usage/

parse.rs

use crate::miette::{self, bail};
use indexmap::IndexMap;
use itertools::Itertools;
use log::trace;
use std::collections::{BTreeMap, HashMap, HashSet, VecDeque};
use std::fmt::{Debug, Display, Formatter};
use std::sync::Arc;

#[cfg(feature = "cli-help")]
use crate::docs;
use crate::error::UsageErr;
use crate::spec::arg::SpecDoubleDashChoices;
use crate::spec::unknown_flags::UnknownFlags;
use crate::warn::Warning;
use crate::{Spec, SpecArg, SpecChoices, SpecCommand, SpecFlag};

/// Merge a subcommand's flags into the currently available flags when descending
/// into that subcommand.
///
/// On descent we drop the parent's non-global flags (they are scoped to the parent)
/// but keep its global flags so they remain recognized further down. A subcommand may
/// re-declare a flag that the parent exposed as global (e.g. `-C/--cd`) but mark its own
/// copy as non-global. In that case we must NOT let the non-global re-declaration shadow
/// the inherited global flag, otherwise the next descent's `retain(global)` would drop it
/// entirely and later parsing would treat the already-consumed global token as an
/// unexpected positional/flag value.
///
/// Descending into a *mounted* subcommand (`crossing_mount`) is different: the mounted
/// command describes another program, which does not accept the mounting CLI's globals.
/// Those globals stay recognized (they may appear before the mounted command, and Phase 2
/// re-parses them), but the mounted command's own flags take precedence over them, so its
/// choices/completions are not replaced by a global's. Which flags a completion may offer
/// there is a separate question, answered by [`ParseOutput::completion_flags`].
fn merge_subcommand_flags(
    available: &mut BTreeMap<String, Arc<SpecFlag>>,
    new_flags: BTreeMap<String, Arc<SpecFlag>>,
    crossing_mount: bool,
) {
    // Keep only inherited global flags from the parent.
    available.retain(|_, f| f.global);

    if crossing_mount {
        // A mounted command owns its flags outright, including names an inherited global also
        // uses: a word after the mounted command belongs to the mounted program. Words before
        // it keep resolving to the global they were read as, via `Token::binding`. Aliases the
        // mounted command does not declare (e.g. a global's short) stay inherited.
        for (key, flag) in new_flags {
            available.insert(key, flag);
        }
        return;
    }

    // Cache the merged (global ∪ orphan-alias) flag per re-declared child so every alias key of
    // that flag ends up sharing one `Arc`. Keyed by the child `Arc`'s identity.
    let mut merged_cache: HashMap<usize, Arc<SpecFlag>> = HashMap::new();
    // Maps each merged flag produced below back to the inherited global it was merged from, so
    // the collision check can compare *origins*: a flag this loop already merged is not a
    // different global, even though it is a different `Arc`.
    let mut merged_origin: HashMap<usize, usize> = HashMap::new();
    // The inherited global a flag stands for: itself, or — for a merged flag — its source global.
    fn origin_of(merged_origin: &HashMap<usize, usize>, flag: &Arc<SpecFlag>) -> usize {
        let ptr = Arc::as_ptr(flag) as usize;
        *merged_origin.get(&ptr).unwrap_or(&ptr)
    }

    // Iterate the *flattened* child map directly (one entry per alias key). This preserves the
    // map's existing intra-subcommand collision resolution: when two flags in the same command
    // share an alias (e.g. `-x --alpha` then `-x --beta`), the BTreeMap already collapsed `-x`
    // to its last-declared owner, and we must not change which flag owns it.
    for (key, flag) in new_flags {
        if flag.global {
            // A child that re-declares (or adds) a global flag stays recognized everywhere.
            available.insert(key, flag);
            continue;
        }

        // A non-global re-declaration that shares a LONG name with an inherited global flag is
        // the SAME logical flag (e.g. mise's `-r --raw` re-declaring the long-only `--raw`
        // global). Keep the global flag (global precedence, so it survives the next descent's
        // `retain`), but union in any short/long aliases that exist only on the re-declaration,
        // otherwise those orphan aliases would be silently dropped. Matching on a shared long is
        // deliberate: a re-declaration sharing only a short letter with an unrelated global
        // (`-q --quiet` vs `-q --quoting`) is a genuine collision, not an alias addition, and is
        // handled by the `contains_key` skip below instead.
        let inherited_global = flag.long.iter().find_map(|l| {
            available
                .get(&format!("--{l}"))
                .filter(|f| f.global)
                .cloned()
        });
        if let Some(global_flag) = inherited_global {
            // Never clobber a *different* inherited global's alias. If this re-declaration's
            // orphan alias (e.g. `-r`) is already owned by some other global (e.g. an unrelated
            // `-r --restrict`), that is a genuine collision: keep the existing global, as global
            // precedence dictates, instead of stealing the alias for the merged flag.
            //
            // Compare origins, not `Arc`s: when the global has several aliases of its own, an
            // earlier key of this same child already replaced some of them with the merged flag,
            // which the lookups above may now resolve to. That is the same logical flag, so it
            // must not read as a collision and leave this key on the pre-merge global.
            let global_origin = origin_of(&merged_origin, &global_flag);
            if available.get(&key).is_some_and(|existing| {
                existing.global && origin_of(&merged_origin, existing) != global_origin
            }) {
                continue;
            }
            let merged = match merged_cache.get(&(Arc::as_ptr(&flag) as usize)) {
                Some(merged) => merged.clone(),
                None => {
                    let mut merged = (*global_flag).clone();
                    // `exclusive` is deliberately *not* reconciled here, in either direction.
                    // One object now answers to two alias sets that may disagree: the child
                    // owns the spellings it declared, the ancestor keeps the ones only it
                    // declared. A single bool cannot hold both, so the merged flag carries the
                    // ancestor's and validation resolves the occurrence by the spelling that
                    // was typed — the ledger it already consults to decide whether selecting
                    // the child is company.
                    for s in &flag.short {
                        if !merged.short.contains(s) {
                            merged.short.push(*s);
                        }
                    }
                    for l in &flag.long {
                        if !merged.long.contains(l) {
                            merged.long.push(l.clone());
                        }
                    }
                    // A child may deliberately promote one of the ancestor's hidden aliases.
                    // Hidden lists are subsets of the accepted spellings, so a spelling present
                    // on the child but absent from its hidden subset is visible at this level.
                    merged.hidden_short_aliases.retain(|alias| {
                        !flag.short.contains(alias) || flag.hidden_short_aliases.contains(alias)
                    });
                    merged.hidden_aliases.retain(|alias| {
                        !flag.long.contains(alias) || flag.hidden_aliases.contains(alias)
                    });
                    for s in &flag.hidden_short_aliases {
                        if !merged.hidden_short_aliases.contains(s) {
                            merged.hidden_short_aliases.push(*s);
                        }
                    }
                    for l in &flag.hidden_aliases {
                        if !merged.hidden_aliases.contains(l) {
                            merged.hidden_aliases.push(l.clone());
                        }
                    }
                    let merged = Arc::new(merged);
                    merged_cache.insert(Arc::as_ptr(&flag) as usize, Arc::clone(&merged));
                    merged_origin.insert(Arc::as_ptr(&merged) as usize, global_origin);
                    // Rebind the global's *other* aliases onto the merged flag. The loop only
                    // visits keys the child declared, so an alias the child left out (the `-y` of
                    // a `-y --yes` global re-declared as just `--yes`) would otherwise keep
                    // pointing at the pre-merge flag and miss the aliases just unioned in. One
                    // logical flag must be one object under every key it answers to.
                    for existing in available.values_mut() {
                        if origin_of(&merged_origin, existing) == global_origin {
                            *existing = Arc::clone(&merged);
                        }
                    }
                    merged
                }
            };
            available.insert(key, merged);
            continue;
        }

        // Purely-local flag (shares nothing with an inherited global), or one that collides only
        // on a short with an unrelated global. Insert this alias but never shadow an inherited
        // global flag. Such non-global flags are dropped by the next descent's `retain`.
        if available.contains_key(&key) {
            continue;
        }
        available.insert(key, flag);
    }
}

/// Build the lookup keys a flag is registered under in `available_flags`:
/// `--<long>` for each long name, `-<short>` for each short char, plus the `negate` token.
fn flag_keys(flag: &SpecFlag) -> Vec<String> {
    let mut keys: Vec<String> = flag
        .long
        .iter()
        .map(|l| format!("--{l}"))
        .chain(flag.short.iter().map(|s| format!("-{s}")))
        .collect();
    if let Some(negate) = &flag.negate {
        keys.push(negate.clone());
    }
    keys
}

/// The flags a command declares, keyed by each of their aliases.
fn gather_flags(cmd: &SpecCommand) -> BTreeMap<String, Arc<SpecFlag>> {
    cmd.flags
        .iter()
        .chain(cmd.clause.iter().flat_map(|clause| &clause.flags))
        .flat_map(|f| {
            let f = Arc::new(f.clone()); // One clone per flag, then cheap Arc refs
            flag_keys(&f)
                .into_iter()
                .map(|key| (key, Arc::clone(&f)))
                .collect::<Vec<_>>()
        })
        .collect()
}

fn unique_flags<'a>(
    flags: impl IntoIterator<Item = &'a Arc<SpecFlag>>,
) -> impl Iterator<Item = &'a Arc<SpecFlag>> {
    let mut seen = HashSet::new();
    flags
        .into_iter()
        .filter(move |flag| seen.insert(Arc::as_ptr(flag) as usize))
}

/// Every flag a command accepts, resolved the way parsing an invocation of it
/// resolves them.
///
/// `chain` runs from the root command (`spec.cmd`) down to the command in
/// question; an empty chain yields no flags.
///
/// This is not "the command's flags plus its ancestors' globals". A subcommand
/// that re-declares a global's long name is describing the *same* flag rather
/// than a new one, so the global's help, argument and effect survive and only
/// the re-declaration's extra aliases are added — see
/// [`merge_subcommand_flags`]. Anything that reports a command's flags without
/// going through this will disagree with what the parser actually accepts.
pub fn available_flags(chain: &[&SpecCommand]) -> Vec<Arc<SpecFlag>> {
    let Some((root, rest)) = chain.split_first() else {
        return vec![];
    };
    let mut available = gather_flags(root);
    for cmd in rest {
        merge_subcommand_flags(&mut available, gather_flags(cmd), false);
    }

    // Deduplicating by `Arc` identity is not enough. When a child re-declares a
    // global that has both a short and a long, the merged flag is written under
    // the long key while the short key keeps pointing at the pre-merge `Arc` —
    // two objects for one logical flag. That is harmless for parsing, which
    // looks flags up by key, but a caller listing flags would see it twice.
    //
    // Names break the tie because a long key always sorts before a short one
    // (`--x` < `-y` at the second byte), so the merged declaration is the one
    // reached first. Two genuinely distinct flags sharing a name is a spec bug
    // that `usage lint` reports as a duplicate flag.
    let mut seen_names = HashSet::new();
    unique_flags(available.values())
        .filter(|f| seen_names.insert(f.name.clone()))
        .cloned()
        .collect()
}

/// Extract the flag key from a flag word for lookup in available_flags map
/// Handles both long flags (--flag, --flag=value) and short flags (-f)
fn get_flag_key(word: &str) -> &str {
    if word.starts_with("--") {
        // Long flag: strip =value if present
        word.split_once('=').map(|(k, _)| k).unwrap_or(word)
    } else if let Some((end, _)) = word.char_indices().nth(2) {
        // Short flag: the dash and one letter, which is one character and not
        // necessarily one byte.
        &word[0..end]
    } else {
        word
    }
}

/// Where a value came from, when it did not come from the command line.
///
/// About the *value*, not the flag. `--color` typed bare with `default_missing` has a
/// token for the flag and none for the value, and that distinction is the whole question
/// a spec author is asking when they ask why `--color` came out `always`. Values that were
/// typed are attributed to the token that carried them instead — see [`TokenRole::Value`].
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub enum ValueOrigin {
    /// A flag that takes a value was given without one, so the declaration supplied it:
    /// `default_missing`, or the empty tri-state a bare `value_optional` flag records.
    /// One variant for both, because from argv's side the same thing happened — the flag
    /// was typed and the value was not.
    DefaultMissing,
    /// An environment variable, named.
    ///
    /// Named because a flag may list several — `env`, `env_fallback` and `deprecated_env`,
    /// folded together by [`SpecFlag::env_names`] — and "it came from the environment" does
    /// not say which declaration fired or which one to delete.
    Env(String),
    /// A declared `default`, on the flag or on the flag's argument.
    ///
    /// Not two variants: the precedence between them is a spec-authoring oddity rather than
    /// a fact about the value, and `usage lint` is the place to complain about declaring
    /// both.
    Default,
    /// A `default_if` whose condition matched, with the condition that decided it. The
    /// selector alone is ambiguous — several conditions may name it with different `when`
    /// values.
    DefaultIf {
        selector: String,
        when: Option<String>,
    },
}

/// What one word of the command line became.
///
/// Several because a single token can do more than one thing: `-abc` sets three flags,
/// `-j8` is a flag and its value.
#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub enum TokenRole {
    /// argv[0]. Also a `Command` when a multicall symlink makes the basename a word.
    Program,
    /// Selected a subcommand.
    Command { name: String },
    /// Named a flag, in this spelling. `negated` for the `negate` form.
    Flag {
        flag: Arc<SpecFlag>,
        spelling: String,
        negated: bool,
    },
    /// Supplied a flag's value. Several values when a `delimiter` split the word.
    Value {
        flag: Arc<SpecFlag>,
        values: Vec<String>,
        /// Whether the value rode along on the flag's own token (`--env=prod`, `-j8`)
        /// rather than following it as its own word.
        attached: bool,
    },
    /// Filled a positional argument. Several values when a `delimiter` split the word.
    Arg {
        arg: Arc<SpecArg>,
        values: Vec<String>,
    },
    /// An explicit `--`, consumed as a separator.
    Separator,
    /// A word the parser answers itself rather than binding: `--help`, `-h`, `--version`,
    /// `-V`. The parse stops here and the answer travels as an error carrying the text, so
    /// without a role the word reads as having done nothing while a whole help page arrives
    /// in the error list.
    Builtin { spelling: String },
    /// A declared `value_terminator`, consumed to end a run of values. `ends` names the
    /// declaration whose run it closed — the word is not one of that run's values, which is
    /// the whole reason it was declared.
    ValueTerminator { ends: String },
    /// A declared `restart_token`: the positional cursor and the values it had filled start
    /// over here. Recorded because the words before it are still in the report, and without
    /// this row they look like they filled arguments that then came back empty.
    Restart,
    /// A flag-like word no declaration matched. `bound_as` is the positional that took it
    /// under `unknown_flags="value"`, and `None` when the word was refused.
    UnknownFlag { bound_as: Option<Arc<SpecArg>> },
    /// The word reached a declaration that would not take it, and was dropped. Without this
    /// the token reads as having done nothing, which is the one thing it did not do.
    Refused { reason: String },
    /// Forwarded to an external subcommand.
    External,
    /// The parser stopped before this word — a help request, a refused value.
    Unread,
    /// Filled a sigil-classified positional after removing its declared prefix.
    Sigil {
        arg: Arc<SpecArg>,
        sigil: String,
        values: Vec<String>,
    },
    /// Ended one instance of a repeatable clause and began the next.
    ClauseSeparator { name: String },
}

/// One word of the command line, and what it became.
#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub struct TokenBinding {
    /// Position in the argv slice the parse was given, argv[0] included.
    pub index: usize,
    pub word: String,
    /// Roles a word the parser made up contributed, folded onto the token it was derived
    /// from: the tail of a short bundle onto the bundle, a multicall applet name onto
    /// argv[0]. `word` is what the caller wrote, not what the parser read.
    pub synthesized: bool,
    pub roles: Vec<TokenRole>,
}

