI benchmarks, stored in this repository's git notes. Shadow comparisonParsing
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The perf gate is measuring the fixture, not the code
Isolated by holding the binary fixed and varying only the spec — same release build, callgrind instruction counts:
CI measured 244,182,971 for the head and 226,048,969 for the base, so this PR's binary rendering main's spec reproduces main's number. The generator does the same work per page it did before; there is one more page. This is the situation Two ways out, and the choice is a policy one about the measuring instrument rather than about this PR:
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10-10: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueAdd a language to the fenced block.
markdownlint reports MD040 here. The block holds sample terminal output, so
textfits.📝 Proposed fix
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In `@cli/assets/fig.ts`:
- Around line 189-199: Add template: "filepaths" to both the old and new
argument definitions in the diff command so each specification argument provides
filesystem path completion.
In `@cli/src/cli/diff.rs`:
- Around line 552-558: Update the name-based matching in the old-flag loop to
consider only entries whose corresponding paired value is false, using the
candidate index alongside each flag. Keep marking the selected position as
paired before calling diff_flag so each new flag is compared at most once.
In `@docs/cli/diff.md`:
- Around line 38-40: Remove display_order from the metadata list in the CLI diff
documentation, leaving only metadata fields actually compared by the diff
engine, such as help, help_long, help_md, help_heading, hide, effect, and
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- Line 10: Update the fenced code block in the documentation to specify the text
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Three from CodeRabbit's review of #1171: - **A moved spelling could claim a flag whose name still matched.** Pairing was one pass, so `--bar` migrating from the flag named `foo` to the flag named `bar` let `foo` claim it by spelling first; the old `bar` then matched the same flag by name and was compared to it a second time, while its own `--baz` was never reported as removed. Pairing is now two passes — every name match claims its flag, then what is left is offered to moved spellings — so one new flag is compared exactly once. - **`display_order` was documented as a metadata finding and never compared.** It is compared now, for commands, flags and arguments, rather than the documentation being trimmed to match: it is a declaration somebody made deliberately, and "moves from 10 to declaration order in help" is worth a line. - **`diff`'s two arguments offered no filesystem completion in the generated Fig spec.** They are spec files, so they now say so with `value_hint = ValueHint::FilePath`. That alone was not enough, and the reason was a gap in the Fig generator rather than in the declaration: it inferred templates from an argument's *name* (`out_file` gets paths because it contains "file"), applied only the root spec's `complete` nodes so a `complete` inside a `cmd` block never reached an argument at all, and turned a typed completer into a generator whose script was the empty string. A typed completer now becomes the template Fig has a name for, and each command's completers are applied at its own level. Regenerating changes two lines of `cli/assets/fig.ts` and nothing else. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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839-850: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftClassify newly applied defaults as breaking.
An invocation that omitted a value now resolves that value from the new default. This changes binding, which the
diffcontract defines as breaking. Lines 839-845, 1624-1628, and 1777-1782 currently classify that change as compatible. Apply the breaking classification consistently to unconditional, conditional, and configuration defaults.Also applies to: 1618-1628, 1773-1797
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1509-1513: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftClassify an added command as breaking when it captures an old invocation.
Line 1509 reports every new command as compatible. If
old.external_subcommandaccepted the new name, that word now resolves to the built-in command. A positional argument can have the same failure mode when the new subcommand takes precedence. Classify these cases as breaking. Emitcompatible:cmd-addedonly when the old command rejected that invocation. Add coverage for external-subcommand forwarding and positional binding.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@cli/src/cli/generate/fig.rs`:
- Around line 109-113: Update the completion-declaration processing around
typed_template so every explicit declaration takes precedence over inferred
templates and generators. On the first explicit declaration, clear all
name-inferred completion data before applying its template, generator, run
command, or intentional no-output type such as none; record the explicit
declaration even when it maps to no local output. Ensure run= cannot leave an
inferred template alongside generators, and add regression coverage for local
type=none versus a root completer and run= on a name-inferred argument.
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In `@cli/src/cli/diff.rs`:
- Around line 839-850: Change the classification of newly applied defaults from
compatible to breaking in the default comparison logic, including the
unconditional, conditional, and configuration-default paths. Update the relevant
c.compatible calls alongside the existing default-if-added handling while
preserving the entry messages and removal classification.
- Around line 1509-1513: Update the cmd-added classification in the compatible
call so a newly added command is breaking when the prior interface accepted that
name through old.external_subcommand or positional argument binding; emit
compatible:cmd-added only when the old command rejected the invocation. Add
coverage for both external-subcommand forwarding and positional binding cases.
