User-directed second refinement: 'make.tcl help <subcommand> ?arg ...?'
(and '<subcommand> ?arg ...? -help') now parses the words through the
subcommand's punk::args declaration exactly as dispatch would (form
auto-selection, choice prefixes). An accepted line renders the matched
action's single-form usage ('help tool build -test 0 punkzip', 'help
tool bu'); a rejected line (unknown action, option-first line, unknown
flag in option position) emits the same punk::args noformmatch
diagnosis dispatch gives - all-forms synopsis plus per-form reasons -
on stderr, exit 1: the error table is itself usage documentation, so
help verdicts mirror dispatch verdicts. Carve-out: a bare action
word/prefix renders its form directly, since forms with required
values ('buildsuite build' needs a suitename) would fail a strict
dry-run. Replaces 0.40.1's leading-word-only selection and option-first
whole-usage fallback. Empirical punk::args findings recorded (archived
goal file + probes): flag-like words at/after the first value position
parse as values; -regexprepass/-regexprefail are honoured during form
matching (a '-regexprefail {^-}' value disambiguates flag-led lines -
the punk::auto_exec::hash latent selection ambiguity). maketclhelp.test
pins updated; help/tool/colour suites 20/20. punkshell 0.40.2.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-opus-5[1m]; api-location=anthropic.com
User-directed reshape of the help-depth interface: 'make.tcl help
<subcommand> ?arg ...?' (and '<subcommand> ?arg ...? -help') now accepts
the subcommand's command line as typed and renders the usage most
specific to it - 'make.tcl help tool build -test 0 punkzip' shows the
tool build form via its leading action word (the same literal-leader
word punk::args form auto-selection keys on at dispatch). Words after
the action are tolerated and ignored; an option-first line falls back to
the whole subcommand's usage; single-form subjects (e.g 'help bake
punk91 -confirm 0') ignore the words entirely; an unknown action word on
a multi-form subject stays a pointed exit-1 usage error. The 0.40.0
numeric form-index acceptance ('help tool 2') is withdrawn as
unintuitive. Probe recorded: the repl 'i' (punk::ns::cmdhelp) tolerates
trailing argument words but does not form-narrow flat multi-form
commands - make.tcl help now exceeds it there. maketclhelp.test pins
updated (12 tests, all green + tool/colour suites); punkshell 0.40.1.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-opus-5[1m]; api-location=anthropic.com
tool/buildsuite/help are multi-form punk::args definitions (one @form per
action, literal single-choice action leaders + choicelabels): 'help tool' /
'help buildsuite' render one synopsis line per action; 'make.tcl help
<subcommand> <action>' - equivalently '<subcommand> <action> -help', or a
0-based form index ('help tool 2') - renders that action's single-form
usage; unknown actions and out-of-range indexes are pointed punk::args
errors (exit 1). tool dispatch parses through the definition (unknown
actions/flags: exit-1 usage errors). User-approved deviation: the declared
positional model puts options before tool names ('tool build -test 0
<name> ...'); docs/agent guidance updated to match and a flag-shaped tool
name earns a stderr hint; the PUNKBOOT_PLAIN degraded scan keeps the
historic flag-anywhere parse. buildsuite driver-arg passthrough unchanged.
G-144 consumer follow-through: all 17 per-subcommand @form -synopsis
overrides retired (automatic @cmd -name bracket-notation synopses;
top-level make.tcl override kept deliberately). Pinned by new
punkexe/maketclhelp.test (12 tests); full punkexe subtree green (114
tests, 0 fail). Goal flipped to achieved and archived; punkshell 0.40.0.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-opus-5[1m]; api-location=anthropic.com
Auto-generated synopses for (script)-prefixed constructed definition ids
now lead with the declared @cmd -name (the invocation name - e.g
'make.tcl modules' for (script)::punkboot::modules) instead of the raw
id, across punk::args::synopsis full/summary renders and the
usage/arg_error synopsis sections that funnel through them (punk::args
0.12.7 -> 0.13.0).
The fallback is gated on the (script) prefix only (user-confirmed
narrowing): (autodef) ids are excluded - their id-minus-tag IS the
invocation (arg_error's existing tag strip surfaces it) while their
@cmd -name is a display label ('destroy', 'Object: ::x');
(shared)/(package)/(default)/(widgetcommand) doc ids declare no
invocation-style -name today and render the id as before. Real command
ids render byte-identical (full args testsuite passes with no pin
updates). Six new synopsis.test pins: (script) full/summary/multiform/
surfaces, no-name constructed id, autodef unchanged, real-id
byte-identical.
Goal tiers: index entry archived to GOALS-archive.md, detail file moved
to goals/archive/ (G-143's pending-tense Related line rewritten to
reflect achievement + follow-through pointer: make.tcl's @form
-synopsis overrides are now optional, retirement under G-143 or a
follow-on edit). Docs: @form -synopsis directive known-case text,
synopsis -help, src/modules/AGENTS.md ergonomics bullet. Project
0.39.5 -> 0.39.6 (patch: latent capability, no shipped definition
renders differently today).
Bootsupport refresh (make.tcl modules + bootsupport): snapshot gains
args-0.13.0.tm and picks up two lagging source syncs -
mix/commandset::layout 0.2.0 -> 0.3.0, mix/commandset::project
0.4.0 -> 0.4.1, and the shellfilter 0.2.4 G-145 comment; superseded
copies pruned.
Assisted-by: harness=opencode; primary-model=openrouter/moonshotai/kimi-k3; api-location=openrouter.ai
G-143 make.tcl help depth: multi-form tool/buildsuite definitions and
per-action usage - @form sections with literal action leaders so help
shows which actions take <toolname>/-test, 'help <sub> <action>' renders
the single form, tool dispatch becomes fully declared, buildsuite keeps
its passthrough driver-args contract.
G-144 punk::args auto-synopsis @cmd -name fallback for non-command ids -
unblocks dropping make.tcl's hand-written ?...? @form -synopsis lines in
favour of the automatic bracket notation (retires the G-030 workaround
for (script):: ids).
G-145 remnant-free piped usage tables - root-cause and eliminate the
orphan CSI fragments ([0;1m / [0m / lone m) observed beside table borders
in piped help output; extends the G-113 zero-ESC guarantee to zero
sequence-fragment text.
All three born from the 2026-08-01 argdoc restyle evaluation (mechanisms
verified live on bootsupport punk::args 0.12.7). Overlap surveys recorded
in each detail file; goals_lint clean (83 active-index goals); xref score
reviewed per goal - the top term-scored unlinked pairs for G-143 (G-085,
G-021) checked and judged lexical-only, no relation recorded.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Julian Noble