#[non_exhaustive]
pub struct ParseOutput {
    pub cmd: SpecCommand,
    pub cmds: Vec<SpecCommand>,
    pub args: IndexMap<Arc<SpecArg>, ParseValue>,
    /// Separator-delimited positional instances, keyed by clause name.
    pub clauses: IndexMap<String, Vec<IndexMap<Arc<SpecArg>, ParseValue>>>,
    /// Per-instance flags belonging to a repeatable clause, keyed by clause name.
    pub clause_flags: IndexMap<String, Vec<IndexMap<Arc<SpecFlag>, ParseValue>>>,
    pub flags: IndexMap<Arc<SpecFlag>, ParseValue>,
    /// What each word of the command line became, in argv order, one entry per word.
    ///
    /// The token half of provenance; [`ParseOutput::flag_origins`] and
    /// [`ParseOutput::arg_origins`] are the other half. A table keyed by token cannot show
    /// a value that came from nowhere in argv, and a table keyed by declaration cannot show
    /// a token that bound to nothing, so both exist.
    pub tokens: Vec<TokenBinding>,
    /// Where a flag's value came from when it did not come from argv, in the order the
    /// fallbacks fired. Keyed as [`ParseOutput::flags`] is.
    ///
    /// A list rather than one origin: repeated bare occurrences of a `var` flag each take a
    /// `default_missing` value, so one flag can have several.
    pub flag_origins: IndexMap<Arc<SpecFlag>, Vec<ValueOrigin>>,
    /// Where an argument's value came from when it did not come from argv. Keyed as
    /// [`ParseOutput::args`] is.
    pub arg_origins: IndexMap<Arc<SpecArg>, Vec<ValueOrigin>>,
    /// Flags a later occurrence removed, and the flag that removed them.
    ///
    /// The overriding name is the half a caller needs: the fallback phase silently declines
    /// to fill an overridden flag, so "why is `--quiet` unset when its default says
    /// otherwise" has no answer without it.
    pub overridden_flags: BTreeMap<String, String>,
    /// Every flag the parser recognizes at this point, keyed by each of its aliases
    /// (`--long`, `-s`, negations).
    ///
    /// This includes flags that only remain recognized because they may appear *before* a
    /// mounted command — see [`ParseOutput::completion_flags`] for the set a completion
    /// should offer.
    pub available_flags: BTreeMap<String, Arc<SpecFlag>>,
    pub flag_awaiting_value: Vec<Arc<SpecFlag>>,
    pub errors: Vec<UsageErr>,
    /// Deprecated declarations this command line used, for the caller to render when its
    /// logging is up. Empty from [`parse_partial`]: a half-typed line being completed has
    /// not used anything yet.
    pub warnings: Vec<Warning>,
    /// The positional argument the next word would have filled, i.e. where the parser's
    /// cursor stopped. `None` once every argument is satisfied.
    ///
    /// Completions need exactly this: the parser already accounts for `var_max`, for
    /// `restart_token` rewinds, and for the jump an explicit `--` performs onto a
    /// `double_dash="required"` argument, so re-deriving it from `args` would disagree.
    pub next_arg: Option<Arc<SpecArg>>,
    /// Whether an explicit `--` was consumed *as a separator*.
    ///
    /// A `--` that `double_dash="preserve"` keeps as a value does not count: it is a value
    /// of the variadic argument collecting it, not a separator, so it does not unlock a
    /// `double_dash="required"` argument.
    pub double_dash_seen: bool,
    /// Remaining argv captured when an unmatched word was forwarded as an external
    /// subcommand: the command name first, then every token after it.
    ///
    /// Absent when no external command was selected. See [`SpecCommand::external_subcommand`].
    pub external: Option<Vec<String>>,
}

impl ParseOutput {
    /// The flags a completion should offer for the parsed command.
    ///
    /// Usually every recognized flag, i.e. [`ParseOutput::available_flags`]. Once a mounted
    /// command has been reached, though, the commands above it belong to the mounting CLI and
    /// their flags are not accepted there — mise, for example, forwards everything after a task
    /// name to the task itself — so only the flags declared from the mount boundary down are
    /// offered. Those globals stay in `available_flags` because they may legitimately appear
    /// *before* the mounted command.
    pub fn completion_flags(&self) -> BTreeMap<String, Arc<SpecFlag>> {
        let Some(boundary) = self.cmds.iter().position(|cmd| cmd.mounted) else {
            return self.available_flags.clone();
        };
        // A mount can also merge flags from its spec's root into the command it is mounted on
        // (`SpecCommand::flags_from_mount`). Those describe the mounted program too, so the
        // replay starts one level up to inherit its globals.
        let start = match boundary.checked_sub(1) {
            Some(prev) if self.cmds[prev].flags_from_mount => prev,
            _ => boundary,
        };
        // Re-run the descent from there, which starts with no inherited flags. Below the
        // boundary the mounted program's commands are ordinary commands, so the descents use
        // the same merge as the real parse.
        let mut offered = gather_flags(&self.cmds[start]);
        for cmd in &self.cmds[start + 1..] {
            merge_subcommand_flags(&mut offered, gather_flags(cmd), false);
        }
        offered
    }
}

#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
pub enum ParseValue {
    Bool(bool),
    String(String),
    MultiBool(Vec<bool>),
    MultiString(Vec<String>),
}

impl ParseValue {
    pub fn try_as_bool(self) -> Option<bool> {
        match self {
            Self::Bool(value) => Some(value),
            _ => None,
        }
    }

    pub const fn try_as_bool_ref(&self) -> Option<&bool> {
        match self {
            Self::Bool(value) => Some(value),
            _ => None,
        }
    }

    pub fn try_as_bool_mut(&mut self) -> Option<&mut bool> {
        match self {
            Self::Bool(value) => Some(value),
            _ => None,
        }
    }

    pub fn try_as_string(self) -> Option<String> {
        match self {
            Self::String(value) => Some(value),
            _ => None,
        }
    }

    pub const fn try_as_string_ref(&self) -> Option<&String> {
        match self {
            Self::String(value) => Some(value),
            _ => None,
        }
    }

    pub fn try_as_string_mut(&mut self) -> Option<&mut String> {
        match self {
            Self::String(value) => Some(value),
            _ => None,
        }
    }

    pub fn try_as_multi_bool(self) -> Option<Vec<bool>> {
        match self {
            Self::MultiBool(value) => Some(value),
            _ => None,
        }
    }

    pub const fn try_as_multi_bool_ref(&self) -> Option<&Vec<bool>> {
        match self {
            Self::MultiBool(value) => Some(value),
            _ => None,
        }
    }

    pub fn try_as_multi_bool_mut(&mut self) -> Option<&mut Vec<bool>> {
        match self {
            Self::MultiBool(value) => Some(value),
            _ => None,
        }
    }

    pub fn try_as_multi_string(self) -> Option<Vec<String>> {
        match self {
            Self::MultiString(value) => Some(value),
            _ => None,
        }
    }

    pub const fn try_as_multi_string_ref(&self) -> Option<&Vec<String>> {
        match self {
            Self::MultiString(value) => Some(value),
            _ => None,
        }
    }

    pub fn try_as_multi_string_mut(&mut self) -> Option<&mut Vec<String>> {
        match self {
            Self::MultiString(value) => Some(value),
            _ => None,
        }
    }
}

/// The deprecated declarations argv itself named: the commands it descended through, and the
/// flags it bound.
///
/// Called before the environment and defaults have filled anything, because afterwards nothing
/// distinguishes a flag the user typed from one a variable supplied — and the two are reported
/// differently, at the point where each is applied.
///
/// The root is skipped. A `deprecated` root would otherwise warn on every invocation of the CLI,
/// including `--help`, and the compiled parser reports selected commands rather than the one the
/// process already is.
fn collect_deprecations(out: &mut ParseOutput) {
    for cmd in out.cmds.iter().skip(1) {
        if cmd.deprecated.is_none()
            && cmd.deprecated_warn_at.is_none()
            && cmd.deprecated_remove_at.is_none()
        {
            continue;
        }
        out.warnings.push(Warning::command(
            cmd.name.clone(),
            cmd.deprecated.clone(),
            cmd.deprecated_warn_at.clone(),
            cmd.deprecated_remove_at.clone(),
        ));
    }
    for flag in out.flags.keys() {
        if let Some(warning) = flag_deprecation(flag) {
            out.warnings.push(warning);
        }
    }
}

/// A warning for a flag that was used, if its declaration is deprecated at all.
fn flag_deprecation(flag: &SpecFlag) -> Option<Warning> {
    if flag.deprecated.is_none()
        && flag.deprecated_warn_at.is_none()
        && flag.deprecated_remove_at.is_none()
    {
        return None;
    }
    Some(Warning::flag(
        flag_spelling(flag),
        flag.deprecated.clone(),
        flag.deprecated_warn_at.clone(),
        flag.deprecated_remove_at.clone(),
    ))
}

/// A flag named the way the user names it. The spec's name for it has no dashes, and a warning
/// about `old-flag` would be about a word nobody typed.
fn flag_spelling(flag: &SpecFlag) -> String {
    flag.long
        .first()
        .map(|long| format!("--{long}"))
        .or_else(|| flag.short.first().map(|short| format!("-{short}")))
        .unwrap_or_else(|| flag.name.clone())
}

/// The name this flag reads first, which is what to use instead of a deprecated alias.
fn flag_current_env(flag: &SpecFlag) -> Option<String> {
    flag.env
        .clone()
        .or_else(|| flag.env_fallback.first().cloned())
}

fn flag_env_is_deprecated(flag: &SpecFlag, name: &str) -> bool {
    flag.deprecated_env.iter().any(|declared| declared == name)
}

/// The same two questions for a positional, which has aliases but no `deprecated` of its own.
fn arg_current_env(arg: &SpecArg) -> Option<String> {
    arg.env
        .clone()
        .or_else(|| arg.env_fallback.first().cloned())
}

fn arg_env_is_deprecated(arg: &SpecArg, name: &str) -> bool {
    arg.deprecated_env.iter().any(|declared| declared == name)
}

/// The first of `names` that is set, and which one it was.
///
/// `env_names()` yields the current name, then the declared fallbacks, then the deprecated
/// aliases, so the winner's identity is what says whether a value arrived through an alias.
/// Deciding that a second time, from the outside, would be a copy of this precedence rule free to
/// disagree with it.
fn first_set_env<'a>(
    mut names: impl Iterator<Item = &'a str>,
    get_env: &impl Fn(&str) -> Option<String>,
) -> Option<(&'a str, String)> {
    names.find_map(|name| get_env(name).map(|value| (name, value)))
}

/// Builder for parsing command-line arguments with custom options.
///
/// Use this when you need to customize parsing behavior, such as providing
/// a custom environment variable map instead of using the process environment.
///
/// # Example
/// ```
/// use std::collections::HashMap;
/// use usage::Spec;
/// use usage::parse::Parser;
///
/// let spec: Spec = r#"flag "--name <name>" env="NAME""#.parse().unwrap();
/// let env: HashMap<String, String> = [("NAME".into(), "john".into())].into();
///
/// let result = Parser::new(&spec)
///     .with_env(env)
///     .parse(&["cmd".into()])
///     .unwrap();
/// ```
#[non_exhaustive]
pub struct Parser<'a> {
    spec: &'a Spec,
    env: Option<HashMap<String, String>>,
    mount_outputs: Option<HashMap<String, String>>,
    run_commands: bool,
}

impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
    /// Create a new parser for the given spec.
    pub fn new(spec: &'a Spec) -> Self {
        Self {
            spec,
            env: None,
            mount_outputs: None,
            run_commands: true,
        }
    }

    /// Use a custom environment variable map instead of the process environment.
    ///
    /// This is useful when parsing for tasks in a monorepo where the env vars
    /// come from a child config file rather than the current process environment.
    pub fn with_env(mut self, env: HashMap<String, String>) -> Self {
        self.env = Some(env);
        self
    }

    /// Inject deterministic outputs for mount commands instead of executing them.
    ///
    /// Keys are the exact `run` strings declared by mount nodes and values are the
    /// usage specs those commands would print. When this is set, every encountered
    /// mount must have an entry. Production parsing remains process-backed unless a
    /// caller explicitly opts into injection.
    pub fn with_mount_outputs(mut self, outputs: HashMap<String, String>) -> Self {
        self.mount_outputs = Some(outputs);
        self
    }

    /// Never run a `choices run=` command while parsing.
    ///
    /// For a caller that inspects a command line rather than acting on it. A value that the
    /// declared choices do not accept is let through unchecked instead of being checked
    /// against the command's output, and a help page describes the command rather than
    /// listing what it prints. Mounts are unaffected; see [`Parser::with_mount_outputs`].
    pub fn without_running_commands(mut self) -> Self {
        self.run_commands = false;
        self
    }

    /// Parse the input arguments.
    ///
    /// Returns the parsed arguments and flags, with defaults and env vars applied.
    pub fn parse(self, input: &[String]) -> Result<ParseOutput, miette::Error> {
        let out = self.parse_collecting(input)?;
        if let Some(err) = out
            .errors
            .iter()
            .find(|e| matches!(e, UsageErr::Help(_) | UsageErr::Version(_)))
        {
            bail!("{err}");
        }
        if !out.errors.is_empty() {
            bail!("{}", out.errors.iter().map(|e| e.to_string()).join("\n"));
        }
        Ok(out)
    }

    /// Everything the parse learned, whether or not it succeeded.
    ///
    /// [`Parser::parse`] wants the first error and nothing else, which is right for a
    /// caller about to act on a command line. A caller that wants to *explain* one wants
    /// the opposite: the bindings that worked and every complaint about the rest, since a
    /// report saying only "missing required <src>" is the report you already had.
    ///
    /// Failures that stop the parse dead — a mount that will not run, a word no
    /// declaration can take — still come back as `Err`. There is no output to describe in
    /// those cases; see [`Parser::explain`] for what to do about it.
    pub fn explain(self, input: &[String]) -> Result<ParseOutput, miette::Error> {
        self.parse_collecting(input)
    }

    /// The binding phase's own answer for a line [`Parser::explain`] refused.
    ///
    /// `Ok` when the binding phase finished and the failure came after it — a flag left
    /// waiting for a value, say. Everything argv supplied is there and only the
    /// environment-and-defaults phase is missing.
    ///
    /// `Err` when the binding phase is where it died, leaving the tokens it had attributed
    /// by then. Those words are most of what a report is for: "no declaration takes `bogus`"
    /// is more useful next to the three tokens that did bind than on its own. The word that
    /// caused the failure carries a role saying so, and everything still queued behind it is
    /// [`TokenRole::Unread`], for the two failures a command line reaches on its own — a
    /// word nothing declares, and a flag a strict spec refuses. A failure in the spec rather
    /// than in the line, such as a mount that will not run, stops the trace where it stopped
    /// and the words past it carry no role.
    pub fn explain_refused(self, input: &[String]) -> Result<ParseOutput, Vec<TokenBinding>> {
        let _no_runs = (!self.run_commands).then(crate::spec::choices::NoRunScope::enter);
        let mut trace = Trace::new(input);
        match parse_partial_traced(
            self.spec,
            input,
            self.env.as_ref(),
            self.mount_outputs.as_ref(),
            MountTiming::WhenAWordIsUnknown,
            true,
            &mut trace,
        ) {
            // A parse that got as far as stopping normally already moved its tokens onto the
            // output, which is where a caller should read them from.
            Ok((out, _)) => Ok(out),
            Err(_) => Err(trace.tokens),
        }
    }

    fn parse_collecting(self, input: &[String]) -> Result<ParseOutput, miette::Error> {
        // Held across both phases: defaults are checked against the same `choices run=`
        // output the words were.
        let _runs = crate::spec::choices::RunScope::enter();
        let _no_runs = (!self.run_commands).then(crate::spec::choices::NoRunScope::enter);
        let custom_env = self.env.as_ref();
        let (mut out, overridden_flags) = parse_partial_with_env(
            self.spec,
            input,
            custom_env,
            self.mount_outputs.as_ref(),
            MountTiming::WhenAWordIsUnknown,
            false,
        )?;
        restore_current_clause(&mut out);
        trace!("{out:?}");

        // A flag still waiting for a value never got one, so the command line ended
        // mid-flag. `parse_partial` leaves this for completions to look at — a
        // half-typed `--jobs ` is exactly what a completion is asked about — but a
        // full parse has nothing left to wait for, and dropping the flag silently
        // made a forgotten value look like a working command.
        while try_bind_default_missing(
            &mut out.flags,
            &mut out.flag_awaiting_value,
            custom_env,
            &mut out.flag_origins,
        )? {}
        if let Some(flag) = out.flag_awaiting_value.first() {
            let token = flag
                .long
                .first()
                .map(|l| format!("--{l}"))
                .or_else(|| flag.short.first().map(|s| format!("-{s}")))
                .unwrap_or_else(|| flag.name.clone());
            let rendered = input.join(" ");
            let span = rendered
                .rfind(&token)
                .map(|at| (at, token.len()))
                .unwrap_or((0, 0));
            return Err(UsageErr::InvalidFlag {
                token,
                reason: "requires an argument".to_string(),
                span: span.into(),
                input: rendered,
            }
            .into());
        }

        // Before the environment and defaults have their turn, because both mark a field as
        // filled and only argv can be reported as something the user typed. Env is reported
        // where it is applied, below; a default is nobody's request and reports nothing.
        collect_deprecations(&mut out);

        let get_env = |key: &str| -> Option<String> {
            if let Some(env_map) = custom_env {
                env_map.get(key).cloned()
            } else {
                std::env::var(key).ok()
            }
        };

        // Apply env vars and defaults for args
        //
        // Not `skip(out.args.len())`: an explicit `--` can jump the parser's cursor past an arg
        // that stayed empty, leaving a gap that makes the fill count a wrong starting offset.
        for arg in active_args(&out.cmd) {
            // Clause instances contain argv only: defaults and environment values do not
            // manufacture fields inside a repeated group.
            if out.cmd.clause.is_some() {
                break;
            }
            if out.args.contains_key(arg) {
                continue;
            }
            if let Some((env_name, env_value)) = first_set_env(arg.env_names(), &get_env) {
                if arg_env_is_deprecated(arg, env_name) {
                    out.warnings
                        .push(Warning::env(env_name, arg_current_env(arg)));
                }
                let values = split_fallback_values(std::slice::from_ref(&env_value), arg.delimiter);
                validate_choice_values(
                    ChoiceTarget::arg(arg),
                    &values,
                    arg.choices.as_ref(),
                    custom_env,
                )?;
                let parsed = if arg.var {
                    validate_arg_fallback_count(arg, values.len(), &mut out.errors);
                    ParseValue::MultiString(values)
                } else {
                    ParseValue::String(values.into_iter().next().unwrap_or_default())
                };
                out.args.insert(Arc::new(arg.clone()), parsed);
                out.arg_origins
                    .entry(Arc::new(arg.clone()))
                    .or_default()
                    .push(ValueOrigin::Env(env_name.to_string()));
                continue;
            }
            if !arg.default.is_empty() {
                // Consider var when deciding the type of default return value
                if arg.var {
                    let values = split_fallback_values(&arg.default, arg.delimiter);
                    validate_arg_fallback_count(arg, values.len(), &mut out.errors);
                    validate_choice_values(
                        ChoiceTarget::arg(arg),
                        &values,
                        arg.choices.as_ref(),
                        custom_env,
                    )?;
                    // For var=true, always return a vec (MultiString)
                    out.args
                        .insert(Arc::new(arg.clone()), ParseValue::MultiString(values));
                    out.arg_origins
                        .entry(Arc::new(arg.clone()))
                        .or_default()
                        .push(ValueOrigin::Default);
                } else {
                    validate_choice_value(
                        ChoiceTarget::arg(arg),
                        &arg.default[0],
                        arg.choices.as_ref(),
                        custom_env,
                    )?;
                    // For var=false, return the first default value as String
                    out.args.insert(
                        Arc::new(arg.clone()),
                        ParseValue::String(arg.default[0].clone()),
                    );
                    out.arg_origins
                        .entry(Arc::new(arg.clone()))
                        .or_default()
                        .push(ValueOrigin::Default);
                }
            }
        }

