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Summary

  • Embed # politty-bin-sig: <mtime> header in every generated bash/zsh/fish script so refresh paths can detect when the on-disk cache is stale relative to the binary.
  • Add a bash/zsh rc-loader snippet (<program> completion <shell> --loader) that stat-compares the binary on shell startup and rewrites the cache when stale before sourcing it.
  • Fire a detached __refresh-completion child from runMain on every CLI invocation so caches stay warm without restarting the shell. Decoupled from core/runner.ts via a generic CommandBase.runMainHook field that withCompletionCommand populates.
  • For fish, the autoload file written by --install ends with a self-rewriting block that runs on TAB and replaces itself in place when the binary's mtime changes.
  • New flags: <program> completion <shell> --install (write to cache/autoload location) and --loader (print rc-loader snippet). New WithCompletionOptions.cacheDir / programVersion. Opt out with POLITTY_NO_COMPLETION_REFRESH=1.
  • All I/O is best-effort; failures fall through silently so a stale or missing completion never breaks the shell.

Closes #345.

Test plan

  • pnpm vitest run — 1247 passed, 4 skipped (incl. 14 new unit tests for header/install/refresh/loader/defaultCacheDir)
  • pnpm lint — 0 errors (verified core/ does not import completion/)
  • pnpm typecheck — clean
  • pnpm build — clean
  • Manual smoke test: mycli completion bash --install writes the cache; mycli completion bash --loader >> ~/.bashrc; bumping the binary's mtime and opening a new shell rewrites the cache automatically
  • Manual smoke test: mycli completion fish --install writes the autoload file; bumping mtime causes the next TAB to rewrite the file

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Code Metrics Report

main (2a7bcda) #349 (3bb9bec) +/-
Coverage 87.9% 88.6% +0.7%
Test Execution Time 12s 10s -2s
Details
  |                     | main (2a7bcda) | #349 (3bb9bec) |  +/-  |
  |---------------------|----------------|----------------|-------|
+ | Coverage            |          87.9% |          88.6% | +0.7% |
  |   Files             |             51 |             54 |    +3 |
  |   Lines             |           4051 |           4191 |  +140 |
+ |   Covered           |           3561 |           3715 |  +154 |
+ | Test Execution Time |            12s |            10s |   -2s |

Code coverage of files in pull request scope (89.9% → 92.5%)

Files Coverage +/- Status
src/completion/bash.ts 96.2% 0.0% modified
src/completion/fish.ts 96.3% +0.2% modified
src/completion/header.ts 100.0% +100.0% added
src/completion/index.ts 90.4% +25.7% modified
src/completion/install.ts 96.9% +96.9% added
src/completion/loader.ts 100.0% +100.0% added
src/completion/types.ts 0.0% 0.0% modified
src/completion/zsh.ts 96.0% 0.0% modified
src/core/runner.ts 89.7% +3.7% modified
src/executor/command-runner.ts 52.7% +9.0% affected
src/types.ts 0.0% 0.0% modified

Reported by octocov

Generated bash/zsh/fish scripts now embed a `# politty-bin-sig: <mtime>`
header. Two complementary refresh paths keep the on-disk cache in sync
with the binary so subcommand renames or new options take effect on the
very next TAB without manual reinstall:

- An rc-loader snippet (printed by `<program> completion <shell> --loader`)
  that bash/zsh source on startup; it stat-compares the binary against
  the cached header and rewrites the cache when stale.
- A detached `__refresh-completion` child fired from `runMain` on every
  CLI invocation, keeping caches warm even when shells aren't restarted.

For fish, the autoload file written by `--install` ends with a
self-rewriting block that runs on TAB and replaces itself when stale.

The runner stays decoupled from the completion module via a generic
`CommandBase.runMainHook` field that `withCompletionCommand` populates.
Set `POLITTY_NO_COMPLETION_REFRESH=1` to disable the background hook.

Adds `--install` and `--loader` flags to the `completion` subcommand,
plus `WithCompletionOptions.cacheDir` and `programVersion`.

Closes #345

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The --install and __refresh-completion paths were dropping
globalArgsSchema, so the background refresh could overwrite a correct
cache with one missing global options. Thread the schema through
InstallContext and createRefreshCompletionCommand.

