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Stacked in this order: #937#939#946#945#947#949#951 → this PR.

usage is now its own first adopter. Its command structs, root, and command enums use the usage-rs facade instead of Clap, and --usage-spec prints Cli::to_kdl() from the same tables that parsed the command line.

What goes away

  • clap, clap_usage, and the clap-sort dev dependency
  • tests/clap_sort.rs; declaration order is held by the spec
  • the duplicated command-effect tables; effects now live on the commands they describe
  • the empty Sponsors struct; unit subcommands are supported directly
  • runtime checks for relationships the spec can express

Migration shape

The declarations remain close to their former Clap layout:

  • inferred shorts use #[usage(short, long)]
  • command aliases live on their command structs, e.g. #[usage(alias = "c", alias_hidden("complete", "completions"))]
  • positive dependencies use requires, including --cache-key--usage-cmd and --out-dir--multi
  • aliases written on enum variants still merge with struct aliases for compatibility
  • deliberately formatted docs keep #[usage(verbatim_doc_comment)]
  • path hints keep value_hint = usage_rs::ValueHint::FilePath or DirPath from usage’s own runtime type
  • subcommand payloads stay unboxed as they were under Clap; Box<T> remains an optional size optimization

The four shell commands are separate derived structs flattening a shared group. A single destination struct cannot identify which enum variant selected it, so a macro keeps their common declaration in one place.

Parity gaps closed by the stack

The emitted spec still intentionally gains metadata the Clap bridge dropped, including JDX_USAGE_BIN on --usage-bin, preserved multiline long help, the manpage description, and the correct binary name usage.

Verification

  • mise run render
  • cargo test --all --all-features
  • cargo clippy --all --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • direct binary checks for no-argument help, duplicate flags, command aliases, and positive requirements

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Medium Risk
Large surface-area change to the primary usage binary’s parsing, help, errors, and emitted spec; behavior is intentionally different in places (completions flag, unknown flags, missing subcommand UX) though covered by tests.

Overview
The usage CLI is migrated off Clap to the new usage-rs facade (usage-argv + usage-derive). Command structs use #[usage(...)], parsing goes through Cli::parse_from, and --usage-spec emits Cli::to_kdl() from the same compile-time tables—no clap_usage bridge or post-hoc command_effects patching. Clap, clap-sort, and the old effect tables are removed; effect, aliases, and constraints are declared on commands/flags.

User-visible CLI shape is corrected: --completions is a documented flag (not a phantom positional), synopsis is usage <COMMAND> with separate --completions / --usage-spec lines, and root unknown_flags = "error" applies to subcommands while script runners use unknown_flags = "value".

usage-argv gains ValueHint, complete_type in spec emission, optional top-level usage synopsis, completion that prefers typed path/dir hints, and missing subcommand errors that render help with command choices. usage-rs is added to the workspace and MSRV matrix; lockfile updates follow usage-derive’s proc-macro-crate dependency.

Docs and generated assets (manpage, Fig, usage.usage.kdl) are refreshed to match the new spec; conformance tests cover value hints and verbatim doc layout.

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  • New Features

    • Added --completions <SHELL> for selecting a completion shell.
    • Improved command validation, aliases, defaults, environment settings, and file-output completion hints.
    • Shell commands now forward unrecognized arguments as script values.
    • Added clearer help text and descriptions for generation commands.
  • Documentation

    • Updated CLI references, manpages, usage specifications, and shell documentation to reflect revised options and behavior.

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Walkthrough

The CLI migrated from Clap to usage_derive and usage_argv. Command effects now come from usage metadata. Usage specifications, generated references, manpages, shell commands, validation, and diagnostics were updated.

Changes

CLI parser and command declarations

Layer / File(s) Summary
Usage parser and command declarations
cli/Cargo.toml, cli/src/cli/..., cli/src/command_effects.rs
CLI argument structs now use usage_derive. Cli::run uses usage_argv for parsing, diagnostics, help, version output, and invalid-input handling. Shell commands use dedicated wrappers.
Derived effects and generated usage specification
cli/src/command_effects.rs, cli/src/usage_spec.rs, cli/usage.usage.kdl, cli/tests/...
Command and flag effects are declared through usage attributes. Tests inspect derived metadata. Usage KDL is generated directly from Cli::to_kdl().
Generated help and reference updates
cli/assets/*, docs/cli/reference/*
Manpage, Fig metadata, command references, and shell documentation now describe the renamed usage CLI, pass-through arguments, conditional options, environment defaults, and updated command descriptions.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 83ffa

The parser and facade changes may fail to compile for library-target derives, while multiline command help can break compact output and generated documentation still contains two stale claims. These are concrete correctness and documentation issues, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CliRun
  participant usage_argv
  participant Command
  participant ShellRun
  CliRun->>usage_argv: parse arguments and render diagnostics
  usage_argv->>Command: return parsed command
  Command->>ShellRun: dispatch shell command
  ShellRun->>ShellRun: execute selected shell
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Usage replaces Clap without fail.
Specs bloom in KDL lines,
Shell commands hop through new designs.
Help and completions leave a tidy trail.

