batless 0.4.0 - Docs.rs


# 📋 **Last Updated**: February 2026

**Current Version**: v0.3.0 (Released – August 27, 2024)

**Latest Release**: v0.3.0 (August 27, 2024)

**Next Target**: v0.4.0 (advanced code analysis)

**🚀 Current Status**: v0.3.0 shipped! Major architectural refactoring and CI/CD pipeline optimization complete.

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## ✅ v0.3.0 – Major Architectural Refactoring (Released August 27, 2024)

**Released**: August 27, 2024

**Focus**: Comprehensive technical debt remediation and architectural improvements

### ✅ **Major Architecture Improvements**

- **🏗️ Technical Debt Remediation**: Addressed critical stability and maintainability issues
- **📦 Module Extraction**: Split large config.rs (1,366→1,054 lines) into focused modules:
  - `src/summary.rs` - SummaryLevel enum with Copy trait optimization
  - `src/profile.rs` - CustomProfile with optimized getter methods
  - `src/traits.rs` - Dependency inversion interfaces
  - `src/processor_builder.rs` - Configurable processing with dependency injection
  - `src/formatters/` - Modular output formatting architecture
  - `src/performance.rs` - Caching, metrics, and optimization utilities
  - `src/debt_prevention.rs` - Quality gates and automated debt prevention

### ✅ **Code Quality & Performance**

- **🔧 Error Handling**: Eliminated 7 unwrap() calls in production code
- **⚡ Performance**: Reduced clone() operations from 54→49, added Copy traits
- **🧹 Code Quality**: Zero clippy warnings, comprehensive validation
- **🔒 Security**: All cargo audit vulnerabilities addressed

### ✅ **CI/CD Optimization** (Updated September 6, 2025)

- **🚀 Workflow Consolidation**: Streamlined from 12→3 focused workflows (62% reduction)
  - `test-consolidated.yml` - Comprehensive testing across platforms
  - `quality-consolidated.yml` - Linting, security, and quality checks
  - `release-consolidated.yml` - Automated releases with proper artifacts
- **♻️ Reusable Actions**: Created modular GitHub Actions in `.github/actions/`
- **📊 Enhanced Testing**: 247+ tests with improved coverage

#### ✅ **September 2025: Advanced CI/CD Pipeline Optimization**

- **⚡ Performance Improvements**: Reduced pipeline duration from ~26min → <15min (40% faster)
- **🔄 Concurrency Controls**: Added workflow concurrency groups with cancel-in-progress
- **🗂️ Parallel Execution**: Implemented test sharding (3-7 concurrent jobs)
- **💾 Smart Caching**: Upgraded to Swatinem/rust-cache@v2 for better performance
- **🎯 New Optimized Workflows**:
  - `ci-optimized.yml` - Ultra-fast validation with parallel test shards
  - `performance-optimized.yml` - Aggressive parallelization (target <10min)
- **📊 Monitoring & Auto-Recovery**:
  - `pipeline-health-check.sh` - Comprehensive health assessment with auto-fix
  - `ci-health-check.sh` - Quick status checker with metrics analysis
  - `workflow-performance-monitor.sh` - Performance analysis and recommendations
- **🏗️ Build Optimizations**: CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0, target-cpu=native, shallow clones

### ✅ **Developer Experience**

- **🎯 Dependency Inversion**: Trait-based architecture for better testability
- **🛠️ Builder Pattern**: Configurable processors with clean dependency injection
- **📋 Quality Gates**: Automated checks preventing future technical debt
- **📝 ADR Templates**: Architecture Decision Record system

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## ✅ v0.3.1 – CI/CD Pipeline Optimization (September 6, 2025)

**Delivered**: September 6, 2025

**Focus**: Comprehensive CI/CD pipeline performance optimization and monitoring system

### ✅ **Pipeline Performance Optimization**

- **⚡ 40% Speed Improvement**: Reduced average pipeline time from ~26min to <15min
- **🔄 Concurrency Controls**: Added workflow concurrency groups with intelligent cancellation
- **🧪 Parallel Test Execution**: Implemented test sharding across 3-7 concurrent jobs
- **💾 Advanced Caching**: Upgraded to Swatinem/rust-cache@v2 with optimized strategies
- **🏗️ Build Optimizations**: CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0, target-cpu=native, shallow git clones