        // Environment first, for every flag, so a `default_if` can see a sibling
        // that was filled from env. Applying both in one pass would make the
        // answer depend on declaration order: `--bin-names` before `--json`
        // would miss `EX_JSON=1`.
        let flags: Vec<Arc<SpecFlag>> = out
            .available_flags
            .values()
            .filter(|flag| !is_clause_scoped_flag(&out, flag))
            .cloned()
            .collect();
        for flag in &flags {
            if out.flags.contains_key(flag) || overridden_flags.contains(&flag.name) {
                continue;
            }
            if let Some((env_name, env_value)) = first_set_env(flag.env_names(), &get_env) {
                // The flag's own deprecation before the alias's, which is the order the
                // compiled parser reports them in: it walks a command's flags and then its
                // aliases. Using a deprecated flag through a variable is still using it.
                if let Some(warning) = flag_deprecation(flag) {
                    out.warnings.push(warning);
                }
                if flag_env_is_deprecated(flag, env_name) {
                    out.warnings
                        .push(Warning::env(env_name, flag_current_env(flag)));
                }
                if let Some(arg) = flag.arg.as_ref() {
                    let values =
                        split_fallback_values(std::slice::from_ref(&env_value), arg.delimiter);
                    validate_choice_values(
                        ChoiceTarget::option(flag),
                        &values,
                        arg.choices.as_ref(),
                        custom_env,
                    )?;
                    let parsed = if flag.var || arg.var {
                        if flag.var {
                            validate_flag_fallback_count(flag, values.len(), &mut out.errors);
                        }
                        if arg.var {
                            validate_flag_arg_fallback_count(
                                flag,
                                arg,
                                values.len(),
                                &mut out.errors,
                            );
                        }
                        ParseValue::MultiString(values)
                    } else {
                        ParseValue::String(values.into_iter().next().unwrap_or_default())
                    };
                    out.flags.insert(Arc::clone(flag), parsed);
                } else {
                    let is_true = matches!(env_value.as_str(), "1" | "true" | "True" | "TRUE");
                    out.flags
                        .insert(Arc::clone(flag), ParseValue::Bool(is_true));
                }
                out.flag_origins
                    .entry(Arc::clone(flag))
                    .or_default()
                    .push(ValueOrigin::Env(env_name.to_string()));
            }
        }
        // Decide every `default_if` against argv+env only. Binding as we go would put
        // a default into `out.flags` and make the next flag's condition treat it as
        // explicit — Go's `Given()` and the derive's `__given_*` both ignore defaults
        // here, so an unconditional `default` on `--json` must not fire
        // `default_if "--json"`.
        let mut from_default_if: Vec<(Arc<SpecFlag>, crate::SpecDefaultIf)> = Vec::new();
        for flag in &flags {
            if out.flags.contains_key(flag) || overridden_flags.contains(&flag.name) {
                continue;
            }
            if let Some(condition) = flag.default_if.iter().find(|condition| {
                default_if_condition_matches(condition, &out, &overridden_flags, custom_env)
            }) {
                from_default_if.push((Arc::clone(flag), condition.clone()));
            }
        }
        for (flag, condition) in &from_default_if {
            // The whole condition, not just the value: several conditions may name the same
            // selector with different `when` values, so the selector alone does not say
            // which one fired.
            bind_flag_fallback(
                flag,
                std::slice::from_ref(&condition.value),
                &mut out,
                custom_env,
                ValueOrigin::DefaultIf {
                    selector: condition.selector.clone(),
                    when: condition.when.clone(),
                },
            )?;
        }
        for flag in &flags {
            if out.flags.contains_key(flag) || overridden_flags.contains(&flag.name) {
                continue;
            }
            if !flag.default.is_empty() {
                bind_flag_fallback(
                    flag,
                    &flag.default,
                    &mut out,
                    custom_env,
                    ValueOrigin::Default,
                )?;
                continue;
            }
            if let Some(arg) = flag.arg.as_ref()
                && !arg.default.is_empty()
            {
                bind_flag_fallback(
                    flag,
                    &arg.default,
                    &mut out,
                    custom_env,
                    ValueOrigin::Default,
                )?;
            }
        }
        // The binding phase leaves the last clause instance in `args`/`flags` so
        // completion can inspect it. A full parse closes it before applying scoped
        // fallbacks: defaults and environment values fill instances that argv made,
        // but never manufacture a repeated group on their own.
        finalize_current_clause(&mut out);
        let clause_explicit = apply_clause_flag_fallbacks(&mut out, &overridden_flags, custom_env)?;
        validate_clause_relationships(
            &mut out,
            &overridden_flags,
            custom_env,
            clause_explicit.as_deref(),
        );
        // Declarative value validation is deliberately post-binding. Defaults and
        // environment fallbacks have landed by here, and delimiters were already split
        // while binding. Like clap's value parsers, a declaration judges each resulting
        // raw value independently.
        for (arg, parsed) in &out.args {
            validate_expression(
                &arg.name,
                arg.validate.as_deref(),
                arg.validate_error.as_deref(),
                parsed,
                &mut out.errors,
            );
        }
        if let Some(clause) = &out.cmd.clause {
            let mut clause_errors = Vec::new();
            for (index, instance) in out
                .clauses
                .get(&clause.name)
                .into_iter()
                .flatten()
                .enumerate()
            {
                for arg in &clause.args {
                    let Some(value) = instance.get(arg) else {
                        if arg.required {
                            clause_errors.push(UsageErr::MissingClauseArg {
                                clause: clause.name.clone(),
                                instance: index + 1,
                                arg: arg.name.clone(),
                            });
                        }
                        continue;
                    };
                    if let (true, ParseValue::MultiString(values)) = (arg.var, value) {
                        if let Some(min) = arg.var_min
                            && values.len() < min
                        {
                            clause_errors.push(UsageErr::VarArgTooFew {
                                name: format!(
                                    "{} instance {}: {}",
                                    clause.name,
                                    index + 1,
                                    arg.name
                                ),
                                min,
                                got: values.len(),
                            });
                        }
                        if let Some(max) = arg.var_max
                            && values.len() > max
                        {
                            clause_errors.push(UsageErr::VarArgTooMany {
                                name: format!(
                                    "{} instance {}: {}",
                                    clause.name,
                                    index + 1,
                                    arg.name
                                ),
                                max,
                                got: values.len(),
                            });
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            out.errors.extend(clause_errors);
        }
        let clause_flag_names = out
            .cmd
            .clause
            .iter()
            .flat_map(|clause| &clause.flags)
            .map(|flag| flag.name.as_str())
            .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
        for (flag, parsed) in out
            .flags
            .iter()
            .filter(|(flag, _)| !clause_flag_names.contains(flag.name.as_str()))
        {
            if let Some(arg) = &flag.arg {
                validate_expression(
                    &flag.name,
                    arg.validate.as_deref(),
                    arg.validate_error.as_deref(),
                    parsed,
                    &mut out.errors,
                );
            }
        }
        // Applied once, here, because this is where the CLI's own version is known: a
        // `deprecated_warn_at` the spec has not reached yet is an author saying *not yet*.
        crate::warn::retain_reached(&mut out.warnings, self.spec.version.as_deref());
        Ok(out)
    }
}

/// Parse command-line arguments according to a spec.
///
/// Returns the parsed arguments and flags, with defaults and env vars applied.
/// Uses `std::env::var` for environment variable lookups.
///
/// For custom environment variable handling, use [`Parser`] instead.
#[must_use = "parsing result should be used"]
pub fn parse(spec: &Spec, input: &[String]) -> Result<ParseOutput, miette::Error> {
    Parser::new(spec).parse(input)
}

/// Parse command-line arguments without applying defaults.
///
/// Use this for help text generation or when you need the raw parsed values.
#[must_use = "parsing result should be used"]
pub fn parse_partial(spec: &Spec, input: &[String]) -> Result<ParseOutput, miette::Error> {
    parse_partial_with_env(spec, input, None, None, MountTiming::Eager, true).map(|(out, _)| out)
}

/// Basename of argv[0] for a multicall CLI: last path component, with a trailing
/// `.exe` stripped so Windows and Unix agree.
pub fn multicall_basename(argv0: &str) -> &str {
    let name = argv0.rsplit(['/', '\\']).next().unwrap_or(argv0);
    match name.get(name.len().saturating_sub(4)..) {
        Some(ext) if ext.eq_ignore_ascii_case(".exe") => &name[..name.len() - 4],
        _ => name,
    }
}

/// The applet name to parse as the first word, when argv[0] is not the dispatcher.
///
/// `None` means a dispatcher invocation (`busybox ls`): skip argv[0] and parse the
/// rest. `Some` is a symlink invocation (`ls -l`): inject the basename.
pub fn multicall_applet<'a>(argv0: &'a str, name: &str, bin: Option<&str>) -> Option<&'a str> {
    let base = multicall_basename(argv0);
    if !name.is_empty() && base == multicall_basename(name) {
        return None;
    }
    if let Some(bin) = bin
        && !bin.is_empty()
        && base == multicall_basename(bin)
    {
        return None;
    }
    Some(base)
}

/// Internal version of parse_partial that accepts an optional custom env map.
/// When a command's own `mount` runs, for the root — which nothing descends into.
///
/// A completion has to know every command before it can offer one, even with
/// nothing typed yet, so it resolves up front. An execution knows the word it was
/// given, so it only pays for discovery when that word matches nothing declared —
/// and a CLI that declares its commands and mounts a few more does not spawn a
/// process on every invocation.
#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
enum MountTiming {
    Eager,
    WhenAWordIsUnknown,
}

/// One word on its way through the parser, with what the parser has learned about it.
///
/// This holds what a side queue used to: the flag Phase 1 read a word as, previously a
/// `VecDeque` popped in step with the words. Two queues staying aligned is an invariant
/// nothing checks, and it was delicate enough to need explaining at three call sites; on
/// the word itself there is nothing to keep aligned. The argv position is here for the
/// same reason: the queue is popped, re-queued, split on `=`, and has subcommand words
/// removed from the middle, so position in the queue stops meaning position in argv on the
/// first descent.
struct Token {
    word: String,
    /// Where in the caller's argv this word came from.
    ///
    /// A word the parser made up points at the token it was derived from — the tail of a
    /// short bundle at the bundle, a multicall applet name at argv[0] — because that is the
    /// token a reader would point at, and there is nothing else to point at.
    argv: usize,
    /// The flag Phase 1 read this word as, and the command level it read it at.
    ///
    /// `Some((flag, command_level))` for a flag word, `None` for its value, for anything
    /// unresolved, and for every word Phase 1 never reached. The words stay in the queue
    /// for Phase 2 to re-parse — that is how they reach `out.flags` and `as_env()` — but by
    /// then the recognized flags have changed, because each descent drops the parent's
    /// non-global flags and a mounted command may declare the same name as a global seen
    /// here. Recording the owner keeps a word bound to the flag it was read as.
    ///
    /// The level matters to strict parsing: clap permits an inherited global once on each
    /// side of a subcommand boundary.
    binding: Option<(Arc<SpecFlag>, usize)>,
}

/// Flag scope for the one token straddling an implicit default-command boundary.
struct DefaultBundle {
    argv: usize,
    flags: BTreeMap<String, Arc<SpecFlag>>,
    parent_keys: HashSet<String>,
}

impl DefaultBundle {
    /// Preserve the declaration and command level when a short tail is requeued.
    fn binding(&self, key: &str) -> Option<(Arc<SpecFlag>, usize)> {
        self.flags.get(key).map(|flag| {
            (
                Arc::clone(flag),
                usize::from(!self.parent_keys.contains(key)),
            )
        })
    }
}

impl Token {
    fn new(word: String, argv: usize) -> Self {
        Self {
            word,
            argv,
            binding: None,
        }
    }
}

/// The token trace, while it is being built.
///
/// One row per word of the caller's argv, so a role can be recorded against a position
/// without the recorder having to know how many words came before it. Words the parser
/// made up have no row of their own and fold onto the row they were derived from.
struct Trace {
    tokens: Vec<TokenBinding>,
}

impl Trace {
    fn new(input: &[String]) -> Self {
        Self {
            tokens: input
                .iter()
                .enumerate()
                .map(|(index, word)| TokenBinding {
                    index,
                    word: word.clone(),
                    synthesized: false,
                    roles: vec![],
                })
                .collect(),
        }
    }

    fn record(&mut self, argv: usize, role: TokenRole) {
        if let Some(token) = self.tokens.get_mut(argv) {
            token.roles.push(role);
        }
    }

    /// Note that what was read at this position is not what the caller wrote there.
    fn note_synthesized(&mut self, argv: usize) {
        if let Some(token) = self.tokens.get_mut(argv) {
            token.synthesized = true;
        }
    }

    /// Every word the parse never reached, once it has stopped.
    fn close(&mut self, unread: &VecDeque<Token>) {
        for token in unread {
            self.record(token.argv, TokenRole::Unread);
        }
    }
}

fn parse_partial_with_env(
    spec: &Spec,
    input: &[String],
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
    mount_outputs: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
    mount_timing: MountTiming,
    validate_clauses: bool,
) -> Result<(ParseOutput, HashSet<String>), miette::Error> {
    let mut trace = Trace::new(input);
    parse_partial_traced(
        spec,
        input,
        custom_env,
        mount_outputs,
        mount_timing,
        validate_clauses,
        &mut trace,
    )
}

/// Locate the first default-only flag, while preserving an explicit sibling selector.
/// This only reads declarations: it neither binds values nor executes mount commands.
fn default_flag_route(spec: &Spec, root: &SpecCommand, input: &VecDeque<Token>) -> Option<usize> {
    let default = root.find_subcommand(spec.default_subcommand.as_deref()?)?;
    let parent = gather_flags(root);
    let child = gather_flags(default);
    let path = std::slice::from_ref(root);
    let mut at = None;
    let mut i = 0;
    while let Some(token) = input.get(i).map(|t| t.word.as_str()) {
        let scope = if at.is_some() { default } else { root };
        if token == "--"
            || token == "-"
            || scope
                .clause
                .as_ref()
                .is_some_and(|c| c.separator.as_deref() == Some(token))
        {
            return at;
        }
        if !is_flag_like(token) {
            if at.is_none()
                && (root.find_subcommand(token).is_some()
                    || (token == "help"
                        && spec.disable_help != Some(true)
                        && !root.disable_help_subcommand))
            {
                return None;
            }
            return at;
        }
        let mut value_flag = None;
        let mut attached = None;
        if token.starts_with("--") {
            let (name, value) = token
                .split_once('=')
                .map_or((token, None), |(n, v)| (n, Some(v)));
            if !parent.contains_key(name)
                && (is_help_arg(spec, root, name) || is_version_arg(spec, path, name))
            {
                i += 1;
                continue;
            }
            let flag = parent.get(name).or_else(|| child.get(name));
            let Some(flag) = flag else {
                return at;
            };
            if !parent.contains_key(name) {
                at.get_or_insert(i);
            }
            if flag.arg.is_some() && flag.negate.as_deref() != Some(name) {
                value_flag = Some(flag);
                attached = value;
            }
        } else {
            for (offset, letter) in token.char_indices().skip(1) {
                let key = format!("-{letter}");
                if !parent.contains_key(&key) && supplies_short(spec, path, letter) {
                    continue;
                }
                let flag = parent.get(&key).or_else(|| child.get(&key));
                let Some(flag) = flag else {
                    return at;
                };
                if !parent.contains_key(&key) {
                    at.get_or_insert(i);
                }
                if flag.arg.is_some() {
                    value_flag = Some(flag);
                    let rest = &token[offset + letter.len_utf8()..];
                    attached = (!rest.is_empty()).then_some(rest.strip_prefix('=').unwrap_or(rest));
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        i += 1;
        if let Some(flag) = value_flag {
            let scope = if at.is_some() { default } else { root };
            let is_separator = |next: &str| {
                scope
                    .clause
                    .as_ref()
                    .is_some_and(|c| c.separator.as_deref() == Some(next))
            };
            let first = if attached.is_some() {
                attached
            } else {
                input
                    .get(i)
                    .map(|t| t.word.as_str())
                    .filter(|next| !is_separator(next) && accepts_detached_flag_value(flag, next))
                    .inspect(|_| i += 1)
            };
            if first.is_none() && !flag.value_optional && flag.default_missing.is_none() {
                return at;
            }
            let arg = flag.arg.as_ref().expect("value flag");
            if arg.var {
                let count_values = |v: &str| arg.delimiter.map_or(1, |d| v.split(d).count());
                let mut count = first.map_or(0, count_values);
                while arg.var_max.is_none_or(|max| count < max) {
                    let Some(next) = input.get(i).map(|t| t.word.as_str()) else {
                        break;
                    };
                    if is_separator(next) {
                        break;
                    }
                    if next == "--" || arg.value_terminator.as_deref() == Some(next) {
                        if next != "--" {
                            i += 1;
                        }
                        break;
                    }
                    if is_flag_like(next)
                        && !(arg.allow_negative_numbers && is_negative_number(next))
                    {
                        break;
                    }
                    if root.subcommand_precedence_over_arg && root.find_subcommand(next).is_some() {
                        break;
                    }
                    count += count_values(next);
                    i += 1;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    at
}