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The PR migrates the usage binary from Clap to its own usage-rs parser and makes the same derived tables drive parsing, help, completions, and KDL generation.

  • Replaces Clap command declarations and dispatch with usage-rs derives.
  • Adds value-hint completion metadata and explicit usage-synopsis support.
  • Regenerates the CLI specification, manpage, completion assets, and reference documentation.
  • Adds the usage-rs facade crate to the workspace and MSRV checks.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge because no blocking failure remains within the eligible follow-up review scope.

No blocking failure remains.

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
cli/src/cli/mod.rs Replaces Clap parsing and command dispatch with the derived usage-rs parser while preserving root help, version, spec, and completion behavior.
cli/src/lib.rs Retains top-level special-flag handling and the distinct diagnostic path for usage-spec errors.
derive/src/codegen.rs Extends generated metadata for the facade-backed parser and emitted specification.
derive/src/model.rs Adds parsing and validation for the new usage synopsis and value-hint declarations.
argv/src/spec.rs Extends cold metadata and KDL emission with exact usage text and built-in completion types.
argv/src/complete.rs Uses explicit completion metadata before falling back to field-name-based path inference.
lib/src/docs/manpage/renderer.rs Renders an explicitly declared multi-form usage synopsis when available.
usage-rs/src/lib.rs Provides the facade re-exports used by downstream CLI declarations and generated code.

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Instruction counts

benchmark trend instructions Δ wall (min) Δ
markdown ▁▁█████▇ 197,154,986 → 195,625,605 -0.78% 18.22 → 18.32ms +0.55%
startup ███████▁ 1,242,733 → 828,949 -33.30% 1.00 → 0.85ms -15.48%

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 64573 5893640 91x
usage: argv -> struct                            1086 ns      1.09 µs
clap: build tree + parse -> struct             501909 ns    501.91 µs
clap: parse -> struct, tree reused              23892 ns     23.89 µs
clap: build tree only                          308408 ns    308.41 µs

02802941525d vs b8839b08713b · measured on the runner, not pushed to the history.

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5-7: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the obsolete man alias from this reference.

The source migration removed the man alias, but this page still advertises it. usage generate man will fail after publication. Regenerate this page from the current specification.

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In `@cli/src/cli/generate/markdown.rs`:
- Around line 25-32: Update the markdown generation argument validation around
the out_dir field and run() so providing out_dir without multi is rejected at
runtime, while retaining the existing requirement that multi needs out_dir.
Ensure validation occurs before single-file output proceeds.

In `@cli/src/cli/mod.rs`:
- Around line 48-49: Annotate the completions field with the usage long-flag
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positional [COMPLETIONS], then regenerate the derived specification and help
assets.

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Rebased onto #939, so this now sits on top of the two gaps it found rather than describing them as open, and picks up the review feedback. New commit: fix(cli): take the two derive fixes, and say what this CLI actually accepts.

Stack is now #923#937#939 → this.

Addressed

  • Cursor Bugbot — --version name mismatch. Right, and it was the last place the crate name showed through: usage-cli ships a binary called usage, and everything else this CLI says about itself now comes from the spec. --version and -v both read version(), which takes bin and version from the spec, so they cannot drift from the help banner printed directly above.
  • CodeRabbit — --out-dir without --multi. Also right, and worse than the constraint being unstated: the command succeeded and wrote a single file somewhere else. Refused in run() now, with a note pointing at feat(spec): say that one flag needs another, which nothing here could #925's requires as where it belongs once that can carry it.
  • CodeRabbit — completions should be #[usage(long)]. Taken, and it fixes an older wrong: the clap declaration made it a positional, so the spec, the docs, the manpage and the generated completions all described a [COMPLETIONS] argument that nothing accepts, while --completions <shell> — which does work, answered before the parse — went undocumented. This PR carried that over faithfully, wrong included. Emitting the spec from the declaration is supposed to mean the two cannot disagree, so the declaration is what changed. Assets re-rendered.

Declined

  • CodeRabbit — the man alias on generate manpage was removed and the page is stale. It was not removed: #[usage(alias = "man")] in cli/src/cli/generate/mod.rs, alias "man" in cli/usage.usage.kdl, and Aliases: man on the rendered page.

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unknown_flags reaches the whole tree now that #939 is under this: the root declares error once and every subcommand inherits it, so usage lint --nope f.kdl names the flag instead of making --nope the file and calling the real file unexpected. The five commands that forward a command line to somebody else's script declare value for themselves.

