feat(derive): a setting can be declared wherever a flag is - #896
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A CLI keeps its shared flags in one struct and flattens it into several commands. That is where hk and mise keep `--jobs`, so refusing `setting` outside the root — which is what shipped, because only the root generated a layer — would have made "declare it on the root instead" a rule people follow by hand, which is the drift this exists to remove. The contract is two trait items with empty defaults, so a parent can ask any command without knowing which kind it got. What a group hands over is `SettingGiven`, a vocabulary usage-argv owns: what a flag can be given, and nothing about types — a second opinion about what `"8"` means would be the first thing to disagree with the registry. Only the root turns that into a `usage_config::CliLayer`, so a program with no settings still never mentions the config crate. A subcommand's bindings are every variant's, because a table says what the CLI *can* do and is compared against a spec that documents all of them; its values are the selected variant's, because those are about one invocation. A root that binds nothing itself but flattens a group that does says `#[usage(settings)]`. It cannot see another struct's fields, and generating the entry points for everyone would make a CLI with subcommands and no settings depend on usage-config — so leaving the attribute off is a compile error that names it, rather than a documented flag that quietly sets nothing. Also fixes a doc block this stack orphaned: `partial_defaults`'s comment had ended up on `settings`.
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk:⚪ Minimal · up to This change enables settings on nested and flattened command groups; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CLI
participant GeneratedCommandArgs
participant GeneratedSubcommands
participant SettingsLayer
CLI->>GeneratedCommandArgs: parse command-line settings
GeneratedCommandArgs->>GeneratedSubcommands: collect selected subcommand values
GeneratedSubcommands-->>CLI: return selected settings
CLI->>SettingsLayer: resolve collected values and bindings
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Greptile SummaryThe PR allows settings bindings and explicitly supplied values to propagate from flattened argument groups and selected subcommands to the root CLI.
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Parsed on any derived struct and read only on the root, so on a group it compiled and did nothing — the silence the attribute was added to replace with an error. It only has a meaning a root can hold: "this CLI resolves settings whose flags are declared elsewhere". A group is asked for its settings by whatever flattens it, and answers whenever it has any, so there is nothing here for it to ask for. Refused beside `completion` and `default_subcommand`, which are misplaced for the same reason.
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305-315: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winThe unknown-option message does not mention
settings.The list names
name,bin,version,unknown_flags,default_subcommand,restart_token, andmount. It already omitscompletion, and this PR adds a second omission. An author who mistypessettingon the struct is told the attribute set does not includesettings. Add both words to the list.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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derive/src/codegen.rs (1)
1136-1141: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueA count saturates to
i64::MAXwithout saying so.
try_from(...).unwrap_or(i64::MAX)turns an out-of-range count into a value nobody typed. Au64oru128count field is the only way to reach it, so this is not currently reachable for the usualu8/usizeshapes on a 64-bit target. Consider a short comment recording the choice, as the neighbouring arms do.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Nequals the summed part lengths.
concat_bindingswritessum(parts)entries into an array of lengthN. If a generated caller computesNlarger than the sum, the extra slots stay("", ""), and those empty pairs flow intoRegistry::driftcomparisons without any error. A trailingassert!in the const fn turns that case into a compile error, like the too-small case already is.🛡️ Proposed guard
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In `@argv/src/spec.rs`:
- Around line 1061-1066: In argv/src/spec.rs at lines 1061-1066 and 1131-1135,
reorder both the CommandArgs and Subcommands trait members so SETTINGS_BINDINGS
and settings_given appear after fn check; preserve the existing documentation
blocks immediately above fn check so they document that method rather than the
new settings members.
In `@derive/src/codegen.rs`:
- Around line 87-99: Gate the settings_given assignment on the resolves
condition, matching settings_bindings and settings_layer, so settings(cli) does
not emit an unused helper when the root has no settings. Preserve the existing
settings_given value for roots where resolves is true.
In `@derive/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 145-149: Fix the broken Settings documentation link in the
module-level documentation by either adding a matching “Settings” heading or
removing the `[Settings]: `#settings`` reference; preserve the existing
documentation intent and avoid unrelated changes.
In `@derive/src/model.rs`:
- Line 269: Update check_position to reject the settings usage on non-root
structs, matching the existing completion rule. Ensure #[usage(settings)] below
the root produces a diagnostic instead of silently generating nothing, while
preserving root-level settings handling in emit_args and the existing flag_value
assignment.
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In `@derive/src/model.rs`:
- Around line 305-315: The unknown-option error in the struct attribute handling
must list both supported options currently omitted from its usage text: settings
and completion. Update the message in the other branch of the option match while
preserving the existing option names and description guidance.
