Simplify top-level help for human users
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- cli
Research direction
Locate the CLI entry point that renders default help and inspect the existing agent-detection behavior. Update the human-oriented overview to omit inline subcommand lists while preserving the expanded agent output, then verify both modes and that sentry help <command> still exposes subcommands.
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Description
Reported by Vjeran Grozdanic.
Running sentry without arguments feels overwhelming on first use. The output lists command groups alongside all their subcommands, such as auth login | logout | refresh | status | token | whoami, making the overview difficult to scan.
- For human users, show top-level commands without inline subcommand lists; subcommands remain discoverable with
sentry help <command>. - Preserve the expanded output for agents, using the CLI’s existing agent-detection behavior so they can discover capabilities with fewer calls.
Related: #81 introduced the broader default-help redesign; this is a narrower follow-up about information density.
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