Workspace suite green, clippy clean under --all-targets, docs/manpage/fig/completions re-rendered.

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## Summary

- render the command's short help page when a required subcommand is
missing
- keep the parse failure and exit status unchanged
- add diagnostic coverage for the command list

This restores the discoverability users expect from Clap: running a
command that requires a subcommand shows the available choices instead
of only saying that a subcommand is missing.

## Stack

Targets the duplicate-flag PR and is the new direct base for #936.

## Checks

- `cargo test -p usage-argv --features diagnostics`
- `cargo test -p usage-conformance --test help_request --test
subcommand_required`
- full stacked `cargo test --all --all-features`
- full stacked Clippy with warnings denied

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> [!NOTE]
> **Low Risk**
> User-facing stderr text only on a parse-error path; parse failure and
exit status stay the same, with a safe fallback if help rendering fails.
> 
> **Overview**
> When parsing stops with **`Error::MissingSubcommand`**, diagnostics
now try **`help::render_at`** for the current command path and return
that **short help** (including the **Commands:** list) instead of the
old **“requires a subcommand”** line plus a usage block.
> 
> If help cannot be rendered, behavior falls back to the previous error
message. A unit test asserts the new output lists subcommands like `use`
and `user` and omits the old wording.
> 
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **User Experience**
* When a required subcommand is omitted, the command now displays its
help page with available subcommands.
* The previous “requires a subcommand” error and usage block are no
longer shown in this case.

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## Summary

- accept `#[usage(verbatim_doc_comment)]` on root and command structs,
fields, and subcommand variants
- preserve internal line breaks, blank lines, indentation, and
whitespace in derived help
- retain the conventional removal of one leading space after `///` and
outer blank lines
- document the attribute and cover root, flag, and subcommand metadata

This keeps Clap declarations that use ASCII art, tables, examples, or
deliberately formatted prose intact during migration.

## Stack

Targets #947 and becomes the direct base for #936.

## Checks

- `cargo test -p usage-conformance --test metadata`
- `cargo test -p usage-derive`
- `cargo test --all --all-features`
- `cargo clippy --all --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings`
- `mise run render`

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> **Low Risk**
> Changes are confined to derive-time help text extraction with default
behavior preserved; risk is limited to help/spec wording, covered by new
conformance tests.
> 
> **Overview**
> Adds **`#[usage(verbatim_doc_comment)]`** on root/`Args` structs,
fields, and subcommand variants so doc comments can feed **help/about
text with intentional line breaks, blank lines, and indentation**
instead of flowing the first paragraph like prose.
> 
> The derive’s **`doc_comment`** helper now takes a verbatim flag:
default behavior is unchanged (first paragraph collapsed to one line for
short help; multiline `#[doc = "..."]` still behaves as before). With
verbatim, it strips only the usual `///` leading space and outer blank
lines, then splits **short help** at the first blank line and keeps the
full text for **long help** when there is more.
> 
> Crate docs list the new option; **conformance metadata tests** cover
root, flag, and subcommand specs plus ordinary vs verbatim multiline
`#[doc]` attributes.
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## Summary

- add a usage-owned `usage_argv::ValueHint` for `value_hint` expressions
- map `FilePath` and `AnyPath` to the spec's `type="path"`, and
`DirPath` to `type="dir"`
- carry hints through native `usage-argv` completion and emitted KDL
- reject hints on valueless fields or alongside a custom completer
- document and test file/directory completion behavior end to end

Declarations use usage’s own hint type:

```rust
#[usage(long, value_hint = usage_argv::ValueHint::FilePath)]
```

The hint type lives in `usage-argv`, the derive runtime a compiled CLI
already uses.

## Stack

Targets #949 and becomes the direct base for #936.

## Checks

- `cargo test -p usage-conformance --test completion`
- `cargo test -p usage-argv --features spec,complete`
- `cargo test -p usage-derive`
- `cargo test --all --all-features`
- `cargo clippy --all --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings`
- `mise run render`

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> [!NOTE]
> **Low Risk**
> Changes are limited to completion/spec metadata and derive codegen;
parsing is unaffected and behavior is covered by conformance tests.
> 
> **Overview**
> Adds **`usage_argv::ValueHint`** (`FilePath`, `AnyPath`, `DirPath`) so
`#[usage(value_hint = …)]` can declare filesystem completion without
pulling in clap.
> 
> The derive maps hints to spec vocabulary (`path` / `dir`), stores them
on **`FlagMeta` / `ArgMeta`** as **`complete_type`**, and emits
**`complete "…" type="…"`** blocks in KDL. Native completion now prefers
that metadata (then still falls back to value-name heuristics like
`<FILE>`).
> 
> Compile-time guards reject **`value_hint`** on valueless fields and
**`value_hint`** together with a custom **`complete`** function.
Conformance tests cover bash markers, emitted KDL, and parsing
unchanged.
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jdx and others added 12 commits August 17, 2026 10:23
`usage` is now its own first adopter. The ten command structs, the root and the
two command enums are declared with `usage-derive` instead of clap, and
`--usage-spec` prints `Cli::to_kdl()` — the same tables that parsed the command
line, rather than a transcription of a clap `Command` through `clap_usage`.

