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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, 70 in all (after merging develop: capabilities and the models group with list/show).
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.
Gates
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.
Added machine-readable JSON help at the CLI root, group, and command levels, including command paths, parameters, summaries, and credit-usage details.
Expanded usage guides with authentication and project command examples, plus instructions for exporting and pruning recorded failures.
Documented command discovery and JSON help options in additional CLI reference materials.
Bug Fixes
Corrected usage telemetry so root flags such as -v no longer interfere with command tracking.
Update 2026-11-14: merged develop
The merge was checked line by line with a script: every line the PR added is still present, apart from four deliberate adaptations (the llms.txt paragraph, one import and two parity-test lines through the shim). Gates are green, and the full offline suite passed (6912 passed, 34 skipped).
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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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Walkthrough
The CLI now supports JSON command-tree help with command parameters and credit-spending metadata. Command declarations, tests, and documentation cover this output. 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 enumerate visible Click commands, serialize metadata, and resolve JSON-help paths. The root group emits the command tree for recognized JSON-help requests.
CLI commands now declare whether they spend credits. Generation commands are marked as spending credits; other commands are marked as not spending credits.
sequenceDiagram
participant CLI as gflow CLI
participant Root as _RootGroup
participant Resolver as help_json_path
participant Tree as command_tree
CLI->>Root: parse command-line arguments
Root->>Resolver: resolve JSON-help command path
Resolver-->>Root: return matched path
Root->>Tree: build command tree for path
Tree-->>Root: return command metadata
Root-->>CLI: emit JSON help
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ffroliva/gflow-cli#1191: The tracking issue includes the machine-readable command-tree objective implemented here.
Possibly related PRs
ffroliva/gflow-cli#1204: Its models command-group structure affects the paths and metadata represented by JSON help.
ffroliva/gflow-cli#1214: Its visible cancel command changes the command and metadata set represented by JSON help.
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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
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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.
CodeRabbit nitpick (review 5835047967, src/gflow_cli/_cli_helpers.py_jsonable, "replace json.loads(json.dumps(..., default=str)) with explicit type handling"):
Not changed. I checked what actually reaches it. Every parameter default in the CLI tree is None, Click's unset sentinel (which to_info_dict() turns into None before _jsonable sees it), str, bool, int or float. Counting the defaults in gflow --help --json at e595450e gives 212 None, 67 bool, 21 int, 1 float and the rest plain strings. Nothing is stringified by default=str, so the proposed per-type dispatcher would add code without changing any output. The path-to-spends_credits snapshot test fails if a new command's shape changes. If a non-JSON default ever appears, default=str prints it the way --help already does, which is the intended rendering for a help tree.
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Make the project examples executable.
These lines put [--json] inside a bash code block. If a reader copies either line, the shell passes [--json] as an extra argument and Click rejects the command. Show runnable commands without the brackets, or move the optional flag into a text syntax block. Apply the same correction to the website mirror. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Not changed. These two lines follow the synopsis convention USAGE.md already uses inside bash blocks for optional flags: gflow auth status [--profile NAME], gflow auth renew [--profile NAME | --all] [--json], gflow auth list [--json] and gflow auth logout [--profile NAME] [--yes] (docs/USAGE.md:155-159), and gflow data prune [--dry-run] [--profile NAME] (:1544). Changing only these two would make the page inconsistent. Changing all of them is a separate docs-wide decision, out of scope for #1210.
Resolve conflicts with the PR's behaviour kept:
- tests/mcp/_cli_tree.py is now a shim over gflow_cli._cli_helpers.cli_leaves,
so the parity and capability tests walk the tree --help --json walks.
- gflow models is a group on develop: the group, models list and models show
each get @spends_credits(False); so does gflow capabilities. Snapshot rows added.
- CHANGELOG: the #1203/#1209 entries stay under [Unreleased].
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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, 70 in all (after merging develop:capabilitiesand themodelsgroup withlist/show).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:tests/mcp/_cli_tree.pyis now a thin shim over the srccli_leaves--help --jsonuses, so the tests and the tree walk one surface.capabilitiesgets@spends_credits(False).modelsgroup,models listandmodels showeach carry@spends_credits(False)and a snapshot row.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.Update 2026-11-14: merged develop
The merge was checked line by line with a script: every line the PR added is still present, apart from four deliberate adaptations (the llms.txt paragraph, one import and two parity-test lines through the shim). Gates are green, and the full offline suite passed (6912 passed, 34 skipped).