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feat(cli): add headless registration for assistants and skills - #568

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Summary

codemie setup assistants and codemie setup skills could only be driven through the interactive
wizard, which made them unusable for provisioning and CI. This adds a fully headless path to both
commands so several assistants or skills can be registered from a single non-interactive
invocation, and replaces the pipeline's partial-tolerant behaviour with a fail-fast contract: if any
requested item is not available to the authenticated user, the whole run aborts with a typed error
and a non-zero exit before anything is written to disk.

The interactive wizard already had assistant search and selection, so it is left as-is apart from
the fail-fast change, which now binds both modes rather than headless alone.

Changes

  • New shared modules under src/cli/commands/shared/: headless.ts (mode detection and flag
    validation), identifier-resolution.ts (resolve by id, slug, or case-insensitive exact name with
    distinct not-found and ambiguity errors), plus executeWithSpinnerStrict and registerAllOrAbort.
  • setup assistants gains --assistant, --scope, --mode and -y; setup skills gains
    --skill, --scope and -y. Both codemie setup … and codemie-<agent> setup … inherit them
    through the shared command factories, with flag-parity tests to keep the two wiring sites in step.
  • Headless mode is selected only by the item-selection flags, -y, or a non-TTY stdin. --agent,
    --scope and --mode remain wizard preselectors, so existing TTY invocations are unaffected.
  • Removed three independent sources of silent partial success: a swallowed per-item fetch, an
    if (!fullAssistant) continue, and a spinner that converted thrown errors into null.
  • Catalog fetches now page fully and union the project and marketplace catalogs, de-duplicated by
    id, so marketplace assistants the wizard can install are no longer reported as "not found".
  • Pre-flight authenticates and resolves every identifier and target before the first filesystem
    write. persistPartialWrites records what reached disk when a later write fails.
  • Headless auth is non-interactive, so a stale session cannot open a re-auth prompt in CI.
  • Headless registration is purely additive: it registers the requested items and never unregisters
    ones the request did not name.

Impact

Headless mode requires --scope, --agent and, for assistants, the registration mode explicitly —
nothing is auto-detected and no target is guessed. A missing flag is a named error.

There is no filesystem rollback by design: a failure after writes have begun aborts immediately and
reports the items already written by name.

The skills setup notice ("Skills are installed without tools or MCP servers") is printed as plain
output in headless mode with no keypress gate; the interactive Enter gate is unchanged.

Behaviour change worth calling out for reviewers: the interactive skills wizard previously filtered
unavailable ids out silently and reported success. It now aborts, matching the headless contract.

Checklist

  • Self-reviewed
  • Manual testing performed
  • Documentation updated (if needed)
  • No breaking changes (or documented)

Built through the SDLC Factory standard flow. Planning, review and validation artifacts are in
docs/superpowers/tasks/2026-09-18-codemie-assistant-skill-registration/.

Quality gates: license, lint, typecheck, commitlint, secrets, build, affected, unit, cli and agent
suites all green. Code review ran the full four-lens profile plus a standards audit; its 17 blocking
findings were fixed and re-verified by a targeted check round (17 resolved, 0 unresolved).

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Adds isHeadlessMode, requireFlag, parseScopeFlag, and parseListFlag in
src/cli/commands/shared/headless.ts plus two new error classes
(RegistrationItemNotFoundError, AmbiguousIdentifierError) in
src/utils/errors.ts. This is the shared foundation for the upcoming
non-interactive branch of `codemie setup assistants` and
`codemie setup skills`.

Task 1 of codemie-assistant-skill-registration.

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Adds resolveIdentifiers, matching user-supplied identifiers against a
catalog by id, slug, then exact name (case-insensitive), preserving
requested order. Throws RegistrationItemNotFoundError for unknown
identifiers and AmbiguousIdentifierError listing every candidate for
name collisions, rather than guessing.

Part of codemie-assistant-skill-registration, Task 2.

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Adds fetchAllVisibleAssistants() and fetchAllVisibleSkills(), which page
listPaginated until pages are exhausted instead of reading only page one,
reusing API_SCOPE.VISIBLE_TO_USER and the assertApiListResponse guard.
fetchSkillsByIds now routes through fetchAllVisibleSkills instead of a
per_page: 100 single-page client-side filter, so an id living beyond page
one is found rather than reported missing. fetchAssistantsByIds no longer
swallows a per-item fetch failure in a try/catch — an inaccessible
assistant now rejects the whole call instead of silently registering a
partial set while reporting success.

codemie-assistant-skill-registration Task 3.

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Add executeWithSpinnerStrict (rethrows instead of swallowing to null) and
registerAllOrAbort, a sequential all-or-nothing write driver that throws
PartialRegistrationError naming only the items already written when one
write fails. Switch registerAssistant/registerSkill to the strict spinner
and non-nullable return types, replace the register loops in
assistants/setup/index.ts and skills/setup/index.ts with
registerAllOrAbort, and replace the silent `if (!fullAssistant) continue`
skip with a thrown RegistrationItemNotFoundError. This removes the last of
three partial-tolerance sources so a run that registers 3 of 5 items can no
longer report success.

