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feat(cli): --help --json machine-readable command tree (#1203) - #1210
gflow --help --json prints the whole command tree as JSON; gflow <group> [<cmd>] --help --json narrows it to that subtree. Shape: {"schema": 1, "name": "gflow", "version", "commands": [{"path", "summary", "aliases", "params": [{"name", "opts", "type", "choices", "multiple", "nargs", "default", "required", "help"}], "spends_credits"}]}.
Paths and params come from Click: cli_leaves, command_tree and help_json_path in _cli_helpers.py.
The request is resolved through Click itself, level by level the way click.shell_completion does it: each command's own parser plus resolve_command. That keeps option widths, option values and unknown commands exactly as Click sees them. A one-line _RootGroup.parse_args hook in cli.py answers before Click's eager --help prints, and stays out of shell completion (ctx.resilient_parsing).
"Commands" means every runnable command: plain commands plus invoke_without_command groups (bare gflow auth). Hidden commands and groups are skipped. The MCP parity test now uses the same walker, so one function defines the surface.
@spends_credits(True|False) marks every command, 68 in all.
aliases is derived by identity: one Command registered under several names. No command has an alias today.
The spends_credits rule
Taken from the issue's wording, "commands that submit generations": True when the command submits a new Flow generation.
True: video t2v/i2v/r2v/chain/extend (Veo credits); image t2i/i2i/batch, run, character create (image generations, billed against the daily image quota rather than credits); movie run.
False: everything else, including image upscale / video upscale (exports of existing media, measured $0 / quota-only in earlier ledgers; the cost of --scale 4k is unmeasured, and the docs say so), scene create (server-side composition, credit-free), instructions *, tools run (calls the user's own LLM endpoint, not Flow), and auth, mcp run / mcp setup / serve.
The CLI decisions are tested against the MCP spend gate: every CLI command mapped to an MCP tool must agree with mcp.server._SPEND_TOOLS.
Open question for review: should image generations count as spends_credits: true? The field name says credits and images spend zero credits. The issue's "submit generations" wording and the "safe vs paid" intent say yes, so that is what ships.
Review
Two reviews (/code-review xhigh, ponytail-review xhigh) were addressed in the second commit. Each behaviour change got a failing test first, watched red.
Resolution now goes through Click instead of re-deriving it from argv, so gflow docs --search --help --json searches for --help again, as it does on develop.
Shell completion no longer prints the tree.
gflow auth (an invoke_without_command group) is now a command with a decision and is docs-checked. The parity test uses the shared walker.
Params now carry opts (secondary opts such as --off / --fail-fast and extra aliases), choices, multiple and nargs.
Hidden groups are skipped. A prefix with no visible command falls through to Click, which gives a usage error (exit 2) rather than {"commands": []}.
The docs check reads only docs/USAGE.md. It found auth use, auth logout and data errors export missing there; they are added, along with a short gflow auth block. There is no allowlist.
CLI and MCP paid flags must agree: new test in tests/mcp/test_cli_parity.py.
Docs overclaims reworded. The snapshot covers only path to spends_credits, and spends_credits is set by hand; the docs now say so.
The no-MCP-twin reason is recorded in the tests/mcp/test_cli_parity.py docstring.
An alias test registers one command under two names.
tools list/show/run have one-line docstrings, so their summaries are not empty. A test asserts every summary is non-empty.
Kept as is, by request:
Explicit @spends_credits(False) on every free command. The spec asks for a decision on each command. A leaner alternative would be a default-False walker with only paid commands decorated, but then a new paid command would silently report false.
image upscale stays spends_credits(False): it is not a generation submit.
Tests
tests/cli/test_help_json.py, tests/test_telemetry_cli.py and tests/mcp/test_cli_parity.py cover:
the root, group, leaf and invoke_without_command trees;
root flags before the command;
an option value that looks like --help;
shell completion;
an unknown command;
a hidden-only prefix;
params (opts, choices, multiple, nargs);
non-empty summaries;
aliases;
a decision on every command;
the path to spends_credits snapshot;
CLI and MCP spend agreement;
every command in docs/USAGE.md;
a subprocess run of the real gflow entrypoint without PYTHONUTF8.