Smaller than mise and far less forgiving of a lossy spec, because this CLI's
spec is what generates its own docs, manpage and completions: anything the
derive cannot say shows up in the checked-in output.

- `clap`, `clap_usage` and the `clap-sort` dev-dependency, plus `tests/clap_sort.rs`
  — declaration order is held by the spec since #915.
- `command_effects.rs`'s two tables, 60 lines that existed because "clap has no
  way to express this". Each command declares `#[usage(effect = "…")]` where it
  is defined; the file keeps `UNCLASSIFIED` and the coverage tests, which now
  read the derived metadata. A stale entry is no longer possible for the effects
  themselves — an effect moves with the command it is written on.

- The four shell commands shared one `Shell` struct, which the derive refuses:
  a command collects into the struct that declares it. They are four structs
  flattening a shared group now, written by a macro so the paragraph of long
  help is not copied four times. Their docs improve as a side effect — all four
  used to say "Execute a shell script with the specified shell".
- `sponsors` is a bare variant (#923), so its empty struct is gone.
- `requires` has no positive form in the spec, so the two constraints that used
  it are stated as `required_if` on the other flag. `--out-dir requires --multi`
  is a positive requirement on a `bool` and has no spelling at all; #925
  adds `requires`, and it belongs here when it lands.

Gains `JDX_USAGE_BIN` on `--usage-bin` (the bridge dropped `env`), long help that
keeps its line breaks, an `about` for `generate manpage`, and `name "usage"`
rather than `name "usage-cli"`.

Loses `subcommand_required`, which the spec can hold and the derive knows from a
bare `T` subcommand field but does not emit, and strictness on subcommands:
`unknown_flags` is accepted on an `Args` and ignored, and the root's is not
inherited, so only the root is strict. Both are derive gaps worth their own fix
rather than a workaround here.

Workspace suite green, clippy clean, docs and assets re-rendered.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ccepts

Follow-up to the conversion, now stacked on the two gaps it found rather than
describing them as open.

`unknown_flags` reaches the whole tree. The root declares `error` once and every
subcommand inherits it, so `usage lint --nope f.kdl` names the flag again
instead of making `--nope` the file and calling the real file unexpected. The
five commands that hand a command line to somebody else's script declare
`value` for themselves, which is the half that needs a subcommand to be able to
say something.

## From review

`--version` says `usage 5.1.0`, not `usage-cli 5.1.0`. The crate is `usage-cli`
and the binary is `usage`; everything else this CLI says about itself now comes
from the spec, where the name is `usage`, so the version line was contradicting
the help banner printed directly above it. Read from the spec by `version()`,
which `-v` shares, so the two cannot drift.

`--out-dir` without `--multi` is refused. clap said this as a `requires` in both
directions; the spec can only state the direction that makes `--multi` need a
destination, so without a check the other way `usage g markdown --out-dir docs`
quietly wrote a single file somewhere else. Enforced in `run()` until
#925's `requires` can carry it.

`--completions` is a flag, which is how it is typed. The clap declaration made
it a *positional*, so the spec, the docs, the manpage and the generated
completions all described a `[COMPLETIONS]` argument that nothing accepts, while
the flag that does work went undocumented. The conversion carried that over
faithfully, wrong included. The point of emitting the spec from the declaration
is that the two cannot disagree, so the declaration is what changes.

Declined one: CodeRabbit read the `man` alias on `generate manpage` as removed.
It is declared, in the emitted spec, and on the rendered page.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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cli/src/cli/shell.rs (1)

44-44: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use literal for the $about fragment specifier.

$about:tt accepts any single token tree. The derive requires a string literal for about, so a wrong argument fails later, inside the expansion. $about:literal rejects it at the macro call site with a clearer message.

♻️ Proposed change
-    ($ty:ident, $program:literal, $about:tt) => {
+    ($ty:ident, $program:literal, $about:literal) => {
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In `@cli/src/cli/shell.rs` at line 44, Update the macro arm matching $ty,
$program, and $about to declare $about with the literal fragment specifier
instead of tt, ensuring non-string arguments are rejected at the macro call
site.
usage-rs/src/lib.rs (1)

29-30: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Re-exporting a module name beside a glob is a name-shadowing risk.

pub use usage_argv as argv; sits beside pub use usage_argv::*;. If usage_argv ever exports an item named argv, the explicit re-export shadows it silently. Consider documenting the intent on line 29 so a later addition upstream is not hidden.

