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Groundwork for the config conformance corpus, and useful on its own.

A warning's wording is for a person and is nobody's contract. What a program acts on is the kind,
and until now there wasn't one — Warning was a string and an origin, so every consumer that wanted
to treat deprecations differently from bad values had to match on text.

for warning in &resolved.warnings {
    match warning.kind {
        WarningKind::Deprecated => queued.push(warning),      // mise prints these once logging is up
        WarningKind::NotRead => debug!("{}", warning.message),
        _ => eprintln!("{}", warning.message),
    }
}

Seven kinds, one per thing this crate can report — a key nothing declares, a value the type cannot
read, a value the choices do not allow, a place that may not set the setting, a deprecation, a value
read as the setting that replaced it, and a value passed over because another name won — plus
Other, which is what a CLI's own layer says. A git or pkl layer complaining that it could not reach
its source is not something this crate should make it invent a kind for, so Warning::new/at keep
their signatures and of(kind) is chained where a kind is known.

Why now: the corpus has to pin what happened without pinning how it was worded — the same line
the argv corpus holds, where a vector names an error class and never a message. Without kinds, a
config vector would either assert exact English (which no second implementation could pass) or assert
nothing about warnings at all, which would leave the scope strips, the rename folding and the type
refusals — much of what the merge does — untested by the corpus.

Verification

112 tests. One new test walks every kind back to the place that produces it, including the three the
merge adds that no layer can know on its own, and asserts a custom layer's warning stays Other.
The env test now pins all three kinds a rename produces at once, which is what living through one
actually looks like. Three mutations — the scope refusal, the fold, and the choices refusal each left
unclassified — kill the right tests.

Next: corpus/config/*.json and its runner, which is what this is for.

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Low Risk
Additive API change (#[non_exhaustive] on Warning and WarningKind); behavior is classification only—messages and resolution logic are unchanged aside from the new field.

Overview
Adds WarningKind so callers can treat warnings by category instead of parsing message text. Each Warning now carries a kind field; Warning::new / Warning::at still default to Other, and known cases use .of(WarningKind::…).

Resolution paths are tagged end-to-end: unknown keys, wrong types, and disallowed choices in LayerCtx; scope refusals, deprecations, and rename notices in resolve; env aliases that lose to another variable as NotRead. WarningKind is re-exported from the crate root.

Tests assert kinds at the producers (including merge-only warnings) and pin the three kinds produced when two old env names compete during a rename.

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  • New Features

    • Added warning classifications for unknown settings, invalid types, disallowed values, scope issues, deprecated or renamed settings, unread values, and other warnings.
    • Exposed warning categories through the public configuration interface.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected warning categorization for skipped variables and deprecated or renamed settings.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage to verify warning categories across configuration and resolution scenarios.

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Configuration warnings now expose public categories. Layer, resolver, and environment paths assign categories for invalid, deprecated, renamed, out-of-scope, and unread values. Tests verify the classifications and their order.

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Warning classification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Warning classification contract
config/src/layer.rs, config/src/lib.rs
Warning now stores a public WarningKind. Constructors default to Other, and Warning::of assigns a category. WarningKind is publicly re-exported.
Warning emission classification
config/src/layer.rs, config/src/resolve.rs, config/src/env.rs
Layer, resolver, and environment code classify warnings for invalid types, unknown settings, rejected values, scope issues, deprecations, renames, and unread variables.
Classification validation
config/src/layer.rs, config/src/resolve.rs, config/src/env.rs
Tests verify warning categories, the default Other category, and the ordered classifications for multiple environment aliases.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to fe41a

The PR adds machine-readable warning categories while preserving existing warning construction behavior, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

Possibly related PRs

  • jdx/usage#856: Changes structured-value entry conversion in the same warning-handling code.

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A rabbit hops through settings bright,
And labels warnings left and right.
“Unknown!” thumps one, “Deprecated!” sings,
“NotRead!” rustles through env strings.
Clear kinds now guide each little thing.

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The PR adds machine-readable classifications to configuration warnings and tags warning-producing paths throughout environment, layer, and resolution handling. The previously reported downstream source-compatibility break remains unresolved.

