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Fixes #10686 — the removal is the fix.

Removes the native commander binding so import { Command } from "commander" (no
perry.compilePackages entry) resolves to the real npm package, compiled from source, per the
owner's decision to stop shipping hand-written Rust reimplementations of npm packages.

Base branch

This PR is based on fix/10439-native-binding-import-provenance (#10699), not main. Superseded: #10699 has landed on main; this PR was rebased onto and retargeted at main directly (see "Rebased onto main" section below, two rounds since main moved twice during the unstack) and is now independently mergeable.

The defects this closes (#10686)

  • program.args was undefined — a real user need (reading parsed positionals) with no native
    implementation reachable from the fluent path used in practice.
  • Boolean option defaults serialized as the string "false" — truthy in every conditional,
    the opposite of the intended default.
  • Subcommand .action() callbacks never fired.
  • Missing-required-argument and unknown-option validation was entirely absent — Node throws
    commander.missingArgument / commander.unknownOption; the native binding silently did nothing.

What was found and removed (both copies, per #10678)

  • crates/perry-ext-commander/ (crate deleted; governance-tracked, well_known_bindings.toml's
    [bindings.commander])
  • crates/perry-stdlib/src/commander.rs (feature-gated bundled-commander, exporting the same
    js_commander_* symbols) + the feature itself (no extra Rust dep — pure-Rust, so no dangling
    dependency to clean up, unlike decimal.js's rust_decimal/lru-cache's lru) + its registered GC
    root scanner (gc_runtime_root_holders.json's "stdlib:commander" entry — the file held a
    thread_local! GC_REGISTERED latch gating gc_register_mutable_root_scanner_named)
  • Command-only recognition in the shared HIR match blocks — LRUCache/Command/Big/Decimal/
    BigNumber share several of these; only Command's line is touched here, across
    lower_patterns.rs (detect_native_instance_expr), native_new.rs (×2), native_fetch.rs,
    module_decl.rs (×2), and js_transform/imports.rs's NATIVE_CODEGEN_CLASSES
  • The dedicated is_commander/is_commander_method fluent-chain-continuation block in
    lower/expr_call/static_and_instance.rs (kept is_math_lib/is_fastify_reply — those are
    Native decimal.js binding returns wrong division results and ABORTS the process on large multiplication (96-bit rust_decimal backing an arbitrary-precision library) #10684's and unrelated respectively)
  • The "Command" construction arm in crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/builtin.rs
  • The 11 commander NativeModSig rows in native_table/node_misc.rs (the tail of that file)
  • The 15 js_commander_* FFI declarations, split across stdlib_ffi/utilities.rs (13) and
    stdlib_ffi_part2.rs (2, args_array/argument — kept separate there for the 2000-line CI cap)
  • The commander manifest rows (perry-api-manifest's part_1.rs, 12 rows including the
    method+property pair for program.args; NATIVE_MODULES in entries.rs), feature_detect.rs's
    native-module scan list, stdlib_features.rs's feature-flip mapping
  • 13 Android stub exports (js_commander_*) in perry-ui-android/src/stdlib_stubs.rs
  • The perry-ext-commander workspace member + path dependency in the root Cargo.toml, and a
    release-testing fixture's now-nonexistent bundled-commander feature reference
    (tests/release/packages/next-app-route/provider/stdlib/Cargo.toml)
  • workspace-architecture.json's entry (workspace_members 83→82, externalize 33→32)
  • scripts/native_result_ledger.{tsv,py} — 11 js_commander_* NR_HANDLE_ID provider rows,
    EXPECTED_ROWS/EXPECTED_PROVIDERS 371/322 → 360/311. Confirmed green after the edit.
  • Two stale entries (both crates/perry-ext-commander/src/lib.rs and
    crates/perry-stdlib/src/commander.rs) in scripts/unrooted_local_shape_baseline.json
  • Docs: docs/src/stdlib/overview.md, docs/src/stdlib/other.md (+ its
    docs/examples/stdlib/other/snippets.ts anchor and the _keep array's now-dangling
    commanderExample reference), docs/src/native-libraries/governance.md,
    docs/src/api/reference.md, docs/api/perry.d.ts

No dedicated native-subclass machinery to remove, unlike #10685 (lru-cache): commander's real
npm source does class Command extends EventEmitter directly (Node's real node:events), and
Perry already has generic EventEmitter-subclass support (used by many packages) that this reaches
once compiled from source — confirmed by comments already in perry-runtime/src/node_stream_constructors/builders.rs
and node_stream_readwrite.rs describing exactly this path. Nothing to delete there.