### ✅ **New Workflow Architecture**

- **ci-optimized.yml**: Ultra-fast validation workflow with parallel shards
- **performance-optimized.yml**: Aggressive parallelization targeting <10min execution
- **Enhanced ci.yml**: Main workflow updated with all optimizations and timeout controls

### ✅ **Monitoring & Auto-Recovery System**

- **pipeline-health-check.sh**: Comprehensive health assessment with auto-fix capabilities
- **ci-health-check.sh**: Quick status checker with performance metrics analysis
- **workflow-performance-monitor.sh**: Advanced performance analysis and recommendations
- **Real-time Metrics**: Pipeline success rate tracking and performance monitoring

### ✅ **Developer Experience Improvements**

- **Auto-Fix Capabilities**: Automated resolution of common CI failures
- **Health Reporting**: Detailed pipeline health reports with actionable insights
- **Performance Insights**: Workflow timing analysis and optimization suggestions
- **Quality Gates**: Enhanced pre-commit hooks with automatic formatting fixes

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## ✅ v0.2.5 – Line Range Selection (Released December 19, 2024)

**Released**: December 19, 2024

**Features Delivered**:

- `--lines=START:END` flag for line range selection
- Multiple formats supported: `10:50`, `100:`, `:50`, `42`
- Streaming architecture maintained
- Full compatibility with all output modes
- Performance baseline stabilized

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## 🎯 v0.4.0 - Advanced Code Analysis (In Planning)

**Target**: Q1 2025

**Focus**: Enhanced code analysis capabilities and performance improvements

### Planned Features

- [ ] **Tree-sitter Integration**: Universal parsing for better language support
- [ ] **AST Analysis**: Deep code structure analysis and extraction
- [ ] **Performance Metrics**: Advanced performance monitoring and optimization
- [ ] **Enhanced Streaming**: Further streaming architecture improvements
- [ ] **Language Extensions**: Support for more programming languages

### Design Phase

- [ ] Research tree-sitter integration approach
- [ ] Design AST processing pipeline
- [ ] Plan performance optimization strategies
- [ ] Evaluate new language support priorities

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## 🛠️ Maintenance & Quality Backlog

- [ ] Stabilize integration test runs in CI (consider `--test-threads 1` or lightweight retry for flake resilience)
- [ ] Add automated docs/CLI drift validation (close out CLI mismatch follow-ups)
- [ ] Introduce `cargo deny`/security audit stage to CI
- [ ] Evaluate structured logging backend (deferred to v0.4.0)
- [ ] Draft SLSA attestation plan (supply chain security)
- [ ] Collect community feedback on JSON ergonomics and sampling signals (token_count/tokens_truncated adoption)

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## ✅ Post-Release Follow-Up (v0.3.0 Complete - September 2025)

1. [✅] **CI/CD Pipeline Optimization**: 40% performance improvement (26min → <15min)
2. [✅] **Monitoring System**: Comprehensive health check and auto-recovery scripts
3. [✅] **Performance Baseline**: Stabilized with parallel execution and smart caching
4. [✅] **Quality Gates**: Enhanced pre-commit hooks and automated fixing
5. [ ] **Evaluate structured logging backend** (deferred to v0.4.0)
6. [ ] **Draft SLSA attestation plan** (supply chain security - future)
7. [ ] **Collect early community feedback** on JSON ergonomics (ongoing)

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> Prioritized implementation tasks for batless development

**� Current Status**: v0.2.1 **RELEASED** - All 6 P0/P1 features successfully delivered! ✅ Enhanced JSON Output with streaming, PAGER compatibility, interactive configuration wizard, debug mode, and comprehensive stdin support. 201 tests passing. Release tagged and pushed to GitHub.

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## 🚀 **CURRENT DEVELOPMENT STATUS**

### **v0.2.3 - Enhanced Architecture & User Experience - ✅ RELEASED**

**Progress**: 5 of 5 P1 features completed (100% complete)
**Release Date**: August 7, 2025
**Status**: Released to crates.io and GitHub

#### **✅ Enhanced Features (August 7, 2025)**

1. **Enhanced Interactive Configuration Wizard** ✅
   - Expanded functionality with more comprehensive configuration options
   - Improved user experience and guided setup process
   - Better integration with existing configuration systems

2. **Improved Error Handling & User Experience** ✅
   - Enhanced error reporting with clearer, more actionable messages
   - Better JSON validation with improved field path tracking
   - More helpful suggestions for resolving configuration issues

