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perf(completion): keep Tab completion off telemetry and heavy imports - #2064

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Part of #2026 (items 1 and 2)

What this changes

Shell completion scripts run openspec __complete <type> on every Tab press. Each press loaded 344 modules, including zod, yaml, fast-glob and ora, and with telemetry on it waited for the usage request before exiting.

  • __complete skips the telemetry and completion tip hooks. The scripts send stderr to /dev/null, so this also stops a first Tab press from marking the telemetry notice as seen where nobody can read it.
  • ora loads only in completion install and uninstall, the two places that show a spinner.
  • getSchemaNames loads listSchemas from resolver.js when it runs, instead of importing it through the artifact-graph barrel, which also pulls in fast-glob.

Every other command, including the completion commands a person runs, is tracked as before. Completion output is unchanged.

How you verified it

macOS, Homebrew Node 25.9, sample project with two changes and one spec. Medians of 30 runs after 5 warmups, telemetry off, so the times leave out the request wait this also removes.

openspec __complete Modules before Modules after Median before Median after
changes 344 48 121.6 ms 59.6 ms
specs 344 48 122.3 ms 60.0 ms
schemas 344 219 123.2 ms 85.0 ms

Output was identical before and after for all three.

Tests:

  • startup-modules.test.ts: __complete changes and __complete specs load only commander and never the telemetry module, and __complete schemas loads neither fast-glob nor ora. All three fail on main.
  • cli-is-json-run.test.ts: isTabCompletionRun matches the hidden resolver alone, so completion install and friends stay tracked.

pnpm build && pnpm test && pnpm exec tsc --noEmit && pnpm lint all pass (6412 tests).

Notes

  • __complete schemas still loads yaml and zod, because resolver.js imports the schema parser at the top. That fits with item 6.
  • The rest of item 1, not waiting on telemetry for the other commands, changes how events get delivered, so it will be its own PR.

  • Ran pnpm changeset if this affects users, and committed the file

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  • Performance
    • Shell tab completion for changes and specs now loads fewer modules, completing faster while keeping output unchanged.
    • Tab completion no longer records usage.

Shell completion scripts run `openspec __complete <type>` on every Tab
press. Each press loaded 344 modules (zod, yaml, fast-glob, ora) and, with
telemetry on, waited for the usage request before exiting.

- Skip the telemetry and completion-tip hooks for `__complete`. The
  scripts send stderr to /dev/null, so the first-run notice would also be
  marked seen there without anyone reading it.
- Load `ora` only in install and uninstall, which use the spinner.
- Load `listSchemas` from the resolver inside `getSchemaNames` instead of
  through the artifact-graph barrel, which also pulls in fast-glob.

Completing changes or specs now loads 48 modules (commander only), and
schemas loads 219. Part of Fission-AI#2026, items 1 and 2.
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Shell completion now bypasses CLI telemetry and completion-tip hooks. It also defers loading spinner and schema modules until their related operations run. Tests check completion command paths, loaded modules, telemetry configuration, and generated Zsh commands.

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Skip hooks for completion runs
src/cli/index.ts, test/core/cli-is-json-run.test.ts, test/cli-e2e/startup-modules.test.ts
The CLI detects the hidden __complete command and skips telemetry tracking, completion-tip loading, and telemetry shutdown for that command. Tests cover the command-path predicate, module loading, and the absence of a telemetry config file after completion.
Defer completion-only dependencies
src/commands/completion.ts, src/core/completions/completion-provider.ts, test/cli-e2e/startup-modules.test.ts, test/core/completions/generators/zsh-generator.test.ts, .changeset/faster-tab-completion.md
Shell installation and removal load ora when starting their spinners. Schema lookup dynamically loads listSchemas when fetching uncached schema names. Tests check module loading and stderr redirection in generated Zsh completion calls. The changeset describes reduced module loading and unchanged completion output.

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…'s redirect

The change is sound - completion output is byte-identical on all four
types, the hook skip matches the command path exactly, and all four
generated scripts discard `__complete` stderr. What was thin was the
coverage around it.

The startup assertions pin that `telemetry/index.js` is not loaded. They do
not pin the consequence that makes this worth doing. The disclosure goes to
stderr, every completion script sends `__complete` stderr to /dev/null, and
`maybeShowTelemetryNotice` marks `noticeSeen` before `trackCommand` re-reads
it - so a user whose first-ever interaction was a Tab press had the notice
burned where nobody could read it and collection started on that same
press. A new e2e test runs `__complete` with telemetry left enabled and an
isolated HOME, and asserts stderr is empty and no config file is written.

Two traps in that test, both of which made it pass vacuously before they
were fixed. `HOME` has to be isolated as well as `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`, or
`migrateLegacyTelemetryConfig` imports the developer's real config. And the
opt-out variables must be deleted rather than set to `''`: both read as
"set to anything that is not an explicit on-value", so blanking them
switches telemetry off and the assertions then hold on any build. Verified
against main, where the test now fails on the notice appearing in stderr.

Added a negative control, because nothing asserted that normal commands
still reach the hooks. `isTabCompletionRun` matches exactly, while the
adjacent `isCompletionRun` prefix-matches `completion:*`; widening one into
the other would silently stop tracking that whole group with every existing
assertion still green.

The zsh generator was the one shell whose test did not pin the stderr
redirect, though it has the most call sites and is the macOS default. It
now checks every real invocation, skipping the comment lines that name the
command without running it.

Also made the schemas test say what its name promises: it now pins that the
resolver loads and the artifact-graph barrel does not, since the barrel
re-exports the same function but pulls in fast-glob.

6414 tests pass; lint clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reviewed the telemetry hook boundary, lazy imports, completion output guarantees, first-run notice behavior, and regression coverage. This improves every Tab completion without changing interactive completion commands.

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