feat(spec): add semantic note and warning blocks

[jdx]

Summary

• add structured note and warning metadata for flags and positional arguments
• render labeled semantic blocks in long terminal help and portable Markdown blockquotes
• preserve the blocks through generated KDL, parsed specs, documentation models, and programmatic builders

Tests

• cargo test --all --all-features
• cargo clippy --all --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings

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Medium Risk
Touches public spec, derive attributes, and help/docs rendering, so help output and generated KDL can change for adopters who use the new fields. No parse or security path is involved.

Overview
Adds structured note and warning blocks on flags and positional arguments so callouts stay semantic instead of being baked into help markup.

Authors can declare them as #[usage(note = "…", warning = "…")], KDL note/warning children, or builder methods. They round-trip through generated specs and documentation models.

Long terminal help prints indented Note: / Warning: lines (including flattened layouts and nested flag values). Generated Markdown uses portable labeled blockquotes. Docs and a conformance test cover both renderers.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added support for attaching ordered notes and warnings to command-line arguments and flags.
  • Added builder APIs for creating notes and warnings.
  • Preserved admonitions in generated specifications and metadata.
  • Displayed labeled notes and warnings in long terminal help and generated Markdown, including multiline content.

• Documentation

  • Documented the new note and warning attributes, syntax, and rendering behavior.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for terminal help, generated specifications, portable output, and Markdown rendering.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds structured note and warning admonitions for arguments and flags. Attributes and builders store them, KDL preserves them, generated metadata exposes them, and terminal help and Markdown render labeled callouts.

Changes

Admonition support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Specification contract and KDL support lib/src/spec/...	Adds public admonition types, builder methods, argument and flag storage, and KDL parsing and serialization.
Attribute derivation and runtime metadata derive/src/model.rs, derive/src/codegen.rs, argv/src/spec.rs	Parses field attributes and includes ordered admonitions in generated argument and flag metadata.
Metadata conversion and terminal help conformance/src/tables.rs, argv/src/help.rs	Converts specification admonitions and renders indented Note: and Warning: blocks in long help.
Documentation rendering and conformance coverage lib/src/docs/..., conformance/tests/admonitions.rs, docs/...	Propagates admonitions to Markdown, documents the attributes, and verifies KDL, terminal, portable, and Markdown output.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b8bfc

The PR adds structured notes and warnings, but currently drops them for nested flag arguments and for entries shown through flattened subcommand help, so users can receive incomplete Markdown or terminal guidance; these rendering defects should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FieldAttributes
  participant DeriveModel
  participant RuntimeMetadata
  participant TerminalHelp
  participant MarkdownDocs
  FieldAttributes->>DeriveModel: parse note and warning attributes
  DeriveModel->>RuntimeMetadata: generate ordered admonition metadata
  RuntimeMetadata->>TerminalHelp: render labeled terminal callouts
  RuntimeMetadata->>MarkdownDocs: render blockquoted Markdown callouts

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I’m a rabbit with notes in my pack,
Warnings and labels in a neat little stack.
KDL keeps them in line,
Help renders them fine,
And Markdown brings every callout back.

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⚠️ Outside diff range comments (1)

argv/src/help.rs (1)

2355-2419: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Admonitions are dropped for flattened-help entries.

flat_commands_long renders a flatten_help subcommand's args and flags directly onto the parent's help page. Its arg and flag loops call entry and long_annotations (and flag_notes for flags), but neither loop calls the new admonitions function.

A flag or positional argument with a note or warning shows that text in every other long-help rendering path (own flags, inherited/global flags, arguments), but not here. The same field loses its admonitions only because its command is reached through flatten_help.

Add the missing calls, matching the pattern already used at lines 1924, 1965, and 1995.

