feat(cli): ship an offline man page - #1784
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Closes #491. `man openspec` had nothing to find: the CLI reference lived only in `--help` and on the docs site, so POSIX users had no offline, standard entry point to the command set. A global install now installs `openspec.1`. The page is rendered from the live commander program at build time, so it lists every command, argument, and flag the CLI actually has and cannot drift from `--help`. - `src/core/man/man-page.ts` renders roff from the commander tree, using commander's own Help API so hidden commands stay hidden. - `scripts/generate-man.mjs` writes `dist/man/openspec.1` after tsc, honoring SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for reproducible packaging. - `package.json` declares the page in `man`, so npm links it into the man path on install. - The release guard fails if the packed tarball ever ships without it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 7 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe CLI now generates a section 1 roff manual from its Commander program during builds. The package registers and publishes ChangesOffline man page
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The offline manual is generated and shipped for npm global installs, but the documented fallback for package managers that do not link man pages is only directly usable with pnpm. Users of other package managers may need to locate the installed package manually. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Build as build.js
participant Generator as generate-man.mjs
participant CLI as compiled Commander CLI
participant Package as npm package
participant User as POSIX shell
Build->>Generator: generate after TypeScript compilation
Generator->>CLI: import program and renderManPage
CLI-->>Generator: roff manual content
Generator->>Package: write dist/man/openspec.1
User->>Package: run man openspec
Package-->>User: display offline command reference
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CodeQL flagged the chained replaces as incomplete sanitization: the second pass could in principle rewrite backslashes the first one produced. One pass over a character class is both immune to that and easier to read. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The repo plans its own work through OpenSpec, so this change carries a proposal, tasks, and a `cli-man-page` delta spec like the features before it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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path and open dist/man/openspec.1 without assuming pnpm is installed.
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Make the fallback command match the package manager.
The section says that other package managers do not link the page, but the only fallback command calls pnpm root -g. Users who installed with another package manager may not have pnpm, and this command does not resolve that manager's global package path. Label this as the pnpm fallback and document how other supported managers locate dist/man/openspec.1.
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In `@docs/cli.md` around lines 1324 - 1328, Update the man-page installation
section to label the existing command as the pnpm-specific fallback, and add
equivalent guidance for each other supported package manager showing how to
locate its global package path and open dist/man/openspec.1 without assuming
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…date Two findings from review: - The `.TH` line wrote the date and version straight into roff, so the hyphens in every date (and in any prerelease version) rendered as typographic minus in the page footer. - A SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH that parses as a finite number can still land outside the range Date represents, where toISOString throws and fails the build. Fall back to the current date instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The page covered the command tree and stopped there, which is not what a reader expects a manual to answer. - Adds EXIT STATUS, ENVIRONMENT, FILES, and EXAMPLES, in the order a manual is read in. These cannot come from commander, so each is held to `docs/cli.md` by a test: the exit codes and environment variables must match the reference tables, and every example is parsed against the real program, so an example cannot outlive the command or flag it shows. - That parity test immediately found a gap in the reference: exit code 130, cancelled at a prompt, was undocumented. Added to both. - Names any alias a command answers to, which the usage line does not show. - Wraps generated source lines. This makes the leading-macro hazard real rather than theoretical -- a wrap can put `.npmrc` at the start of a line -- so every line the wrap creates is protected, not only the first. - Stops roff-escaping the `.TH` date: `mandoc -T lint` cannot parse an escaped date, and no man page on the system writes one that way. The header's real hazards, a quote or a backslash breaking its quoted arguments, are still neutralized. - `mandoc -T lint -W all` is now silent on the generated page. - One source for the page's location, shared by the generator and asserted against the `man` field in package.json. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The out-of-range SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH fix lived in the build script, where nothing could test it. Moved into the module as a pure function taking the current date, and covered: a real epoch stamps the page reproducibly, and an unset, empty, unparseable, or out-of-range value falls back instead of throwing out of toISOString and failing the build. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes #491.
What was missing
OpenSpec has no manual page.
man openspecsays "No manual entry", so the only command reference isopenspec --help(one screen at a time, and only for the command you already know to ask about) or the docs site, which needs a browser and a network.The request in #491 is the ordinary POSIX expectation: a global CLI install should leave a man page behind.