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Half the cases in `cli/tests/fig.rs` assert that a template or a generator is *absent*, and an empty stdout satisfies every one of them — so a failing `usage generate fig` would have read as a passing suite. The helper now checks the exit status, reports stderr when it is not zero, and confirms the output is a Fig spec at all. Reported by CodeRabbit on #1171. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five findings from Bugbot's review of #1171, all real: - **A renamed command was never compared to what it became.** `cmd-renamed` returned without recursing, so a flag removed in the same release as the rename hid behind the alias covering its name. It now recurses, located under the old name: what a reader wants to know is what typing the old word does now, and the rename line above says which command that reaches. - **`renamed_to` was believed without checking.** A config property naming a target that is not in the new spec — a typo, or a target removed in the same edit — read as a compatible rename and kept the exit status green. It is a removal, and the message says the target is missing. - **`default_if` was not compared at all.** A conditional default resolves a value where none was resolved before, so it now reads the way an unconditional one does: gaining one fills a hole, losing one takes ground away. - **`var_min` was compared on arguments but not on flags.** A flag that needs two values where it needed one rejects a command line that used to work. The comparison is now a helper both paths call, as `var_max` already was. - **Listing a value in a non-strict set was reported as newly accepted.** It was already accepted; the list decides what is offered. Keyed on the *old* strictness, which is the mirror of the removal path's rule. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three from CodeRabbit's review of #1171: - **A moved spelling could claim a flag whose name still matched.** Pairing was one pass, so `--bar` migrating from the flag named `foo` to the flag named `bar` let `foo` claim it by spelling first; the old `bar` then matched the same flag by name and was compared to it a second time, while its own `--baz` was never reported as removed. Pairing is now two passes — every name match claims its flag, then what is left is offered to moved spellings — so one new flag is compared exactly once. - **`display_order` was documented as a metadata finding and never compared.** It is compared now, for commands, flags and arguments, rather than the documentation being trimmed to match: it is a declaration somebody made deliberately, and "moves from 10 to declaration order in help" is worth a line. - **`diff`'s two arguments offered no filesystem completion in the generated Fig spec.** They are spec files, so they now say so with `value_hint = ValueHint::FilePath`. That alone was not enough, and the reason was a gap in the Fig generator rather than in the declaration: it inferred templates from an argument's *name* (`out_file` gets paths because it contains "file"), applied only the root spec's `complete` nodes so a `complete` inside a `cmd` block never reached an argument at all, and turned a typed completer into a generator whose script was the empty string. A typed completer now becomes the template Fig has a name for, and each command's completers are applied at its own level. Regenerating changes two lines of `cli/assets/fig.ts` and nothing else. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Half the cases in `cli/tests/fig.rs` assert that a template or a generator is *absent*, and an empty stdout satisfies every one of them — so a failing `usage generate fig` would have read as a passing suite. The helper now checks the exit status, reports stderr when it is not zero, and confirms the output is a Fig spec at all. Reported by CodeRabbit on #1171. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Newly applied defaults classified as breaking — not taken, deliberately. The rule this tool draws is about what a command line resolves to, and adding a default fills a hole rather than moving ground: nothing resolved there before, so no old invocation gets a different answer than the one it already had, it gets an answer where it previously had none. Changing or removing a default is breaking and is reported as such, which is the asymmetry the table in Heads-up on #1179Both branches move This comment was generated by Claude Code. |
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644-651: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPrompted sessions can report their own output as a broken example.
Every logical line is checked on its own. An output line that starts with the program name is then read as an invocation. For example, a session showing
$ demo --versionfollowed by the banner linedemo 1.0.0reportsexample-does-not-parsefor the banner, becausedemo 1.0.0passesis_this_programand the parser refuses the extra word.If an example uses prompts at all, the unprompted lines are output. Use that signal.
🐛 Proposed fix: check only prompted lines once a prompt appears
for line in logical_lines(&example.code) { - let Some(words) = invocation_words(spec, &line) else { + // A session that shows prompts marks its commands with them, so the + // remaining lines are output rather than invocations. + if prompted && !has_prompt(&line) { + continue; + } + let Some(words) = invocation_words(spec, &line) else { continue; };Add the two helpers and compute
promptedper example:fn has_prompt(line: &str) -> bool { let line = line.trim_start(); line.starts_with("$ ") || line.starts_with("% ") }let lines = logical_lines(&example.code); let prompted = lines.iter().any(|line| has_prompt(line));🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@cli/src/cli/diff.rs`:
- Around line 456-470: Update the diff checks for
args_conflicts_with_subcommands and subcommand_precedence_over_arg to handle
both transition directions: retain the existing breaking finding for
false-to-true, report subcommand-precedence-added as breaking for true-to-false
because routing changes, and report args-conflicts-with-subcommands
true-to-false as compatible rather than silently ignoring it.