  • Introduces and publicly exports WarningKind.
  • Assigns classifications to existing warning paths.
  • Adds tests covering layer-generated and merge-generated warning kinds.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The PR does not appear safe to merge until the outstanding downstream source-compatibility break in Warning is addressed.

Existing consumers could legally construct or exhaustively destructure the formerly exhaustive public Warning struct, while the current #[non_exhaustive] declaration and required kind field make those consumers fail to compile.

Files Needing Attention: config/src/layer.rs, config/src/lib.rs

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Filename Overview
config/src/layer.rs Adds WarningKind, classification helpers, and warning tags, but the new public field and #[non_exhaustive] attribute still break previously valid downstream struct construction and exhaustive destructuring.
config/src/env.rs Classifies skipped environment aliases as NotRead and tests the warning sequence produced by renamed variables.
config/src/resolve.rs Classifies out-of-scope, deprecated, and renamed warnings and adds end-to-end coverage for warning kinds.
config/src/lib.rs Re-exports the new WarningKind API while continuing to expose the source-incompatibly changed Warning type.

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/// What sort of thing happened, for a caller that wants to treat them differently.
pub kind: WarningKind,
}

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rg -n -C 2 --glob '*.rs' '\bWarning\b|layer::Warning|config::.*Warning' .

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Release Warning.kind in a major version.

usage-config is currently version 5.1.0. Warning is public and re-exported with public fields, so external struct literals are supported. Adding required kind breaks those literals.

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Both bots, same finding, and it is right: adding a public field breaks a downstream Warning { message, origin } literal and any exhaustive destructuring of it.

Warning is #[non_exhaustive] now. That takes the break once and closes the door: reading the
fields and matching with .. are unaffected, and the next field this gains — it has gained one
already — costs nobody anything. WarningKind is #[non_exhaustive] too, for the same reason in the
other direction: a new kind should not break a downstream match.

On the version: the crates share one version across the workspace, so which release this rides in is
jdx's call rather than something this PR should decide. Worth knowing when it goes out: the break is
narrow (constructing or exhaustively destructuring a Warning, both of which new/at already
cover), usage-config is a day old, and the alternative — carrying the kind beside the warning
rather than on it — would put the two out of step exactly where a caller needs them together.

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Correcting my own note above, since I flagged a release decision that does not exist: usage-config
has never been published.
The tag v5.1.0 was cut before the crate existed — it first appears in
fe13b0b (#849) — and the manifest reads 5.1.0 only because shared-version stamps every crate in
the workspace with the same number.

So there is no downstream Warning { .. } literal anywhere to break, and nothing to decide about
which release this rides in. It ships with the field present and #[non_exhaustive] from its first
version. The bots' reasoning was sound from the manifest alone; the manifest just is not evidence of
a published crate here.

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Instruction counts

benchmark trend instructions Δ wall (min) Δ
markdown ▂▂▂▃▁██▇ 175,805,549 → 175,697,309 -0.06% 16.23 → 16.06ms -1.09%
startup ▆█▆▆▆▇▁▅ 1,221,823 → 1,221,989 +0.01% 0.96 → 0.97ms +1.21%

No instruction-count regression above 1%.

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 comparison

Parsing mise use -g node@20 against a shadow of mise's committed spec.
Reported, not gated: the shadow grows as the derive learns to express more, so
what to watch is the ratio rather than either column.

usage clap ratio
instructions, cold parse 29956 5893587 196x
usage: argv -> struct                             872 ns      0.87 µs
clap: build tree + parse -> struct             499541 ns    499.54 µs
clap: parse -> struct, tree reused              24018 ns     24.02 µs
clap: build tree only                          310011 ns    310.01 µs

8a1b1a671ca1 vs cd2f2c7933dc · measured on the runner, not pushed to the history.

A warning's wording is for a person and is nobody's contract. What a *program*
acts on is the kind: mise queues its deprecations until logging is up while a bad
value goes to stderr at once, a `--strict` mode wants to exit on everything but a
deprecation, and the conformance corpus needs to pin what happened without
pinning how it was said — the same line the argv corpus holds, where a vector
names an error class and never a message.

Seven kinds, one per thing this crate can report: a key nothing declares, a value
the type cannot read, a value the choices do not allow, a place that may not set
the setting, a setting deprecated, a value read as the setting that replaced it,
and a value passed over because another name won. Plus `Other`, which is what a
CLI's own layer says — a git or pkl layer complaining that it could not read its
source is not something this crate should make it invent a kind for.