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In `@usage-rs/src/lib.rs` around lines 29 - 30, Add a concise comment beside the
re-exports explaining that the explicit argv module alias is intentional and
must remain distinct from items imported by usage_argv::*. Keep both re-export
statements unchanged.
usage-rs/tests/facade.rs (1)

41-41: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The KDL substring assertion is format-sensitive.

The test asserts an exact fragment, complete "file" type="path". A whitespace or attribute-order change in the KDL writer breaks this test without any behavior change. Parse the KDL and assert the completion type, or assert on two smaller substrings.

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In `@usage-rs/tests/facade.rs` at line 41, Update the test around Ex::to_kdl() to
avoid asserting the format-sensitive combined fragment; parse the generated KDL
and verify the completion type, or use separate assertions for the stable
completion and type substrings.
derive/src/codegen.rs (1)

26-65: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Both resolvers repeat one shape; extract a single helper.

runtime_path and derive_path differ only in the fallback crate name and the trailing ::argv segment. Extract one function that takes the fallback crate name and an optional suffix. This keeps the two paths from drifting when the facade layout changes.

♻️ Proposed consolidation
+/// The path to `crate_name`, preferring the `usage-rs` facade.
+fn resolved_path(fallback: &str, suffix: Option<&str>) -> TokenStream {
+    let tail = suffix.map(|s| format_ident!("{s}"));
+    let with_tail = |base: TokenStream| match &tail {
+        Some(t) => quote!(`#base`::`#t`),
+        None => base,
+    };
+    match crate_name("usage-rs") {
+        Ok(FoundCrate::Itself) => with_tail(quote!(::usage_rs)),
+        Ok(FoundCrate::Name(name)) => {
+            let facade = format_ident!("{}", name.replace('-', "_"));
+            with_tail(quote!(::`#facade`))
+        }
+        Err(_) => match crate_name(fallback) {
+            Ok(FoundCrate::Name(name)) => {
+                let direct = format_ident!("{}", name.replace('-', "_"));
+                quote!(::`#direct`)
+            }
+            _ => {
+                let direct = format_ident!("{}", fallback.replace('-', "_"));
+                quote!(::`#direct`)
+            }
+        },
+    }
+}
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In `@derive/src/codegen.rs` around lines 26 - 65, Extract the shared
crate-resolution logic from runtime_path and derive_path into one helper
accepting the fallback crate name and an optional trailing path segment.
Preserve the existing facade and self-crate handling, use the supplied fallback
for unresolved dependencies, and have runtime_path request the argv suffix while
derive_path requests none.
cli/src/cli/generate/go.rs (1)

24-30: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

--out-file gains a short form here but not in the sibling generators.

This declaration adds short, so go accepts -o. cli/src/cli/generate/fig.rs and cli/src/cli/generate/markdown.rs declare out_file with long only. The same flag then has a short form on one generator and not on the others. Align the four declarations, or state why go differs.

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In `@cli/src/cli/generate/go.rs` around lines 24 - 30, Align the out_file option
declarations across the Go, Fig, Markdown, and remaining sibling generators so
--out-file consistently has the same short-form behavior; either add the short
alias to each corresponding out_file field or remove short from the Go
declaration. Use the out_file symbols and their usage attributes to locate all
four declarations.
derive/src/model.rs (1)

249-275: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

value_hint matches on the last path segment only.

The function reads path.path.segments.last(), so value_hint = FilePath and value_hint = anything::FilePath are both accepted. That mirrors how complete takes a path, so it is consistent. State the rule in the doc comment so a reader does not expect the full path to be checked. The segments.last() None arm cannot be reached, because a parsed Expr::Path always has one segment.

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In `@derive/src/model.rs` around lines 249 - 275, Update the doc comment for
value_hint to state that validation uses only the final path segment, so both
unqualified and qualified ValueHint paths are accepted. Remove the unreachable
segments.last() None error branch while preserving the existing variant matching
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Inline comments:
In `@derive/src/codegen.rs`:
- Around line 27-32: Update the crate-path generation match for
crate_name("usage-rs") so both relevant FoundCrate::Itself cases emit
crate-relative paths, using crate::argv for the argv reference and crate for the
crate reference instead of hardcoding ::usage_rs. Preserve the FoundCrate::Name
branch for external consumers.

In `@derive/src/model.rs`:
- Around line 2332-2343: Update the unknown-variant-option error message in the
option parser match to list every option accepted there, including hide, effect,
help, and long_help, alongside the existing name, alias, alias_hidden, and
verbatim_doc_comment entries.
- Around line 2072-2078: Update the verbatim handling in the relevant
help-generation function to assign about only the first line of the input and
long_about the complete multiline text. Preserve the existing omission of empty
short text and ensure downstream JSON and Fig outputs receive the separated
values unchanged.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@cli/src/cli/generate/go.rs`:
- Around line 24-30: Align the out_file option declarations across the Go, Fig,
Markdown, and remaining sibling generators so --out-file consistently has the
same short-form behavior; either add the short alias to each corresponding
out_file field or remove short from the Go declaration. Use the out_file symbols
and their usage attributes to locate all four declarations.

