Have a help command
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Current evaluation
Help-command proposal was closed without a documented resolution, linked PR, confirming comment, or identified implementing commit.
Resolution: closed stale
Reason: The issue has been closed for roughly six years with zero comments and no linked PR, closing explanation, or implementing commit. No evidence indicates that it was fixed or superseded.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
(Idea from [here](https://medium.com/@jdxcode/12-factor-cli-apps-dd3c227a0e46))
We should have a `help` command. Without options (`charmcraft help`) it will show the general help. Optionally it would accept a command (`charmcraft help build`), which breaks the rule of "arguments should not be optional", but as this is for guiding the users when they are wrong, to help them learn the tool, I think we can live with it.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | Help-command proposal was closed without a documented resolution, linked PR, confirming comment, or identified implementing commit. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | Help-command proposal was closed without a documented implementation, linked PR, or confirming maintainer comment. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | The help-command proposal was closed without a documented resolution, linked pull request, or confirming comment; no implementing commit was identified. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without implementation. No pull requests or discussions were created, indicating the feature request was abandoned. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without implementation. The feature request for a help command was abandoned, with no associated pull request or resolution recorded. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without discussion or implementation. The maintainer request for a charmcraft help command was abandoned. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Abandoned. The proposed help command was not implemented or tracked via a pull request. The issue was closed without resolution or merge. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #76 Cannot invoke help for commands | craft-application | closed | Command-level help crashed until commit 384153db (PR #541) passed app configuration into help parsing; #76 had already been closed without explanation. | |
| #273 `help` command writes to stderr rather than stdout | craft-cli | closed | Closed without a documented code fix; no resolving PR or commit was identified, and the only recorded follow-up was the automated CRAFT-3355 Jira sync. |