No cross-umbrella feature coupling (checked per the campaign's uuid/ids-umbrella precedent):
bundled-commander is referenced only by perry-stdlib's full feature list, which this PR
already updates. No other feature umbrella in crates/perry-stdlib/Cargo.toml references it, and
this removal doesn't touch any feature bundled-decimal/bundled-lru-cache need — the three
removal PRs (#10684/#10685/this one) are independent on this axis and can merge in any order
relative to each other.

Left alone, deliberately: docs/audits/rust-dependency-decisions-2026-09-14.{md,json} (dated,
frozen audit snapshots) and test-files/test_parity_commander.ts, which imports the real package
with no node_modules of its own — it was already quarantined pre-existing and unrelated to
this PR: test-parity/known_failures.json tracks it under #8271 since 2026-08-17 ("Node 26.5.1
exits ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND for 'commander' … absent from package.json/package-lock.json"), and
it's in test-parity/parity_matrix_baseline.json's allowed_statuses: [parity_fail].

One obsolete test deleted: crates/perry/tests/issue_10439_native_binding_import_provenance.rs's
commander_default_name_still_uses_native_binding_without_compile_packages guarded the "legitimate
native case" (no compilePackages, native binding still answers) that this PR intentionally deletes.

A pre-existing red test found on the base branch, not caused by this PR — same one flagged in
#10704 and #10708
: perry-hir's fluent_chain_lowering.rs had
native_fluent_chain_still_dispatches_through_native_methods (new Decimal(1)..., no import),
asserting the exact ambient/no-import, spelling-based dispatch #10699 itself eliminated. Already red
on #10699's own tip (08325f1e6); flagged on #10699 directly
(#10699 (comment)). Fixed identically here since
it blocks this PR's own cargo test -p perry-hir run — expect a small, trivially-resolved merge
conflict between this PR and #10704/#10708 on that one comment block
if more than one lands; each
independently deletes the same pre-existing test.

Acceptance test: program.args, boolean defaults, subcommand actions, missing-arg/unknown-option validation, no compilePackages entry

Built on perrymaster (--profile perry-dev, -p perry -p perry-runtime-static -p perry-stdlib-static),
confirmed .a mtimes moved. Test project:

{ "dependencies": { "commander": "^15.0.0" }, "type": "module" }

No perry.compilePackages entry at all. Compile log: Compile package wildcard: expanded to 1 installed package(s) — real AOT compile from source (and on-demand builds libperry_ext_events.a,
since Command extends EventEmitter).

Diffed the compiled binary's output against node --experimental-strip-types (Node 26.5.1, the
pinned oracle):

program.args: ["input.txt"]                          (both -- was undefined)
verbose value: false typeof: boolean                  (both -- was the string "false")
action fired: true arg: world                         (both -- action never fired before)
missing-arg threw: commander.missingArgument          (both -- validation was absent before)
unknown-option threw: commander.unknownOption          (both -- validation was absent before)
chained name: my-cli                                  (both)

One residual mismatch, found by this acceptance test and not caused by this PR: commander's own
error: ... text, which it writes to stderr via _outputConfiguration.outputError(msg, writeErr)
before throwing under exitOverride(), is silently dropped by Perry — the thrown error's code
(commander.missingArgument etc.) is unaffected and matches exactly. Isolated to a minimal repro
(an object holding two function properties, one invoking the other passed as its own parameter) —
filed as #10711.

Verification

  • cargo check --workspace --all-targets (excluding the cross-host UI crates per this repo's own
    exclusion list) under RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings": clean.
  • cargo test -p perry-hir --tests: 459+ lib tests + all integration binaries, 0 failures.
  • cargo test -p perry-codegen --tests: 1632 lib tests + all integration binaries incl.
    manifest_consistency, 0 failures.
  • cargo test -p perry-api-manifest --tests: 39+4+other binaries, 0 failures.
  • cargo test -p perry --test issue_10439_native_binding_import_provenance: all 4 remaining pass.
  • python3 scripts/native_result_ledger.py: passes at the new 360/311 counts.
  • python3 scripts/binding_governance.py --check: OK (39 extension crates, was 40).
  • node scripts/binding_pins.mjs --check: OK (37 pinned, was 38).
  • python3 scripts/workspace_architecture.py --check: OK.
  • python3 scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.py --self-test and (no args): OK.
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check: clean.
  • SKIP_COMPILE_GATES=1 ./scripts/run_lint_gates.sh: 76 of 77 passed (compile tier skipped). The
    one failure (Public benchmark evidence freshness) is the documented pre-existing red on every PR
    in this repo, untouched by this PR.
  • Real commander round-trip + all four named defects: see above.