In `@cli/src/cli/shell.rs`:
- Line 44: Update the macro arm matching $ty, $program, and $about to declare
$about with the literal fragment specifier instead of tt, ensuring non-string
arguments are rejected at the macro call site.

In `@derive/src/codegen.rs`:
- Around line 26-65: Extract the shared crate-resolution logic from runtime_path
and derive_path into one helper accepting the fallback crate name and an
optional trailing path segment. Preserve the existing facade and self-crate
handling, use the supplied fallback for unresolved dependencies, and have
runtime_path request the argv suffix while derive_path requests none.

In `@derive/src/model.rs`:
- Around line 249-275: Update the doc comment for value_hint to state that
validation uses only the final path segment, so both unqualified and qualified
ValueHint paths are accepted. Remove the unreachable segments.last() None error
branch while preserving the existing variant matching and error behavior in
value_hint.

In `@usage-rs/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 29-30: Add a concise comment beside the re-exports explaining that
the explicit argv module alias is intentional and must remain distinct from
items imported by usage_argv::*. Keep both re-export statements unchanged.

In `@usage-rs/tests/facade.rs`:
- Line 41: Update the test around Ex::to_kdl() to avoid asserting the
format-sensitive combined fragment; parse the generated KDL and verify the
completion type, or use separate assertions for the stable completion and type
substrings.
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Comment thread derive/src/codegen.rs
Comment on lines +27 to +32
match crate_name("usage-rs") {
Ok(FoundCrate::Itself) => quote!(::usage_rs::argv),
Ok(FoundCrate::Name(name)) => {
let facade = format_ident!("{}", name.replace('-', "_"));
quote!(::#facade::argv)
}

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In the context of the proc-macro-crate library, FoundCrate::Itself is a variant of the FoundCrate enum returned by the crate_name function [1][2]. It signifies that the crate being searched for is the same as the crate currently being compiled [1][2]. When writing procedural macros, this variant is typically handled to ensure the macro refers to itself correctly, often using the crate:: path instead of an external dependency name [2][3]. Regarding integration tests, proc-macro-crate is designed to detect the crate name by inspecting the Cargo.toml file in the directory specified by CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR [1][3]. A known limitation or behavior in this system is that when running integration tests, the crate may behave differently compared to regular compilation [2]. Specifically, because integration tests are compiled as separate crates that depend on the library under test, the library may not resolve to FoundCrate::Itself in that context; instead, it may return a FoundCrate::Name variant reflecting how the dependency is defined in the integration test's Cargo.toml [2]. Developers are advised to handle both variants in their procedural macro logic to account for these different compilation contexts [2][3].

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  | sed 's/<[^>]*>/ /g; s/&lt;/</g; s/&gt;/>/g; s/&quot;/"/g; s/&`#39`;/'"'"'/g' \
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Use crate for both FoundCrate::Itself arms. proc-macro-crate 3.5.0 returns FoundCrate::Name for integration tests and FoundCrate::Itself for the library target. Since usage-rs does not define an extern crate self as usage_rs alias, internal derives would fail with ::usage_rs; emit crate::argv and crate instead.

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In `@derive/src/codegen.rs` around lines 27 - 32, Update the crate-path generation
match for crate_name("usage-rs") so both relevant FoundCrate::Itself cases emit
crate-relative paths, using crate::argv for the argv reference and crate for the
crate reference instead of hardcoding ::usage_rs. Preserve the FoundCrate::Name
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if verbatim {
let first_blank = lines.iter().position(|line| line.trim().is_empty());
let short_lines = first_blank.map_or(lines.as_slice(), |i| &lines[..i]);
let short = short_lines.join("\n");
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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printf '%s\n' '--- about and short-description consumers ---'
rg -n -C 4 --hidden \
  -g '!target/**' -g '!node_modules/**' -g '!**/tests/**' \
  '\babout\b|long_about|commands\.json|Fig|figspec|render' . | sed -n '1,300p'

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  derive lib argv cli config-build config docs -g '*.rs' | sed -n '1,320p'

printf '%s\n' '--- JSON generator ---'
ast-grep outline cli/src/cli/generate/json.rs
sed -n '1,260p' cli/src/cli/generate/json.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- Fig generator ---'
ast-grep outline cli/src/cli/generate/fig.rs
sed -n '1,300p' cli/src/cli/generate/fig.rs