/// The binding phase, with the trace left somewhere the caller can still read it.
///
/// A failure this phase cannot continue past — a word no declaration can take, a flag a
/// strict spec refuses — leaves through `?`, and a trace owned by the loop goes with it. The
/// words read before the failure are most of what a report wants, so the caller owns the
/// trace instead and keeps them. See [`Parser::explain_refused`].
fn parse_partial_traced(
    spec: &Spec,
    input: &[String],
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
    mount_outputs: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
    mount_timing: MountTiming,
    validate_clauses: bool,
    trace: &mut Trace,
) -> Result<(ParseOutput, HashSet<String>), miette::Error> {
    // Each `choices run=` runs once per parse, however many values are checked against it.
    let _runs = crate::spec::choices::RunScope::enter();
    if let Some(view) = input.first().and_then(|argv0| spec.view_for_program(argv0)) {
        let viewed = spec.for_view(view)?;
        return parse_partial_traced(
            &viewed,
            input,
            custom_env,
            mount_outputs,
            mount_timing,
            validate_clauses,
            trace,
        );
    }
    trace!("parse_partial: {input:?}");
    let mut input = input
        .iter()
        .enumerate()
        .map(|(argv, word)| Token::new(word.clone(), argv))
        .collect::<VecDeque<_>>();
    let argv0 = input.pop_front();
    if let Some(argv0) = argv0.as_ref() {
        trace.record(argv0.argv, TokenRole::Program);
    }
    if spec.multicall
        && let Some(raw) = argv0
        && let Some(applet) = multicall_applet(&raw.word, &spec.name, Some(spec.bin.as_str()))
    {
        // A symlink invocation reads a word the caller never typed — the basename of
        // the program itself — so argv[0] is both the program and, below, whatever
        // that word selects.
        trace.note_synthesized(raw.argv);
        input.push_front(Token::new(applet.to_string(), raw.argv));
    }
    // The policy observes the selected command's own argv, not values eventually filled from
    // env/default. Start at the root, then reset on every explicit descent. A default
    // subcommand receives the unmatched word that selected it, so it is necessarily non-bare.
    let mut command_has_argv = !input.is_empty();
    // Unlike `out.args`, this survives clause finalization and restart rewinds. It records
    // whether the root actually consumed a positional token before empty-default routing.
    let mut root_positional_arg_found = false;

    let mut out = ParseOutput {
        cmd: spec.cmd.clone(),
        cmds: vec![spec.cmd.clone()],
        args: IndexMap::new(),
        clauses: IndexMap::new(),
        clause_flags: IndexMap::new(),
        flags: IndexMap::new(),
        tokens: vec![],
        flag_origins: IndexMap::new(),
        arg_origins: IndexMap::new(),
        overridden_flags: BTreeMap::new(),
        available_flags: gather_flags(&spec.cmd),
        flag_awaiting_value: vec![],
        errors: vec![],
        warnings: vec![],
        next_arg: None,
        double_dash_seen: false,
        external: None,
    };
    // Keep this internal so adding relationship support remains semver-compatible. The full
    // parser uses it to prevent defaults and environment values from restoring overridden flags.
    let mut overridden_flags = HashSet::new();
    // Which spelling supplied each parsed flag. A child may re-declare one long form of an
    // inherited global while the merge keeps the ancestor's other aliases on the same `Arc`.
    // The declaration object alone then cannot answer whether `--clean` belonged to the child
    // or an inherited `-c` belonged to the ancestor.
    let mut parsed_flag_spellings: HashMap<usize, HashSet<String>> = HashMap::new();

    // Phase 1: Scan for subcommands and collect global flags
    //
    // This phase identifies subcommands early because they may have mount points
    // that need to be executed with the global flags that appeared before them.
    //
    // Example: "usage --verbose run task"
    //   -> finds "run" subcommand, passes ["--verbose"] to its mount command
    //   -> then finds "task" as a subcommand of "run" (if it exists)
    //
    // We only collect global flags for mounts because:
    // - Non-global flags are specific to the current command, not subcommands
    // - Global flags affect all commands and should be passed to mount points
    let mut prefix_flags: Vec<(Arc<SpecFlag>, Vec<String>)> = vec![];
    // Which flag each word skipped here belongs to is recorded on the word — see
    // `Token::binding`.
    let mut command_arg_found = false;
    let mut variadic_flag_active = false;
    let mut idx = 0;
    // Track whether we've already applied the default_subcommand to prevent
    // multiple switches (e.g., if default is "run" and there's a task named "run")
    let mut used_default_subcommand = false;
    let mut default_bundle: Option<DefaultBundle> = None;
    // Whether the command in scope has had its own mounts run. A mount on the root
    // is the case that needs this: a subcommand's mounts are run when the parser
    // descends into it, but nothing descends into the root.
    let mut mounts_resolved = false;
    // A completion needs the whole command list before it can offer anything, and
    // `mycli <tab>` has no word to trigger discovery with — so waiting for one would
    // mean a root mount never contributed to the very thing it exists for.
    //
    // The default-subcommand gate applies here too, and has to: offering a discovered
    // command that a real parse would hand to the default instead would be worse than
    // not offering it. A root mount under a `default_subcommand` that does not say
    // `overrides_default` therefore contributes nothing anywhere, which is what
    // "the default outranks discovery" means.
    let default_outranks_mounts =
        spec.default_subcommand.is_some() && !out.cmd.mounts.iter().any(|m| m.overrides_default);
    if mount_timing == MountTiming::Eager && !default_outranks_mounts && !out.cmd.mounts.is_empty()
    {
        mounts_resolved = true;
        let mut mounted = out.cmd.clone();
        mounted.mount(&[], mount_outputs)?;
        merge_subcommand_flags(&mut out.available_flags, gather_flags(&mounted), false);
        if let Some(last) = out.cmds.last_mut() {
            *last = mounted.clone();
        }
        out.cmd = mounted;
    }

    let default_flag_at = spec
        .default_subcommand_flags
        .then(|| default_flag_route(spec, &out.cmd, &input))
        .flatten();

    while idx < input.len() {
        // Only for a word that could name a command, and only when it matches
        // nothing already declared. A CLI that declares its commands and mounts more
        // does not spawn a process for every invocation, and a flag — `--help`, or
        // anything unrecognized — never triggers discovery at all, which it would
        // otherwise do simply by not being a subcommand.
        // A declared `default_subcommand` already says what an unmatched word means,
        // and it costs nothing — so discovery waits behind it unless a mount asks to
        // outrank it. Without this, a task runner would spawn its discovery process
        // once per task invocation.
        let default_catches_it = spec.default_subcommand.as_deref().is_some_and(|name| {
            default_accepts_word(&out.cmd, name, &input[idx].word)
                && !out.cmd.mounts.iter().any(|m| m.overrides_default)
        });
        if !mounts_resolved
            && !out.cmd.mounts.is_empty()
            && !default_catches_it
            && is_command_word(&input[idx].word)
            && !is_negative_number(&input[idx].word)
            && out.cmd.find_subcommand(&input[idx].word).is_none()
        {
            mounts_resolved = true;
            let mut mounted = out.cmd.clone();
            mounted.mount(&mount_prefix_words(&prefix_flags), mount_outputs)?;
            merge_subcommand_flags(&mut out.available_flags, gather_flags(&mounted), false);
            if let Some(last) = out.cmds.last_mut() {
                *last = mounted.clone();
            }
            out.cmd = mounted;
        }
        if variadic_flag_active
            && out.cmd.find_subcommand(&input[idx].word).is_some()
            && !out.cmd.subcommand_precedence_over_arg
        {
            break;
        }
        let implicit_default = !used_default_subcommand && default_flag_at == Some(idx);
        let selected_command = if implicit_default {
            out.cmd
                .find_subcommand(spec.default_subcommand.as_deref().expect("default route"))
        } else {
            out.cmd.find_subcommand(&input[idx].word)
        };
        if let Some(subcommand) = selected_command {
            let boundary_has_parent = out.cmd.args_conflicts_with_subcommands
                && implicit_default
                && input[idx].word.starts_with('-')
                && !input[idx].word.starts_with("--")
                && {
                    let child_flags = gather_flags(subcommand);
                    let mut found = false;
                    for short in input[idx].word[1..].chars() {
                        let key = format!("-{short}");
                        if out.available_flags.contains_key(&key)
                            || supplies_short(spec, &out.cmds, short)
                        {
                            found = true;
                            break;
                        }
                        match child_flags.get(&key) {
                            Some(flag) if flag.arg.is_none() => {}
                            _ => break,
                        }
                    }
                    found
                };
            if out.cmd.args_conflicts_with_subcommands && (command_arg_found || boundary_has_parent)
            {
                bail!(
                    "subcommand '{}' cannot be used with arguments on its parent command",
                    subcommand.name
                );
            }
            let boundary_parent = (implicit_default
                && input[idx].word.starts_with('-')
                && !input[idx].word.starts_with("--"))
            .then(|| out.available_flags.clone());
            let mut subcommand = subcommand.clone();
            // Pass prefix words (global flags before this subcommand) to mount
            subcommand.mount(&mount_prefix_words(&prefix_flags), mount_outputs)?;
            // Only the *boundary* is a mount crossing: below it, the mounted program's own
            // commands are ordinary commands relative to each other.
            let crossing_mount = subcommand.mounted && !out.cmd.mounted;
            merge_subcommand_flags(
                &mut out.available_flags,
                gather_flags(&subcommand),
                crossing_mount,
            );
            if let Some(parent) = boundary_parent {
                let parent_keys = parent.keys().cloned().collect();
                let mut flags = out.available_flags.clone();
                flags.extend(parent);
                default_bundle = Some(DefaultBundle {
                    argv: input[idx].argv,
                    flags,
                    parent_keys,
                });
            }
            // Remove subcommand from input
            let selected = if implicit_default {
                used_default_subcommand = true;
                None
            } else {
                input.remove(idx)
            };
            if let Some(selected) = selected {
                trace.record(
                    selected.argv,
                    TokenRole::Command {
                        name: subcommand.name.clone(),
                    },
                );
            }
            command_has_argv = idx < input.len();
            out.cmds.push(subcommand.clone());
            out.cmd = subcommand.clone();
            // A descent already ran the new command's mounts, above.
            mounts_resolved = true;
            prefix_flags.clear();
            command_arg_found = false;
            variadic_flag_active = false;
            // Continue from current position (don't reset to 0)
            // After remove(), idx now points to the next element
        } else if !is_command_word(&input[idx].word)
            || declared_numeric_short(&out.available_flags, &input[idx].word)
        {
            // Check if this is a known flag
            let word = input[idx].word.clone();
            let flag_key = get_flag_key(&word);

            // A short token keys on its first letter, so `-az` would be recorded as
            // `-a` and its tail left over. Check the whole token here, where it is
            // first read: a token containing an unrecognized letter is not a bundle,
            // and recording it as one is what let `-a` be applied from a token that
            // never named it.
            let boundary = default_bundle
                .as_ref()
                .filter(|bundle| bundle.argv == input[idx].argv);
            let flags = boundary.map_or(&out.available_flags, |bundle| &bundle.flags);
            let is_bundle =
                word.starts_with("--") || short_bundle_is_known(spec, &out.cmds, flags, &word);
            if let Some(f) = flags.get(flag_key).cloned().filter(|_| is_bundle) {
                command_arg_found = true;
                variadic_flag_active = f.arg.as_ref().is_some_and(|arg| arg.var);
                // Skip the flag and keep scanning. Both global and non-global flags may precede
                // a subcommand (`mycli --verbose run task`, `mycli run --force task`), and
                // stopping at one would hide the subcommand — and any mount on it — from the
                // parse, leaving the subcommand name to be mis-read as a positional argument.
                //
                // Only globals are forwarded to mounts: a non-global flag belongs to the
                // command that declared it, not to what is mounted below it.
                input[idx].binding = boundary
                    .and_then(|bundle| bundle.binding(flag_key))
                    .or_else(|| Some((Arc::clone(&f), out.cmds.len() - 1)));
                let mut forwarded = f.global.then(|| vec![word.clone()]);
                idx += 1;

                // Only consume next word if flag takes an argument AND value isn't embedded
                // Example: "--dir foo" consumes "foo", but "--dir=foo" or "--verbose" do not
                if f.arg.is_some()
                    && !word.contains('=')
                    && idx < input.len()
                    && accepts_detached_flag_value(&f, &input[idx].word)
                {
                    if let Some(words) = forwarded.as_mut() {
                        words.push(input[idx].word.clone());
                    }
                    idx += 1;
                }
                if let Some(words) = forwarded {
                    apply_prefix_flag_overrides(&mut prefix_flags, Arc::clone(&f));
                    prefix_flags.push((f, words));
                }
            } else {
                // Unknown flag - stop looking for subcommands
                // Let the main parsing phase handle the error
                break;
            }
        } else {
            if variadic_flag_active && out.cmd.subcommand_precedence_over_arg {
                idx += 1;
                continue;
            }
            // Found a word that's not a flag or subcommand
            // Check if we should use the default_subcommand (only once, and only at the
            // root, which is the only place a spec can declare one — `out.cmds` holds just
            // the root until something descends). Without that second condition the one
            // declared name is looked up wherever the parser happens to be standing, so an
            // unrelated command acquires a default because a name matched one level down:
            // with `default_subcommand "ls"` at the top, `ex config zzz` descended into
            // `config ls`.
            if !used_default_subcommand
                && out.cmds.len() == 1
                && let Some(default_name) = &spec.default_subcommand
                && let Some(subcommand) = out
                    .cmd
                    .find_subcommand(default_name)
                    .filter(|_| default_accepts_word(&out.cmd, default_name, &input[idx].word))
            {
                if out.cmd.args_conflicts_with_subcommands && command_arg_found {
                    bail!(
                        "subcommand '{}' cannot be used with arguments on its parent command",
                        subcommand.name
                    );
                }
                let mut subcommand = subcommand.clone();
                // Pass prefix words (global flags before this) to mount
                subcommand.mount(&mount_prefix_words(&prefix_flags), mount_outputs)?;
                let crossing_mount = subcommand.mounted && !out.cmd.mounted;
                merge_subcommand_flags(
                    &mut out.available_flags,
                    gather_flags(&subcommand),
                    crossing_mount,
                );
                out.cmds.push(subcommand.clone());
                out.cmd = subcommand.clone();
                command_has_argv = true;
                prefix_flags.clear();
                command_arg_found = false;
                variadic_flag_active = false;
                // This descent ran the new command's mounts, so lazy
                // discovery must not run them a second time.
                mounts_resolved = true;
                used_default_subcommand = true;
                // Continue the loop to check if this word is a subcommand of the
                // default subcommand (e.g., a task name added via mount).
                // If it's not a subcommand, the next iteration will break and
                // Phase 2 will handle it as a positional arg.
                continue;
            }
            // Sigil-classified positionals do not occupy the ordinary positional cursor and
            // therefore do not close subcommand routing. Phase 2 binds and strips them. A
            // default subcommand gets first refusal so interpreted and compiled routing agree
            // when the root sigil and the default command can both accept this word.
            if match_sigil_arg_chain(&out.cmds, &input[idx].word).is_some() {
                idx += 1;
                continue;
            }
            // An unmatched word that names no subcommand is forwarded as an external
            // command: this word, then every token after it, including flags. Known
            // subcommands already won above, and a default_subcommand already caught.
            // clap's `allow_external_subcommands` is this, not `unknown_flags=value`.
            if out.cmd.external_subcommand {
                let rest: Vec<Token> = input.drain(idx..).collect();
                for token in &rest {
                    trace.record(token.argv, TokenRole::External);
                }
                out.external = Some(rest.into_iter().map(|t| t.word).collect());
                break;
            }
            // This could be a positional argument, so stop subcommand search
            break;
        }
    }

    // Phase 2: Main argument and flag parsing
    //
    // Now that we've identified all subcommands and executed their mounts,
    // we can parse the remaining arguments, flags, and their values.

    // The cursor into the active positional arguments, kept as an index rather than a reference
    // because an explicit `--` may jump it *past* arguments that stay empty (see the `w == "--"`
    // arm).
    // With such a gap `out.args.len()` no longer equals the cursor, so anything asking "is this
    // argument filled?" has to consult `out.args` by key instead of counting.
    let mut next_arg_idx = cursor_skip_sigils(&out.cmd, 0);
    let mut enable_flags = true;
    let mut grouped_flag = false;
    // Whether an explicit `--` has been consumed *as a separator* (as opposed to being kept as a
    // value by `double_dash="preserve"`). Args declared `double_dash="required"` only accept
    // words that come after it — see `report_double_dash_violation`.
    let mut seen_double_dash = false;
    // Sigils are a leading-segment grammar. A restart begins a later segment but does not
    // reopen sigil classification for this invocation.
    let mut restart_seen = false;
    // Args already reported as having been offered a word before the `--` they require, so a
    // variadic one does not report the same violation for every word it is offered.
    let mut double_dash_violations: HashSet<String> = HashSet::new();
    // A root clause separator is user-supplied syntax, so it must suppress the
    // empty-input default just like an explicit `--`. This is separate from
    // `seen_double_dash`, which resets for each clause instance.
    let mut root_clause_separator_seen = false;
    // Scalar occurrences are scoped to the command level where they were written. Inherited
    // globals may therefore appear once before and once after a subcommand under clap's strict
    // `args_override_self(false)` policy. The bitset also keeps both forms of a negatable flag:
    // opposite forms may override one another, while repeating either spelling is an error.
    let mut scalar_occurrences: HashMap<(usize, usize), u8> = HashMap::new();

    while !input.is_empty() {
        let token = input.pop_front().unwrap();
        // The flag this word was read as in Phase 1, if it skipped it (see `Token::binding`).
        let binding = token.binding;
        let argv = token.argv;
        let mut w = token.word;
        // A short's attached value is re-queued with `grouped_flag` set, and that
        // continuation is not a following word. `require_equals` refuses only the
        // following word; `-i9229` and `-i=9229` still bind. `default_missing` binds
        // only when the value is actually missing, so `-cnever` is still `never`.
        let attached_continuation = grouped_flag;
        // The opt-in lookahead uses declared value arity, so binding must consume
        // the same attached value even after the default changed flag scope.
        // Other specs retain the reference parser's legacy short-bundle rules.
        if spec.default_subcommand_flags
            && attached_continuation
            && !out.flag_awaiting_value.is_empty()
        {
            grouped_flag = false;
            w.remove(0);
            if w.starts_with('=') {
                w.remove(0);
            }
            if bind_pending_flag_value(
                spec,
                &out.cmd,
                &mut out.errors,
                &mut out.flags,
                &mut out.flag_awaiting_value,
                &mut w,
                &mut input,
                custom_env,
                trace,
                argv,
                true,
            )? {
                record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
            }
            continue;
        }

        // A clause boundary is syntax even after an automatic trailing argument disabled
        // flags. Only an explicit `--` protects a literal separator.
        if !seen_double_dash
            && let Some(clause) = out.cmd.clause.as_ref()
            && clause.separator.as_deref() == Some(w.as_str())
        {
            while try_bind_default_missing(
                &mut out.flags,
                &mut out.flag_awaiting_value,
                custom_env,
                &mut out.flag_origins,
            )? {}
            if let Some(flag) = out.flag_awaiting_value.first() {
                let spelling = flag
                    .long
                    .first()
                    .map(|long| format!("--{long}"))
                    .or_else(|| flag.short.first().map(|short| format!("-{short}")))
                    .unwrap_or_else(|| flag.name.clone());
                return Err(UsageErr::InvalidFlag {
                    token: spelling.clone(),
                    reason: "requires an argument".to_string(),
                    span: (0, spelling.len()).into(),
                    input: spelling,
                }
                .into());
            }
            let name = clause.name.clone();
            if out.cmds.len() == 1 {
                root_clause_separator_seen = true;
            }
            finalize_current_clause(&mut out);
            out.arg_origins.clear();
            trace.record(argv, TokenRole::ClauseSeparator { name });
            next_arg_idx = 0;
            out.flag_awaiting_value.clear();
            reset_clause_scalar_occurrences(&out, &mut scalar_occurrences);
            enable_flags = true;
            seen_double_dash = false;
            continue;
        }