- Around line 1749-1761: Update the optionality comparison in the property diff
logic to derive each side’s effective optionality before comparing: treat None
as optional only when there is no declared default or the property type is
option<T>, while a declared default makes it required. Replace the direct
unwrap_or(false) checks in the config-now-required and config-now-optional
branches, preserving their existing reporting behavior.
In `@docs/cli/diff.md`:
- Line 10: Update the fenced block containing the example program output to
specify the text language, using the same formatting as the surrounding prose
blocks and preserving its contents.
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Six findings from the latest round, all real, in
Rename also reports command added (Bugbot, Medium) — correct, and it is the other half of the alias suppression from the last round. The covering command is now skipped by the addition loop the same way. Test: Config rename double-counts (Bugbot, Medium) — same shape, plus the worse half: the rename Only one direction of two command properties (CodeRabbit, Major) — right. Dropping
MD040 on the finding list — fenced as The docs table gained the three rows these decide, next to the This comment was generated by Claude Code. |
Gate re-checked after the rebaseEverything passes on Re-ran the isolation from the earlier comment to confirm the rebase and this round's fixes did not move it. Same machine, same release profile, callgrind:
This PR's binary against main's spec is -0.06% — noise. The 8% is the Worth noting that #1179 fails the same gate for the same reason on its own added command, so whichever of the two lands first will hand the other a larger baseline. That is an argument for repointing This comment was generated by Claude Code. |
A CLI is a public API, and a spec is the only machine-readable statement of what that API is — which makes "did this release break somebody" a question about two files rather than about a changelog somebody remembered to write. clap#918 has been open since 2017 asking for the export this reads. `usage diff old.usage.kdl new.usage.kdl` classifies every difference into one of three categories, drawn by one rule: - breaking: a command line that worked before now fails, binds differently, or resolves to a different value - compatible: the interface gained something or relaxed a rule, so every old command line still means what it meant - metadata: nothing about parsing moved — help text, headings, hidden-ness, effect, deprecation It exits 1 on a breaking change, so a release job gates on it, and either spec may be `-`, so the released file can be compared against what the binary being built says about itself. Two silences are deliberate. `version` and `long_version` are never reported: a release bumps them, and a check that fires on every release does not get left switched on — tak sets `spec.version = None` by hand today for exactly this reason. Derived strings are never reported either, because they restate what the declarations already say. `unknown_flags` is compared where it is declared rather than as the value in force at each command. Comparing effective values reported one edited root node 54 times against hk's fixture, once per descendant that inherited it. `lint`'s `--format` enum moves to a shared module, since `diff` answers in the same two formats and two copies is how the two drift apart. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five findings from Bugbot's review of #1171, all real: - **A renamed command was never compared to what it became.** `cmd-renamed` returned without recursing, so a flag removed in the same release as the rename hid behind the alias covering its name. It now recurses, located under the old name: what a reader wants to know is what typing the old word does now, and the rename line above says which command that reaches. - **`renamed_to` was believed without checking.** A config property naming a target that is not in the new spec — a typo, or a target removed in the same edit — read as a compatible rename and kept the exit status green. It is a removal, and the message says the target is missing. - **`default_if` was not compared at all.** A conditional default resolves a value where none was resolved before, so it now reads the way an unconditional one does: gaining one fills a hole, losing one takes ground away. - **`var_min` was compared on arguments but not on flags.** A flag that needs two values where it needed one rejects a command line that used to work. The comparison is now a helper both paths call, as `var_max` already was. - **Listing a value in a non-strict set was reported as newly accepted.** It was already accepted; the list decides what is offered. Keyed on the *old* strictness, which is the mirror of the removal path's rule. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two more from Bugbot, both consequences of the previous round: - **`default_if` was compared as a set, so a reorder read as no change.** First match wins, so where two conditions can both hold, which one is written first decides the value. It now goes through the same order comparison the environment names already used, since precedence is precedence — and that comparison is now one function rather than two, so the two cannot drift. The shared version also compares only the entries both sides hold, which the environment half did not: a reorder alongside an addition was invisible to a length check. - **The alias covering a rename was also reported as an addition.** Comparing a renamed command against what it became meant `diff_names` saw the old name arrive as an alias — which is exactly what made the rename a rename, already reported as `cmd-renamed`. It is suppressed for that one name only, so an alias the old command really did lose is still reported. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three from CodeRabbit's review of #1171: - **A moved spelling could claim a flag whose name still matched.** Pairing was one pass, so `--bar` migrating from the flag named `foo` to the flag named `bar` let `foo` claim it by spelling first; the old `bar` then matched the same flag by name and was compared to it a second time, while its own `--baz` was never reported as removed. Pairing is now two passes — every name match claims its flag, then what is left is offered to moved spellings — so one new flag is compared exactly once. - **`display_order` was documented as a metadata finding and never compared.