Also fix a test bug where new Date((mtimeMs + 5000) / 1000) produced a
1970 timestamp instead of bumping by 5s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
dqn added 13 commits May 10, 2026 15:41
- Throw from --install / --loader error paths so runMain exits non-zero;
  process.exitCode was overwritten by process.exit(result.exitCode).
- Pass `-L` to shell `stat` in bash/zsh loaders and fish self-refresh
  so the shell-side mtime matches Node's fs.statSync (which follows
  symlinks). Without this, npm/pnpm bin shims would never match the
  embedded sig and the cache would regenerate on every shell startup.
- Use a per-PID temp suffix (`$fish_pid`) for the fish self-rewriting
  refresh, matching the bash/zsh and Node atomic-write paths, so two
  concurrent fish sessions can't clobber each other's write.
…with shell

- refreshIfStale now bails out when the target cache is missing or
  doesn't carry our `# politty-bin-sig:` header. The runMain hook fires
  on every CLI invocation, so without this it would silently create a
  fish autoload at `~/.config/fish/completions/<prog>.fish` (or any
  cache file) the user never opted into via `--install` or the rc loader.
- Resolve the binary path through `resolveBinPath`, which walks `$PATH`
  for `programName` before falling back to `process.argv[1]`. The header
  sig and the shell-side stat now point at the same shim file, so
  pnpm/npm bin shims no longer trigger a regeneration on every shell
  startup just because Node sees the real entrypoint while the loader
  sees the shim.
- Cover both new behaviors with unit tests.
`stat -L -f '%m' file` is BSD format-mode but GNU file-system mode, so
on Linux it would dump filesystem info to stdout (and exit non-zero),
the `||` fallback would append the epoch on a second line, and `_sig`
would never match the embedded `# politty-bin-sig:` header — causing
the cache to regenerate on every shell startup or fish TAB.

Try `stat -L -c '%Y'` first (GNU); fall back to `stat -L -f '%m'` only
when `-c` is rejected (BSD/macOS).
The bash/zsh loader wrapped a hardcoded `cacheDir` in double quotes, so
any `$VAR`, backtick, or `$(...)` in the path would expand when the
snippet is sourced — looking in a different directory than `install()`
wrote to, and executing arbitrary commands when the path comes from env
or config. Switch to single-quote escaping (`'…'\\''…'`) so shell
metachars in the path stay inert.
`command -v` returns alias text or a function name when the user has
shadowed the CLI in their rc, and the subsequent `stat "$_bin"` fails,
so the loader returns before sourcing the cache and completions vanish
for that shell.

Use bash's `type -P` and zsh's `whence -p`, which look up only
executables on `$PATH` and ignore aliases, functions, and builtins.
…mpletion on regen failure

Two fixes for the auto-refresh paths:

1. `runMain` now bypasses user-provided `setup`/`cleanup`/`prompt` and
   the `globalArgs` schema for any registered `__`-prefixed subcommand.
   The runMain hook spawns `__refresh-completion` as a detached child,
   so without this any CLI with a global setup or required prompt would
   re-run that lifecycle in the refresher — duplicate connection
   effects, stuck background prompts, validation failures the user
   never opted into. Limited to *registered* `__`-prefixed subcommands
   so a stray argument can't accidentally skip lifecycle.

2. The bash/zsh rc loader now sources an existing cache even when
   regeneration fails (e.g. an upgraded binary with a broken
   `completion` command, or a transient I/O error). The previous
   `return 0` left the shell with no completion at all despite a
   perfectly usable stale cache being on disk, contradicting the
   best-effort behavior described elsewhere.
…n-session

The bash/zsh rc loader and fish self-rewriting block both shelled out
to `<bin> completion <shell>` for regeneration, which is a foreground
command path. CLIs that wire up `setup`/`prompt` or required
`globalArgs` would re-run those hooks during refresh, silently failing
or blocking the user's shell. fish additionally only rewrote the file
on disk — the *current* session kept the stale function bodies it had
already loaded, so completions stayed stale until a manual reload.

- Switch every refresh path (bash loader, zsh loader, fish autoload) to
  invoke the hidden `__refresh-completion` subcommand. `runMain`
  bypasses user lifecycle for `__`-prefixed registered subcommands, so
  refresh runs without side effects or validation.
- After the fish refresh writes the new file, `source` it so the
  current session immediately picks up the new function bodies.
- Move the "don't write a cache the user never opted into" guard from
  `refreshIfStale` into the runMain hook (`maybeSpawnRefresh` now
  checks `hasManagedCache` before spawning). This lets the rc loader
  and the fish autoload — both of which only run after the user has
  installed completion — refresh unconditionally, while still
  preventing plain CLI runs from creating completion files.
…ish refresh

Three follow-ups for the auto-refresh paths:

1. Schema-aware bypass detection. `isInternalSubcommandInvocation`
   used the naive "first non-flag token" scan, so an ordinary
   invocation with an option value like `--name __refresh-completion`
   was misclassified as internal and ran without setup/cleanup/prompt
   or globalArgs validation. Switch to `findFirstPositional` and feed
   it an extracted global schema so option values are skipped.