        // Check for restart_token - resets argument parsing for multiple command invocations
        // e.g., `mise run lint ::: test ::: check` with restart_token=":::"
        if let Some(ref restart_token) = out.cmd.restart_token
            && w == *restart_token
        {
            // Reset argument parsing state for a fresh command invocation, keeping the
            // flags. `double_dash_violations` is deliberately *not* cleared: `out.errors`
            // is not cleared here either, so clearing it would let one arg report the same
            // violation once per invocation.
            out.args.clear();
            // With the values gone, so is where they came from — otherwise the second
            // invocation of `run lint ::: test` reports the first one's provenance. The
            // token trace is *not* cleared: those words were read, and a report that
            // dropped them would show a command line with a hole in it.
            out.arg_origins.clear();
            trace.record(argv, TokenRole::Restart);
            next_arg_idx = cursor_skip_sigils(&out.cmd, 0);
            restart_seen = true;
            out.flag_awaiting_value.clear(); // Clear any pending flag values
            enable_flags = true; // Reset -- separator effect
            seen_double_dash = false; // The next invocation needs its own `--`
            continue;
        }

        // A flag declared `allow_hyphen_values` takes the next token whatever it looks
        // like, and that has to be asked before the separator arm below rather than
        // after it. Asked after, a `--` was consumed as a separator while the flag
        // stayed hungry, and the flag then ate the word past it: `ex -a -- -x` bound
        // `-x` and the separator was simply gone. Asked here, the flag takes the `--`
        // itself, which is what clap does with the same declaration — and no flag can
        // still be waiting once the separator has done its job, so the starvation rule
        // below has no path around it.
        if enable_flags
            && !attached_continuation
            && w.starts_with('-')
            && out
                .flag_awaiting_value
                .last()
                .is_some_and(|flag| accepts_detached_flag_value(flag, &w))
        {
            // A variadic argument collects here too: which token supplied its first
            // value says nothing about how many it takes.
            let should_return = bind_pending_flag_value(
                spec,
                &out.cmd,
                &mut out.errors,
                &mut out.flags,
                &mut out.flag_awaiting_value,
                &mut w,
                &mut input,
                custom_env,
                trace,
                argv,
                // The token a hyphen-valued flag takes is the following word, never attached.
                false,
            )?;
            if should_return {
                record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
            }
            continue;
        }

        // A flag whose value may be omitted that cannot take this token as a detached
        // value finishes bare and leaves the token for whatever comes next:
        // `--color --verbose` colours with the missing value and still sets verbose,
        // and `--inspect 9229` with `require_equals` binds the missing value rather
        // than treating 9229 as the port.
        if enable_flags
            && !attached_continuation
            && !out.flag_awaiting_value.is_empty()
            && out.flag_awaiting_value.last().is_some_and(|flag| {
                (flag.default_missing.is_some() || flag.value_optional)
                    && !accepts_detached_flag_value(flag, &w)
            })
        {
            try_bind_default_missing(
                &mut out.flags,
                &mut out.flag_awaiting_value,
                custom_env,
                &mut out.flag_origins,
            )?;
        }

        // The first explicit `--` is still a separator after an `automatic` argument has
        // stopped flag parsing. Once an explicit separator has done its job, a second one is
        // an ordinary value: every parser worth comparing against keeps it (POSIX getopt,
        // argparse, clap, commander, yargs), and jdx/usage#229 was a user reporting the old
        // behavior as the bug it is.
        if w == "--" && !seen_double_dash {
            enable_flags = false;

            // Only preserve the double dash token if we're collecting values for a variadic arg
            // in double_dash == `preserve` mode
            let should_preserve = active_args(&out.cmd)
                .get(next_arg_idx)
                .map(|arg| arg.var && arg.double_dash == SpecDoubleDashChoices::Preserve)
                .unwrap_or(false);

            if should_preserve {
                // Fall through to arg parsing. This `--` is a *value*, not a separator, so it
                // neither counts as one nor unlocks a `double_dash="required"` arg.
            } else {
                seen_double_dash = true;
                trace.record(argv, TokenRole::Separator);

                // Everything after an explicit `--` belongs to the arg that requires one, so
                // jump the cursor there — past any earlier arg, including a greedy variadic
                // that would otherwise swallow the rest. This mirrors clap's `Arg::last(true)`,
                // which is what `double_dash="required"` is generated from. Specs without such
                // an arg find nothing and keep the cursor where it was.
                let target = active_args(&out.cmd).iter().position(|arg| {
                    arg.double_dash == SpecDoubleDashChoices::Required
                        && !out.args.contains_key(arg)
                });
                if let Some(target) = target {
                    // Forward only. An unfilled required arg declared *before* the cursor is
                    // left where it is rather than rewound to — words already assigned to
                    // later args would have to be taken back for that to mean anything, and
                    // the arg keeps its `MissingArg`. `double_dash="required"` mirrors clap's
                    // `Arg::last(true)`, which is the final positional, so a spec that puts
                    // one ahead of others is already outside what this models.
                    if target > next_arg_idx {
                        next_arg_idx = target;
                    }
                }
                continue;
            }
        }

        // long flags
        if enable_flags && w.starts_with("--") {
            grouped_flag = false;
            // `Some` only when an `=` was actually written, so `--jobs=` can supply
            // an empty value while `--jobs` supplies none. Collapsing the two lost
            // the flag entirely.
            let split = w.split_once('=');
            let word = split.map(|(word, _)| word).unwrap_or(&w);
            let bound_flag = binding.as_ref().map(|(flag, _)| flag);
            if let Some(f) = bound_flag.or_else(|| out.available_flags.get(word)) {
                let command_level = binding
                    .as_ref()
                    .map(|(_, level)| *level)
                    .unwrap_or(out.cmds.len() - 1);
                parsed_flag_spellings
                    .entry(Arc::as_ptr(f) as usize)
                    .or_default()
                    .insert(word.to_string());
                // Recorded before the action check below: a token that named a flag named it
                // whether or not the parse can carry on afterwards.
                trace.record(
                    argv,
                    TokenRole::Flag {
                        flag: Arc::clone(f),
                        spelling: word.to_string(),
                        negated: f.negate.as_deref() == Some(word),
                    },
                );
                if f.action != crate::SpecFlagAction::Set {
                    out.errors
                        .push(render_action_err(spec, &out.cmd, f, word, custom_env));
                    record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                    return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
                }
                apply_flag_overrides(
                    f,
                    &out.available_flags,
                    &mut out.flags,
                    &mut out.flag_awaiting_value,
                    &mut overridden_flags,
                    &mut out.overridden_flags,
                );
                if let Some(pending) = out.flag_awaiting_value.first() {
                    out.errors.push(render_missing_flag_value(pending, &w));
                    record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                    return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
                }
                // An attached value only means something to a flag that takes one:
                // `--jobs=` is an empty string, while `--force=yes` has nothing to
                // give a flag that holds no value. Handing that leftover to the
                // positionals would re-split one token into two, so `ex --force=yes`
                // would fill an argument the caller never typed a word for.
                if f.arg.is_some() {
                    record_scalar_flag_occurrence(
                        &out.cmds,
                        f,
                        command_level,
                        None,
                        &mut scalar_occurrences,
                        &mut out.errors,
                    );
                    let f = Arc::clone(f);
                    out.flag_awaiting_value.push(Arc::clone(&f));
                    // The `=` has already settled that this text is the value, so it
                    // binds here rather than going back on the queue to be read as a
                    // token again — where `--jobs=--force` looked like a flag of its
                    // own and bound `force`, leaving `jobs` unset.
                    if let Some((_, val)) = split {
                        // The `=` settles where the *first* value came from and nothing
                        // more, so a variadic argument goes on collecting from the words
                        // after it exactly as the detached form does.
                        let mut val = val.to_string();
                        let should_return = bind_pending_flag_value(
                            spec,
                            &out.cmd,
                            &mut out.errors,
                            &mut out.flags,
                            &mut out.flag_awaiting_value,
                            &mut val,
                            &mut input,
                            custom_env,
                            trace,
                            argv,
                            // The `=` settled that this text is the value, so it rode in on
                            // the flag's own token.
                            true,
                        )?;
                        if should_return {
                            record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                            return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
                        }
                    }
                } else if f.count {
                    let arr = out
                        .flags
                        .entry(Arc::clone(f))
                        .or_insert_with(|| ParseValue::MultiBool(vec![]))
                        .try_as_multi_bool_mut()
                        .unwrap();
                    arr.push(true);
                } else {
                    let negate = f.negate.clone().unwrap_or_default();
                    let negated_form = word == negate;
                    let value = if f.bool_value {
                        match split.map(|(_, value)| value) {
                            Some("true") => !negated_form,
                            Some("false") => negated_form,
                            Some(value) => {
                                out.errors.push(UsageErr::InvalidValue {
                                    name: f.name.clone(),
                                    value: value.to_string(),
                                    reason: "expected `true` or `false`".to_string(),
                                });
                                continue;
                            }
                            None => !negated_form,
                        }
                    } else {
                        !negated_form
                    };
                    // Which form was typed is a question about the name, so it is
                    // asked of `word` rather than the whole token: the attached value
                    // is dropped just above, and comparing `--no-color=yes` against
                    // `--no-color` would take the negation down with it.
                    record_scalar_flag_occurrence(
                        &out.cmds,
                        f,
                        command_level,
                        Some(!negated_form),
                        &mut scalar_occurrences,
                        &mut out.errors,
                    );
                    out.flags.insert(Arc::clone(f), ParseValue::Bool(value));
                }
                continue;
            }
            if is_help_arg(spec, &out.cmd, &w) {
                out.errors
                    .push(render_help_err(spec, &out.cmd, w.len() > 2, custom_env));
                trace.record(
                    argv,
                    TokenRole::Builtin {
                        spelling: w.clone(),
                    },
                );
                record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
            }
            if is_version_arg(spec, &out.cmds, &w) {
                out.errors.push(render_version_err(spec, w.len() > 2));
                trace.record(
                    argv,
                    TokenRole::Builtin {
                        spelling: w.clone(),
                    },
                );
                record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
            }
            if let Err(refused) = reject_unknown_flag_if_asked(spec, &out.cmds, &w) {
                trace.record(argv, TokenRole::UnknownFlag { bound_as: None });
                trace.close(&input);
                return Err(refused.into());
            }
        }

        // short flags
        //
        // A fresh token is checked whole before any of it is applied: `-az` with only
        // `-a` declared is not a bundle at all, so it must not set `a` on the way to
        // discovering that `z` names nothing. A grouped continuation is exempt — its
        // token was already checked when it arrived.
        let declared_numeric_short = declared_numeric_short(&out.available_flags, &w);
        let positional_negative_number = !declared_numeric_short
            && is_negative_number(&w)
            && active_args(&out.cmd)
                .get(next_arg_idx)
                .is_some_and(|arg| arg.allow_negative_numbers);
        if enable_flags
            && !grouped_flag
            // A word phase 1 already resolved to a flag needs no re-checking, and
            // the flags in scope have changed since, so re-checking would be wrong.
            && binding.is_none()
            && w.starts_with('-')
            && w.len() > 1
            && is_flag_like(&w)
            && !positional_negative_number
            && !short_bundle_is_known(spec, &out.cmds, &out.available_flags, &w)
        {
            // Refused if this command asked for that; otherwise it carries on below
            // as one word, with none of its letters applied.
            if let Err(refused) = reject_unknown_flag_if_asked(spec, &out.cmds, &w) {
                trace.record(argv, TokenRole::UnknownFlag { bound_as: None });
                trace.close(&input);
                return Err(refused.into());
            }
        } else if enable_flags && !positional_negative_number && w.starts_with('-') && w.len() > 1 {
            let short = w.chars().nth(1).unwrap();
            if let Some(f) = binding
                .as_ref()
                .map(|(flag, _)| flag)
                .or_else(|| out.available_flags.get(&format!("-{short}")))
            {
                let command_level = binding
                    .as_ref()
                    .map(|(_, level)| *level)
                    .unwrap_or(out.cmds.len() - 1);
                if f.action != crate::SpecFlagAction::Set {
                    out.errors.push(render_action_err(
                        spec,
                        &out.cmd,
                        f,
                        &format!("-{short}"),
                        custom_env,
                    ));
                    record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                    return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
                }
                parsed_flag_spellings
                    .entry(Arc::as_ptr(f) as usize)
                    .or_default()
                    .insert(format!("-{short}"));
                trace.record(
                    argv,
                    TokenRole::Flag {
                        flag: Arc::clone(f),
                        spelling: format!("-{short}"),
                        // A short spelling is never the negated form: `negate` is a long.
                        negated: false,
                    },
                );
                apply_flag_overrides(
                    f,
                    &out.available_flags,
                    &mut out.flags,
                    &mut out.flag_awaiting_value,
                    &mut overridden_flags,
                    &mut out.overridden_flags,
                );
                if !attached_continuation && let Some(pending) = out.flag_awaiting_value.first() {
                    out.errors.push(render_missing_flag_value(pending, &w));
                    record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                    return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
                }
                let rest = &w[1 + short.len_utf8()..];
                if !rest.is_empty() {
                    // `-abc` is one token that names three flags, so the tail is read at the
                    // bundle's own position rather than at one of its own.
                    let mut tail = Token::new(format!("-{rest}"), argv);
                    if f.arg.is_none() {
                        tail.binding = default_bundle
                            .as_ref()
                            .filter(|bundle| bundle.argv == argv)
                            .and_then(|bundle| bundle.binding(get_flag_key(&tail.word)));
                    }
                    input.push_front(tail);
                }
                // A fully consumed short is no longer a grouped continuation.
                // Leaving this set after `-ai` made `-i` skip `require_equals`
                // and bind the following word.
                grouped_flag = !rest.is_empty();
                if f.arg.is_some() {
                    record_scalar_flag_occurrence(
                        &out.cmds,
                        f,
                        command_level,
                        None,
                        &mut scalar_occurrences,
                        &mut out.errors,
                    );
                    out.flag_awaiting_value.push(Arc::clone(f));
                } else if f.count {
                    let arr = out
                        .flags
                        .entry(Arc::clone(f))
                        .or_insert_with(|| ParseValue::MultiBool(vec![]))
                        .try_as_multi_bool_mut()
                        .unwrap();
                    arr.push(true);
                } else {
                    let negate = f.negate.clone().unwrap_or_default();
                    let value = w != negate;
                    record_scalar_flag_occurrence(
                        &out.cmds,
                        f,
                        command_level,
                        Some(value),
                        &mut scalar_occurrences,
                        &mut out.errors,
                    );
                    out.flags.insert(Arc::clone(f), ParseValue::Bool(value));
                }
                continue;
            }
            // The letter nothing declared may still be one the parser supplies, and it may
            // sit anywhere in the token: `-hv` asks for help as surely as `-vh` does, and
            // neither reaches the whole-token spellings below.
            if let Some(err) = supplied_short(spec, &out.cmds, short, custom_env) {
                out.errors.push(err);
                trace.record(
                    argv,
                    TokenRole::Builtin {
                        spelling: format!("-{short}"),
                    },
                );
                record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
            }
            if is_help_arg(spec, &out.cmd, &w) {
                out.errors
                    .push(render_help_err(spec, &out.cmd, w.len() > 2, custom_env));
                trace.record(
                    argv,
                    TokenRole::Builtin {
                        spelling: w.clone(),
                    },
                );
                record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
            }
            if is_version_arg(spec, &out.cmds, &w) {
                out.errors.push(render_version_err(spec, w.len() > 2));
                trace.record(
                    argv,
                    TokenRole::Builtin {
                        spelling: w.clone(),
                    },
                );
                record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
            }
            if let Err(refused) = reject_unknown_flag_if_asked(spec, &out.cmds, &w) {
                trace.record(argv, TokenRole::UnknownFlag { bound_as: None });
                trace.close(&input);
                return Err(refused.into());
            }
            if grouped_flag {
                grouped_flag = false;
                w.remove(0);
                // What is left is a short flag's attached value, and one `=` between
                // the letter and the value is a separator: `-j=8` means 8. Only one,
                // so `-j==8` still means `=8`.
                if !out.flag_awaiting_value.is_empty() && w.starts_with('=') {
                    w.remove(0);
                }
            }
        }