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All ten from AGENTS.md, run locally on the second commit with PYTHONUTF8=1, and with no other pytest running in the checkout:
No Flow surface is touched. This is pure Click introspection, with no browser, network or account. Per AGENTS.md, Flow e2e is out of scope here. The decisive run is the subprocess test against the real gflow console script. I also ran .venv/Scripts/gflow.exe by hand for -v video --help --json, --verbose video t2v --help --json, auth --help --json, docs --search --help --json (still a search) and vdeo --help --json (exit 2, "No such command").
MCP
No MCP twin is needed. MCP clients already discover tools and their schemas through tools/list, and --help --json adds no Click option or leaf. The reason is recorded in tests/mcp/test_cli_parity.py. Step 1b: axes A, B, D and E are N/A. C and F are updated: skills/gflow-cli/SKILL.md plus the plugin copy, llms.txt, docs/USAGE.md plus the website mirror, and the CHANGELOG.
)
gflow --help --json, and gflow <group> [<cmd>] --help --json, print the
Click command tree as JSON: path, summary, aliases, params and
spends_credits for every leaf. The tree is introspected from Click.
@spends_credits(True|False) records on each leaf whether it submits a new
Flow generation. Tests fail when a leaf has no decision, when the tree
drifts from its snapshot, or when a command is missing from docs/.
Documents gflow project show / rename, which the docs check found missing.
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The CLI now supports JSON command-tree help at the root and group levels, with command parameters and credit-spending metadata. Command declarations, tests, and documentation cover the metadata. Telemetry parsing also handles root flags without consuming the following subcommand.
Changes: Machine-readable CLI help
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Summary
Command metadata and JSON help handling src/gflow_cli/_cli_helpers.py, src/gflow_cli/cli.py
Helpers traverse visible Click commands, serialize their metadata, and resolve JSON-help paths. The root group emits the resulting command tree for recognized JSON-help requests.
CLI commands now declare whether they spend credits. Generation commands are marked as spending credits; many other commands are marked as not spending credits.
JSON help may misrepresent an unusual command default. This is a bounded metadata risk rather than a demonstrated failure of command execution.
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[#1203] --help --json builds the root and selected command trees from Click. Tests cover tree fields, command paths, parameter metadata, every command's spends_credits decision, a path-and-decision snapshot, and command coverage in docs/USAGE.md. [#1209] _option_argv_width treats flags and count options as one argv token. Parameterized tests verify root flags do not hide commands across auth, video, and data command paths.
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Address the two PR reviews:
- telemetry: a flag takes no value, though Click reports nargs=1 for it,
so gflow -v auth list was routed as 'gflow' (#1209).
- --help --json now resolves the path with each command's own parser and
resolve_command, the way click.shell_completion does: root flags, option
values (docs --search --help) and unknown commands follow Click. Shell
completion is left alone.
- invoke_without_command groups (gflow auth) are commands, hidden groups
are skipped, and the MCP parity test uses the same walker.
- params carry opts, choices, multiple and nargs.
- the docs check reads docs/USAGE.md only; document auth use/logout and
data errors export there.
- test that CLI spends_credits agrees with the MCP spend gate; record the
no-MCP-twin reason in the parity test; docstrings for tools commands;
docs no longer overclaim what the snapshot enforces.
Replace json.loads(json.dumps(..., default=str)) with explicit type handling.
default=str silently stringifies any unserializable object. This masks unexpected types in Click defaults instead of surfacing them. Handle the known types (Path, tuple, Enum, set) explicitly. Fall back to None or raise for unknown types. This also removes the encode and decode round trip.
