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@gunshi/plugin-suggestion never emits a suggestion. Neither of its two features works: unknown-option hints or command-not-found hints.

The cause is not in that package. isCommandNotFoundError and isArgsValidationError are instanceof checks, and @gunshi/plugin is built with noExternal: ['gunshi/plugin'] and no runtime dependency on gunshi, so it ships its own copy of the error classes. An error thrown by gunshi is therefore never an instance of the class a plugin imports:

import * as gunshi from 'gunshi'
import * as plugin from '@gunshi/plugin'

gunshi.ArgsValidationError === plugin.ArgsValidationError   // false
gunshi.CommandNotFoundError === plugin.CommandNotFoundError // false

Reproduced on a clean npm install of gunshi@0.37.1 + @gunshi/plugin-suggestion@0.37.1 + @gunshi/plugin-i18n@0.37.1 with a fully deduped tree:

Unknown option: --alow-reload      ← no "Did you mean --allow-reload?"

error ctor name       : ArgsValidationError
error code            : err:arg:unknown-option
values.candidates     : ["--help","--version","--allow-reload"]
isArgsValidationError : false      ← the guard rejects its own error type

The renderer decorator does run and the error carries everything needed; the guard inside getUnknownOptionSuggestionInput is what rejects it.

This affects any plugin outside the gunshi bundle that uses these guards, not just plugin-suggestion. Inside gunshi the classes are a single copy (plugin-renderer, plugin-global, plugin-i18n are inlined via noExternal), which is why core's own rendering is unaffected and the bug is invisible from within the repo.

Approach

I kept the packaging as-is rather than making gunshi a runtime dependency of @gunshi/plugin, since the inlining looks deliberate. instanceof stays as the fast path, with a structural fallback on the name brand both constructors already set.

isArgsValidationError now comes from ./error.ts instead of being re-exported straight from args-tokens, so gunshi and gunshi/plugin consumers get the resilient version. ArgsValidationError itself is still re-exported from args-tokens unchanged. No change is needed in args-tokens.

Happy to switch to the structural fix (sharing one copy of the classes) instead if you'd prefer that — it's your packaging call, and this seemed like the least invasive way to fix it.

Verification

packages/gunshi/src/error.test.ts covers both guards and hasPriorityValidationError against stand-ins for the duplicated copies. 6 of the 8 fail on main and pass with this change.

pnpm test (43 files, 497 tests, no type errors), pnpm lint, and pnpm build all pass.

End-to-end against packed tarballs of the built packages, same clean-install setup as the repro above:

mycli start --alow-reload  →  Unknown option: --alow-reload
                              Did you mean --allow-reload?

mycli lod                  →  Command not found: lod
                              Did you mean load?

Linked Issues

Follow-up to #611 / #616.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved error detection across duplicated package copies.
    • Added reliable recognition of argument validation errors.
    • Enhanced detection of command-not-found and validation errors nested in aggregate errors.
  • Documentation

    • Updated structured error exports and package documentation to include the new validation error guard.

`isCommandNotFoundError` and `isArgsValidationError` use `instanceof`, which cannot
match an error thrown by `gunshi` when the guard is imported from `@gunshi/plugin`:
that package is built with `noExternal: ['gunshi/plugin']` and has no runtime
dependency on `gunshi`, so it ships its own copy of the error classes.

Both guards therefore always return `false` for every plugin outside the `gunshi`
bundle, which silently disables `@gunshi/plugin-suggestion` entirely.

Keeps `instanceof` as the fast path and adds a structural fallback on the `name`
brand both constructors set. `isArgsValidationError` is now exported from `./error.ts`
rather than re-exported straight from `args-tokens`, so consumers of `gunshi` and
`gunshi/plugin` get the resilient version.
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The PR adds structural guards for duplicated CommandNotFoundError and ArgsValidationError instances. It adds tests for invalid inputs and nested aggregate errors, and updates package exports.

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Error guard compatibility

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Structural error guard implementation
packages/gunshi/src/error.ts, packages/gunshi/src/error.test.ts, _typos.toml
isCommandNotFoundError and isArgsValidationError recognize native and duplicated bundled error classes. Tests cover unrelated values and priority errors inside AggregateError. The typo configuration allows the intentional lod test text.
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packages/gunshi/src/index.ts, packages/gunshi/src/plugin.ts
isArgsValidationError is exported from the local error.ts module. Argument error types remain exported from args-tokens.