Not run / out of scope

Rebased onto main (unstacked from #10699)

This PR was originally stacked on fix/10439-native-binding-import-provenance (#10699). #10699 has
since landed on main, so the base-branch warning above no longer applies — this PR now targets
main directly
(gh pr edit --base main).

The rebase happened in two rounds because main moved twice underneath it while this PR was being
unstacked:

  1. First rebase, git rebase --onto origin/main <old-fix/10439-tip> <branch>, landed on main @
    91a566c8af (train 226). Between resolving that round's conflicts and pushing, train 227
    landed on main, taking refactor(stdlib): remove dotenv native binding #10691 (dotenv removal) with it
    gh pr edit --base main correctly
    reported CONFLICTING (a real move, confirmed via git log <old-main>..origin/main, not a
    transient GitHub recompute).
  2. Second rebase, git rebase --onto origin/main 91a566c8af... <branch>, replayed the same 2
    commits onto the new tip, main @ 7fe800949 (v0.5.1606, train 227).

Recomputed triple (re-derived from the resolved tree, never taken from arithmetic, and verified via
workspace_architecture.py --check --print-summary): workspace_members: 76, externalize: 27,
keep: 44
. This reflects both removals landing on the same baseline — commander's own decrement
plus dotenv's, which had already landed on main by the time this PR's second rebase happened.

The three-way internal-consistency check (sum(decision_counts) == workspace_members == len(crates)) caught a real defect on the second rebase that the script's own --check would
not have: workspace-architecture.json auto-merged with zero conflict markers, silently
keeping this branch's stale 77/28/44 (correct after the first rebase, stale after the second).
len(crates) was already 76 (main's dotenv removal had shrunk the crate map; this PR's own
commander deletion compounded it), so sum == workspace_members (77 == 77) agreed with each other
but disagreed with len(crates) (76) — the three-way check is what surfaced it. Fixed to 76/27/44
as above.

Other conflicts across the two rounds, all independently verified rather than trusted from
auto-merge:

  • Round 1 (onto train 226): Cargo.lock, crates/perry-hir/tests/fluent_chain_lowering.rs
    (comment-only, took HEAD's consolidated fix(hir): resolve native-instance chain detection by import provenance, not spelling #10699 explanation), crates/perry-stdlib/Cargo.toml
    (removed bundled-commander, did not reintroduce stale validation), scripts/native_result_ledger.py
    (script-driven recount to 365 rows / 315 providers), workspace-architecture.json (real
    conflict, resolved to 77/28/44 for that base).
  • Round 2 (onto train 227, post-dotenv-landing): each of Cargo.lock,
    crates/perry-codegen/src/runtime_decls/stdlib_ffi/utilities.rs, crates/perry-stdlib/Cargo.toml,
    and crates/perry/src/commands/stdlib_features.rs had the same shape — this branch's own stale
    dotenv/bundled-dotenv reference (predating dotenv's landing) opposite main's own stale
    commander/bundled-commander reference (predating this PR's rebase) — resolved by deleting
    both sides' entries, since neither should survive.
  • docs/api/perry.d.ts / docs/src/api/reference.md: real conflicts on round 2 (both sides'
    header counts legitimately differ), resolved with a placeholder then fully regenerated from a
    freshly built perry-dev binary — never trusted, including the body content: the regen also
    caught a stale declare module "commander" { ... } block and its ## commander doc section that
    a manual header-only patch would have missed. Final: perry.d.ts 2064 entries / 130 modules,
    reference.md 2995 entries / 132 modules.
  • Cargo.lock stale-entry finding: in both rounds, git checkout --ours Cargo.lock left a
    stale perry-ext-commander package entry (the crate deleted from Cargo.toml but not yet
    re-resolved in the lockfile) that only surfaced when the next cargo build silently regenerated
    it out. Per the campaign-wide audit this triggered (all six other removal PRs' lockfiles checked
    for the same stale-entry pattern, all clean), the fix going forward is to run
    cargo metadata --offline --format-version 1 immediately after every --ours resolution rather
    than deferring to the next build to catch it.
  • native_result_ledger.py (365/315) and scripts/unrooted_local_shape_baseline.json (571) both
    carried over unchanged from round 1 into round 2 — verified by inspecting dotenv's own removal
    commit directly rather than assuming: it touched neither file (dotenv has zero native-table rows
    and zero unrooted-local-shape hits).

