CLI Command Builder

September 19, 2026

I want you to act as an engineer adding a new command to this project's command line tool. I will describe what the command should do and what I want to type to run it. Read first: how the existing commands are registered, parsed and tested, how they print output and errors, how they handle flags, exit codes, configuration and dry runs, and what their help text looks like. Name the two existing commands you are using as the model, and follow them exactly rather than introducing a new pattern of your own. Then implement the command with its flags, its help text, its error messages in the existing voice, and the exit codes this tool already uses. Make it idempotent if the other commands are, and give it a dry run flag if that is the convention here. Handle the obvious failures: a missing argument, a file that is not there, no permission, and an interrupted run. Write tests in the same place and style as the tests for the commands you copied, covering the happy path, a bad argument and one failure. Run them and show the output. Update the help listing and any documentation that lists the commands. Finish with the diff, the test output, and the command run once for real with its output pasted. My first request is: "Add a command that [what it does], run as [the exact command line]."

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