** It is compared now, for commands, flags and arguments, rather than the documentation being trimmed to match: it is a declaration somebody made deliberately, and "moves from 10 to declaration order in help" is worth a line. - **`diff`'s two arguments offered no filesystem completion in the generated Fig spec.** They are spec files, so they now say so with `value_hint = ValueHint::FilePath`. That alone was not enough, and the reason was a gap in the Fig generator rather than in the declaration: it inferred templates from an argument's *name* (`out_file` gets paths because it contains "file"), applied only the root spec's `complete` nodes so a `complete` inside a `cmd` block never reached an argument at all, and turned a typed completer into a generator whose script was the empty string. A typed completer now becomes the template Fig has a name for, and each command's completers are applied at its own level. Regenerating changes two lines of `cli/assets/fig.ts` and nothing else. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bugbot on the previous commit: applying a typed `complete … type=` as a Fig template returned without considering a generator already on the argument, so a command's own `run=` completer plus a root-level typed one for the same argument name emitted both, leaving whoever reads the spec — or Fig — to choose. Resolved by the rule the generator side already followed: nearest declaration wins. `or_else` kept a command's own completer when the root's were applied over the whole tree afterwards, so the template now defers in the same way, and the reverse order defers too — a `typed_template` marker, not serialized, is what tells a declared template from the guess `get_template` makes from an argument's name. That guess is still replaceable, since a spec saying what its value is should beat a substring match on "file". Adds `cli/tests/fig.rs`, which had no tests: the two mappings, the unmapped kinds that get neither template nor generator, both orders of the precedence rule, and `diff`'s own two arguments. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three findings on the previous commit — two from Bugbot, one from CodeRabbit — all of them the same mistake: it treated inferred completion data as if it were declared. `get_template` and `get_generator` read an argument's *name*, so an argument starts out carrying guesses, and the previous version asked "is there a generator?" when it meant "has anything been declared?". So the two rules are now separate, and stated: - **A declaration beats a guess.** The first `complete` node to reach an argument clears every inferred template and generator, then applies what it says. Previously a name-inferred env-var generator outranked a real `type=`, an unmapped `type=none` left a guessed `filepaths` standing rather than suppressing it, and a `run=` declaration on an argument whose name inferred a template emitted both. - **The nearest declaration wins.** A command's own completers are applied before the root spec's, and the marker that records "declared" is what stops a root completer from overwriting a nearer one — including a nearer one that deliberately offers nothing. `run=` outranks `type=` on the same node: it is what this argument's author wrote rather than a category, and it is the only one of the two that reached Fig before, so a spec declaring both keeps the behaviour it has today. Regenerating changes nothing further in `cli/assets/fig.ts`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Half the cases in `cli/tests/fig.rs` assert that a template or a generator is *absent*, and an empty stdout satisfies every one of them — so a failing `usage generate fig` would have read as a passing suite. The helper now checks the exit status, reports stderr when it is not zero, and confirms the output is a Fig spec at all. Reported by CodeRabbit on #1171. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`cmd-added` was compatible unconditionally, on the reasoning that a word which meant nothing before cannot break anyone. That holds only where the word really did mean nothing. Two places it did. Under `external_subcommand`, `ex deploy` ran `ex-deploy`, and a built-in `deploy` now takes it instead — the invocation still works and does something else, which is the definition this tool draws breaking with. Where the command took a positional, `ex list` handed "list" to `<task>`, and it now selects a subcommand. Both are reported at their own codes rather than folded into `cmd-added`, since the fix is different: one is a name collision with a convention, the other with an argument. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`required_unless` went through the relaxing comparison, which reads an added entry as compatible. That is right once there is a list — each further selector is one more excuse — but wrong for the transition that matters: a flag with no `required_unless` and a flag with one differ by being required. Declaring it now reports breaking, and only the entries within a non-empty list relax. `subcommand_precedence_over_arg` and `args_conflicts_with_subcommands` were compared in one direction. Dropping precedence is breaking for the same reason gaining it is — the word that reached a command now fills an argument — and it fails nothing, which is exactly the kind of change a release gate is for. A command rename was reported twice: once as the rename, and again as the new name being added. The covering command is now skipped by the addition loop, as its alias already was. The same for a config rename, which also never compared the pair — so a type, default, environment name or choice edited in the same release as the rename went unreported. `optional.unwrap_or(false)` is not the rule the spec states: a property with no default, or one typed `option<T>`, is optional unless it says otherwise. Writing down `optional=#true` where that was already true is not a change, and the comparison said it was. And the finding list on the docs page has a language on its fence. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A CLI is a public API, and a spec is the only machine-readable statement of what that API is — which makes "did this release break somebody" a question about two files rather than about a changelog somebody remembered to write. clap#918 has been open since 2017 asking for the export this reads.