On the require.main === module question (#10735/#10749): commander's own pinned upstream
source ([bindings.commander.upstream] = 15.0.0) was checked directly —
grep -rn "require.main" node_modules/commander/ on the installed package returns nothing.
15.0.0 is pure ESM ("type": "module", no main/CJS entry at all), so the #10735 entry-guard
class of bug does not apply to this package at this pinned version; nothing anomalous was observed
at import time. Noting this explicitly rather than silently, since the absence of a signal here is
itself information about scope, not about the fix.

Acceptance re-run against the final tree (post both rebase rounds, docs regen folded in via
fixup — confirmed by checking the build stamp against HEAD immediately before compiling, not
assumed to still hold from an earlier build): fixture defines a program with subcommands, options
with defaults, and required arguments, and parses a fixed argv array (program.parse([...], {from: "node"})) rather than a bare import. Pins commander at exactly 15.0.0
([bindings.commander.upstream]'s declared version), no perry.compilePackages entry, version
printed from node_modules/commander/package.json at runtime. Diffed against
node --experimental-strip-types on the pinned oracle (Node 26.5.1): byte-for-byte identical,
including the printed COMMANDER_VERSION=15.0.0 line, subcommand action dispatch, option defaults,
and program.name()/.description()/.version() getters.

Re-ran full verification against the final rebased tree:

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Breaking Changes

    • Removed Perry’s built-in commander binding and native CLI parsing support.
    • import { Command } from "commander" now uses the upstream npm package compiled from source.
  • Documentation

    • Updated API references, examples, supported-module lists, and governance documentation to remove the built-in Commander integration.
  • Maintenance

    • Removed related build configuration and workspace components.

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The native Commander implementation, compiler integrations, workspace crate, runtime symbols, API manifest entries, documentation, and related baselines were removed. Commander imports no longer select the bundled standard-library feature.

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Runtime and workspace removal
Cargo.toml, crates/perry-ext-commander/*, crates/perry-stdlib/*, crates/perry/well_known_bindings.toml, workspace-architecture.json, tests/release/...
The perry-ext-commander crate and bundled Commander runtime were deleted. Workspace membership, features, binding metadata, and release configuration were updated.
Compiler and FFI routing changes
crates/perry-api-manifest/*, crates/perry-codegen/*, crates/perry-hir/*, crates/perry-ui-android/*, crates/perry/src/commands/*, crates/perry/tests/*
Native Commander manifest entries, constructor and method lowering, FFI declarations, Android stubs, native-module detection, and the obsolete native-binding regression test were removed.
Documentation and inventory updates
docs/*, scripts/*
Commander API declarations, examples, supported-package documentation, governance data, GC tracking, and inventory baselines were updated or removed.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue #10686 requires investigation of the shared subsystem behind the approximately 25M-instruction cost, comparison of paths such as spread and for...of, and separate investigation of the approxim… Add focused benchmarks and code investigation for all three #10686 objectives. Include regression coverage and implement the required performance fix, or provide evidence that the existing implementation satisfies each objective.
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The PR removes Commander Rust implementations, FFI declarations, HIR and codegen recognition, registry entries, feature mappings, Android stubs, documentation, and Commander-specific tests. These chan… Move the Commander-binding removal to a PR linked to its Commander issue. For this PR, retain only changes that directly investigate or fix the performance objectives in #10686.
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proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 19, 2026
…wering

native_fluent_chain_still_dispatches_through_native_methods asserted the
pre-fix, spelling-based, no-import native dispatch that this PR's own
detect_native_instance_expr change deliberately eliminates. With no import
at all, `new Decimal(1)` (or Command/LRUCache/Big/BigNumber) now correctly
falls through to an unresolved-global reference -- matching Node's
ReferenceError on a genuinely undefined global -- instead of silently
reaching the native handle by name. The test predates this change and was
never updated for it, so it went red on this same commit without this PR's
diff touching that file: only the sweep's `cargo test --workspace` would
have caught it, hours later and attributed to a time window rather than
this PR.