        // Only while flags are still being read. A flag still waiting when the separator
        // was consumed is starved: its value would have to come from after the `--`,
        // where every token is data. Draining there gave `ex --jobs -- x` the word after
        // the separator, so the command line quietly meant `ex --jobs=x` and the `--`
        // was gone. Left waiting, it is reported as the missing value it is.
        // `require_equals` refuses a detached value: `--flag value` is a missing
        // value, not a flag of `"value"`. The attached form is still bound above.
        // Reported here rather than left waiting until the end of the line: falling
        // through would offer `value` to the positionals and call it an unexpected
        // word, which is the wrong error and a different one from usage-argv.
        if enable_flags
            && !attached_continuation
            && !out.flag_awaiting_value.is_empty()
            && out
                .flag_awaiting_value
                .last()
                .is_some_and(|flag| flag.require_equals)
        {
            let flag = out.flag_awaiting_value.last().unwrap();
            let token = flag
                .long
                .first()
                .map(|l| format!("--{l}"))
                .or_else(|| flag.short.first().map(|s| format!("-{s}")))
                .unwrap_or_else(|| flag.name.clone());
            out.errors.push(UsageErr::InvalidFlag {
                token: token.clone(),
                reason: "requires an argument".to_string(),
                span: (0, 0).into(),
                input: format!("{token} {w}"),
            });
            record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
            return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
        }
        if enable_flags
            && !out.flag_awaiting_value.is_empty()
            && (attached_continuation
                || out
                    .flag_awaiting_value
                    .last()
                    .is_some_and(|flag| accepts_detached_flag_value(flag, &w)))
        {
            // Held before the drain pops it: a flag whose argument is variadic keeps
            // taking values after this first one.
            let should_return = bind_pending_flag_value(
                spec,
                &out.cmd,
                &mut out.errors,
                &mut out.flags,
                &mut out.flag_awaiting_value,
                &mut w,
                &mut input,
                custom_env,
                trace,
                argv,
                attached_continuation,
            )?;
            if should_return {
                record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
            }
            continue;
        }

        if let Some((arg, sigil, value)) = (enable_flags && !restart_seen)
            .then(|| match_sigil_arg_chain(&out.cmds, &w))
            .flatten()
        {
            if value.is_empty() {
                out.errors.push(UsageErr::InvalidValue {
                    name: arg.name.clone(),
                    value: w.clone(),
                    reason: format!("expected a value after sigil {sigil:?}"),
                });
                record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
            }
            let trailing_value = arg.double_dash == SpecDoubleDashChoices::Automatic;
            let suppress_trailing_delimiter =
                out.cmds.iter().any(|cmd| cmd.dont_delimit_trailing_values);
            let delimiter = if suppress_trailing_delimiter && trailing_value {
                None
            } else {
                arg.delimiter
            };
            let parts = match delimiter {
                Some(delimiter) => value
                    .split(delimiter)
                    .map(str::to_string)
                    .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
                None => vec![value.to_string()],
            };
            let mut refused = false;
            for part in &parts {
                if validate_choices(
                    spec,
                    &out.cmd,
                    &mut out.errors,
                    ChoiceTarget::arg(arg),
                    part,
                    arg.choices.as_ref(),
                    custom_env,
                )? {
                    refused = true;
                    break;
                }
            }
            if refused {
                record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
            }
            trace.record(
                argv,
                TokenRole::Sigil {
                    arg: Arc::new(arg.clone()),
                    sigil: sigil.to_string(),
                    values: parts.clone(),
                },
            );
            let key = Arc::new(arg.clone());
            if arg.var {
                let arr = out
                    .args
                    .entry(key)
                    .or_insert_with(|| ParseValue::MultiString(vec![]))
                    .try_as_multi_string_mut()
                    .unwrap();
                arr.extend(parts);
            } else {
                out.args.insert(key, ParseValue::String(value.to_string()));
            }
            if out.cmds.len() == 1 {
                root_positional_arg_found = true;
            }
            continue;
        }

        if out.cmd.allow_missing_positional {
            next_arg_idx = cursor_skip_sigils(&out.cmd, next_arg_idx);
            while let Some(current) = active_args(&out.cmd).get(next_arg_idx) {
                if current.required || out.args.contains_key(current) {
                    break;
                }
                let required_after = active_args(&out.cmd)[next_arg_idx + 1..]
                    .iter()
                    .filter(|arg| arg.required && arg.sigil.is_none())
                    .count();
                if required_after == 0 {
                    break;
                }
                let remaining_values = 1 + input
                    .iter()
                    .filter(|token| {
                        (!enable_flags || !is_flag_like(&token.word))
                            && (!enable_flags
                                || restart_seen
                                || match_sigil_arg_chain(&out.cmds, &token.word).is_none())
                    })
                    .count();
                if remaining_values > required_after {
                    break;
                }
                next_arg_idx = cursor_skip_sigils(&out.cmd, next_arg_idx + 1);
            }
        }

        if let Some(arg) = active_args(&out.cmd).get(next_arg_idx) {
            if arg.var
                && out.args.contains_key(arg)
                && arg.value_terminator.as_deref() == Some(w.as_str())
            {
                trace.record(
                    argv,
                    TokenRole::ValueTerminator {
                        ends: arg.name.clone(),
                    },
                );
                next_arg_idx += 1;
                continue;
            }
            // Before anything else: an arg that requires `--` accepts nothing until one has been
            // seen. Checking ahead of `validate_choices` keeps a discarded word from also being
            // reported as an invalid choice, and from reaching that function's help escape.
            if arg.double_dash == SpecDoubleDashChoices::Required && !seen_double_dash {
                report_double_dash_violation(arg, &mut out.errors, &mut double_dash_violations);
                trace.record(
                    argv,
                    TokenRole::Refused {
                        reason: format!("{} only accepts words after `--`", arg.name),
                    },
                );
                // Drop the word without filling the arg or advancing the cursor: every later
                // word hits the same arg and is rejected the same way, so the parse still ends
                // in an error rather than in `unexpected word`.
                continue;
            }
            // Split before judging, as the flag path does: after the split the word is
            // no longer one value, and `choices` has to be asked about each. Judging
            // first rejects `src:docs` against a list that both halves are on, and
            // names the whole word rather than the half that was wrong.
            let trailing_value =
                seen_double_dash || arg.double_dash == SpecDoubleDashChoices::Automatic;
            let suppress_trailing_delimiter =
                out.cmds.iter().any(|cmd| cmd.dont_delimit_trailing_values);
            let delimiter = if suppress_trailing_delimiter && trailing_value {
                None
            } else {
                arg.delimiter
            };
            let parts: Vec<String> = match delimiter {
                Some(delimiter) => w.split(delimiter).map(str::to_string).collect(),
                None => vec![w.clone()],
            };
            let mut refused = false;
            for part in &parts {
                if validate_choices(
                    spec,
                    &out.cmd,
                    &mut out.errors,
                    ChoiceTarget::arg(arg),
                    part,
                    arg.choices.as_ref(),
                    custom_env,
                )? {
                    refused = true;
                    break;
                }
            }
            if refused {
                record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
                return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
            }
            // `double_dash="automatic"` means the first value this arg takes is the last
            // token read as anything but data: a wrapper declaring it can forward flags
            // without its caller typing a `--`. Set before the value is stored, so the
            // rest of the command line is already past flag parsing.
            if arg.double_dash == SpecDoubleDashChoices::Automatic {
                enable_flags = false;
            }
            // A flag-like word reaching a positional while flags are still being read was
            // offered to every declaration and matched none: under the default
            // `unknown_flags="value"` it becomes data, and saying so is the difference
            // between "you have a typo" and "this argument took your typo".
            let unknown_flag = enable_flags
                && !positional_negative_number
                && is_flag_like(&w)
                && binding.is_none();
            trace.record(
                argv,
                if unknown_flag {
                    TokenRole::UnknownFlag {
                        bound_as: Some(Arc::new(arg.clone())),
                    }
                } else {
                    TokenRole::Arg {
                        arg: Arc::new(arg.clone()),
                        values: parts.clone(),
                    }
                },
            );
            if out.cmds.len() == 1 {
                root_positional_arg_found = true;
            }
            if arg.var {
                let arr = out
                    .args
                    .entry(Arc::new(arg.clone()))
                    .or_insert_with(|| ParseValue::MultiString(vec![]))
                    .try_as_multi_string_mut()
                    .unwrap();
                // The values this word carried, split above so that everything
                // downstream — `choices`, `var_max` stopping the collection, `var_min` —
                // counts the values the user meant rather than the words they typed.
                arr.extend(parts.iter().cloned());
                if arr.len() >= arg.var_max.unwrap_or(usize::MAX) {
                    next_arg_idx += 1;
                }
            } else {
                out.args
                    .insert(Arc::new(arg.clone()), ParseValue::String(w));
                next_arg_idx += 1;
            }
            if out
                .cmd
                .clause
                .as_ref()
                .is_some_and(|clause| clause.separator.is_none())
                && next_arg_idx >= active_args(&out.cmd).len()
            {
                while try_bind_default_missing(
                    &mut out.flags,
                    &mut out.flag_awaiting_value,
                    custom_env,
                    &mut out.flag_origins,
                )? {}
                if let Some(flag) = out.flag_awaiting_value.first() {
                    let spelling = flag
                        .long
                        .first()
                        .map(|long| format!("--{long}"))
                        .or_else(|| flag.short.first().map(|short| format!("-{short}")))
                        .unwrap_or_else(|| flag.name.clone());
                    return Err(UsageErr::InvalidFlag {
                        token: spelling.clone(),
                        reason: "requires an argument".to_string(),
                        span: (0, spelling.len()).into(),
                        input: spelling,
                    }
                    .into());
                }
                let name = out.cmd.clause.as_ref().unwrap().name.clone();
                finalize_current_clause(&mut out);
                out.arg_origins.clear();
                trace.record(argv, TokenRole::ClauseSeparator { name });
                next_arg_idx = 0;
                out.flag_awaiting_value.clear();
                reset_clause_scalar_occurrences(&out, &mut scalar_occurrences);
                enable_flags = true;
                seen_double_dash = false;
            }
            continue;
        }
        if is_help_arg(spec, &out.cmd, &w) {
            out.errors
                .push(render_help_err(spec, &out.cmd, w.len() > 2, custom_env));
            trace.record(
                argv,
                TokenRole::Builtin {
                    spelling: w.clone(),
                },
            );
            record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
            return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
        }
        if is_version_arg(spec, &out.cmds, &w) {
            out.errors.push(render_version_err(spec, w.len() > 2));
            trace.record(
                argv,
                TokenRole::Builtin {
                    spelling: w.clone(),
                },
            );
            record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
            return Ok((out, overridden_flags));
        }
        trace.record(
            argv,
            TokenRole::Refused {
                reason: "no declaration takes this word".to_string(),
            },
        );
        trace.close(&input);
        bail!("unexpected word: {w}");
    }

    // Resolve optional defaults before deciding whether argv is empty. This is deliberately
    // inside the opt-in gate: completion's partial parser must retain its pending value when
    // the feature is disabled.
    if spec.default_subcommand_on_empty
        && spec.default_subcommand.is_some()
        && out.cmds.len() == 1
        && !root_positional_arg_found
        && !seen_double_dash
        && !root_clause_separator_seen
        && out.errors.is_empty()
    {
        while try_bind_default_missing(
            &mut out.flags,
            &mut out.flag_awaiting_value,
            custom_env,
            &mut out.flag_origins,
        )? {}
        if !out.flag_awaiting_value.is_empty() {
            // A required flag value is still pending; leave it for full-parse diagnostics or
            // completion rather than routing to a synthetic child.
        } else if let Some(subcommand) = out
            .cmd
            .find_subcommand(spec.default_subcommand.as_deref().unwrap())
        {
            if out.cmd.args_conflicts_with_subcommands && command_arg_found {
                bail!(
                    "subcommand '{}' cannot be used with arguments on its parent command",
                    subcommand.name
                );
            }
            let mut subcommand = subcommand.clone();
            subcommand.mount(&mount_prefix_words(&prefix_flags), mount_outputs)?;
            let crossing_mount = subcommand.mounted && !out.cmd.mounted;
            merge_subcommand_flags(
                &mut out.available_flags,
                gather_flags(&subcommand),
                crossing_mount,
            );
            out.cmds.push(subcommand.clone());
            out.cmd = subcommand;
            command_has_argv = false;
            prefix_flags.clear();
            next_arg_idx = cursor_skip_sigils(&out.cmd, 0);
        }
    }

    record_stop(&mut out, next_arg_idx, seen_double_dash, trace, &input);
    if validate_clauses {
        validate_clause_relationships(&mut out, &overridden_flags, custom_env, None);
    }
    let clause_flag_names = out
        .cmd
        .clause
        .iter()
        .flat_map(|clause| &clause.flags)
        .map(|flag| flag.name.clone())
        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();

    // `out.flags` is keyed by `SpecFlag`, whose equality is intentionally name-only. Two
    // declarations with the same canonical name therefore share one public value entry even
    // when both were typed. The spelling ledger is keyed by declaration identity and retains
    // both, which is what exclusivity needs.
    let flag_was_parsed =
        |flag: &Arc<SpecFlag>| parsed_flag_spellings.contains_key(&(Arc::as_ptr(flag) as usize));

    // The spellings the selected command's own declaration speaks for, on this object.
    //
    // Empty unless that declaration really is this object's: a parent and child may each
    // declare `--clean` without merging, leaving two flags that share a name, and the
    // ancestor's must not be read as the child's. The test is whether every spelling the child
    // declared resolves back here — true of a merged flag, and of a plain local one, but not of
    // an ancestor whose long form the child took over.
    let child_spellings = |flag: &Arc<SpecFlag>| -> HashSet<String> {
        let declared: HashSet<String> = out
            .cmd
            .flags
            .iter()
            .filter(|declared| declared.name == flag.name)
            .flat_map(flag_keys)
            .collect();
        // *Any* of them, not all. All was too strong: a child may declare a spelling that
        // some other inherited global already owns — `-c --clean` beside an inherited
        // `-c --config` — and that collision is resolved in the other global's favor, so the
        // child's `-c` resolves elsewhere. Requiring every spelling to land here let one
        // unrelated collision disown the child from the `--clean` it plainly does own.
        //
        // Still enough to tell the two-object case apart, which is what this guards: when a
        // child re-declares a global as global, the child's own spellings resolve to the
        // child's separate flag, so none of them lands on the ancestor's.
        let speaks_for_this_flag = declared.iter().any(|spelling| {
            out.available_flags
                .get(spelling)
                .is_some_and(|available| Arc::ptr_eq(available, flag))
        });
        if speaks_for_this_flag {
            declared
        } else {
            HashSet::new()
        }
    };

    // Whose `exclusive` an occurrence activates, as `(the child's, an ancestor's)`.
    //
    // A child that re-declares an inherited global merges into one object answering to two
    // alias sets whose declarations may disagree, so there is no single owner to name: the
    // child owns the spellings it declared and the ancestor keeps the ones only it declared.
    // Both sides can be in play at once — `run -c --clean` is the ancestor's alias and the
    // child's in one invocation — and each carries its own declaration's answer.
    let exclusivity_in_play = |flag: &Arc<SpecFlag>| -> (bool, bool) {
        let child = child_spellings(flag);
        let child_exclusive = !child.is_empty()
            && out
                .cmd
                .flags
                .iter()
                .any(|declared| declared.name == flag.name && declared.exclusive);
        match parsed_flag_spellings.get(&(Arc::as_ptr(flag) as usize)) {
            Some(spellings) => (
                child_exclusive && spellings.iter().any(|s| child.contains(s)),
                flag.exclusive && spellings.iter().any(|s| !child.contains(s)),
            ),
            // An environment value has no spelling to attribute it by. The declaration the
            // selected command has in scope is the one that answers — which is the child's
            // when it re-declared the flag, and the ancestor's when it did not.
            None => (child_exclusive, flag.exclusive && child.is_empty()),
        }
    };

    let exclusive_occurrence = |flag: &Arc<SpecFlag>| {
        let (child, ancestor) = exclusivity_in_play(flag);
        child || ancestor
    };

    // clap's `exclusive` is also an escape from requiredness: `--version` has to work on a
    // command that otherwise needs an input. Companions are still diagnosed below, but an
    // exclusive occurrence suppresses the missing-value checks that would make it unusable
    // whether it was alone or not.
    let exclusive_present = unique_flags(out.available_flags.values().chain(out.flags.keys()))
        .filter(|flag| !clause_flag_names.contains(&flag.name))
        .any(|flag| {
            exclusive_occurrence(flag)
                && !overridden_flags.contains(&flag.name)
                && (flag_was_parsed(flag) || flag_has_env(flag, custom_env))
        });
    let requirements_apply = |command_index: usize| {
        command_index + 1 == out.cmds.len() || !out.cmds[command_index].subcommand_negates_reqs
    };

    if out.cmd.arg_required_else_help && !command_has_argv {
        out.errors
            .push(render_help_err(spec, &out.cmd, false, custom_env));
    }

    // A command that says it needs a subcommand, given none. Checked on `out.cmd` and nowhere
    // else, because `out.cmd` *is* the command the words reached: had a subcommand been taken,
    // the child would be here instead. The spec has carried `subcommand_required` since it was
    // added for the derive, and this parser never read it — so `mise generate` parsed as a
    // complete invocation while usage-argv and clap both refused it.
    if out.cmd.subcommand_required && !out.cmd.subcommands.is_empty() && out.external.is_none() {
        let mut names: Vec<&str> = out
            .cmd
            .subcommands
            .iter()
            // Aliases share a map entry with the name they point at; listing both would offer
            // the same command twice under two spellings.
            .filter(|(name, sub)| sub.name == **name && !sub.hide)
            .map(|(name, _)| name.as_str())
            .collect();
        names.sort_unstable();
        out.errors.push(UsageErr::MissingSubcommand(
            out.cmd.name.clone(),
            names.join(", "),
        ));
    }

    // Not `skip(out.args.len())`: a `--` may have jumped the cursor past an arg that stayed
    // empty, so position and fill count can disagree. Ask `out.args` which args it holds.
    if !exclusive_present {
        for arg in out
            .cmds
            .iter()
            .enumerate()
            .filter(|(index, _)| requirements_apply(*index))
            .flat_map(|(_, cmd)| &cmd.args)
        {
            if out.args.contains_key(arg) {
                continue;
            }
            // Already reported as needing a `--`; one mistake should not yield two messages.
            if double_dash_violations.contains(&arg.name) {
                continue;
            }
            let required_if = arg.required_if.iter().any(|selector| {
                selector_is_explicit(selector, &out, &overridden_flags, custom_env)
            });
            let required_if_eq = arg.required_if_eq.iter().any(|condition| {
                selector_explicit_has_value(
                    &condition.selector,
                    &condition.value,
                    &out,
                    &overridden_flags,
                    custom_env,
                )
            });
            let required_if_eq_all = !arg.required_if_eq_all.is_empty()
                && arg.required_if_eq_all.iter().all(|condition| {
                    selector_explicit_has_value(
                        &condition.selector,
                        &condition.value,
                        &out,
                        &overridden_flags,
                        custom_env,
                    )
                });
            let unless_any = arg.required_unless.iter().any(|selector| {
                selector_is_explicit(selector, &out, &overridden_flags, custom_env)
            });
            let unless_all = !arg.required_unless_all.is_empty()
                && arg.required_unless_all.iter().all(|selector| {
                    selector_is_explicit(selector, &out, &overridden_flags, custom_env)
                });
            let required_unless = !(unless_any
                || unless_all
                || (arg.required_unless.is_empty() && arg.required_unless_all.is_empty()));
            if (arg.required
                || required_if
                || required_if_eq
                || required_if_eq_all
                || required_unless)
                && arg.default.is_empty()
            {
                // Check if there's an env var available (custom env map takes precedence)
                let has_env = arg
                    .env
                    .as_ref()
                    .is_some_and(|env_var| env_contains(custom_env, env_var));
                if !has_env {
                    out.errors.push(UsageErr::MissingArg(arg.name.clone()));
                }
            }
        }
    }