The rule
One rule draws the three categories, and it is about the caller rather than about the declaration:
help_heading,display_order, hidden-ness,effect, deprecation, a renamed positional.The interesting part is where the same edit lands differently depending on context, which is where the categories earn their keep:
choiceschoices strict=#falsedefaultdefaultconflictsoverridesmultiple=#truegrouprequiredConfig props are compared too — a released CLI that stops reading
MISE_JOBSbroke a shell profile as surely as a removed flag would have.Two deliberate silences
versionandlong_versionare never reported. A release bumps them, and a compatibility check that fires on every release is one nobody leaves switched on — tak setsspec.version = Noneby hand today for exactly this reason.Derived strings are never reported (
usage,full_cmd,help_first_line): they restate what the declarations already say, so a change shows up at its source or not at all. Amountis compared as a declaration and not by what it discovers, since resolving one means running the command it names.Two things found by pointing it at real specs
unknown_flagshas to be compared where it is declared, not as the value in force at each command. The first version compared effective values, which reported one edited root node 54 times against hk's refreshed fixture — once per descendant that merely inherited it. Now it is compared at the spec root and at each command that overrides it, so one edit is one finding.Comparing specs from different generator versions reports the generator's new vocabulary as interface change. hk's fixture refresh (#1115) shows 329
constraint-addedfindings, none of them a change to hk — the olderclap_usagenever wrote down relationships it was already enforcing. The findings are a true reading of the two files, so the docs say to compare like with like rather than softening them.Trying it on this repo
Against
usage's own spec from a few releases back, including this PR:mise.usage.kdlagainst itself — 211 commands, 711 flags — reports nothing.Also here
lint's--formatenum moves tocli/src/cli/output.rs.diffanswers in the same two formats, and two copies of the same two variants is how the two drift apart.Tests
21 unit tests over the classification rules and 7 integration tests over the command itself — exit status, both formats,
--breaking,--exit-zero, a spec on stdin.cargo test --all --all-features,cargo clippy --all --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings,cargo fmt,prettier -c .andmise run renderare all clean.Not added: a gate in this repo's own CI. That is a policy decision about
usage's release process rather than part of the tool, and #1164's tip is mid-6.0 where breaks are being taken on purpose.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
Note
Medium Risk
New CLI surface and a large classification engine that gates CI via exit codes; mis-categorizing a change could block or allow a release. Fig generator behavior also changes for existing specs.
Overview
Adds
usage diff: compare two usage specs and report what changed about the public CLI, so a release job can gate on a real contract instead of a changelog.Findings are breaking (a command line that used to work now fails, binds differently, or resolves to a different value), compatible (gained or relaxed), or metadata (help, hide, effect, deprecation). Exits 1 on breaking unless
--exit-zero;--breakingand--format jsonare for CI. Either spec may be-.version/long_versionand derived strings are ignored on purpose.Walks commands, flags (name then spelling pairing), args, groups, mounts, config, env, choices, and constraints. Renames that keep an alias are compared under the old name rather than reported as remove+add.
Also fixes Fig generation:
completeinside acmdis applied, a declaration replaces name-inferred templates/generators, and the nearest declaration wins so a spec never emits both a template and a generator.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 572bb3a. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
usage diffto compare specifications and report breaking, compatible, or metadata changes in text or JSON.--installand--forceoptions for completion generation.Documentation
Tests