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  lib/src cli/src -g '*.rs' | sed -n '1,420p'

printf '%s\n' '--- source-level behavioral verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path

help_src = Path("argv/src/help.rs").read_text()
fig_src = Path("cli/src/cli/generate/fig.rs").read_text()
spec_src = Path("lib/src/spec.rs").read_text() if Path("lib/src/spec.rs").exists() else ""

checks = {
    "short help writes about directly": 'if let Some(about) = sub.about' in help_src and 'write!(out, "  {usage}  {about}")' in help_src,
    "long help prefers long_about": 'sub.long_about.or(sub.about)' in help_src,
    "Fig maps command help directly": 'description: cmd.help.clone()' in fig_src,
}
for name, ok in checks.items():
    print(f"{name}: {'PASS' if ok else 'FAIL'}")

# Model the relevant short-help write with a multiline description.
usage = "tool run"
about = "first line\\nsecond line"
rendered = f"  {usage}  {about}\\n"
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printf '%s\n' '--- focused behavioral verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path

help_src = Path("argv/src/help.rs").read_text()
fig_src = Path("cli/src/cli/generate/fig.rs").read_text()
cmd_src = Path("lib/src/spec/cmd.rs").read_text()

checks = {
    "short command list writes about directly": (
        'if let Some(about) = sub.about' in help_src
        and 'write!(out, "  {usage}  {about}")' in help_src
    ),
    "long command list uses long_about": 'sub.long_about.or(sub.about)' in help_src,
    "Fig maps command help directly": 'description: cmd.help.clone()' in fig_src,
    "JSON command help is serialized as-is": (
        'pub help: Option<String>' in cmd_src
        and 'pub help_long: Option<String>' in cmd_src
    ),
}
for name, ok in checks.items():
    print(f"{name}: {'PASS' if ok else 'FAIL'}")

usage = "tool run"
about = "first line\nsecond line"
rendered = f"  {usage}  {about}\n"
print("short-help rendered repr:", repr(rendered))
print("short-help has an extra physical line:", rendered.count("\n") == 2)
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Keep about single-line in verbatim mode

The short help command list writes about directly after the command usage, so embedded newlines add rows and break the layout. The JSON command model and Fig generator also pass the value through unchanged.

Set about to the first line. Set long_about to the complete multiline text.

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In `@derive/src/model.rs` around lines 2072 - 2078, Update the verbatim handling
in the relevant help-generation function to assign about only the first line of
the input and long_about the complete multiline text. Preserve the existing
omission of empty short text and ensure downstream JSON and Fig outputs receive
the separated values unchanged.

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"verbatim_doc_comment" => verbatim_doc_comment = flag_value(&meta)?,
other => {
return Err(syn::Error::new_spanned(
path,
format!(
"unknown option `{other}` on a variant; a subcommand \
variant takes `name`, `alias` and `alias_hidden` here, \
variant takes `name`, `alias`, `alias_hidden` and \
`verbatim_doc_comment` here, \
and its description comes from the doc comment"
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The variant option list omits options the parser accepts.

The match above accepts hide, effect, help, and long_help, but the error message names only name, alias, alias_hidden, and verbatim_doc_comment. An author who mistypes an option reads an incomplete list and cannot see that hide or effect is allowed here.

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                             format!(
                                 "unknown option `{other}` on a variant; a subcommand \
-                                 variant takes `name`, `alias`, `alias_hidden` and \
-                                 `verbatim_doc_comment` here, \
+                                 variant takes `name`, `alias`, `alias_hidden`, `hide`, \
+                                 `effect`, `help`, `long_help` and `verbatim_doc_comment` here, \
                                  and its description comes from the doc comment"
                             ),
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"verbatim_doc_comment" => verbatim_doc_comment = flag_value(&meta)?,
other => {
return Err(syn::Error::new_spanned(
path,
format!(
"unknown option `{other}` on a variant; a subcommand \
variant takes `name`, `alias` and `alias_hidden` here, \
variant takes `name`, `alias`, `alias_hidden` and \
`verbatim_doc_comment` here, \
and its description comes from the doc comment"
),
));
}
"verbatim_doc_comment" => verbatim_doc_comment = flag_value(&meta)?,
other => {
return Err(syn::Error::new_spanned(
path,
format!(
"unknown option `{other}` on a variant; a subcommand \
variant takes `name`, `alias`, `alias_hidden`, `hide`, \
`effect`, `help`, `long_help` and `verbatim_doc_comment` here, \
and its description comes from the doc comment"
),
));
}
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In `@derive/src/model.rs` around lines 2332 - 2343, Update the
unknown-variant-option error message in the option parser match to list every
option accepted there, including hide, effect, help, and long_help, alongside
the existing name, alias, alias_hidden, and verbatim_doc_comment entries.