Removed with the rationale recorded inline, matching the identical
resolution three PRs stacked on this branch (#10704, #10708, #10712) each
carried independently -- landing it here so none of them has to repeat it.

crates/perry-hir/tests/fluent_chain_lowering.rs now runs 2/2; the crate's
full test suite (`cargo test -p perry-hir --tests`) is green.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 19, 2026
…wering

native_fluent_chain_still_dispatches_through_native_methods asserted the
pre-fix, spelling-based, no-import native dispatch that this PR's own
detect_native_instance_expr change deliberately eliminates. With no import
at all, `new Decimal(1)` (or Command/LRUCache/Big/BigNumber) now correctly
falls through to an unresolved-global reference -- matching Node's
ReferenceError on a genuinely undefined global -- instead of silently
reaching the native handle by name. The test predates this change and was
never updated for it, so it went red on this same commit without this PR's
diff touching that file: only the sweep's `cargo test --workspace` would
have caught it, hours later and attributed to a time window rather than
this PR.

Removed with the rationale recorded inline, matching the identical
resolution three PRs stacked on this branch (#10704, #10708, #10712) each
carried independently -- landing it here so none of them has to repeat it.

crates/perry-hir/tests/fluent_chain_lowering.rs now runs 2/2; the crate's
full test suite (`cargo test -p perry-hir --tests`) is green.
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Flagging a counting problem this PR shares with its two siblings, because it will fail a required gate rather than show up in review.

All three of #10704, #10708 and #10712 record the identical transition workspace_members 83→82 and decision_counts.externalize 33→32. They cannot all be right. Each removes a different crate and they land sequentially, so from a common base of 83 they would have to read 83→82, then 82→81, then 81→80. As it stands, whichever of the three lands first leaves the other two recording a from value that no longer exists, and workspace_architecture.py --check fails on the second one.

It is already moot in any case: the chain has moved on. Main is now at 79 members / externalize 30 / keep 44 after the validator and dotenv removals, with uuid in flight. These are absolute recorded baselines, not deltas.

So at rebase time, for each of the three: recompute from the resolved tree and have workspace_architecture.py --check --print-summary independently reproduce the number. Do not derive it by arithmetic from 83, and do not copy the sibling's figure. scripts/native_result_ledger.tsv carries the same absolute-count hazard.

Two related notes:

Finally, for whoever runs the acceptance check: #10735 is live on main — require.main === module is true in every compiled CommonJS module, so any package with a CLI entry guard runs its CLI branch when merely imported. A fix is in flight. If acceptance fails in a way that looks like the package misbehaving at import time, test a dependency-free fixture that never mentions the package before attributing it to the removal.

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Correction to my comment above: I gave main's baseline as 79 members / externalize 30 / keep 44. That is wrong — 79/30 is the figure after the uuid removal, not main's. Main (023dc0b653) reads 80 members / externalize 31 / keep 44.

The attribution was wrong too: I said "after validator and dotenv". Only #10690 (validator) has landed; #10691 (dotenv) is still open, and a jsonwebtoken removal landed instead.

This does not change the advice, and the advice is the point: recompute from the resolved tree at rebase time and have workspace_architecture.py --check --print-summary reproduce it — do not copy a number out of a comment, including this one. Main moved twice while I was writing these, which is exactly why any figure quoted here goes stale. The defect I flagged stands unchanged: five queued PRs record the identical 83→82 / 33→32, and at most one of them can be right.

proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 19, 2026
#10711 reports that a function read from an object property silently drops
its own call to a second function passed to it as a parameter — commander's
`_displayError` shape, where `outputError(str, write)` invokes the `writeErr`
it was handed:

    this._outputConfiguration.outputError(
      message, this._outputConfiguration.writeErr);

It does not reproduce. The reporter's own isolated repro prints the expected
text on all three trees that matter — current main (v0.5.1598), the main
commit their branch forks from (8df83f8), and their actual tree (PR #10712
on top of #10699, head 463c4fa) — and real commander 14.0.3 compiled from
source via `perry.compilePackages` matches Node 26.5.1 byte for byte across
the whole output surface the issue names: `--help`, `--version`, missing
required argument, unknown option, unknown command and `program.error()`,
under both the default output configuration and a `configureOutput()`
override. 32 further shapes of the same indirection agree with Node too.

So this adds the regression lock rather than a fix. The shape is worth gating:
#10689 — an inherited property read folding to the constant `undefined` on a
scalar-replaced object — landed one commit before this issue was filed and is
the same family, silent in the same way. The fixture covers the reported form
verbatim plus the method-shorthand, class-field, `configureOutput`-override,
spread, nested-receiver, cross-object-writer and in-loop spellings.