♻️ Proposed refactor
+def _jsonable(value: Any) -> Any:+ if callable(value) or value is None:+ return None+ if isinstance(value, (str, int, float, bool)):+ return value+ if isinstance(value, Path):+ return str(value)+ if isinstance(value, (list, tuple, set, frozenset)):+ return [_jsonable(v) for v in value]+ if isinstance(value, dict):+ return {str(k): _jsonable(v) for k, v in value.items()}+ return None
Based on learnings: avoid str(obj) for JSON output because it masks type errors.
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CHANGELOG.md
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llms.txt
plugins/gflow/skills/gflow-cli/SKILL.md
skills/gflow-cli/SKILL.md
src/gflow_cli/_cli_helpers.py
src/gflow_cli/cli.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_character.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_credits.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_data.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_docs.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_doctor.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_image.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_instructions.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_models.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_movie.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_project.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_run.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_scene.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_telemetry.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_tools.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_update.py
src/gflow_cli/cli_video.py
src/gflow_cli/telemetry.py
tests/cli/test_help_json.py
tests/mcp/test_cli_parity.py
tests/test_telemetry_cli.py
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…ne database
Ubuntu 24.04's tzdata 2026e moves backward links (Atlantic/Faeroe, Portugal,
Eire, Iceland, Poland) into tzdata-legacy, which the CI runners do not install.
ZoneInfo then refuses the alias, consent_region() fails closed, and the
Atlantic/Faeroe row (expected False) went red on every PR, develop included;
the three legacy rows expecting True passed for the wrong reason.
The mapping test now stubs the zone lookup, so every row checks the
name-to-region mapping on any machine. A separate test pins the fail-closed
behaviour for an alias the installed zone database cannot load.
(cherry picked from commit 9f356c9)
CI note: this branch now carries a cherry-pick (-x) of #1215's test-only commit 9f356c9d. CI on every PR, develop included, was failing on test_consent_region_from_iana_timezone[Atlantic/Faeroe-False], because Ubuntu 24.04's tzdata 2026e moved legacy zone links into tzdata-legacy. That failure also left SonarCloud's new-code coverage at 0%. The commit is identical to #1215's, so git drops it as a duplicate when #1215 merges first.
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Closes #1203
Closes #1209
Part of #1191
Summary
gflow --help --jsonprints the whole command tree as JSON;gflow <group> [<cmd>] --help --jsonnarrows it to that subtree. Shape:{"schema": 1, "name": "gflow", "version", "commands": [{"path", "summary", "aliases", "params": [{"name", "opts", "type", "choices", "multiple", "nargs", "default", "required", "help"}], "spends_credits"}]}.cli_leaves,command_treeandhelp_json_pathin_cli_helpers.py.click.shell_completiondoes it: each command's own parser plusresolve_command. That keeps option widths, option values and unknown commands exactly as Click sees them. A one-line_RootGroup.parse_argshook incli.pyanswers before Click's eager--helpprints, and stays out of shell completion (ctx.resilient_parsing).invoke_without_commandgroups (baregflow auth). Hidden commands and groups are skipped. The MCP parity test now uses the same walker, so one function defines the surface.@spends_credits(True|False)marks every command, 68 in all.aliasesis derived by identity: one Command registered under several names. No command has an alias today.The
spends_creditsruleTaken from the issue's wording, "commands that submit generations": True when the command submits a new Flow generation.