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The change restores suggestion hints across duplicated error-class copies, but the current head still has a repository typo-check failure in its test fixtures, so it is not merge-ready until that check is fixed or explicitly accepted.

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- Line 39: Update the CommandNotFoundError test fixtures at the affected
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describe('isCommandNotFoundError', () => {
test('matches an instance of the class', () => {
const error = new CommandNotFoundError('not found', { commandName: 'lod' })

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the failing typo-check fixture values.

lod fails the repository typo check on each listed line. Use a non-dictionary invalid command such as unknown-command, or add an explicit typo-check exception if this spelling is required for the test.

Proposed fix
-    const error = new CommandNotFoundError('not found', { commandName: 'lod' })
+    const error = new CommandNotFoundError('not found', { commandName: 'unknown-command' })
...
-    const error = new DuplicatedCommandNotFoundError('not found', 'lod', ['load'])
+    const error = new DuplicatedCommandNotFoundError('not found', 'unknown-command', ['load'])
...
-      new DuplicatedCommandNotFoundError('not found', 'lod', ['load'])
+      new DuplicatedCommandNotFoundError('not found', 'unknown-command', ['load'])

Also applies to: 44-44, 92-92

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[error] 39-39: Typos check failed: lod should be load.

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[error] 39-39: Typos check failed in './typos .': lod should be load.

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[warning] 39-39:
"lod" should be "load".

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In `@packages/gunshi/src/error.test.ts` at line 39, Update the
CommandNotFoundError test fixtures at the affected locations to use a
non-dictionary invalid command such as unknown-command instead of lod,
preserving the tests’ intended not-found behavior.

Sources: Linters/SAST tools, Pipeline failures

…ests

Matches the existing `alow` entry: `lod` is test data standing in for a mistyped
command name, not a typo in prose.
theoephraim added a commit to dmno-dev/varlock that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
…or the same way

Replaces the hand-rolled strict-flags plugin with gunshi's built-in `strict: true`,
added in 0.36.0 in response to our own upstream request. Core derives the accepted
names from the real arg schema, so it cannot drift from the parser the way our plugin
could: `buildKnownFlags` accepted both the camelCase and kebab-case spelling of every
arg regardless of `toKebab`, so a camelCase arg would have let `--that-flag` through
while gunshi silently dropped its value. That is the exact bug the plugin existed to
catch. Every live varlock option is declared kebab-case today, so nothing was broken
in practice.

Also fixes two pre-existing problems with argument errors, since suppressing gunshi's
renderer is needed to keep our own formatting:

- they were written to stdout via `ctx.log`, which corrupts the output of `varlock load`
- a bad option value (`varlock load --format=nope`) printed a raw AggregateError stack
  trace, and an unknown subcommand printed gunshi's message followed by ours

Unknown flags, unknown subcommands, and bad option values now all produce one varlock
error block on stderr. Unknown subcommands gain a "did you mean" suggestion, using the
candidate list core started exposing in 0.36.0.

Suggestion matching is duck-typed rather than using the `isArgsValidationError` guard,
which cannot work across package boundaries (kazupon/gunshi#678).
theoephraim added a commit to dmno-dev/varlock that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
…or the same way

Replaces the hand-rolled strict-flags plugin with gunshi's built-in `strict: true`,
added in 0.36.0 in response to our own upstream request. Core derives the accepted
names from the real arg schema, so it cannot drift from the parser the way our plugin
could: `buildKnownFlags` accepted both the camelCase and kebab-case spelling of every
arg regardless of `toKebab`, so a camelCase arg would have let `--that-flag` through
while gunshi silently dropped its value. That is the exact bug the plugin existed to
catch. Every live varlock option is declared kebab-case today, so nothing was broken
in practice.

Also fixes two pre-existing problems with argument errors, since suppressing gunshi's
renderer is needed to keep our own formatting:

- they were written to stdout via `ctx.log`, which corrupts the output of `varlock load`
- a bad option value (`varlock load --format=nope`) printed a raw AggregateError stack
  trace, and an unknown subcommand printed gunshi's message followed by ours

Unknown flags, unknown subcommands, and bad option values now all produce one varlock
error block on stderr. Unknown subcommands gain a "did you mean" suggestion, using the
candidate list core started exposing in 0.36.0.

Suggestion matching is duck-typed rather than using the `isArgsValidationError` guard,
which cannot work across package boundaries (kazupon/gunshi#678).
theoephraim added a commit to dmno-dev/varlock that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
…y, adopt gunshi strict validation (#1023)

* fix(telemetry): track subcommands via a gunshi plugin, split schema usage into its own event

Nested subcommands needed a manual trackCommand() call in every verb, since gunshi
dispatches straight to the leaf and bypasses the buildLazyCommand wrapper. All ten
`proxy` verbs were missed that way until #1020 added them by hand.