Two of the cases exist to keep the fixture from passing vacuously. One traces
`before` / `typeof write` / `after` around the inner call, so "the outer body
ran and the inner call evaporated" cannot read as a pass. The other omits the
writer entirely and asserts a TypeError: that a missing callee is LOUD is the
property that keeps this bug class from ever presenting as a plausible wrong
answer.

Every writer sinks to stdout because the parity harness merges stdout and
stderr into one compared stream; the stream is incidental to the indirection.

Refs #10711
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Pathfinder result from #10704 — this PR needs two steps to unstack, not one, and the second is easy to miss.

#10704 was rebased onto origin/main with git rebase --onto origin/main <shared-branch-tip> <PR-branch>, force-pushed, gates green — and GitHub still reported CONFLICTING. The content was fine. The cause was that the PR's base pointer was still fix/10439-native-binding-import-provenance, so mergeability was being computed against that stale branch rather than against main. gh pr edit 10704 --base main flipped it to MERGEABLE immediately, with no change to headRefOid.

This PR has the same problem right nowbaseRefName is still fix/10439-native-binding-import-provenance, and it reports CONFLICTING for that reason alone. Since #10699 squash-merged, that branch still exists while no longer appearing anywhere in main's history, which is why the stale pointer looks plausible and resolves to nonsense.

So whoever picks this up needs both:

  1. git rebase --onto origin/main <shared-branch-tip> <PR-branch> — replays only the commits genuinely unique to this PR.
  2. gh pr edit <N> --base main — retargets the PR itself.

Step 1 alone looks complete and succeeds. The PR only reveals the problem afterwards as CONFLICTING, and the natural reading of that is "my conflict resolution was wrong", which sends you back into the diff rather than at the base pointer.

Also inherited from #10704, since these three are structurally identical:

Ralph Küpper added 2 commits September 19, 2026 22:15
Fixes #10686 -- the removal is the fix. Native program.args was undefined;
boolean option defaults serialized as the truthy string "false"; subcommand
.action() callbacks never fired; missing-required-argument and
unknown-option validation (Node's commander.missingArgument /
commander.unknownOption) was entirely absent.

Removes both copies (crates/perry-ext-commander/ and the feature-gated
crates/perry-stdlib/src/commander.rs, including its registered GC-root
scanner), the Command-only arms in every shared HIR/codegen recognition
point (LRUCache/Command/Big/Decimal/BigNumber share several match blocks;
only Command's line is touched here, including the dedicated
is_commander/is_commander_method fluent-chain continuation in
static_and_instance.rs), and every registry row (well_known_bindings.toml,
NATIVE_MODULES, the API manifest, stdlib_features.rs, native_result_ledger,
gc_runtime_root_holders.json, workspace-architecture.json, Android stubs).

commander's real npm source subclasses node:events' EventEmitter directly
(class Command extends EventEmitter) -- Perry's existing generic
EventEmitter-subclass support already handles that once compiled from
source, so no dedicated native-subclass machinery was needed here (unlike

bundled-commander is referenced only by perry-stdlib's `full` feature
umbrella (checked every other umbrella in Cargo.toml); no other umbrella
needs retargeting by this or the sibling decimal.js/lru-cache removals.

Based on PR #10699's branch (fix/10439-native-binding-import-provenance):
without that fix, commander at its default import name is unreachable
regardless of perry.compilePackages, so this removal is not independently
mergeable.
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proggeramlug force-pushed the wip/10686-remove-commander-binding branch from bf79bff to 00617f4 Compare September 19, 2026 22:30
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missing-required-argument and unknown-option validation (Node's `commander.missingArgument` /
`commander.unknownOption`) was entirely absent. `class Command extends EventEmitter` in the real
source needs no dedicated native-subclass support — Perry's existing generic EventEmitter-subclass
machinery already covers it. Fixes #10686. Requires #10439's import-provenance fix (#10699) to reach

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Remove the unrelated Fixes #10686`` reference.

Issue #10686 tracks lazy-initialization and array-like performance costs. This change removes the native Commander binding. It does not resolve that issue. Replace this reference with the Commander tracking issue, if applicable.

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In `@changelog.d/10712-remove-commander-binding.md` at line 7, Remove the
unrelated “Fixes `#10686`” reference from the changelog fragment and replace it
with the appropriate Commander tracking issue reference, if one exists. Keep the
fragment focused on removing the native Commander binding and preserve the
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