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).
Audited the v0.0~v0.2 21-command surface against gh / kubectl / cargo /
npm / git / docker / flyctl / vercel / supabase / brew. WeKnora was
cherry-picking from multiple heritages, producing an inconsistent feel:
the kb subtree mixed gh verbs (create / delete / list) with a kubectl
verb (get); confirmation flag duplicated --force (docker/kubectl) with
global -y/--yes (gh/vercel/npm); the --agent flag stretched Stripe's
telemetry-tag pattern into a behavior-mode switch that no mainstream
CLI does.
ADR-3 picks gh as the primary north star. Documented deviations remain
for project-link (vercel/cargo), chat (openai-cli), context (kubectl-
light), and doctor (brew/flutter). The decision and its deviations are
documented self-contained in cli/AGENTS.md.
Surface changes:
- kb get → kb view (gh repo view convention); "get" kept as cobra Alias
for v0.0/v0.1 callers — see https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_repo_view.
- kb delete --force / doc delete --force removed in favor of the global
-y/--yes persistent flag (gh repo delete --yes convention). One
mechanism skips destructive prompts; ConfirmDestructive's parameter
renamed `force` → `yes` to match.
- --agent omnibus mode-switch removed. Stripe's DetectAIAgent (the
cited inspiration) only tags User-Agent for telemetry, never flips
behavior; gh / kubectl / aws / docker / flyctl all decline this kind
of flag. The 7-env auto-detect list is reduced to the two entries
Stripe also recognizes (CLAUDECODE, CURSOR_AGENT) — the other five
had no agent-documented source. ApplyAgentSugar / ShouldUseAgentMode
and the dead --no-interactive / --no-progress globals are deleted
entirely.
- DetectAIAgent and SetAgentHelp annotations are kept: env detection
now only triggers AGENT-targeted help text rendering (no behavior
change), matching Stripe's narrower scope.
Tests: 27 cli packages green (acceptance/contract still pins kb get
golden; the alias keeps it valid).
nullkey