A gunshi command decorator wraps whatever gunshi resolved, at any depth, and reads the
full path off ctx.commandPath, so a new subcommand is tracked the moment it is
registered. The 16 manual calls in proxy/cache/keychain are gone, as is the tracking
half of buildLazyCommand. `complete` is skipped so shell tab-presses are not counted,
and --help/--version still short-circuit before the decorator.

The command event now fires at the start of the run rather than in a `finally`. That
was only possible by moving the schema/plugin usage data (plugins, features,
graph_loaded, error_code) onto a separate `cli_schema_loaded` event, since that data is
not final until the command has run. Long-running commands are now counted at launch
instead of only when their child exits, so `varlock run -- next dev` and
`varlock proxy run -- claude` stop being undercounted.

The schema event is sent from the exit hook, keeping the classification late enough that
resolution_error and validation_error stay reachable, and again when a reload supersedes
the graph, so `proxy start` policy hot-swaps become visible. Both events carry a random
per-process invocation_id so the two halves of one run can be joined.

* chore(deps): upgrade gunshi to 0.37.1

Bumps gunshi, @gunshi/plugin-completion, and @gunshi/plugin-i18n together, since
plugin-completion pins the i18n plugin to an exact matching version.

No source changes needed: the plugin API (decorateCommand), ctx.commandPath, and
subcommand resolution are all unchanged across 0.35 -> 0.37.

* fix(cli): use gunshi's strict arg validation and format every arg error the same way

Replaces the hand-rolled strict-flags plugin with gunshi's built-in `strict: true`,
added in 0.36.0 in response to our own upstream request. Core derives the accepted
names from the real arg schema, so it cannot drift from the parser the way our plugin
could: `buildKnownFlags` accepted both the camelCase and kebab-case spelling of every
arg regardless of `toKebab`, so a camelCase arg would have let `--that-flag` through
while gunshi silently dropped its value. That is the exact bug the plugin existed to
catch. Every live varlock option is declared kebab-case today, so nothing was broken
in practice.

Also fixes two pre-existing problems with argument errors, since suppressing gunshi's
renderer is needed to keep our own formatting:

- they were written to stdout via `ctx.log`, which corrupts the output of `varlock load`
- a bad option value (`varlock load --format=nope`) printed a raw AggregateError stack
  trace, and an unknown subcommand printed gunshi's message followed by ours

Unknown flags, unknown subcommands, and bad option values now all produce one varlock
error block on stderr. Unknown subcommands gain a "did you mean" suggestion, using the
candidate list core started exposing in 0.36.0.

Suggestion matching is duck-typed rather than using the `isArgsValidationError` guard,
which cannot work across package boundaries (kazupon/gunshi#678).

* fix(cli): suggest nested subcommands under their parent path

`varlock proxy strat` suggested `varlock start`, which does not exist. The lookup
fails under a parent path, so a bare candidate is not runnable on its own. Use the
`commandPath` the error carries for both the suggestion and the help pointer, so
`varlock proxy strat` now suggests `varlock proxy start` and points at
`varlock proxy --help`.

Also filters gunshi's `(anonymous)` entry-command placeholder out of the candidate
list, so it can never be offered as a suggestion.

* refactor(cli): rename validation-errors to arg-errors

`validation-errors` collided with the env-graph's own ValidationError, which is about
config item values failing their schema and is part of the public API. This module is
about the CLI arguments themselves, so name it for that. `isArgValidationError` becomes
`isArgError` for the same reason.
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Thank you for your contribution!
And sorry my late reply 🙇

I've just reviewed this PR.
Please check it!

(error instanceof Error &&
error.name === 'CommandNotFoundError' &&
'commandName' in error &&
'candidates' in error)

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Could we validate the property values here rather than only checking that the keys exist?

For example, this currently passes the guard:

Object.assign(new Error('bad'), {
  name: 'CommandNotFoundError',
  commandName: 'x',
  candidates: undefined
})

isCommandNotFoundError returns true, but plugin-suggestion then accesses error.candidates.length and throws. Since this function is also exposed as a TypeScript type predicate, returning true should guarantee the expected runtime shape.

At minimum, could we check typeof commandName === 'string' and Array.isArray(candidates), and apply equivalent type checks to code and values in isArgsValidationError?

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