Part of codemie-assistant-skill-registration, Task 4. Amended two
assistants/setup/helpers.test.ts cases that asserted the null-on-failure
behavior to assert the throw instead, since that behavior was the defect
being removed.

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Add --assistant, --scope, --mode and -y/--yes flags to
`codemie setup assistants` and export setupAssistantsHeadless, a
non-interactive branch dispatched via isHeadlessMode. Flags are validated
fast (requireFlag/parseScopeFlag/parseListFlag), identifiers are resolved
against the fully-paged catalog via resolveIdentifiers before
parseAgentSetupTarget, and every prompt (including agent auto-detection)
stays unreachable. The write phase routes through applyChanges, which
already uses Task 4's registerAllOrAbort, so a mid-write failure aborts and
reports only the already-registered items.

Part of codemie-assistant-skill-registration, Task 5. Amended the two
hardcoded command.options.toHaveLength(5) assertions in
assistants/__tests__/setup.test.ts and assistants/setup/__tests__/index.test.ts
to 9, since the new flags grow the option surface.

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setupAssistantsHeadless treated the resolved --assistant ids as the
complete desired selection, so determineChanges computed every
previously-registered assistant not named on the flag as toUnregister
and applyChanges removed it. Scope the registeredAssistants passed to
applyChanges to only the requested ids (the union of those ids with
the already-registered ids that overlap them) and splice every
untouched registration back into the saved list unchanged, so headless
runs only ever add/refresh what --assistant names and never unregister
anything else. Reuses applyChanges/registerAllOrAbort verbatim.

Part of codemie-assistant-skill-registration, Task 5 (fix for a
finding on 26b4448). Adds a covering test in headless.test.ts with
a non-empty registered-assistants fixture asserting the untouched
assistant is never passed to unregisterAssistant and survives in what
is saved.

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Mirrors the assistants-side headless registration (Task 5) for `codemie
setup skills`: new --skill, --scope, and -y/--yes flags drive a
non-interactive path that validates flags, resolves identifiers against
the full skill catalog, and registers via registerAllOrAbort. The
informational skills notice prints through console.log without gating
on a keypress, and registration stays purely additive by scoping the
already-registered set handed to determineChanges down to the overlap
with the request and splicing the rest back in untouched.

Part of codemie-assistant-skill-registration, Task 6.

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Resolve all 17 blocking findings from the code review round.

- keep --agent/--scope/--mode as wizard preselectors instead of forcing
  headless mode, so shipped TTY invocations keep working
- let hostAgent satisfy the agent target requirement
- reject --project/--all-projects headlessly rather than accepting them inert
- read config from the requested scope instead of merging across scopes
- page the project and marketplace catalogs as a de-duplicated union
- throw RegistrationItemNotFoundError from fetchSkillsByIds instead of
  filtering unavailable ids out silently
- pre-fetch skill details for the whole batch before the first write
- record what reached disk and unregister per item on re-registration
- raise AmbiguousIdentifierError on duplicate ids and slugs
- thread nonInteractive through getAuthenticatedClient

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Planning, review, and validation artifacts for the headless registration
task: technical analysis, spec, plan, complexity assessments, code review
verdicts, and quality gate results.

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Run directories under docs/superpowers/tasks/ keep only the durable record
the team mines later: actual-complexity.json, code-review-final.json,
complexity-assessment.json, decisions.jsonl, events.jsonl, gate-run.json,
plan.md, qa-report.md, spec.md, technical-analysis.md.

Untrack 111 files that were machine state or regenerable intermediates:
gate-plan.json (machine-specific runner cache), code-review*.diff/.head
(recoverable via git diff <merge-base>...HEAD), per-lens review files
superseded by code-review-final.json, implementation.jsonl, and per-task
subagent reports. Also drop 55 untracked strays left in the same dirs.

Replace three per-filename ignore rows with the shape-based .local marker
rules, and add .claude/settings.local.json, which was only ever covered by
a personal global gitignore.

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Add `.build/` so Swift Package Manager build artifacts stay untracked.
The codenotch integration produced ~94MB of untracked build output that
no existing rule covered.

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8nevil8 merged commit 2d91509 into main Sep 18, 2026
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8nevil8 deleted the feat/codemie-assistant-skill-registration branch September 18, 2026 14:35
mykolanehrych added a commit to mykolanehrych/codemie-code that referenced this pull request Sep 18, 2026
Merge origin/main (56 commits, up to codemie-ai#568) into the Claude Desktop Cowork
analytics branch. No conflicts.

Hooks skipped because scripts/validate-secrets.js cannot buffer a staged diff
this large (spawnSync git ENOBUFS). Gates run manually on the merged tree:
lint, typecheck, unit (4125) and cli (279) suites all green.

Refs: EPMCDME-12687

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