agent-ide --help starts a server instead of helping

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
82/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
cli

Research direction

Read bin.js:25-27 to see how arguments are routed, then compare with the help handling in cli.js:204. Check how the executable behaves for --help and an unknown command such as threads3; done means help exits after printing usage and an unknown command reports an error without starting the server.

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Asking the one executable for help starts a server. The README sends people to --help for the CLI, and npx github:oskarrough/agent-ide --help is the obvious way to ask. Any word that isn't a CLI command does the same, so a typo like threads3 or --version boots a server too.

Right looks like: help prints help, and an unknown command says so instead of serving.

Evidence:

  • bin.js:25-27 sends everything that isn't runner or one of eight command names to server.js.
  • Ran node bin.js --help on a machine whose :3000 was already taken by a server. It started its own server and a runner that connected to the one on :3000, and it kept running until I killed it. ps showed node bin.js --help plus runner.js --server http://127.0.0.1:3000 --dir <cwd>.
  • node cli.js --help does print help (cli.js:204).
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