video t2v/i2v/r2v/chain/extend(Veo credits);image t2i/i2i/batch,run,character create(image generations, billed against the daily image quota rather than credits);movie run.image upscale/video upscale(exports of existing media, measured $0 / quota-only in earlier ledgers; the cost of--scale 4kis unmeasured, and the docs say so),scene create(server-side composition, credit-free),instructions *,tools run(calls the user's own LLM endpoint, not Flow), andauth,mcp run/mcp setup/serve.mcp.server._SPEND_TOOLS.Open question for review: should image generations count as
spends_credits: true? The field name says credits and images spend zero credits. The issue's "submit generations" wording and the "safe vs paid" intent say yes, so that is what ships.Review
Two reviews (
/code-reviewxhigh, ponytail-review xhigh) were addressed in the second commit. Each behaviour change got a failing test first, watched red.Fixed:
gflow -v video --help --jsonexited 2). The root cause wastelemetry._option_argv_width, which treated a flag as taking a value. Fixed there (telemetry: a flag before the subcommand hides the command (gflow -v auth list counts as gflow) #1209), with a table test intests/test_telemetry_cli.py.gflow docs --search --help --jsonsearches for--helpagain, as it does on develop.gflow auth(aninvoke_without_commandgroup) is now a command with a decision and is docs-checked. The parity test uses the shared walker.opts(secondary opts such as--off/--fail-fastand extra aliases),choices,multipleandnargs.{"commands": []}.docs/USAGE.md. It foundauth use,auth logoutanddata errors exportmissing there; they are added, along with a shortgflow authblock. There is no allowlist.tests/mcp/test_cli_parity.py.spends_credits, andspends_creditsis set by hand; the docs now say so.tests/mcp/test_cli_parity.pydocstring.tools list/show/runhave one-line docstrings, so their summaries are not empty. A test asserts every summary is non-empty.Kept as is, by request:
@spends_credits(False)on every free command. The spec asks for a decision on each command. A leaner alternative would be a default-False walker with only paid commands decorated, but then a new paid command would silently reportfalse.image upscalestaysspends_credits(False): it is not a generation submit.Tests
tests/cli/test_help_json.py,tests/test_telemetry_cli.pyandtests/mcp/test_cli_parity.pycover:invoke_without_commandtrees;--help;opts,choices,multiple,nargs);spends_creditssnapshot;docs/USAGE.md;gflowentrypoint withoutPYTHONUTF8.Gates
All ten from AGENTS.md, run locally on the second commit with
PYTHONUTF8=1, and with no other pytest running in the checkout:check_repo_hygiene,check_doc_links,check_website_docs_pii,generate_website_docs --check,check_council_memory,generate_plugin_skills --check: all exit 0ruff check src tests: clean.ruff format --check src tests: 616 files already formattedpyright src: 0 errors, 0 warningspytest -m "not live and not e2e and not smoke" -n 8 --dist worksteal --cov=gflow_cli: 6081 passed, 30 skipped, 0 failed, 93% coveragetests/mcp/test_cli_parity.py+tests/mcp/test_server.pypassE2E
No Flow surface is touched. This is pure Click introspection, with no browser, network or account. Per AGENTS.md, Flow e2e is out of scope here. The decisive run is the subprocess test against the real
gflowconsole script. I also ran.venv/Scripts/gflow.exeby hand for-v video --help --json,--verbose video t2v --help --json,auth --help --json,docs --search --help --json(still a search) andvdeo --help --json(exit 2, "No such command").MCP
No MCP twin is needed. MCP clients already discover tools and their schemas through
tools/list, and--help --jsonadds no Click option or leaf. The reason is recorded intests/mcp/test_cli_parity.py. Step 1b: axes A, B, D and E are N/A. C and F are updated:skills/gflow-cli/SKILL.mdplus the plugin copy,llms.txt,docs/USAGE.mdplus the website mirror, and the CHANGELOG.Overlaps
Based on
develop; none of these is merged:gflow capabilitiesand moves the parity walker intotests/mcp/_cli_tree.py. This PR replaces that same_cli_leavesbody with the sharedcli_leaves, so expect a conflict there. Whichever lands second unifies them ongflow_cli._cli_helpers.cli_leaves, and adds@spends_credits(False)plus anEXPECTED_TREErow forcapabilities.modelsinto a group:models list/models showneed decisions and snapshot rows, replacingmodels.image gen/video gen, no PR yet) will need@spends_credits(True)on both.test_every_leaf_has_a_spends_credits_decisionandtest_paid_commands_agree_between_cli_and_mcpwill tell whoever comes second.Summary by CodeRabbit
-vno longer interfere with command tracking.