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What changed

  • add repeated requires_if VALUE FLAG relationships to the canonical KDL model
  • round-trip the relationships through SpecFlag and its builder
  • enforce explicit command-line and environment values in usage-lib while excluding defaults
  • document the source semantics and public spec API

Why

This is the remaining usage-derive v1 relationship that the spec could not express. The spec must define it before compiled tables and derives can lower into it without becoming lossy.

Validation

  • cargo test -p usage-lib --all-features
  • full workspace suite passes on the stack tip with cargo test --all --all-features

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Medium Risk
Changes CLI validation behavior for specs that adopt requires_if; semantics are nuanced (defaults vs env vs CLI) but covered by new tests.

Overview
Adds requires_if VALUE FLAG to the KDL flag spec so a flag can require other flags only when it is explicitly set to a given value (repeatable for different value→flag pairs).

Spec & API: New SpecRequiresIf type and requires_if on SpecFlag, with KDL parse/emit round-trip and SpecFlagBuilder::requires_if / requires_ifs. SpecRequiresIf is re-exported from the public crate surface.

Parser: After parse, when a declaring flag’s value matches (CLI or env, not defaults), the named flag must be satisfied or MissingFlag is reported—aligned with clap’s explicit-vs-default distinction, including multi-value flags, delimiter-split env values, and boolean env normalization.

Docs: flag.md documents semantics and notes clap-generated specs still cannot carry these constraints.

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  • New Features

    • Added conditional flag requirements based on explicitly supplied command-line or environment values.
    • Added support for configuring single or multiple conditional requirements.
    • Added public access to conditional requirement definitions.
    • Conditions support scalar, boolean, variadic, and delimited values.
    • Command-line values take precedence over environment values.
    • Conditions do not activate when values come only from defaults.
  • Documentation

    • Documented conditional requirements, repeated conditions, and value-matching behavior.

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The change adds requires_if conditions to flag specifications. Builders can configure single or multiple conditions. Specifications parse and serialize these conditions. Parsing enforces matching requirements for explicit command-line and environment values, but not defaults.

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Conditional flag requirements

Layer / File(s) Summary
Flag model and serialization
lib/src/spec/flag.rs, lib/src/lib.rs
SpecRequiresIf and SpecFlag.requires_if represent conditional requirements. KDL parsing, serialization, clap conversion, public exports, and round-trip tests support the new data.
Builder configuration
lib/src/spec/builder.rs
SpecFlagBuilder provides requires_if and requires_ifs methods for configuring value-to-flag mappings.
Explicit-value validation
lib/src/parse.rs, docs/spec/reference/flag.md
Parser validation checks boolean, scalar, variadic, and delimited environment values. Matching explicit values require the configured flag. Documentation covers activation and default-value behavior.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f5dd6

For boolean flags supplied through the environment, truthy values may fail to activate a matching requires_if rule, allowing a required flag to be omitted. The PR should address this bounded validation gap or obtain explicit owner acceptance before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Input
  participant explicit_flag_has_value
  participant requires_if_validation
  Input->>explicit_flag_has_value: provide command-line or environment value
  explicit_flag_has_value->>requires_if_validation: report matching explicit value
  requires_if_validation->>Input: require configured flag when absent
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I’m a rabbit with rules in my hat,
“If this flag says that, then add that!”
The parser checks each value in line,
While defaults stay safely benign.
Specs round-trip, builders agree—
Conditional flags hop happily!

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In `@lib/src/parse.rs`:
- Around line 1654-1658: Update the value comparison in the requires_if
validation path to normalize boolean environment values using the parser’s
existing truthy rule before comparing with expected, so values such as “1” and
“TRUE” match “true”; preserve delimiter handling and add regression coverage for
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Greptile Summary

The PR adds repeatable value-conditional flag requirements to the KDL model, builder API, serialization, documentation, and runtime parser.

  • Introduces and publicly exports SpecRequiresIf.
  • Parses and round-trips repeated requires_if VALUE FLAG KDL children.
  • Enforces conditional requirements for command-line and environment values while excluding defaults.
  • Adds builder and parser coverage for the new relationship.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The precedence bug in conditional-requirement evaluation should be fixed before merging because a lower-precedence environment value can invalidate an otherwise valid command line.

The new helper evaluates both the parsed command-line value and the environment value, allowing an overridden environment value to spuriously activate a requirement.

Files Needing Attention: lib/src/parse.rs

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
lib/src/parse.rs Adds runtime enforcement and tests, but independently consulting the environment after a nonmatching command-line value violates source precedence.
lib/src/spec/flag.rs Adds the conditional-requirement model and symmetric KDL parsing/serialization with round-trip coverage.
lib/src/spec/builder.rs Adds single and bulk builder methods that preserve conditional-requirement order.
lib/src/lib.rs Re-exports the new public conditional-requirement type.
docs/spec/reference/flag.md Documents the repeatable KDL syntax and explicit-source semantics.

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Comment thread lib/src/parse.rs
Comment on lines +1647 to +1659
let Some(env) = flag.env.as_ref() else {
return false;
};
let value = match custom_env {
Some(values) => values.get(env).cloned(),
None => std::env::var(env).ok(),
};
value.is_some_and(
|value| match flag.arg.as_ref().and_then(|arg| arg.delimiter) {
Some(delimiter) => value.split(delimiter).any(|value| value == expected),
None => value == expected,
},
)

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P1 Environment bypasses command-line precedence

When a flag has a matching environment value but is passed on the command line with a different value, explicit_flag_has_value falls through to the lower-precedence environment value and activates the condition, causing an otherwise valid invocation to fail with a missing-flag error.

Knowledge Base Used: Spec Model and KDL Parsing

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Instruction counts

benchmark trend instructions Δ wall (min) Δ
markdown ██▁▁▂▁ 196,109,464 → 196,097,025 -0.01% 17.60 → 17.76ms +0.87%
startup ▇▇█▁██ 829,265 → 829,299 +0.00% 0.93 → 0.83ms -10.48%

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.

framework instructions, cold parse vs usage
usage 4216
argh 6292 1.5x
clap 5895248 1398x
bpaf 21917778 5198x
                                              min       p01       p10    median
usage-rs: argv -> struct                      189       192       196       202  ns
argh: argv -> struct                          288       293       296       302  ns
clap: build tree + parse -> struct         487386    489848    492556    498399  ns
bpaf: build parser + parse -> struct      1567401   1567401   1598074   1620472  ns

usage: argv -> struct                             204 ns      0.20 µs
clap: build tree + parse -> struct             497153 ns    497.15 µs
clap: parse -> struct, tree reused              23647 ns     23.65 µs
clap: build tree only                          304862 ns    304.86 µs

f5dd6dfd9642 vs d5eb149a22fc · measured on the runner, not pushed to the history.

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Comment thread lib/src/spec/flag.rs
pub value: String,
/// The flag selector that must then be satisfied.
pub requires: String,
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Public struct lacks non_exhaustive

Low Severity

SpecRequiresIf is a new publicly exported spec type but omits #[non_exhaustive], unlike sibling types such as SpecFlag, SpecGroup, SpecChoices, and SpecMount. Shipping it exhaustive makes later field additions a breaking change for external struct literals and matches.

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