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pnpm lint causing issue when ESLint isn't used

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#665 opened on Mar 17, 2026

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Description

I have a project that uses pnpm and biome as linter. RTK seems to insist rewrite pnpm lint to rtk lint, which is then dependent on ESLint that I do not use. This causes the agent to get into a re-try loop. Despite several notes I provided in Agents.MD, the confusion seems big enough that the agents kept tripping over this. Sometimes it'd eventually figure out what to do.

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# Test RTK rewrite of pnpm lint
$ rtk rewrite "pnpm lint"
rtk lint

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Research direction
Investigate the rewrite rules in the RTK CLI source code, specifically the pattern that maps 'pnpm lint' to 'rtk lint'. Trace the code path to understand why it assumes ESLint is required and how to fix it to support alternative linters like biome.
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rust
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Rustpnpm
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