Chained rather than an argument, so the constructors read as they did and the
seven sites each gain one call.
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The argv corpus pins which token becomes which flag. This pins what a
*resolution* is: given a
registry and layers that supply values, which value wins, where it is
recorded as coming from, and
what the merge had to say about the ones it refused.

**46 vectors in six sections** — precedence, merging, scope, renames,
types, choices — each with a
sentence saying what it establishes, because a vector nobody can read is
a vector nobody will
maintain.

## A registry, not a spec

An argv vector carries a KDL spec, because parsing a command line *is* a
question about a spec. A
resolution is not: it is a question about a registry — keys, types,
defaults, merge policies — which
a CLI's build step produces long before anything is resolved. So a
vector describes the registry
directly:

```json
{
  "id": "cli-beats-env-beats-file",
  "doc": "The declared order decides: the command line, then the environment, then a file.",
  "settings": [{ "key": "jobs", "type": "uint", "default": 4 }],
  "layers": [
    { "source": "cli", "id": "--jobs", "values": { "jobs": "8" } },
    { "source": "env", "id": "EX_JOBS", "values": { "jobs": "6" } },
    { "source": "file", "id": "hk.toml", "values": { "jobs": "2" } }
  ],
  "expect": { "values": { "jobs": 8 }, "origins": { "jobs": "--jobs" } }
}
```

An implementation in Go or TypeScript can run this without first
acquiring a KDL parser, and how a
spec *becomes* a registry stays `usage-config-build`'s question, which
its own golden test answers.

**Warnings are pinned by kind, never by message** — `out-of-scope`,
`renamed`, `wrong-type` — which
is why #873 comes first. Wording is a quality-of-implementation concern
and is expected to differ,
the same line the argv corpus holds for its error codes.

**Nothing here touches the world.** No file is opened, no environment
read, no process started: a
layer is a description of what it supplies, which is all the merge ever
sees of one. So no vector's
result can depend on the machine running it.

**The harness reads the type grammar itself** rather than asking the
crate under test. A conformance
harness that asked the implementation what `list<string>` means would be
checking that it agrees
with itself.

## What it caught while being written

`union` on a **list** keeps duplicates and only a `set` drops them — I
had written the vector the
other way round. The implementation is right (that distinction is what
the two types are *for*), and
there are now two vectors saying so, one per type.

## Verification

Four mutations of the runtime, each failing the vectors that describe it
rather than a test written
beside it: the scope check letting everything through (4 vectors), union
forgetting the lower layer
(4), the boolean spellings narrowed to `true` (3), and choices
unenforced (2). Corpus
well-formedness — unique ids, a doc on every vector, no empty sections —
is checked by the same test
file.

## No divergence field

The argv corpus records where usage-lib disagrees with the grammar,
because that grammar predates it
and has two implementations. Resolution has one, so a disagreement is a
bug to fix rather than a fact
to record — and every vector applies to any implementation, since there
is no layer of a resolution
that can be left to somebody else the way a binding-only argv parser
leaves `required` to the layer
above it.

Stacked on #873, which adds the warning kinds this pins.

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---

> [!NOTE]
> **Low Risk**
> Test-only and corpus additions; resolution behavior is exercised but
production resolver code is not changed in this diff.
> 
> **Overview**
> Adds a **config resolution conformance corpus** parallel to the
existing argv JSON corpus: **46 KDL vectors** in `corpus/config/`
(precedence, merging, scope, renames, types, choices) that pin registry
+ layered inputs → resolved values, origins, and **warning kinds** (not
message text).
> 
> **`usage-conformance`** gains a `config` module (~850 lines): KDL
parse/load, in-memory `Layer` stubs (no real env/files), a standalone
type grammar for building registries, and `run`/`matches` against
`usage-config::resolve`. Integration tests in
`conformance/tests/config.rs` run every vector and enforce corpus shape
(unique ids, etc.). **`load_as<T>`** generalizes corpus directory
loading; argv `load` delegates to it.
> 
> Docs: `corpus/config/README.md`, link from `corpus/README.md`. Depends
on **`kdl`** and **`usage-config`** in the conformance crate.
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