3. **Centralized Configuration Logic** ✅
   - Major architectural refactoring for improved maintainability
   - Reduced code duplication and improved consistency
   - Cleaner separation of concerns across configuration modules

4. **Enhanced Test Coverage** ✅
   - New integration tests specifically for error handling scenarios
   - Improved test stability and coverage of edge cases
   - Better property-based testing for robustness

5. **Comprehensive Documentation & Monitoring** ✅
   - New AI & Editor Integration Guide for better tool integration
   - Enhanced release monitoring and prevention systems
   - Improved development and deployment documentation

#### **🎯 v0.2.3 Ready for Release**

✅ **Implementation Complete**: Enhanced architecture with improved user experience
✅ **Test Coverage**: 203 tests passing (162 unit + 35 integration + 6 property)
✅ **Code Quality**: Major refactoring completed, cleaner architecture
✅ **Documentation**: Comprehensive guides and monitoring systems
✅ **CI/CD Pipeline**: All workflows passing
🚧 **Pending**: Tag (v0.2.3), GitHub release creation, crates.io publish, confirm Homebrew tap automation

#### 📌 Post-Release Follow-Up (0.2.3)

- [x] Resolve clippy warnings (format string interpolation)
- [x] Run `cargo fmt --all -- --check`
- [x] Run security scans: `cargo audit` & `cargo deny check`
- [x] Add CHANGELOG entry for 0.2.3
- [x] Finalize CHANGELOG wording & date
- [x] Create tag & push: `v0.2.3`
- [x] Verify CI release workflow success
- [x] Verify Homebrew tap auto-update
- [x] Announce release / update badges
- [x] Add markdown lint workflow and integrate into quality gates (Aug 13, 2025)
- [x] Implement --version-json machine-readable metadata flag
- [x] Add high/critical vulnerability gating to security workflow
- [x] Enforce coverage threshold (fail <80%)
- [x] README markdown lint remediation (MD036/MD024/MD040)
- [x] Release changelog prep script (scripts/prep-release-changelog.sh)
- [x] Fuzzing scaffolding script (scripts/setup-fuzzing.sh) & tokenizer fuzz target
- [ ] (Moved to v0.2.4 P0) Integrate performance regression guard into CI (wire scripts/check_performance.sh)
- [ ] (Moved to v0.2.4 P0) Add CI job for cargo fuzz (nightly, allow-failure initially)

### **v0.2.2 - Cat Replacement & Compatibility - ✅ RELEASED**

**Progress**: 2 of 2 P0 features completed (100% complete)
**Release Date**: August 3, 2025
**Status**: Successfully released to GitHub and crates.io

#### **✅ Released Features (August 3, 2025)**

1. **Comprehensive Cat Replacement** ✅
   - Added `-n/--number` flag for line numbering (exact cat -n compatibility)
   - Added `-b/--number-nonblank` flag for non-blank line numbering (cat -b compatibility)
   - Full compatibility with system cat line numbering format (6-char right-aligned + tab)
   - Perfect newline handling - matches system cat output exactly
   - Works seamlessly with `--plain` mode for complete cat replacement

2. **Enhanced PAGER/Cat Compatibility** ✅
   - Fixed `--no-title` argument compatibility issue (was causing gh api failures)
   - Fixed newline handling bug - now outputs proper final newlines like cat/less
   - Perfect integration with tools expecting cat/less behavior
   - Supports complex pipeline usage: `gh api ... | batless --plain --no-title`
   - All compatibility flags properly implemented and tested

#### **🎯 v0.2.2 Ready for Release**

✅ **Implementation Complete**: Full cat replacement with exact line numbering compatibility
✅ **Test Coverage**: 201 tests passing (162 unit + 33 integration + 6 property)
✅ **Compatibility Verified**: Exact byte-for-byte match with `/bin/cat -n` and `-b` behavior
✅ **Bug Fixes**: Fixed newline handling issue that was truncating output
✅ **Integration Tested**: Works perfectly with gh, git, and other CLI tools
✅ **CI/CD Pipeline**: All workflows passing
🚧 **Pending**: GitHub release creation + crates.io publish

### **v0.2.1 - Enhanced Features & Polish - ✅ RELEASED**

**Progress**: 6 of 6 P0/P1 features completed (100% complete)
**Release Date**: August 2, 2025
**Status**: All features delivered, tested, and released

#### **✅ Released Features (August 2025)**

All v0.2.1 features have been successfully delivered and are available in the release:

1. **Enhanced Error Handling & User Experience** ✅
   - Improved JSON validation with field path tracking
   - Added helpful suggestions and context for AI compatibility
   - Enhanced user guidance for fixing validation issues

2. **Performance Optimizations** ✅
   - Sampling-based token counting for large files (>100KB)
   - Optimized memory usage during token estimation
   - Maintained accuracy while improving processing speed

3. **Advanced AI Model Support** ✅
   - GPT-4 Turbo and Claude-3.5 Sonnet support
   - Model-specific token counting algorithms
   - New CLI options: `--ai-model gpt4-turbo`, `claude35-sonnet`

4. **Custom AI Profiles** ✅
   - JSON and TOML profile format support
   - `--custom-profile` CLI flag
   - Profile discovery in `.batless/profiles/`

5. **PAGER Compatibility** ✅
   - Added `--plain` flag for cat replacement compatibility
   - Added stdin support for pipeline usage
   - Added compatibility flags: `--unbuffered`, `--number` (ignored)
   - GitHub CLI integration: `PAGER="batless --plain" gh pr view 46`

6. **Enhanced JSON Output** ✅
   - Streaming JSON output for very large files with `--streaming-json`
   - Resume capability with `--enable-resume --checkpoint`
   - JSON schema versioning with backwards compatibility
   - Stdin support for streaming operations
   - Interactive configuration wizard with `--configure`
   - Debug mode with `--debug` for detailed processing information

#### **🎯 v0.2.1 Release Complete**

✅ **Release Summary**: All 6 P0/P1 features delivered
✅ **Test Coverage**: 201 tests passing (162 unit + 33 integration + 6 property)
✅ **Documentation**: Complete CHANGELOG.md and feature documentation
✅ **Distribution**: Tagged v0.2.1 and pushed to GitHub

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## ✅ **v0.2.0 RELEASE SUMMARY (July 31, 2025)**

**Successfully Released**: Complete AI integration milestone with all 4 P0 features delivered.

### **Key v0.2.0 Achievements**

- SummaryLevel Enum System with granular control
- AI Model Token Counting for GPT-4, Claude, etc.
- Context Window Optimization with smart truncation
- JSON Schema Validation for AI tool compatibility
- All 145 tests passing, zero build warnings
- [GitHub Release Published](https://github.com/docdyhr/batless/releases/tag/v0.2.0)

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## ✅ **COMPLETED MILESTONES**

### v0.1.2-v0.1.6: Foundation & Architecture

- Modular architecture with 9 focused modules
- Comprehensive testing suite (107+ tests)
- Performance optimization with streaming architecture
- Security audit and dependency updates
- Shell completions and AI tool presets
- Enhanced error handling and user experience

### v0.2.0: AI Integration Suite (July 31, 2025)

- SummaryLevel enum system with granular control
- AI model token counting (GPT-4, Claude, etc.)
- Context window optimization with smart truncation
- JSON schema validation for AI compatibility
- All 145 tests passing, production-ready release

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## 🗺️ **DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP**

### **Current Focus (2024-2025)**

- ✅ **v0.2.0**: Released July 31, 2025 - Complete AI integration suite
- ✅ **v0.2.1**: Released August 2, 2025 - Enhanced features with streaming and PAGER compatibility
- ✅ **v0.2.2**: Released August 3, 2025 - Cat replacement functionality and compatibility fixes
- ✅ **v0.2.3**: Released August 7, 2025 - Enhanced architecture, configuration wizard, and error handling
- ✅ **v0.2.5**: Released December 19, 2024 - Line range selection functionality
- ✅ **v0.3.0**: Released August 27, 2024 - Major architectural refactoring and technical debt remediation
- ✅ **v0.3.1**: Delivered September 6, 2025 - CI/CD pipeline optimization and monitoring system
- 📋 **v0.4.0**: Planning Phase - Advanced code analysis and tree-sitter integration

### **Future Phases (2025-2026)**

- **v0.4.0**: Advanced Code Analysis & AST Processing (Q1 2025)
- **v0.5.0**: Plugin Architecture & Extensibility (Q2 2025)
- **v1.0.0**: Universal Integration & Enterprise Features (Q3 2025)

### **Development Philosophy**

- ✅ Incremental releases with immediate value
- ✅ User feedback-driven feature prioritization
- ✅ Quality-first approach with comprehensive testing
- ✅ Backward compatibility maintained across versions

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## 📋 **NEXT DEVELOPMENT PHASE**

### 🎯 **v0.3.0 - Plugin Architecture & Extensibility (Q4 2025)**

**Focus**: Building a robust plugin system to extend batless capabilities with custom analyzers, formatters, and integrations.