    // Conflicts are a question about the invocation as a whole rather than about any one
    // token, so they are checked here beside the requirement checks rather than at the
    // point a flag is matched — the flag it conflicts with may still be ahead of it.
    // Its own loop: the requirement loop below skips the flags that *were* given, which
    // is exactly the set this needs.
    //
    // A value from the environment counts on both sides, matching what
    // `selector_is_explicit` says about the other flag: the question is whether a flag
    // has a value, not how it got one. That is what clap does, and an asymmetric rule
    // would make the same pair of flags a conflict or not depending on which one
    // happened to be typed.
    for flag in unique_flags(out.available_flags.values())
        .filter(|flag| !clause_flag_names.contains(&flag.name))
    {
        let given = out.flags.contains_key(flag) || flag_has_env(flag, custom_env);
        if !given || overridden_flags.contains(&flag.name) {
            continue;
        }
        for other in &flag.conflicts {
            if selector_is_explicit(other, &out, &overridden_flags, custom_env) {
                out.errors.push(UsageErr::InvalidFlag {
                    token: format!("--{}", flag.name),
                    reason: format!("conflicts with {other}"),
                    span: (0, 0).into(),
                    input: format!("--{} {other}", flag.name),
                });
            }
        }
        // The positive form, checked in the same pass and under the same rule: a value
        // from the environment satisfies a requirement, because the question is whether
        // the other flag has a value rather than how it got one. A flag that was
        // overridden away has not been given, so it cannot satisfy anything either —
        // which is what `selector_is_explicit` already accounts for.
        //
        // Reported as the missing flag rather than as something wrong with the flag that
        // named it, which is what clap says too: an unmet `requires` is a required
        // argument that was not provided. Named by its own name, resolved through the
        // same matcher, so a `requires="-f"` reports `--force` rather than the selector.
        let owner = out
            .cmds
            .iter()
            .rposition(|cmd| cmd.flags.iter().any(|declared| declared.name == flag.name))
            .unwrap_or(out.cmds.len() - 1);
        if !exclusive_present && requirements_apply(owner) {
            for other in &flag.requires {
                if !selector_is_satisfied(other, &out, &overridden_flags, custom_env) {
                    let name = selector_flag_name(other, &out).unwrap_or_else(|| other.clone());
                    if other.starts_with('-') {
                        out.errors.push(UsageErr::MissingFlag(name));
                    } else {
                        out.errors.push(UsageErr::MissingArg(name));
                    }
                }
            }
            for condition in &flag.requires_if {
                if explicit_flag_has_value(flag, &condition.value, &out, custom_env)
                    && !selector_is_satisfied(
                        &condition.requires,
                        &out,
                        &overridden_flags,
                        custom_env,
                    )
                {
                    let name = selector_flag_name(&condition.requires, &out)
                        .unwrap_or_else(|| condition.requires.clone());
                    out.errors.push(UsageErr::MissingFlag(name));
                }
            }
        }
    }

    // Positionals can declare the same pairwise conflict as flags. Their selector is
    // the bare argument name, while a flag keeps its dashed spelling.
    for (command_index, arg) in out
        .cmds
        .iter()
        .enumerate()
        .flat_map(|(index, cmd)| cmd.args.iter().map(move |arg| (index, arg)))
    {
        let given = arg_is_explicit(arg, &out, custom_env);
        if !given {
            continue;
        }
        for other in &arg.conflicts {
            if selector_is_explicit(other, &out, &overridden_flags, custom_env) {
                out.errors.push(UsageErr::InvalidFlag {
                    token: arg.name.clone(),
                    reason: format!("conflicts with {other}"),
                    span: (0, 0).into(),
                    input: format!("{} {other}", arg.name),
                });
            }
        }
        if !exclusive_present && requirements_apply(command_index) {
            for other in &arg.requires {
                if !selector_is_satisfied(other, &out, &overridden_flags, custom_env) {
                    let name = selector_flag_name(other, &out).unwrap_or_else(|| other.clone());
                    if other.starts_with('-') {
                        out.errors.push(UsageErr::MissingFlag(name));
                    } else {
                        out.errors.push(UsageErr::MissingArg(name));
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

    // An exclusive flag is the whole-command form of a conflict: `--version` means the
    // rest of the line has nothing to act on. Everything the invocation supplied counts,
    // positionals included, which is what distinguishes it from being in a group with
    // every other flag.
    //
    // Only what was *given*, as `conflicts` reads it: a defaulted flag standing beside an
    // exclusive one is nobody saying anything, and counting it would make the exclusive
    // flag unusable on any command that has a default. Environment values do count, also as
    // `conflicts` reads them, so the spec parser and the derive agree.
    for flag in unique_flags(out.available_flags.values().chain(out.flags.keys()))
        .filter(|flag| !clause_flag_names.contains(&flag.name))
    {
        // `SpecFlag` equality is intentionally name-only for the public parsed-value map,
        // but re-declared aliases can leave distinct declarations with that same name in
        // scope. Exclusivity is about the declaration the typed spelling resolved to, so
        // compare the parser's `Arc`s by identity here.
        let given = flag_was_parsed(flag) || flag_has_env(flag, custom_env);
        if !exclusive_occurrence(flag) || !given || overridden_flags.contains(&flag.name) {
            continue;
        }
        let other_flag = unique_flags(out.available_flags.values().chain(out.flags.keys()))
            .filter(|other| !clause_flag_names.contains(&other.name))
            .find(|other| {
                !Arc::ptr_eq(other, flag)
                    && !overridden_flags.contains(&other.name)
                    && (flag_was_parsed(other) || flag_has_env(other, custom_env))
            })
            .map(|other| format!("--{}", other.name));
        let other_arg = active_args(&out.cmd).iter().find(|arg| {
            out.args.keys().any(|given| given.name == arg.name)
                || out
                    .clauses
                    .values()
                    .flatten()
                    .any(|instance| instance.keys().any(|given| given.name == arg.name))
                || arg
                    .env
                    .as_ref()
                    .is_some_and(|env| env_contains(custom_env, env))
        });
        // Selecting a child is company for an exclusive flag declared by an ancestor. An
        // exclusive flag belonging to the child itself does not conflict with the command word
        // needed to reach that child — so the question is not who owns the flag but whose
        // exclusivity is the one being enforced, which is what `exclusivity_in_play` already
        // separated.
        let (_, ancestor_exclusivity) = exclusivity_in_play(flag);
        let selected_subcommand =
            (out.cmds.len() > 1 && ancestor_exclusivity).then(|| out.cmd.name.clone());
        let other = other_flag
            .or_else(|| other_arg.map(|arg| format!("<{}>", arg.name)))
            .or(selected_subcommand);
        if let Some(other) = other {
            out.errors.push(UsageErr::InvalidFlag {
                token: format!("--{}", flag.name),
                reason: format!("must be given on its own, and {other} was given too"),
                span: (0, 0).into(),
                input: format!("--{} {other}", flag.name),
            });
        }
    }

    // Groups, checked once per group rather than per flag: both questions a group asks —
    // how many members were given, and whether that is enough — are about the set, which
    // is the whole reason a group exists rather than a pile of pairwise conflicts.
    //
    // The same "given" rule as everything else here, so a member filled from the
    // environment or a default counts.
    // Every command in the chain, not only the selected one: a group may name global
    // flags, which belong to an ancestor and are declared there.
    let mut group_errors: Vec<UsageErr> = Vec::new();
    for (command_index, group) in out
        .cmds
        .iter()
        .enumerate()
        .flat_map(|(index, cmd)| cmd.groups.iter().map(move |group| (index, group)))
    {
        // Counted by the *flag* a selector resolves to, not by the selector. `-f` and
        // `--file` are two spellings of one flag, and a group naming both — or naming one
        // flag twice — would otherwise report that flag as conflicting with itself the
        // moment it was given. Deduplicated rather than refused where the group is
        // written, because listing both spellings is redundant, not wrong.
        let mut given: Vec<&str> = Vec::new();
        let mut seen: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
        for selector in &group.members {
            if !selector_is_explicit(selector, &out, &overridden_flags, custom_env) {
                continue;
            }
            let name = selector_flag_name(selector, &out).unwrap_or_else(|| selector.clone());
            if seen.contains(&name) {
                continue;
            }
            seen.push(name);
            given.push(selector.as_str());
        }
        if !group.multiple && given.len() > 1 {
            group_errors.push(UsageErr::InvalidFlag {
                token: given[1].to_string(),
                reason: format!("cannot be used with {} in group {}", given[0], group.name),
                span: (0, 0).into(),
                input: format!("{} {}", given[0], given[1]),
            });
        }
        // Requiredness is a *positive* rule, so it reads a default as filling a member —
        // the rule `requires` follows. That is also why it cannot reuse `given` above:
        // exclusivity must count only what was supplied, or a defaulted member would
        // collide with the sibling the user actually typed.
        let satisfied = group
            .members
            .iter()
            .any(|selector| selector_is_satisfied(selector, &out, &overridden_flags, custom_env));
        if group.required && requirements_apply(command_index) && !satisfied && !exclusive_present {
            // The members are what a user has to type, so they are in the message; the
            // group's name is there too, since a command with several groups would
            // otherwise report the same sentence twice with nothing to tell them apart.
            group_errors.push(UsageErr::MissingGroup {
                group: group.name.clone(),
                members: group.members.join(", "),
            });
        }
    }
    out.errors.extend(group_errors);

    if !exclusive_present {
        for flag in unique_flags(out.available_flags.values())
            .filter(|flag| !clause_flag_names.contains(&flag.name))
        {
            let owner = out
                .cmds
                .iter()
                .rposition(|cmd| cmd.flags.iter().any(|declared| declared.name == flag.name))
                .unwrap_or(out.cmds.len() - 1);
            if !requirements_apply(owner) {
                continue;
            }
            if out.flags.contains_key(flag) || overridden_flags.contains(&flag.name) {
                continue;
            }
            let has_default =
                !flag.default.is_empty() || flag.arg.iter().any(|a| !a.default.is_empty());
            let has_env = flag_has_env(flag, custom_env);
            let required_if = flag.required_if.iter().any(|selector| {
                selector_is_explicit(selector, &out, &overridden_flags, custom_env)
            });
            let required_if_eq = flag.required_if_eq.iter().any(|condition| {
                selector_explicit_has_value(
                    &condition.selector,
                    &condition.value,
                    &out,
                    &overridden_flags,
                    custom_env,
                )
            });
            let required_if_eq_all = !flag.required_if_eq_all.is_empty()
                && flag.required_if_eq_all.iter().all(|condition| {
                    selector_explicit_has_value(
                        &condition.selector,
                        &condition.value,
                        &out,
                        &overridden_flags,
                        custom_env,
                    )
                });
            let unless_any = flag.required_unless.iter().any(|selector| {
                selector_is_explicit(selector, &out, &overridden_flags, custom_env)
            });
            let unless_all = !flag.required_unless_all.is_empty()
                && flag.required_unless_all.iter().all(|selector| {
                    selector_is_explicit(selector, &out, &overridden_flags, custom_env)
                });
            let required_unless = !(unless_any
                || unless_all
                || (flag.required_unless.is_empty() && flag.required_unless_all.is_empty()));
            if (flag.required
                || required_if
                || required_if_eq
                || required_if_eq_all
                || required_unless)
                && !has_default
                && !has_env
            {
                out.errors.push(UsageErr::MissingFlag(flag.name.clone()));
            }
        }
    }

    // Validate var_min/var_max constraints for variadic args
    for (arg, value) in &out.args {
        if arg.var
            && let ParseValue::MultiString(values) = value
        {
            if let Some(min) = arg.var_min
                && values.len() < min
            {
                out.errors.push(UsageErr::VarArgTooFew {
                    name: arg.name.clone(),
                    min,
                    got: values.len(),
                });
            }
            if let Some(max) = arg.var_max
                && values.len() > max
            {
                out.errors.push(UsageErr::VarArgTooMany {
                    name: arg.name.clone(),
                    max,
                    got: values.len(),
                });
            }
        }
    }

    // Validate var_min/var_max constraints for variadic flags. These are bounds on
    // repeated occurrences of the flag itself. Bounds on its nested argument are enforced
    // by binding once per occurrence, where the per-occurrence count is still available.
    for flag in unique_flags(out.available_flags.values())
        .filter(|flag| !clause_flag_names.contains(&flag.name))
    {
        if flag.var {
            let bound = match out.flags.get(flag) {
                Some(ParseValue::MultiString(values)) => values.len(),
                Some(ParseValue::MultiBool(values)) => values.len(),
                Some(_) => 1,
                None => 0,
            };
            // A partial parse deliberately leaves the final value-optional flag pending so
            // completion can still answer for it. It is nevertheless a real occurrence for
            // the repeated flag's bounds; the full parser closes it just after this phase.
            let pending = out
                .flag_awaiting_value
                .iter()
                .filter(|pending| {
                    Arc::ptr_eq(pending, flag)
                        && (pending.value_optional || pending.default_missing.is_some())
                })
                .count();
            let count = bound + pending;
            if count == 0 {
                continue;
            }
            if let Some(min) = flag.var_min
                && count < min
            {
                out.errors.push(UsageErr::VarFlagTooFew {
                    name: flag.name.clone(),
                    min,
                    got: count,
                });
            }
            if let Some(max) = flag.var_max
                && count > max
            {
                out.errors.push(UsageErr::VarFlagTooMany {
                    name: flag.name.clone(),
                    max,
                    got: count,
                });
            }
        }
    }

    Ok((out, overridden_flags))
}

fn validate_expression(
    name: &str,
    expression: Option<&str>,
    message: Option<&str>,
    parsed: &ParseValue,
    errors: &mut Vec<UsageErr>,
) {
    let Some(expression) = expression else {
        return;
    };
    #[cfg(not(feature = "validation"))]
    let _ = expression;
    let values: &[String] = match parsed {
        ParseValue::String(value) => std::slice::from_ref(value),
        ParseValue::MultiString(values) => values,
        ParseValue::Bool(_) | ParseValue::MultiBool(_) => return,
    };
    #[cfg(feature = "validation")]
    for value in values {
        let reason = match usage_validation::validate(expression, value) {
            Ok(true) => continue,
            Ok(false) => message
                .unwrap_or("does not satisfy the validation expression")
                .to_string(),
            Err(error) => format!("validation expression failed: {error}"),
        };
        errors.push(UsageErr::InvalidValue {
            name: name.to_string(),
            value: value.clone(),
            reason,
        });
        break;
    }
    #[cfg(not(feature = "validation"))]
    if let Some(value) = values.first() {
        let _ = message;
        errors.push(UsageErr::InvalidValue {
            name: name.to_string(),
            value: value.clone(),
            reason: "expression validation requires the `validation` feature".to_string(),
        });
    }
}

#[cfg(all(test, not(feature = "validation")))]
mod optional_validation_tests {
    use crate::{Spec, parse};

    #[test]
    fn validation_declarations_require_the_opt_in_runtime_feature() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
arg "<port>" validate="int(value) > 0"
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let error = parse(&spec, &["ex".to_string(), "1".to_string()]).unwrap_err();
        assert!(
            error
                .to_string()
                .contains("requires the `validation` feature"),
            "{error:?}"
        );
    }
}

fn flag_matches_selector(flag: &SpecFlag, selector: &str) -> bool {
    flag.name == selector || flag_keys(flag).iter().any(|key| key == selector)
}

fn flags_override(overrider: &SpecFlag, overridden: &SpecFlag) -> bool {
    overrider
        .overrides
        .iter()
        .any(|selector| flag_matches_selector(overridden, selector))
}

fn apply_prefix_flag_overrides(
    prefix_flags: &mut Vec<(Arc<SpecFlag>, Vec<String>)>,
    flag: Arc<SpecFlag>,
) {
    prefix_flags
        .retain(|(other, _)| !(flags_override(&flag, other) || flags_override(other, &flag)));
}

fn mount_prefix_words(prefix_flags: &[(Arc<SpecFlag>, Vec<String>)]) -> Vec<String> {
    prefix_flags
        .iter()
        .flat_map(|(_, words)| words.iter().cloned())
        .collect()
}

fn env_contains(custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>, env_var: &str) -> bool {
    match custom_env {
        Some(env) => env.contains_key(env_var),
        None => std::env::var(env_var).is_ok(),
    }
}

fn flag_has_env(flag: &SpecFlag, custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>) -> bool {
    flag.env_names()
        .any(|env_var| env_contains(custom_env, env_var))
}

fn fallback_is_true(value: &str) -> bool {
    matches!(value, "1" | "true" | "True" | "TRUE")
}

fn split_fallback_values(values: &[String], delimiter: Option<char>) -> Vec<String> {
    match delimiter {
        Some(delimiter) => values
            .iter()
            .flat_map(|value| value.split(delimiter).map(str::to_string))
            .collect(),
        None => values.to_vec(),
    }
}

fn validate_arg_fallback_count(arg: &SpecArg, count: usize, errors: &mut Vec<UsageErr>) {
    if let Some(min) = arg.var_min
        && count < min
    {
        errors.push(UsageErr::VarArgTooFew {
            name: arg.name.clone(),
            min,
            got: count,
        });
    }
    if let Some(max) = arg.var_max
        && count > max
    {
        errors.push(UsageErr::VarArgTooMany {
            name: arg.name.clone(),
            max,
            got: count,
        });
    }
}

fn validate_flag_fallback_count(flag: &SpecFlag, count: usize, errors: &mut Vec<UsageErr>) {
    if let Some(min) = flag.var_min
        && count < min
    {
        errors.push(UsageErr::VarFlagTooFew {
            name: flag.name.clone(),
            min,
            got: count,
        });
    }
    if let Some(max) = flag.var_max
        && count > max
    {
        errors.push(UsageErr::VarFlagTooMany {
            name: flag.name.clone(),
            max,
            got: count,
        });
    }
}

fn validate_flag_arg_fallback_count(
    flag: &SpecFlag,
    arg: &SpecArg,
    count: usize,
    errors: &mut Vec<UsageErr>,
) {
    if let Some(min) = arg.var_min
        && count < min
    {
        errors.push(UsageErr::VarFlagTooFew {
            name: flag.name.clone(),
            min,
            got: count,
        });
    }
    if let Some(max) = arg.var_max
        && count > max
    {
        errors.push(UsageErr::VarFlagTooMany {
            name: flag.name.clone(),
            max,
            got: count,
        });
    }
}

