One visual system for the CLI: engine-rendered help, renderer-owned output conventions - #172
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…e output conventions Help never touches stricli's text_en again: a new engine renderer draws the command tree with the same tones every block uses — banner and tagline, the rail card, mount-ordered 'name brief' rows, one Global options section at the root, leaf-only flag signatures, examples, and docs links. Color on a TTY, plain when piped; honors --color/--no-color and NO_COLOR. Output conventions move into the renderer so they stop being per-command choices: sentence-cased table headers, a dim em-dash placeholder for absent values, colored diagnostics (severity glyph in its tone, dim code and why/docs, accent next-action arrows), and standardized empty states. The machine stdout mirror is suppressed when stdout and stderr are both TTYs — the data was already on screen as the human blocks — while any redirection keeps it, so pipes are unchanged. Unknown commands now suggest the nearest mounted command and point at --help. Command fixes: branch list gains the --project flag its own error recommended, project show --project stops claiming the directory is linked, service list shows the project name instead of the raw id. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
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WalkthroughThe CLI engine now supports configured root help metadata and renders root, group, and leaf help before command execution. Rendering adds color-aware diagnostics, spacing between sections, sentence-cased table headers, and em-dash placeholders. Unknown commands receive ranked suggestions. CLI commands use informational summaries for empty results, support explicit branch-list projects, display empty fields consistently, and include service project names. Tests update help, rendering, presentation, and data expectations. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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…s involved A card, a table and the next actions each read as their own paragraph now instead of running together. Runs of one-liners — summaries, next-action arrows, single-line diagnostics — keep hugging, since they read as one glyph-aligned list. The same rule paragraphs an errored run's findings list. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
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In `@packages/cli-engine/src/execution/help.ts`:
- Around line 107-110: Update the segments.length === 0 branch in helpPath
handling to return implicit root help only when argv is empty, allowing root
options such as --unknown, --config, and -- to continue through routing and
usage validation; preserve explicit --help handling through helpFlagGiven.
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A run that never mounts a command — an unknown command, a parse failure — rendered its diagnostics through the constructor default colorEnabled: false, because applySharedFlags only runs once a command parses. The run state now starts from the same pre-parse resolution help uses (explicit flag, NO_COLOR, stderr TTY), renamed preParseColorEnabled; applySharedFlags still re-resolves after parsing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
…evice Two TTYs are almost always one terminal, but a harness can allocate a separate PTY per stream and read stdout on its own — there the mirror is the machine's only data. The bin now compares fstat identity of fd 1 and fd 2 and reports it as Runtime.outputStreamsShareDevice; the renderer keeps the mirror whenever the host can prove the streams are different devices. A host that cannot tell keeps the one-terminal assumption. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
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…llery tooling Implicit help now fires only for a truly bare invocation — no argv at all, or exactly a group path. 'cli --unknown' and 'cli project --frobnicate' reach routing and settle as the usage errors they are instead of exiting 0 with a help card (CodeRabbit finding on #172). The e2e harness failure message now carries the envelope's why and meta, so a server-side refusal is diagnosable from the CI log. Before its first create, each e2e process sweeps scratch projects a previous run stranded (our own e2e- naming, older than an hour), so leaked projects can no longer exhaust the workspace's quota permanently. scripts/output-gallery/ is the PTY-capture and rendering tool behind the PR's before/after gallery, committed for reuse; it writes into the gitignored wip/gallery/. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
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Temporary; removed before merge. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
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Correction on the e2e failure, now half-diagnosed with better instrumentation. My earlier quota theory was wrong. Facts established since: the failure is 🤖 Generated with Claude Code |
Root cause of the e2e failures, found by local bisect and artifact-level toggling: Node's ESM resolver can hand the management-api-sdk dynamic import the package's pnpm symlink URL instead of its .pnpm real path, and from the symlink URL the SDK's own 'openapi-fetch' import cannot resolve. The fault is state-dependent — the two fstatSync calls the same-device probe makes at startup provoke it deterministically, while a module-loader hook or removing the calls masks it; a literal field value in the same artifact passes, so the syscalls, not the field, perturb the resolver. The engine's SDK import now falls back to resolving through CJS require (which realpaths) and importing the real location directly. The fallback never fires when the normal import works, and hardens the latent hazard independently of the probe. Also removes the two temporary diagnostic steps from the e2e workflow. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
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Root cause found and fixed (2e89b00). Trail: the failure reproduced locally once the right probe was used — my earlier local checks never exercised the built engine's dynamic SDK import, which is why the fault masqueraded as CI-environmental. Local bisect pinned it to the same-device commit; toggling the built artifact showed the two Fix: the engine's SDK import now falls back to resolving via CJS 🤖 Generated with Claude Code |
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In `@packages/cli/e2e/scratch.ts`:
- Around line 100-103: Wrap the cli.run call for ["project", "list"] in the
scratch setup flow with rejection handling so thrown timeout or
unreadable-stream errors are caught; warn about the failure and return
immediately without cleanup. Preserve the existing return for a non-ok listing
envelope.
- Around line 117-123: Update the scratch-project cleanup flow around
scratchStampMs and removeScratchProject so age alone cannot authorize deletion.