#### **P0 - Core Plugin System (November 2025)**

1. **Plugin Interface Design** 📋 **PLANNED**
   - Design stable plugin trait API for extensions
   - Create plugin loading system with dynamic library support
   - Add plugin discovery (search paths, registry lookup)
   - Implement plugin lifecycle (init, configure, process, cleanup)

2. **Plugin Security & Sandboxing** 📋 **PLANNED**
   - Research sandboxing options (WASM, processes, capabilities)
   - Implement capability system with fine-grained permissions
   - Add resource limits (memory, CPU, time constraints)
   - Create plugin signing and verification system

#### **P1 - Built-in Plugin Examples (December 2025)**

1. **Code Analyzer Plugins** 📋 **PLANNED**
   - Complexity analysis plugin (cyclomatic complexity)
   - Security vulnerability scanner plugin
   - Code quality metrics plugin (maintainability index)

2. **Output Format Plugins** 📋 **PLANNED**
   - Markdown formatter plugin
   - HTML output plugin with embedded styles
   - XML/YAML converter plugins

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## 🤖 **v0.4.0 - Advanced Code Analysis (Q1 2026)**

### **Tree-sitter Integration & AST Processing**

#### **P1 - Universal Parsing (January 2026)**

1. **Tree-sitter Integration** 📋 **PLANNED**
   - Integrate tree-sitter universal parsing library
   - Add language grammar support for 25+ programming languages
   - Implement AST traversal with visitor pattern for analysis

2. **AST Serialization & Analysis** 📋 **PLANNED**
   - Create AST serialization with proper JSON schema
   - Add AST filtering to extract specific node types
   - Optimize AST performance with incremental parsing and caching

#### **P1 - Advanced Code Insights (February 2026)**

1. **Semantic Analysis** 📋 **PLANNED**
   - Function and class extraction with metadata
   - Dependency graph analysis and visualization
   - Code flow analysis and complexity metrics

2. **AI-Enhanced Analysis** 📋 **PLANNED**
   - AI-powered code summarization using AST
   - Intelligent code documentation generation
   - Context-aware code recommendations

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## 🌐 **v1.0.0 - Universal Integration (Q2 2026)**

### **Enterprise & Multi-Platform Support**

#### **P1 - WebAssembly Platform (March 2026)**

1. **WASM Build System** 📋 **PLANNED**
   - Configure WASM build with `wasm-pack` integration
   - Create JavaScript bindings with TypeScript definitions
   - Implement WASM memory management for efficient usage

2. **Browser Integration** 📋 **PLANNED**
   - Add WASM feature parity with all core features
   - Create npm package for easy JavaScript integration
   - Add comprehensive WASM testing for browser and Node.js

#### **P1 - Enterprise Features (April 2026)**

1. **Advanced Integration** 📋 **PLANNED**
   - REST API server mode for service integration
   - Language Server Protocol (LSP) support
   - Integration with major IDEs and editors

2. **Enterprise Security** 📋 **PLANNED**
   - SAML/OAuth integration for enterprise authentication
   - Audit logging and compliance features
   - Enterprise-grade configuration management

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## ✅ **Technical Debt & Maintenance (v0.3.1 Complete - September 2025)**

### ✅ Infrastructure

- [x] **Upgrade dependencies** - regular security updates ✅
- [x] **Improve error handling** - eliminated unwrap() calls, enhanced error propagation ✅
- [x] **Add metrics collection** - performance monitoring system implemented ✅
- [x] **Enhanced CI/CD** - consolidated workflows, reusable actions ✅
- [x] **Create quality gates** - automated debt prevention mechanisms ✅
- [x] **Add health checks** - comprehensive validation and testing ✅
- [x] **CI/CD Performance Optimization** - 40% speed improvement, parallel execution ✅
- [x] **Auto-recovery System** - automated pipeline health monitoring and fixing ✅
- [x] **Advanced Caching** - Swatinem/rust-cache@v2 with optimized strategies ✅

### ✅ Code Quality

- [x] **Refactor large functions** - modularized config.rs and other large modules ✅
- [x] **Add more integration tests** - 247+ tests with improved coverage ✅
- [x] **Improve code documentation** - comprehensive inline docs and ADR system ✅
- [x] **Create architecture docs** - trait-based architecture with dependency inversion ✅
- [x] **Enhance maintainability** - builder patterns, cleaner separation of concerns ✅
- [x] **Performance optimization** - reduced allocations, caching systems ✅

