Survey of 10 mainstream CLIs (gh, lark, stripe, vercel, supabase, aws,
azure, gcloud, openai/codex, github-copilot-cli) showed env-gated
per-command --help blurbs are a Stripe-only pattern; gh uses env detect
for telemetry only, and lark relies on installed agent Skills + MCP.
Our cmd/mcp/serve already covers the dominant 2025/26 path, so
internal/aiclient/ (136 LOC + 38 callsites) is net maintenance burden
without precedent.
- Drop internal/aiclient/ entirely (annotations + detect + tests)
- Remove 38 SetAgentHelp callsites + agentAwareHelpFunc / SetHelpFunc
wiring in cmd/root.go
- Migrate 4 command-level rules to standard Long help (visible to all,
not env-gated): doc upload mode mutex, kb edit at-least-one,
kb pin idempotent, search chunks channel mutex
- Rewrite AGENTS.md as a developer guide (gh-style 6 H2 / 167 lines):
audience preamble + Build / Architecture / Command Structure /
Testing / Code Style / Error Handling. Drops sections absent in
surveyed projects (Commit & PR Conventions, Who Uses This CLI)
- Clean 14 internal doc refs (ADR-N, spec §X, v0.X) in source comments
and docs that pointed at docs/superpowers/ — that directory is
local-only / uncommitted, so refs are dead for outside readers
- Drop forward-looking "once v0.2 ships" from README
Two intertwined mainstream-alignment moves bundled because they share
the migration target (every command's --json path):
1. Drop --dry-run entirely. Survey of comparable API-wrapper CLIs
(gh, aws, stripe, lark): none expose --dry-run. The mainstream that
does (kubectl/git/helm/ansible) operates on declarative manifests
or local state where the preview is materially different from the
executed action. WeKnora's CLI just echoed the same parameters
that would have gone on the wire — the preview added no real
signal over `--help` + reading the call site. Removes:
- root --dry-run persistent flag + cmdutil/dryrun.go
- DryRun fields + EmitDryRun calls in 12 write commands
- format.Envelope.DryRun field
- 8 corresponding *_test.go cases
- --dry-run mention from README.md and CHANGELOG.md
- "dry_run":false from 16 golden envelopes
2. Migrate every --json output to bare data:
- New format.WriteJSON / WriteJSONFiltered helpers
(cli/internal/format/bare.go) share filterArrayItems /
filterObjectKeys / writeJQ with the (still-live for now) envelope
filter helpers.
- Read commands (kb/doc/session list+view, search chunks/docs/
sessions/kb, auth list/status, agent list/view, context list,
doctor) emit bare arrays / objects on stdout.
- Write commands (kb create/edit/delete/pin/empty, doc upload/
upload_recursive/delete, session delete, auth login/logout/
refresh/token, link/unlink, context add/use/remove, agent
invoke, chat, api, version) emit bare result objects. Risk
classification dropped — the resource + exit code already
convey the action.
Per-command shape changes:
list / search → []T (was {ok, data:{items:[…]}})
view → T (was {ok, data:T, _meta:…})
create / edit → T
delete / pin / etc. → {id, …action result…}
doctor → {summary, checks}
api → {status, headers, body}
_meta dropped on the read path:
pagination (page/page_size/total/has_more) — agents iterate with
--all-pages or accept --limit (gh CLI parity);
kb_id / context echo — caller already knows what it asked for.
Acceptance contract goldens regenerated for the new bare shape.
Error envelope on stdout (PrintErrorEnvelope) stays live for now —
the envelope-infra deletion lands in the next commit.
Output ergonomics:
- `--json` accepts a comma-separated field list (gh-parity); selects
named keys from the per-command payload. Bare `--json` keeps the
full shape.
- `--jq <expr>` evaluates a gojq expression over the JSON; pairs with
`--json field-list` so projection runs before jq.
- `--version` is a global cobra flag in addition to the `version`
subcommand; both render the same line.
- Per-command `--help` now renders the available JSON field list under
"JSON fields available via `--json id,name,...`" (field-discovery
parity with gh / kubectl `-o jsonpath`).
New commands:
- `auth token` — print the active context's credential to stdout for
shell command substitution (`WEKNORA_TOKEN=$(weknora auth token)`).
Default: raw secret, no trailing newline. `--json` emits
`{token, mode, context}`.
- `doc upload --from-url <URL>` — ingest a remote URL via the SDK
`CreateKnowledgeFromURL`. `--name` forwarded as `FileName` so the
server's known-extension heuristic upgrades crawl-mode to
file-download-mode where appropriate.
Includes the simplify post-review polish pass (field-filter unit
tests, --json/--jq compose check, agent_help copy fixes).
Final design-pass audit on the v0.3 surface flagged two real gaps.
(A) doc view <id> was missing. Every other resource subtree exposes
a view verb (kb view, session view) for inspecting a single record,
but doc — which has the richest metadata of the three (title, file
name, type, size, parse_status, embedding_model, processed_at,
error_message) — had no single-doc surface. Users wanting one
doc's metadata had to `doc list | grep`.
Implementation mirrors kb view: narrow ViewService(GetKnowledge)
interface, --json envelope path, human KEY: VALUE renderer. Optional
fields are omitted rather than rendered as "-" so the panel is
dense. Tested: human renderer, title fallback when FileName empty,
omit-empty contract, JSON envelope shape, 404 classification.
(B) link had no counterpart. Once .weknora/project.yaml is written,
the only way to clear it was `rm` by hand. Both vercel and netlify
ship `unlink` as a top-level verb; not having one was a
discoverability gap. Top-level rather than `link --clear` follows
the verb-noun convention of the rest of the surface — the verb
stands alone and the operation isn't parameterised.
unlink walks up from cwd via projectlink.Discover (the same
parent-chain logic Factory.ResolveKB uses on the read side), so a
user in a subdirectory of a linked project can unlink without
cd-ing up. Errors with input.invalid_argument when no link is
found anywhere in the chain. Idempotent under racy concurrent
removal: os.ErrNotExist on os.Remove falls through to a Success
envelope since the post-condition holds either way.
projectlink package gained Remove() alongside Save / Load /
Discover so unlink doesn't reimplement the idempotent-remove
pattern inline.
Top-level registration in cmd/root.go, alongside link.
cli/AGENTS.md verb canon line adds unlink to the locally-introduced
list. cli/CHANGELOG.md gains an Added entry for each.
5 unit tests for view + 4 for unlink (cwd / walk-up / no-link
error / JSON envelope). Full suite green.
Intentionally deferred:
- session edit (rename a session): sessions auto-name from the
first prompt; polish rather than a gap.
- link --clear as an alternative to unlink: top-level unlink is
the documented form; aliases would just multiply the surface.
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