The help produced for a command options should give more information
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Current evaluation
Enhance option help to show value requirements, defaults, cardinality or repeatability, and choices. The current help pipeline renders option names and messages only, with no recorded design decision.
Suggested action: needs triage
Reason: HelpBuilder renders options solely from title/text pairs, while GlobalArgument stores choices separately and no production handling of nargs was found, so the requested metadata remains unsurfaced. The issue has no labels, assignee, or comments and explicitly says a presentation must first be defined, leaving the desired format and combinations unresolved.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
Issue body
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha |
Impact:
42
Quick Win:
8
Complexity:
61
Confidence:
89
Actionability:
49
|
needs triage | Enhance option help to show value requirements, defaults, cardinality or repeatability, and choices. The current help pipeline renders option names and messages only, with no recorded design decision. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha |
Impact:
45
Quick Win:
10
Complexity:
60
Confidence:
92
Actionability:
55
|
needs triage | Command help still shows only option aliases and descriptions; value, default, repeatability, and choice metadata is omitted, while the desired presentation remains undefined. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Impact:
40
Quick Win:
12
Complexity:
50
Confidence:
75
Actionability:
60
|
needs triage | Feature request to improve command option help output to show defaults, choices, nargs, and other metadata. Open 1349 days with no labels, comments, or assignee. | |
| qwen/qwen3.8-27b |
Impact:
35
Quick Win:
16
Staleness:
85
Complexity:
55
Confidence:
70
Support Request:
10
|
needs triage | Feature request to enrich command option help output to indicate whether an option expects a value, has a default, is repeatable, or has choices, similar to argparse. Open since 2021 with no comments, labels, or assignee; help rendering code still only shows option strings and help text. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
95
Complexity:
45
Confidence:
90
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | Feature request to enhance CLI command option help output with details like defaults, choices, and repetition. Open for over 3.5 years with zero comments or maintainer engagement. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
95
Complexity:
60
Confidence:
80
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | Proposal to enhance CLI help output by displaying option metadata like defaults, multiplicities, and choices. Untriaged, inactive for over 3 years with no maintainer engagement or implementation progress. |
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Related work
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Related To:
craft-cli#109
(confidence 58%)
Commit f4a3bca merged requested-help-improvements, indicating adjacent historical work, but there is no evidence that PR implemented this request.
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