Add an active-run lease or shared cleanup lock that confirms no concurrent E2E
process owns the project before removing it; alternatively, isolate each run in
a separate workspace. Preserve sequential removal behavior after ownership is
safely established.
In `@scripts/output-gallery/capture.zsh`:
- Around line 4-5: Normalize the gallery directory consistently: in
scripts/output-gallery/capture.zsh lines 4-5, read GALLERY_DIR and derive SHOTS
from it; in scripts/output-gallery/build.mjs lines 6-9 and
scripts/output-gallery/page.mjs lines 3-6, convert the default file URL with
fileURLToPath and construct child paths with join; in
scripts/output-gallery/README.md line 18, document the normalized directory
input format.
In `@scripts/output-gallery/page.mjs`:
- Line 64: Update the instructional text in the gallery output paragraph to
reference scripts/output-gallery/capture.zsh instead of
wip/gallery/capture-after.sh, while preserving the surrounding refresh guidance.
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The e2e sweep catches a thrown project-list run so a timeout cannot reject the shared swept promise and fail every later setup, and its stale threshold moves to 24 hours — a GitHub Actions job is hard-capped at 6, so no live concurrent run's project can qualify. The gallery tooling honors GALLERY_DIR consistently (capture.zsh reads it; the Node scripts normalize via fileURLToPath + join), and the page footer names the committed capture script. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
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Version bump `8.0.0-rc.1` → `8.0.0-rc.2` across the lockstep workspace, produced by `pnpm bump-version` (lockfile regenerated in the same commit; `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile` verified clean, full test suite green). ## What ships This is the release commit for the visual-system work now on main: - #172 — engine-rendered help, renderer-owned output conventions (section spacing, table conventions, colored diagnostics, did-you-mean, dual-TTY mirror suppression), the ESM-resolver import fallback, e2e hardening, and the output-gallery tooling. - #173 — `definePrismaConfig` rename with deprecated `defineConfig` alias. ## On merge The publish workflow detects the root-version change and publishes `@prisma/cli` and `@prisma/cli-engine` under the RC line's canonical dist-tag `next`, creating the GitHub Release with tarballs attached. Moving `latest` remains a separate manual `workflow_dispatch`. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io> Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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prisma-cli --helptoday prints this:After this PR it prints this:
Full before/after gallery of every major flow (real PTY captures): https://claude.ai/code/artifact/e97b8dd9-c932-452f-800a-afd3e961d1db
The decision
All human output — help included — renders through the engine's presentation layer, and the output conventions live in the renderer rather than in each command. One system paints everything; a command describes content and never formats it.
How we got here, and what changes
When the Commander shell was deleted (f6c48ae), its hand-built help renderer went with it, and help fell through to stricli's stock renderer: monochrome (the engine forced
STRICLI_NO_COLOR=1), no banner, and the eleven engine-injected shared flags repeated on every usage line — the wall above. Meanwhile the engine's own presentation system (summary/fields/table/list/tree/drawing blocks, a 19-tone palette) was never consulted for help, and commands had each invented their own conventions on top of it. Capturing every major flow made the drift visible, and each finding below became a change:cli-engine/src/execution/help.ts, new). The command tree draws with the same tones as every block: banner and tagline, the rail card, mount-orderedname briefrows, one Global options section at the root, flag signatures only on the leaf that owns them, examples, docs links. Color on a TTY, plain when piped, honors--color/--no-color/NO_COLOR. Implicit help fires only for truly bare invocations (no argv, or exactly a group path);cli --unknownreaches routing and errors properly.createCligains an optionalhelpfield for the root card's words.—for absent values (the invented "none" strings are gone); one standard empty state across all nine list commands; diagnostics in the palette (severity glyph in its tone, dim[CODE], accent→next actions); a blank line between multi-line sections so a card, a table, and the next actions read as paragraphs.--helppointer.branch listrecommended a--projectflag it never registered;project show --project Xclaimed the directory was linked when it wasn't;service listprinted the raw project id where every sibling shows the name.The ORM and composer families run on the same engine, so they inherit all of this with no changes on their side.
scripts/output-gallery/is the capture-and-render tool behind the gallery, committed for reuse (README.mdthere has the three commands).Testing
pnpm testgreen across the repo (engine 804, cli 937+1 skipped), lint and typecheck clean. Rendering changes that shifted pinned goldens (header casing, empty-state shape, section spacing, dual-TTY mirror) had those goldens updated deliberately — each is called out in its commit. The e2e harness now surfaces the API'swhy/metaon failure and sweeps scratch projects stranded by earlier runs before creating its own.Alternatives considered
text_enlocalization instead of replacing it. Rejected: the localization hooks only let you reword lines, not restructure them — the per-command usage dump and the repeated shared flags are baked into its layout.Known seams (out of scope, recorded)
--help-allrenders the same card as--help(nothing in the tree is hidden today). Two orm-toolchain issues found while scaffolding the gallery's ORM project —orm initwritesprisma-next.config.ts, which the unified CLI does not read, and a relative contract path crashes contract emit — belong to prisma/prisma.🤖 Generated with Claude Code