What it does
A global install now ships
openspec.1:The page cannot drift from the CLI. It is rendered at build time from the live commander program — the same object that answers
--help— through commander's public Help API. A new command, flag, alias, or reworded description shows up in the manual with no one editing anything, and hidden commands (__complete, the deprecatedexperimentalalias) stay hidden because the CLI hides them.The sections commander cannot supply are held to the docs. A manual is also expected to answer what the command tree does not: EXIT STATUS, ENVIRONMENT, FILES, EXAMPLES. Those come from constants, so each is pinned by a test rather than by good intentions — the exit codes and environment variables must match the tables in
docs/cli.md, and every example is parsed against the real program, so an example cannot outlive the command or flag it demonstrates. That parity test earned its place immediately: it caught that the CLI reference never documented exit code130, cancelled at a prompt. Both now do.src/core/man/man-page.tsscripts/generate-man.mjsdist/man/openspec.1after tsc; honorsSOURCE_DATE_EPOCH(resolved by a tested function, including the out-of-range case that would otherwise throw)package.jsonmanscripts/pack-version-check.mjsCoverage today: all 24 top-level commands and their subcommands, every argument that carries a description, every flag, plus exit status, environment, files, and examples — 608 lines, generated.
Proof it works
End to end, against a real install rather than a fixture:
npm links the page into
share/man/man1/, andman openspecrenders it.man -k openspecfinds it too, so it is indexed forapropos. I read the rendered output for every section, not just checked that the file exists.mandoc -T lint -W allis silent on the generated page — no warnings, no style notes. Keeping it that way is why the generator wraps its source lines, and why the.THdate is written plainly (see the notes).39 unit tests in
test/core/man/man-page.test.tscover the header (including a version carrying a quote or backslash), per-command subsections, nested subcommands (openspec store register), aliases, argument and option entries, hidden-command exclusion,--helpdocumented once instead of 40 times, roff escaping, source-line wrapping and the leading-macro hazard it creates, section order, docs parity, example validity, multi-line and empty descriptions, and determinism. Several render the real CLI, so they fail if the manual stops covering it.I mutation-checked the guards rather than trusting green — each of these fails the suite: dropping the help-option filter, dropping hyphen escaping (5 tests), dropping the leading-macro protection, widening the wrap width, breaking a single example, and dropping the header's quote handling.
Full suite: 4452 passed, 2 failed — and both failures are pre-existing on
main(artifact-workflowandconfig-profile), confirmed against a cleanmainworktree. Earlier runs in this sandbox also flaked on store/workset git subprocesses andnpmtimeouts; those files fail onmainhere too, in a different subset each run.Notes / nits
openspec-archive.1per command as the issue sketched. npm'smanfield takes an explicit file list — no globs — so per-command pages mean a package.json entry per command, added by hand, silently missing when someone forgets. One page covers the same content, stays correct as commands come and go, andmansearches within it. Easy to revisit ifman openspec-<cmd>is wanted.docs/cli.mdgives the one-line fallback (man "$(pnpm root -g)/@fission-ai/openspec/dist/man/openspec.1"), verified against a real pnpm global install. Windows has noman.test/package-install-scripts.test.tsbuilds a fixture package with the repo's realbuild.js; it now copies the generator alongside it. The generator no-ops when there is no compiled CLI to describe, which is exactly that fixture's case..THdate is no longer roff-escaped. An earlier commit escaped it, andmandoc -T lintthen reportedcannot parse date, using it verbatim— no man page on this machine escapes hyphens in.TH, and mandoc wants to parse the date. The header now neutralizes what actually breaks it (a quote ending an argument early, a stray backslash) and leaves the date in the conventional form. Covered by a test.npmInstallHooklinks man pages — if not, the fix for Bug: Nix flake package omits shell completions #1740 should carrydist/man/openspec.1along with the completions. I have no Nix here to verify it, so I am not guessing at it in this PR.dist/.openspec/changes/add-cli-man-page/with a proposal, tasks, and acli-man-pagedelta spec, like the features before it.openspec validate add-cli-man-page --strictpasses..replace()escaping as incomplete sanitization. Fixed by escaping in a single pass over a character class..THheader wrote the date and version into roff unescaped (so every date's hyphens rendered as typographic minus in the footer), and aSOURCE_DATE_EPOCHthat parses finite but lands outsideDate's range would throw out oftoISOString()and fail the build. Its third note asked for a per-package-manager fallback list in the docs; the instruction is now general ("pointmanat the copy in their global package directory") with pnpm shown as the example. I stopped short of a per-manager matrix on purpose: I verified the npm and pnpm behavior on real installs here, and neither Yarn nor Bun is available in this environment to verify their global-directory commands, so those lines would be guesses.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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openspecmanual page accessible withman openspec.openspec --help.