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Walkthrough

Unknown-command detection now traverses the command tree, recognizes subcommands and aliases, and skips values for global options that take arguments. When help would mask an unresolved command token, the existing help-rendering hook reports the unknown-command error.

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Nested help validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve command paths and report unknown tokens
src/index.ts
The command-tree check recognizes registered subcommands and aliases, skips values for global options that take arguments, and identifies unresolved tokens in help-related paths.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant unknownCommandMaskedByHelp
  participant CommandTree
  participant HelpRenderingHook
  CLI->>unknownCommandMaskedByHelp: Pass command arguments
  unknownCommandMaskedByHelp->>CommandTree: Resolve command tokens and aliases
  CommandTree-->>unknownCommandMaskedByHelp: Return command matches
  unknownCommandMaskedByHelp-->>HelpRenderingHook: Return unresolved token
  HelpRenderingHook-->>CLI: Report unknown-command error
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c6a07

Valid help requests for commands with positional arguments can exit with a validation error instead of showing help. Fix this before merging.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Warning The source change in src/index.ts generalizes the check from root commands to nested command paths. It resolves names and aliases, skips the listed value-taking global options, and reports the first… Add automated CLI regression tests for group help typo, group typo --help, help group typo, arbitrarily nested groups, global option values such as --output json, and valid help targets. Assert exit codes and error or help output.
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 1 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: reporting unknown commands that were previously masked by help in command groups.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The whole-PR diff changes only src/index.ts. The changes replace the root-only unknown-command mask check with a command-tree check and directly support issue #418. No unrelated behavior or files ar…
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The whole-PR diff changes only src/index.ts. The changes replace the root-only unknown-command mask check with a command-tree check and directly support issue #418. No unrelated behavior or files are changed.

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The source change in src/index.ts generalizes the check from root commands to nested command paths. It resolves names and aliases, skips the listed value-taking global options, and reports the first unknown token for the required help forms. The whole-PR diff adds no automated regression tests. Issue #418 calls for the fix with regression tests covering nested groups, --output json with the VALIDATION_ERROR envelope, and valid help targets that still exit 0. The reported manual checks do not satisfy this automated-test requirement.

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Add automated CLI regression tests for group help typo, group typo --help, help group typo, arbitrarily nested groups, global option values such as --output json, and valid help targets. Assert exit codes and error or help output.

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Review comments at @src/index.ts:
- Around line 269-281: Update the command walk around `findRegisteredSubcommand`
to stop checking for unknown subcommands when `current` is a leaf with no
registered subcommands. Return no unknown token in that case, preserving
leaf-command arguments and valid help targets; keep unknown-token reporting for
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const resolved = findRegisteredSubcommand(current, token);
if (resolved) {
current = resolved;
continue;
}

// Unknown token. Report it when help is involved in the invocation, since
// that is exactly when Commander would otherwise mask the error.
const laterHelp = args
.slice(i + 1)
.some(arg => arg === '--help' || arg === '-h' || arg === 'help');
if (sawHelp || laterHelp) return token;
return undefined;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Stop the walk at a leaf command so that its positional arguments are not reported as unknown commands.

The walk keeps going after current resolves to a command that has no subcommands. A positional argument of that leaf command then fails findRegisteredSubcommand. The argument reaches Line 280. If --help/-h comes later, the function returns the argument as an unknown command.

Example: testsprite test run <id> --help (or any leaf command that takes an argument, followed by --help). The beforeAll hook applies to subcommand help, so it fires here. The command exits 5 with VALIDATION_ERROR and does not print the leaf help, which should exit 0. This contradicts the objective that valid help targets still exit 0. The same failure also applies to help <group> <leaf> <arg>.

Report a token only when current actually has subcommands to resolve against.

🐛 Proposed fix
--- "a/src/index.ts"
+++ "b/src/index.ts"
@@ -266,14 +266,17 @@
       continue;
     }
 
     const resolved = findRegisteredSubcommand(current, token);
     if (resolved) {
       current = resolved;
       continue;
     }
 
+    // A leaf command's remaining tokens are its own operands, not subcommands.
+    if (current.commands.length === 0) return undefined;
+
     // Unknown token. Report it when help is involved in the invocation, since
     // that is exactly when Commander would otherwise mask the error.
     const laterHelp = args
       .slice(i + 1)
       .some(arg => arg === '--help' || arg === '-h' || arg === 'help');
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const resolved = findRegisteredSubcommand(current, token);
if (resolved) {
current = resolved;
continue;
}
// Unknown token. Report it when help is involved in the invocation, since
// that is exactly when Commander would otherwise mask the error.
const laterHelp = args
.slice(i + 1)
.some(arg => arg === '--help' || arg === '-h' || arg === 'help');
if (sawHelp || laterHelp) return token;
return undefined;
const resolved = findRegisteredSubcommand(current, token);
if (resolved) {
current = resolved;
continue;
}
// A leaf command's remaining tokens are its own operands, not subcommands.
if (current.commands.length === 0) return undefined;
// Unknown token. Report it when help is involved in the invocation, since
// that is exactly when Commander would otherwise mask the error.
const laterHelp = args
.slice(i + 1)
.some(arg => arg === '--help' || arg === '-h' || arg === 'help');
if (sawHelp || laterHelp) return token;
return undefined;
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Review comment at @src/index.ts around lines 269 - 281:
Update the command walk around `findRegisteredSubcommand` to stop checking for
unknown subcommands when `current` is a leaf with no registered subcommands.
Return no unknown token in that case, preserving leaf-command arguments and
valid help targets; keep unknown-token reporting for commands that have
subcommands.

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Closing with #418 — the command surface is being rewritten and help/typo handling will be redone there. Thanks for the PR.

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