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In `@argv/src/spec.rs`:
- Around line 1003-1019: Update concat_bindings to assert after combining all
parts that the final write position equals N, so callers with an oversized N
fail during const evaluation instead of retaining empty entries; preserve the
existing behavior for correctly sized and undersized arrays.
In `@derive/src/codegen.rs`:
- Around line 1136-1141: Add a concise comment in the Shape::Count
code-generation arm documenting that out-of-range count conversions
intentionally saturate to i64::MAX, while leaving the existing TryFrom and
fallback behavior unchanged.
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… doc with it The section this PR's link points at was never written: the command that added it died on a shell parse error, and the link definition landed in a later command that did not. Written now — and pointing at `#settings-and-the-flags-that-set-them`, because rustdoc's own UI owns `#settings`, so a heading by that name is deduplicated to `settings-1` and the link lands on the docs menu. The new trait items went in above `fn check` in both traits, which left each `check` doc block documenting `SETTINGS_BINDINGS` — the same slip this PR already fixed for `partial_defaults`, made twice more in the same change. Moved above the doc block rather than below the function, so `check` keeps it. Also: the root emits `settings_given` only when it resolves settings. Nothing called it otherwise — a root with a group and no settings of its own has the compile-time guard instead.
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No instruction-count regression above 1%. Only instruction counts gate. Wall clock is shown for context — on identical hardware it moves 4-20% run to run. Measured by tak — instruction-counted CLI benchmarks, stored in this repository's git notes. Shadow comparisonParsing
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The follow-up promised on #889, and the piece hk adoption
needs: hk keeps its shared flags in one struct and flattens it into every command, which is exactly
where
--jobslives.Cli::SETTINGS_BINDINGSnow holds the group's flags and every subcommand's, andparse_from_with_settingscollects their values. #889 refused this outright, which would have made"declare the setting on the root instead" a rule people follow by hand — the drift this whole thing
exists to remove.
How the crates stay apart
The contract is two trait items with empty defaults on
CommandArgs/Subcommands, so a parentcan ask any command without knowing whether that command has settings — no detection problem, no
autoref trick.
What a group hands over is
usage_argv::spec::SettingGiven:Bool,Int,Text,List,NotText. What a flag can be given, and nothing about types — the registry decides what"8"means,and a second opinion here would be the first thing to disagree with it. Only the root converts, so
usage-configis still named in exactly one place and a CLI without settings never mentions it.That conversion is also now a single loop over what every command contributed, so a group's value and
the root's own become entries the same way.
Bindings vs values
A subcommand's bindings are every variant's, because a table says what the CLI can do and is
compared against a spec that documents all of them — a drift check that only saw the command that ran
would give a different answer every run. Its values are the selected variant's, because those are
about one invocation: a flag
fixdeclares says nothing about a run ofcheck.The root still has to say it has settings
A root cannot see another struct's fields, and generating the entry points unconditionally would make
every CLI with subcommands depend on
usage-config. So a root that binds nothing itself declares#[usage(settings)]. Leaving it off is not silence:A
constassertion against the child's binding table — it costs nothing at runtime and mentions noconfig type. Verified by hand (no trybuild in the tree); the positive path is tested.
Verification
6 tests: drift over a root + group + two subcommands, a group's values including
--no-colour, agroup given nothing, only-the-selected-subcommand, the full binding table, and a root whose settings
are all somebody else's. Three mutations, each killing the right tests: children contributing no
values, children's bindings dropped from the table, and the selected-variant arm never matching.
Also fixes a doc block this stack orphaned —
partial_defaults's comment had ended up onsettings.AI-assisted — Tool: Claude Code; model: anthropic/claude-opus-5; version: unavailable.
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Medium Risk
Touches CLI parsing and settings resolution across derive output and trait defaults; behavior changes for adopters who previously had to put settings only on the root, though guarded by new tests and compile-time checks.
Overview
settingcan live on any flag — flattenedArgsgroups and subcommand structs, not only the rootCli. Shared flags like--jobsin aCommonstruct now contribute toSETTINGS_BINDINGSand toparse_from_with_settingswithout duplicating bindings on the root.usage-argvaddsSettingGivenandconcat_bindings, plus defaultSETTINGS_BINDINGS/settings_givenonCommandArgsandSubcommands. Nested commands expose parser-native values; only the root maps them tousage_config::CliLayer.Bindings vs values: subcommand bindings union every variant (stable
driftchecks); values come only from the subcommand that ran. Flattened children are merged the same way.#[usage(settings)]on the root opts in when every bound flag is in a flattened group. Without it, a const assert fails compile if a child binds settings the root would not collect.Conformance tests cover flatten + subcommands, negation, and settings-only-on-group roots.
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settingsoption, setting bindings, precedence, flattened groups, subcommands, and completion behavior.Tests