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[cli-consistency] CLI Consistency Issues - 2026-10-09

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github
Domain
cli, documentation

Research direction

The gaps are in docs/src/content/docs/setup/cli.md. Run gh aw work-queue --help and gh aw compile --help to get the subcommands and the --allow-experimental text, and check patterns/workqueue-ops.md for existing wording. Done when cli.md has a work-queue section with its subcommands and flags, and the --dry-run paragraph covers --allow-experimental.

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Description

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Summary

Compared /tmp/gh-aw/agent/all-help.txt and per-command help against docs/src/content/docs/setup/cli.md. Found 2 documentation gaps. Severity: high 0, medium 2, low 0.

Documentation gaps
1. gh aw work-queue command family is not documented in cli.md (medium)
  • Affected: gh aw work-queue and subcommands (cancel-claim, cancel-work, compact, control, dispatch-next, evidence, explain, ...).
  • CLI output: work-queue Inspect and publish the current fair Git-backed DAG work queue
  • Actual: cli.md has no gh aw work-queue section. The only mentions are --artifacts work-queue and the --dry-run note. Flags such as --storage, --branch, --request-id, --claim-id, --work-id, --pool, --max-claims, --max-dispatches and --max-bytes are absent from the CLI reference.
  • Expected: a command section, or a link to patterns/workqueue-ops.md from cli.md.
  • Suggested fix: add a work-queue section listing subcommands and flags, based on gh aw work-queue --help.
2. gh aw compile --allow-experimental is not documented (medium)
  • CLI output: --allow-experimental Accept experimental-feature notices during dry-run compilation; notices remain visible and all other warnings and scanner failures remain fatal
  • Actual: the flag does not appear in cli.md, including the --dry-run paragraph, which says warnings are errors.
  • Expected: the flag is documented alongside --dry-run.
  • Suggested fix: add a sentence to the --dry-run paragraph, or a flag entry, describing --allow-experimental.
Inspection metadata
  • Date: 2026-10-09
  • Method: automated flag-by-flag comparison of every command's help against cli.md, plus a typo scan of all-help.txt. No typos were found.
  • Scope: all top-level commands in all-help.txt (about 45) and their help files. Run: 37936811221.

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