🐛 Proposed fix to render admonitions for flattened args and flags

         for arg in args {
             entry(
                 out,
                 &arg_usage(arg),
                 arg.long_help.or(arg.help),
                 arg_col,
                 width,
                 meta.next_line_help,
             );
+            admonitions(out, arg.admonitions);
             long_annotations(
                 out,
                 if arg.hide_possible_values {
                     &[]
                 } else {
                     arg.choices
                 },
                 if arg.hide_env { None } else { arg.env },
                 if arg.hide_env { &[] } else { arg.env_fallback },
                 if arg.hide_env {
                     &[]
                 } else {
                     arg.deprecated_env
                 },
                 if arg.hide_default_value {
                     &[]
                 } else {
                     arg.default
                 },
             );
         }
         for flag in flags {
             entry(
                 out,
                 &column_usage(flag),
                 flag.long_help.or(flag.help),
                 flag_col,
                 width,
                 meta.next_line_help,
             );
+            admonitions(out, flag.admonitions);
             long_annotations(
                 out,
                 if flag.hide_possible_values {
                     &[]
                 } else {
                     flag.choices
                 },
                 if flag.hide_env { None } else { flag.env },
                 if flag.hide_env {
                     &[]
                 } else {
                     flag.env_fallback
                 },
                 if flag.hide_env {
                     &[]
                 } else {
                     flag.deprecated_env
                 },
                 if flag.hide_default_value {
                     &[]
                 } else {
                     flag.default
                 },
             );
             flag_notes(out, flag, 4);
         }

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In `@argv/src/help.rs` around lines 2355 - 2419, Update the arg and flag loops in
flat_commands_long to call admonitions for each flattened entry, matching the
existing calls used by other long-help rendering paths; preserve the current
entry, long_annotations, and flag_notes behavior while ensuring note and warning
text is rendered for both arguments and flags.

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Inline comments:
In `@lib/src/docs/markdown/templates/flag_template.md.tera`:
- Around line 17-20: Render nested argument admonitions after the existing
flag-level admonitions in the flag template. Update
lib/src/docs/markdown/templates/flag_template.md.tera lines 17-20 and each
regular, global, and flattened subcommand flag section at
lib/src/docs/cli/templates/spec_template_long.tera lines 129-131, 179-181, and
261-263 to iterate flag.arg.admonitions using the same formatting as
flag.admonitions.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@argv/src/help.rs`:
- Around line 2355-2419: Update the arg and flag loops in flat_commands_long to
call admonitions for each flattened entry, matching the existing calls used by
other long-help rendering paths; preserve the current entry, long_annotations,
and flag_notes behavior while ensuring note and warning text is rendered for
both arguments and flags.

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📥 Commits

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📒 Files selected for processing (20)

• argv/src/help.rs
• argv/src/spec.rs
• conformance/src/tables.rs
• conformance/tests/admonitions.rs
• derive/src/codegen.rs
• derive/src/lib.rs
• derive/src/model.rs
• docs/rust/args-and-flags.md
• docs/spec/reference/arg.md
• docs/spec/reference/flag.md
• lib/src/docs/cli/templates/spec_template_long.tera
• lib/src/docs/markdown/templates/arg_template.md.tera
• lib/src/docs/markdown/templates/flag_template.md.tera
• lib/src/docs/models.rs
• lib/src/lib.rs
• lib/src/spec/admonition.rs
• lib/src/spec/arg.rs
• lib/src/spec/builder.rs
• lib/src/spec/flag.rs
• lib/src/spec/mod.rs

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[jdx]

Addressed the remaining layout paths in commit 1ca5059: the argv renderer now includes argument and flag admonitions in flattened long help, and regression coverage exercises flattened typed metadata plus nested portable value admonitions. The full workspace test suite, clippy, formatting, and generated-artifact checks pass.

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Instruction counts

benchmark	trend	instructions	Δ	wall (min)	Δ
markdown	▁▁▁▂▂▅▅█	305,679,051 → 315,296,838	+3.15% ⚠️	27.22 → 26.70ms	-1.92%
startup	▄▁▁██▂█▄	878,992 → 876,522	-0.28%	0.89 → 0.96ms	+7.00%

1 benchmark(s) above the 1% gate: markdown +3.15%

_{Only instruction counts gate. Wall clock is shown for context — on identical hardware it moves 4-20% run to run.}

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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	8309	—
argh	6307	0.8x
clap	6315224	760x
bpaf	21909147	2636x

                                              min       p01       p10    median
usage-rs: argv -> struct                      416       421       425       435  ns
argh: argv -> struct                          274       278       282       288  ns
clap: build tree + parse -> struct         514322    514770    519064    535348  ns
bpaf: build parser + parse -> struct      1415358   1415358   1463122   1595524  ns

usage: argv -> struct                             410 ns      0.41 µs
clap: build tree + parse -> struct             542460 ns    542.46 µs
clap: parse -> struct, tree reused              23486 ns     23.49 µs
clap: build tree only                          323678 ns    323.68 µs

_{1ca505934563 vs 4dd0a4dd93e0 · measured on the runner, not pushed to the history.}