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Best practices for building CLI applications across languages. Covers CLI design principles (Unix philosophy, command structure, subcommands vs flags), argument parsing (required/optional args, flags, environment variables, config files, precedence), user interface (help text, version info, progress indicators, color output, interactive prompts), output formatting (human-readable vs machine-readable JSON/YAML, exit codes), error handling (clear messages, suggestions, debug mode), cross-platform considerations (paths, line endings, terminal capabilities), testing strategies (integration tests, output verification, exit codes), documentation (README, man pages, built-in help), and language-specific libraries. Activate when working with CLI applications, command-line tools, argument parsing, CLI utilities, argument handling, commands, subcommands, CLI frameworks, or building command-line interfaces.
Documentation alignment rules for Engram. Trigger: Any code or workflow change that affects user or contributor behavior.
Reviews a CLI tool's command interface for consistency in argument naming, flag conventions, help text, and README alignment. Use when building CLI tools or before releasing CLI updates. Triggers: "review CLI arguments", "align CLI conventions", "CLI consistency check", "make sure commands are aligned", "review command interface".