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Comment thread cli/src/cli/mod.rs
bin = "usage",
version,
min_usage_version = "4.0",
usage = "Usage: usage <COMMAND>\n usage --completions <COMPLETIONS>\n usage --usage-spec",

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Help ignores custom usage synopsis

Medium Severity

The new usage field is emitted into the spec and used for manpage synopsis rendering, but help::render still always builds the Usage: line from the command grammar via usage_line. Sibling root fields like about and version are already read from Spec, so usage --help and the missing-subcommand help page keep showing a single generated shape that cannot express the alternatives this attribute declares.

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Superseded by #965, which is stacked above the rebased facade in #963.

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…#965)

Stacked on #963, the `usage-rs` facade.

`usage` is now its own first adopter. Its command structs, root, and
command enums use the `usage-rs` facade instead of Clap, and
`--usage-spec` prints `Cli::to_kdl()` from the same tables that parsed
the command line.

## What goes away

- `clap`, `clap_usage`, and the `clap-sort` dev dependency
- `tests/clap_sort.rs`; declaration order is held by the spec
- the duplicated command-effect tables; effects now live on the commands
they describe
- the empty `Sponsors` struct; unit subcommands are supported directly
- runtime checks for relationships the spec can express

## Migration shape

The declarations remain close to their former Clap layout:

- inferred shorts use `#[usage(short, long)]`
- command aliases live on their command structs, e.g. `#[usage(alias =
"c", alias_hidden("complete", "completions"))]`
- positive dependencies use `requires`, including `--cache-key` →
`--usage-cmd` and `--out-dir` → `--multi`
- aliases written on enum variants still merge with struct aliases for
compatibility
- deliberately formatted docs keep `#[usage(verbatim_doc_comment)]`
- path hints keep `value_hint = usage_rs::ValueHint::FilePath` or
`DirPath` from usage’s own runtime type
- subcommand payloads stay unboxed as they were under Clap; `Box<T>`
remains an optional size optimization

The four shell commands are separate derived structs flattening a shared
group. A single destination struct cannot identify which enum variant
selected it, so a macro keeps their common declaration in one place.

## Parity gaps closed by the stack

- required subcommands survive KDL generation (#937)
- strict unknown-flag behavior is inherited by subcommands (#939)
- command-owned visible and hidden aliases are supported (#946)
- duplicate non-repeatable flags are rejected (#945)
- a missing required subcommand prints the available command choices
(#947)
- verbatim doc-comment layout is preserved on commands, fields, and
variants (#949)
- file and directory value hints reach native and emitted completions
(#951)

The emitted spec still intentionally gains metadata the Clap bridge
dropped, including `JDX_USAGE_BIN` on `--usage-bin`, preserved multiline
long help, the manpage description, and the correct binary name `usage`.

## Verification

- `mise run render`
- `cargo test --all --all-features`
- `cargo clippy --all --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings`
- direct binary checks for no-argument help, duplicate flags, command
aliases, and positive requirements

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> [!NOTE]
> **Medium Risk**
> Changes how the primary `usage` CLI is parsed and documented
(including `--completions` UX), but behavior is covered by updated
integration tests and is an intentional migration to the shipped parser.
> 
> **Overview**
> The **`usage` binary dogfoods `usage-rs`**: command structs use
`#[derive(usage_rs::Cli)]` / `#[usage(...)]` instead of Clap, and
**`--usage-spec` emits `Cli::to_kdl()`** from the same parse tables that
handle argv. **Clap, `clap_usage`, and `clap-sort` are removed**, along
with the post-hoc **`command_effects` patch table**—`effect`,
`requires`, `overrides`, and similar metadata now live on the
declarations.
> 
> **Root CLI shape is corrected in spec and docs**: **`--completions
<SHELL>` is a long flag** (not a positional), with an **explicit
multi-line `usage` synopsis** for `usage <COMMAND>` / `--completions` /
`--usage-spec`. Shell runner commands (`bash`, `fish`, `zsh`,
`powershell`, `exec`) use **`unknown_flags = "value"`** so script
arguments can include unknown flags.
> 
> **Help and manpages** gain support for an optional root **`usage`
string** on `Spec` (derive + KDL emission); root help/man synopsis
prefer that over generated lines. Generated assets (`usage.usage.kdl`,
`usage.1`, Fig spec, CLI reference markdown, snapshots) are refreshed to
match.
> 
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
  * Added `--completions <SHELL>` for selecting a completion shell.
* Improved command validation, aliases, defaults, environment settings,
and file-output completion hints.
  * Shell commands now forward unrecognized arguments as script values.
  * Added clearer help text and descriptions for generation commands.

* **Documentation**
* Updated CLI references, manpages, usage specifications, and shell
documentation to reflect revised options and behavior.
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Replaces #936 after flipping the facade and CLI layers.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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