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API-backed CLI commands now take their flags, help, completion and request building from one declaration next to the API params, with clap as the parser. Adding a flag or a simple command no longer means editing a separate parser, a usage string and a help tree.

Nothing that works today should change. A replay of 1,276 recorded master CLI behaviors plus ~140 extra probes (flag-shaped text, repeated options, help words) showed no previously working command rejected or sending a different request. Differences are limited to error/help wording and a few forms that used to be rejected and are now accepted (--opt=value, workspace close --group ID).

Compatibility notes:

• text operands (prompt text, send-text, run, send-keys, rename labels, notification/terminal titles) keep flag-shaped words like --wait or --help as text, as before
• repeated options are validated on every occurrence, except agent start --kind, which master only checked once
• bare command groups list their commands again, generated from the declarations
• API schema, frozen endpoint codecs and method shapes are unchanged

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The CLI now uses shared parameter projections and parsing for API-backed commands. Operation metadata supplies UI-impact and client-shell classifications. Command modules build requests from parsed arguments, and completion generation filters hidden commands, arguments, and values. The change adds CLI contract tests and documentation for argument syntax and validation.

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The shared CLI parsing refactor appears sound. Two small follow-ups remain. First, agent and plugin parse errors can report a broken-pipe error when their output is closed early. Second, the new contract tests may be flaky on macOS. The PR is mergeable with these quick fixes.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 26.25% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 301 functions across 39 files. (4 skipped…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: sharing CLI and API command contracts through common declarations.
Description check		The description directly explains the shared CLI/API declarations, clap parsing, compatibility goals, tested behavior, and known differences.
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src/cli.rs (1)

742-759: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the duplicated ParseError reporting into one helper.

run_json_request handles the three ParseError variants. Three other places in this cohort copy the same logic: src/cli/title.rs (run), src/cli/server.rs (server_live_handoff) and src/cli/workspace.rs (run_workspace_command).

All four copies do the same thing:

• Clap → begin_cli_output, print, return exit_code.
• Usage → eprintln!, return 2.
• Io → propagate.

If one copy changes, for example the exit code or the begin_cli_output ordering, the commands will report parse errors differently. Use one pub(super) helper and call it from every site.

♻️ Proposed helper

-/// Sends a parsed request and prints its JSON response; parse failures never connect.
-fn run_json_request(request: Result<Request, projection::ParseError>) -> std::io::Result<i32> {
-    let request = match request {
-        Ok(request) => request,
-        Err(projection::ParseError::Usage(message)) => {
-            eprintln!("{message}");
-            return Ok(2);
-        }
-        Err(projection::ParseError::Io(error)) => return Err(error),
-        Err(projection::ParseError::Clap(error)) => {
-            let code = error.exit_code();
-            crate::platform::begin_cli_output();
-            error.print()?;
-            return Ok(code);
-        }
-    };
-    print_response(&send_request(&request)?)
-}
+/// Reports a CLI parse failure and returns its exit code.
+pub(super) fn report_parse_error(error: projection::ParseError) -> std::io::Result<i32> {
+    match error {
+        projection::ParseError::Usage(message) => {
+            eprintln!("{message}");
+            Ok(2)
+        }
+        projection::ParseError::Io(error) => Err(error),
+        projection::ParseError::Clap(error) => {
+            let code = error.exit_code();
+            crate::platform::begin_cli_output();
+            error.print()?;
+            Ok(code)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Sends a parsed request and prints its JSON response; parse failures never connect.
+fn run_json_request(request: Result<Request, projection::ParseError>) -> std::io::Result<i32> {
+    match request {
+        Ok(request) => print_response(&send_request(&request)?),
+        Err(error) => report_parse_error(error),
+    }
+}

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Review comment at @src/cli.rs around lines 742 - 759:
Extract the shared ParseError handling from run_json_request into a pub(super)
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Replace the duplicated handling in run_json_request, title::run,
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- Around line 45-49: Before calling error.print() in the Clap error branch,
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Review comments at @src/cli.rs:
- Around line 742-759: Extract the shared ParseError handling from
run_json_request into a pub(super) report_parse_error helper, preserving the
existing Clap, Usage, and Io behavior. Replace the duplicated handling in
run_json_request, title::run, server_live_handoff, and run_workspace_command
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• src/api/schema/agents.rs
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• src/api/schema/worktrees.rs
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• src/cli/agent.rs
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• src/cli/completion.rs
• src/cli/notification.rs
• src/cli/notification_bindings.rs
• src/cli/pane.rs
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• src/cli/plugin.rs
• src/cli/plugin/bindings.rs
• src/cli/projection.rs
• src/cli/runtime.rs
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• src/cli/workspace_bindings.rs
• src/cli/worktree.rs
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Summary

API-backed CLI commands now share declarations for parsing, help, completion, and request building. API method names and their UI and client-shell settings also come from one list.

• API-backed CLI commands share argument rules with their API parameters.
• API methods share one catalog for names and request classifications.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
  A["API params and CLI declarations"] --> B["Clap command tree"]
  B --> C["Parse CLI arguments"]
  B --> D["Help and command lists"]
  B --> E["Shell completion"]
  C --> F["Build typed API request"]
  F --> G["Send request to server"]
  H["API operation declarations"] --> I["Method names"]
  H --> J["UI-change settings"]
  H --> K["Client-shell method list"]

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