2. Auto-register `__refresh-completion` on direct
   `createCompletionCommand` callers. Previously only
   `withCompletionCommand` registered the hidden subcommand, so the
   loaders/fish autoload it generated would shell out to a subcommand
   the host CLI never exposed; refresh would silently fail and leave
   the stale cache in place. Mirror the existing `__complete`
   mutate-register pattern so both APIs expose the same surface.

3. Stop the stale fish body after a successful refresh. The autoload
   file's tail used to keep defining stale helper functions and
   `complete -c` lines after `source $_target` had already loaded the
   new definitions, so the current session ended up with stale
   completions on top of the fresh ones. Capture the refresh status
   into a `_politty_refreshed` flag and `return` from the source so
   the rest of the old file is skipped.
…eferences

- Drop duplicate `detectShellEnv` in `install.ts`; reuse the existing
  `detectShell` from `index.ts`. Both did the same `$SHELL`-based scan.
- Remove the unused `export { computeBinSig }` re-export from
  `install.ts` — no caller imports it from here.
- Fix three references to `completion install <shell>` (a positional-
  subcommand syntax that doesn't exist) to the actual flag form
  `completion <shell> --install` in the user-visible fish error and
  JSDoc.
Hoist `refreshExtra`, `installCtxBase`, and `loaderOptsBase` once at
the top of `createCompletionCommand` and reuse them in the install /
loader / run branches instead of rebuilding the same conditional
spreads three times. Collapse the three `...(extra.X !== undefined &&
{X: extra.X})` checks in `createRefreshCompletionCommand` to
`...extra` since `InstallContext`'s optional fields type-include
`undefined`. Replace the `let extra = {}; if (...) extra.X = X`
pattern in `withCompletionCommand` with an object literal using
conditional spreads to match the rest of the file. Drop the dead
`else` branch from the `effectiveOptions` ternary in `runMain`.

Pure refactor — no behavior change.
`computeBinSig` already returns `"0"` when `statSync` throws, so the
outer `binPath ? computeBinSig(binPath) : "0"` ternary in
`buildHeaderLines` was dead defensive code. Inline the call.
…safety

Fill the coverage gaps the new auto-refresh paths created:

- Fish self-rewriting autoload: assert it calls `__refresh-completion`
  (not the foreground `completion` command), captures
  `_politty_refreshed` and returns from the source on success, probes
  GNU `stat -c` before BSD `stat -f`, and embeds the resolved bin-sig.
- `completion --install` / `--loader` flag wiring: bash + zsh + fish
  branches, including the fish-loader rejection.
- `__refresh-completion` subcommand registration via both
  `withCompletionCommand` and the direct `createCompletionCommand`
  entry point.
- `runMain` `runMainHook`: invoked once with parsed argv, thrown
  errors are swallowed so the user command still runs and exits 0.
- `maybeSpawnRefresh` gates: spawns the detached refresher for
  ordinary invocations; skips on `POLITTY_NO_COMPLETION_REFRESH=1`,
  on `completion` / `__complete` / `__refresh-completion`, when no
  managed cache exists, and when `$SHELL` is unrecognized.

`vi.mock("node:child_process", ...)` is hoisted to the top of
`tests/completion.test.ts` so the new tests can spy on `spawn`
without breaking the dynamic-completion tests that need `execSync`.
- `docs/api-reference.md`: list the new `--install` / `--loader`
  flags and the hidden `__refresh-completion` subcommand under
  `withCompletionCommand`. Fill in missing rows for the
  `WithCompletionOptions` and `CompletionOptions` tables
  (`globalArgsSchema`, `cacheDir`, `programVersion`, `binPath`,
  `includeSubcommands`).
- `src/core/runner.ts`: extend `runMain` JSDoc to mention the
  `runMainHook` invocation and the lifecycle bypass for
  `__`-prefixed registered subcommands.
…o-refresh

fix(completion): harden auto-refresh paths and add coverage
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LGTM!

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Devin: please take over PR #349 as the repair/execution agent.

Objective: make this PR merge-ready without manual maintainer babysitting.

Current known state:

  • PR is open and mergeable.
  • CI for head 6f4bcbca161187b048fb4ec8e0bbc16c2fb6ab4f is green.
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  • Human review approval is present.

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  1. Re-check all unresolved review threads and comments.
  2. Patch any real blocker directly on the PR branch if anything remains.
  3. Re-run or verify CI after any patch.
  4. Confirm no stale Devin findings remain.
  5. Leave a final merge-readiness comment with exact evidence: changed files if any, CI status, review-thread status, and GO/HOLD.

Do not expand scope beyond PR #349.

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Merge-readiness check after Devin Review removal / unavailable state:

Status: GO for maintainer merge.

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  • PR state: open, not draft, mergeable=true.
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  • Human review: approved by dqn on 2026-05-19.

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