### ✅ Security

- [x] **Regular security audits** - all vulnerabilities addressed ✅
- [x] **Dependency vulnerability scanning** - zero outstanding issues ✅
- [x] **Enhanced validation** - comprehensive input validation and error handling ✅
- [ ] **Code signing** - sign all release binaries (future)
- [ ] **Supply chain security** - SLSA attestation implementation (future)
- [ ] **Security policy updates** - keep security procedures current (ongoing)

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## 📊 **Success Metrics & KPIs**

### Development Velocity

- [ ] **Track feature completion rate** - features per sprint/month
- [ ] **Measure code review time** - average time from PR to merge
- [ ] **Monitor test coverage trends** - ensure coverage doesn't decrease
- [ ] **Benchmark build times** - keep CI/CD pipelines fast
- [ ] **Track bug resolution time** - time from report to fix
- [ ] **Measure documentation coverage** - docs for all public APIs

### User Adoption

- [ ] **Monitor download statistics** - crates.io, GitHub releases
- [ ] **Track GitHub stars/forks** - community interest indicators
- [ ] **Measure plugin adoption** - plugins installed and used
- [ ] **Monitor support channels** - Discord, GitHub discussions activity
- [ ] **Track integration usage** - IDE extensions, CI/CD adoption
- [ ] **Survey user satisfaction** - regular community surveys

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## 📋 **Implementation Notes**

### Priority Levels

- **P0**: Blockers for next release
- **P1**: High impact, required for version success
- **P2**: Important but not blocking
- **P3**: Nice to have, can be deferred

### Task Status

- **[ ]** Not started
- **[🚧]** In progress
- **[✅]** Completed
- **[❌]** Blocked/cancelled
- **[⏳]** Waiting for dependency

### Review Process

- **Weekly**: Review P0 and P1 tasks
- **Monthly**: Adjust priorities based on user feedback
- **Quarterly**: Major roadmap revision if needed

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*This TODO list is a living document that evolves with the project. All contributors should keep this updated as tasks are completed or priorities change.*

## TODO: Address CLI Documentation Mismatch

## ✅ CLI Documentation Mismatch - COMPLETED August 15, 2025

## ✅ Immediate Actions (Completed August 15, 2025)

- [✅] Update CLAUDE.md to reflect actual CLI interface
- [✅] File GitHub issue with details (see .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/documentation-resolved.md)
- [✅] Add "Non-Goals" section to README explaining what batless doesn't do

## ✅ Short Term (Completed August 15, 2025)

- [✅] Review all documentation for other incorrect examples
- [✅] Add validation script to CI to test documented examples
- [✅] Create decision matrix for requested features

## Feature Decision Matrix

| Feature | Requested | Fits Philosophy? | Implementation Effort | Decision |
|---------|-----------|-----------------|----------------------|----------|
| `-n` line numbers | Yes | ✅ Yes (already done) | Low | ✅ Implemented in v0.2.2 |
| `--pattern` search | Yes | ❌ No (grep territory) | Medium | Won't implement |
| `-r START:END` range | Yes | ⚠️ Maybe (streaming OK) | Medium | Consider for v0.3.0 |
| `--list *.py` glob | Yes | ❌ No (shell job) | Low | Won't implement |

## ✅ Documentation Updates (Completed)

### CLAUDE.md

- [✅] Remove all non-existent command examples
- [✅] Add correct usage patterns
- [✅] Add "Use these alternatives instead" section

### README.md

- [✅] Add "What batless is NOT" section
- [✅] Clarify design philosophy
- [✅] Update comparison table with bat/cat

## ✅ Testing Improvements (Completed)

- [✅] Add integration tests for all documented examples
- [✅] Create validate-docs.sh script (August 15)
- [✅] Add to CI pipeline (quality.yml workflow)

## Future Considerations

- [ ] Consider `--lines=START:END` for v0.3.0 (fits streaming model)
- [ ] Write blog post about design decisions
- [ ] Consider adding PHILOSOPHY.md file

## Resolution Summary

**Issue identified and resolved on August 15, 2025:**

- Documentation has been corrected to match actual implementation
- Automated validation prevents future drift
- Clear decisions made about what batless will and won't do
- Users now have clear guidance and fallback commands

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