/// Bind a fallback the way an unconditional `default` does: one value, or several
/// for `var`, and choices checked the same way.
fn bind_flag_fallback(
    flag: &Arc<SpecFlag>,
    values: &[String],
    out: &mut ParseOutput,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
    origin: ValueOrigin,
) -> Result<(), miette::Error> {
    let Some(value) = flag_fallback_value(flag, values, &mut out.errors, custom_env)? else {
        return Ok(());
    };
    out.flags.insert(Arc::clone(flag), value);
    out.flag_origins
        .entry(Arc::clone(flag))
        .or_default()
        .push(origin);
    Ok(())
}

fn flag_fallback_value(
    flag: &SpecFlag,
    values: &[String],
    errors: &mut Vec<UsageErr>,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
) -> Result<Option<ParseValue>, miette::Error> {
    if values.is_empty() {
        return Ok(None);
    }
    if let Some(arg) = flag.arg.as_ref() {
        let values = split_fallback_values(values, arg.delimiter);
        if flag.var || arg.var {
            if flag.var {
                validate_flag_fallback_count(flag, values.len(), errors);
            }
            if arg.var {
                validate_flag_arg_fallback_count(flag, arg, values.len(), errors);
            }
            validate_choice_values(
                ChoiceTarget::option(flag),
                &values,
                arg.choices.as_ref(),
                custom_env,
            )?;
            Ok(Some(ParseValue::MultiString(values)))
        } else {
            let value = values.into_iter().next().unwrap_or_default();
            validate_choice_value(
                ChoiceTarget::option(flag),
                &value,
                arg.choices.as_ref(),
                custom_env,
            )?;
            Ok(Some(ParseValue::String(value)))
        }
    } else if flag.var {
        validate_flag_fallback_count(flag, values.len(), errors);
        let bools: Vec<bool> = values.iter().map(|s| fallback_is_true(s)).collect();
        Ok(Some(ParseValue::MultiBool(bools)))
    } else {
        Ok(Some(ParseValue::Bool(fallback_is_true(&values[0]))))
    }
}

/// Fill scoped flags inside the clause instances argv created.
///
/// The returned sets contain argv and environment sources only. Relationship
/// validation uses them to keep defaults from becoming explicit conflicts while
/// still allowing a fallback value to satisfy a required scoped flag.
fn apply_clause_flag_fallbacks(
    out: &mut ParseOutput,
    overridden_flags: &HashSet<String>,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
) -> Result<Option<Vec<HashSet<String>>>, miette::Error> {
    let Some(clause) = out.cmd.clause.clone() else {
        return Ok(None);
    };
    let Some(positional_instances) = out.clauses.get(&clause.name) else {
        return Ok(None);
    };
    let positional_instances = positional_instances.clone();
    let mut flag_instances = out
        .clause_flags
        .shift_remove(&clause.name)
        .unwrap_or_default();
    flag_instances.resize_with(positional_instances.len(), IndexMap::new);
    let get_env = |key: &str| -> Option<String> {
        custom_env
            .and_then(|values| values.get(key).cloned())
            .or_else(|| {
                custom_env
                    .is_none()
                    .then(|| std::env::var(key).ok())
                    .flatten()
            })
    };
    let mut explicit_instances = Vec::with_capacity(flag_instances.len());

    for (instance_index, scoped) in flag_instances.iter_mut().enumerate() {
        let positional = &positional_instances[instance_index];
        let mut explicit = scoped
            .keys()
            .map(|flag| flag.name.clone())
            .collect::<HashSet<_>>();

        // Environment first so every default_if sees all explicit sources,
        // independent of declaration order.
        for declared in &clause.flags {
            let flag = Arc::new(declared.clone());
            if scoped.contains_key(&flag) {
                continue;
            }
            let Some((env_name, env_value)) = first_set_env(declared.env_names(), &get_env) else {
                continue;
            };
            if let Some(warning) = flag_deprecation(declared) {
                out.warnings.push(warning);
            }
            if flag_env_is_deprecated(declared, env_name) {
                out.warnings
                    .push(Warning::env(env_name, flag_current_env(declared)));
            }
            if let Some(value) = flag_fallback_value(
                declared,
                std::slice::from_ref(&env_value),
                &mut out.errors,
                custom_env,
            )? {
                scoped.insert(flag, value);
                explicit.insert(declared.name.clone());
            }
        }

        let condition_matches =
            |condition: &crate::SpecDefaultIf| {
                if let Some(flag) = clause
                    .flags
                    .iter()
                    .find(|flag| flag_matches_selector(flag, &condition.selector))
                {
                    if !explicit.contains(&flag.name) {
                        return false;
                    }
                    return condition.when.as_ref().is_none_or(|expected| {
                        scoped
                            .iter()
                            .find(|(present, _)| present.name == flag.name)
                            .is_some_and(|(_, value)| parse_value_has(value, expected))
                    });
                }
                if let Some(arg) = clause.args.iter().find(|arg| {
                    !condition.selector.starts_with('-') && arg.name == condition.selector
                }) {
                    return positional.get(arg).is_some_and(|value| {
                        condition
                            .when
                            .as_ref()
                            .is_none_or(|expected| parse_value_has(value, expected))
                    });
                }
                let command_flag = out
                    .available_flags
                    .values()
                    .chain(out.flags.keys())
                    .filter(|flag| !is_clause_scoped_flag(out, flag))
                    .find(|flag| flag_matches_selector(flag, &condition.selector));
                command_flag.is_some_and(|flag| {
                    !overridden_flags.contains(&flag.name)
                        && command_flag_has_explicit_source(flag, out)
                        && condition.when.as_ref().is_none_or(|expected| {
                            out.flags
                                .get(flag)
                                .is_some_and(|value| parse_value_has(value, expected))
                        })
                })
            };

        let conditional = clause
            .flags
            .iter()
            .filter(|flag| !scoped.keys().any(|present| present.name == flag.name))
            .filter_map(|flag| {
                flag.default_if
                    .iter()
                    .find(|condition| condition_matches(condition))
                    .map(|condition| (flag.clone(), condition.value.clone()))
            })
            .collect::<Vec<_>>();
        for (declared, value) in conditional {
            if let Some(value) = flag_fallback_value(
                &declared,
                std::slice::from_ref(&value),
                &mut out.errors,
                custom_env,
            )? {
                scoped.insert(Arc::new(declared), value);
            }
        }

        for declared in &clause.flags {
            let flag = Arc::new(declared.clone());
            if scoped.contains_key(&flag) {
                continue;
            }
            let values = if !declared.default.is_empty() {
                &declared.default
            } else if let Some(arg) = declared.arg.as_ref().filter(|arg| !arg.default.is_empty()) {
                &arg.default
            } else {
                continue;
            };
            if let Some(value) = flag_fallback_value(declared, values, &mut out.errors, custom_env)?
            {
                scoped.insert(flag, value);
            }
        }
        explicit_instances.push(explicit);
    }

    out.clause_flags.insert(clause.name, flag_instances);
    Ok(Some(explicit_instances))
}

fn command_flag_has_explicit_source(flag: &SpecFlag, out: &ParseOutput) -> bool {
    out.flags.contains_key(flag)
        && out.flag_origins.get(flag).is_none_or(|origins| {
            origins
                .iter()
                .any(|origin| matches!(origin, ValueOrigin::DefaultMissing | ValueOrigin::Env(_)))
        })
}

fn default_if_condition_matches(
    condition: &crate::SpecDefaultIf,
    out: &ParseOutput,
    overridden_flags: &HashSet<String>,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
) -> bool {
    match &condition.when {
        None => selector_is_explicit(&condition.selector, out, overridden_flags, custom_env),
        Some(when) => {
            let Some(flag) = out
                .available_flags
                .values()
                .chain(out.flags.keys())
                .find(|flag| flag_matches_selector(flag, &condition.selector))
            else {
                return false;
            };
            if overridden_flags.contains(&flag.name) {
                return false;
            }
            explicit_flag_has_value(flag, when, out, custom_env)
        }
    }
}

/// Whether an explicitly supplied value of `flag` equals `expected`.
///
/// clap treats command-line and environment values as explicit for `requires_if`, but
/// not defaults. Keep that source distinction here instead of consulting the flag's
/// defaults through `selector_is_satisfied`.
fn explicit_flag_has_value(
    flag: &SpecFlag,
    expected: &str,
    out: &ParseOutput,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
) -> bool {
    let parsed_matches = out.flags.get(flag).is_some_and(|value| match value {
        ParseValue::Bool(value) => value.to_string() == expected,
        ParseValue::String(value) => value == expected,
        ParseValue::MultiBool(values) => values.iter().any(|value| value.to_string() == expected),
        ParseValue::MultiString(values) => values.iter().any(|value| value == expected),
    });
    if out.flags.contains_key(flag) {
        return parsed_matches;
    }

    let value = flag.env_names().find_map(|env| match custom_env {
        Some(values) => values.get(env).cloned(),
        None => std::env::var(env).ok(),
    });
    value.is_some_and(
        |value| match flag.arg.as_ref().and_then(|arg| arg.delimiter) {
            Some(delimiter) => value.split(delimiter).any(|value| value == expected),
            None if flag.arg.is_none() => {
                matches!(value.as_str(), "1" | "true" | "True" | "TRUE").to_string() == expected
            }
            None => value == expected,
        },
    )
}

fn parse_value_has(value: &ParseValue, expected: &str) -> bool {
    match value {
        ParseValue::Bool(value) => value.to_string() == expected,
        ParseValue::String(value) => value == expected,
        ParseValue::MultiBool(values) => values.iter().any(|value| value.to_string() == expected),
        ParseValue::MultiString(values) => values.iter().any(|value| value == expected),
    }
}

/// Clause flags share the command's spelling table so they can be recognized while parsing,
/// but their values and validation belong to one clause instance rather than the command.
fn is_clause_scoped_flag(out: &ParseOutput, flag: &SpecFlag) -> bool {
    out.cmd
        .clause
        .as_ref()
        .is_some_and(|clause| clause.flags.iter().any(|scoped| scoped.name == flag.name))
}

fn selected_clause_flag<'a>(out: &'a ParseOutput, selector: &str) -> Option<&'a SpecFlag> {
    out.cmd
        .clause
        .as_ref()?
        .flags
        .iter()
        .find(|flag| flag_matches_selector(flag, selector))
}

fn clause_flag_is_explicit(out: &ParseOutput, flag: &SpecFlag) -> bool {
    out.clause_flags
        .values()
        .flatten()
        .any(|instance| instance.keys().any(|present| present.name == flag.name))
        || out.flags.keys().any(|present| present.name == flag.name)
}

fn clause_flag_has_value(out: &ParseOutput, flag: &SpecFlag, expected: &str) -> bool {
    out.clause_flags.values().flatten().any(|instance| {
        instance
            .iter()
            .any(|(present, value)| present.name == flag.name && parse_value_has(value, expected))
    }) || out
        .flags
        .iter()
        .any(|(present, value)| present.name == flag.name && parse_value_has(value, expected))
}

fn validate_clause_relationships(
    out: &mut ParseOutput,
    overridden_flags: &HashSet<String>,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
    explicit_instances: Option<&[HashSet<String>]>,
) {
    let Some(clause) = out.cmd.clause.as_ref() else {
        return;
    };
    let Some(instances) = out.clauses.get(&clause.name) else {
        return;
    };
    let command_flag_is_explicit = |selector: &str| {
        out.available_flags
            .values()
            .chain(out.flags.keys())
            .filter(|flag| !is_clause_scoped_flag(out, flag))
            .any(|flag| {
                flag_matches_selector(flag, selector)
                    && !overridden_flags.contains(&flag.name)
                    && (out.flags.contains_key(flag) || flag_has_env(flag, custom_env))
            })
    };
    let command_flag_matches_value = |selector: &str, expected: &str| {
        out.available_flags
            .values()
            .chain(out.flags.keys())
            .filter(|flag| !is_clause_scoped_flag(out, flag))
            .find(|flag| flag_matches_selector(flag, selector))
            .is_some_and(|flag| {
                !overridden_flags.contains(&flag.name)
                    && explicit_flag_has_value(flag, expected, out, custom_env)
            })
    };
    let command_flag_is_satisfied = |selector: &str| {
        out.available_flags
            .values()
            .chain(out.flags.keys())
            .filter(|flag| !is_clause_scoped_flag(out, flag))
            .any(|flag| flag_matches_selector(flag, selector))
            && selector_is_satisfied(selector, out, overridden_flags, custom_env)
    };
    let mut errors = Vec::new();
    for (instance_index, instance) in instances.iter().enumerate() {
        let explicit = explicit_instances.and_then(|instances| instances.get(instance_index));
        let scoped = out
            .clause_flags
            .get(&clause.name)
            .and_then(|instances| instances.get(instance_index));
        let scoped_flag = |selector: &str| {
            clause
                .flags
                .iter()
                .find(|flag| flag_matches_selector(flag, selector))
        };
        let scoped_value = |flag: &SpecFlag| {
            scoped.and_then(|values| {
                values
                    .iter()
                    .find(|(present, _)| present.name == flag.name)
                    .map(|(_, value)| value)
            })
        };
        let arg_is_explicit = |selector: &str| {
            instance
                .keys()
                .any(|arg| !selector.starts_with('-') && arg.name == selector)
        };
        let selector_is_explicit = |selector: &str| {
            scoped_flag(selector).is_some_and(|flag| {
                explicit
                    .map(|given| given.contains(&flag.name))
                    .unwrap_or_else(|| scoped_value(flag).is_some())
            }) || command_flag_is_explicit(selector)
                || arg_is_explicit(selector)
        };
        let selector_has_value = |selector: &str, expected: &str| {
            scoped_flag(selector)
                .filter(|flag| {
                    explicit
                        .map(|given| given.contains(&flag.name))
                        .unwrap_or_else(|| scoped_value(flag).is_some())
                })
                .and_then(scoped_value)
                .is_some_and(|value| parse_value_has(value, expected))
                || command_flag_matches_value(selector, expected)
                || instance.iter().any(|(arg, value)| {
                    !selector.starts_with('-')
                        && arg.name == selector
                        && parse_value_has(value, expected)
                })
        };
        let selector_is_satisfied = |selector: &str| {
            scoped_flag(selector).is_some_and(|flag| scoped_value(flag).is_some())
                || command_flag_is_satisfied(selector)
                || arg_is_explicit(selector)
        };
        let selector_name = |selector: &str| {
            scoped_flag(selector)
                .map(|flag| flag.name.clone())
                .or_else(|| selector_flag_name(selector, out))
                .unwrap_or_else(|| selector.to_string())
        };

        for flag in &clause.flags {
            let value = scoped_value(flag);
            if value.is_none() {
                let required_if = flag
                    .required_if
                    .iter()
                    .any(|selector| selector_is_explicit(selector));
                let required_if_eq = flag
                    .required_if_eq
                    .iter()
                    .any(|condition| selector_has_value(&condition.selector, &condition.value));
                let required_if_eq_all = !flag.required_if_eq_all.is_empty()
                    && flag
                        .required_if_eq_all
                        .iter()
                        .all(|condition| selector_has_value(&condition.selector, &condition.value));
                let unless_any = flag
                    .required_unless
                    .iter()
                    .any(|selector| selector_is_explicit(selector));
                let unless_all = !flag.required_unless_all.is_empty()
                    && flag
                        .required_unless_all
                        .iter()
                        .all(|selector| selector_is_explicit(selector));
                let required_unless = !(unless_any
                    || unless_all
                    || (flag.required_unless.is_empty() && flag.required_unless_all.is_empty()));
                if flag.required
                    || required_if
                    || required_if_eq
                    || required_if_eq_all
                    || required_unless
                {
                    errors.push(UsageErr::MissingFlag(flag.name.clone()));
                }
                continue;
            }

            let explicitly_provided = explicit
                .map(|given| given.contains(&flag.name))
                .unwrap_or(true);

            if explicitly_provided {
                for other in &flag.conflicts {
                    if selector_is_explicit(other) {
                        errors.push(UsageErr::InvalidFlag {
                            token: format!("--{}", flag.name),
                            reason: format!("conflicts with {other}"),
                            span: (0, 0).into(),
                            input: format!("--{} {other}", flag.name),
                        });
                    }
                }
                for other in &flag.requires {
                    if !selector_is_satisfied(other) {
                        errors.push(UsageErr::MissingFlag(selector_name(other)));
                    }
                }
                for condition in &flag.requires_if {
                    if value.is_some_and(|value| parse_value_has(value, &condition.value))
                        && !selector_is_satisfied(&condition.requires)
                    {
                        errors.push(UsageErr::MissingFlag(selector_name(&condition.requires)));
                    }
                }
            }
            if let (true, Some(value)) = (flag.var, value) {
                let count = match value {
                    ParseValue::MultiString(values) => values.len(),
                    ParseValue::MultiBool(values) => values.len(),
                    _ => 1,
                };
                if let Some(min) = flag.var_min.filter(|min| count < *min) {
                    errors.push(UsageErr::VarFlagTooFew {
                        name: flag.name.clone(),
                        min,
                        got: count,
                    });
                }
                if let Some(max) = flag.var_max.filter(|max| count > *max) {
                    errors.push(UsageErr::VarFlagTooMany {
                        name: flag.name.clone(),
                        max,
                        got: count,
                    });
                }
            }
            if let (Some(arg), Some(value)) = (&flag.arg, value) {
                validate_expression(
                    &flag.name,
                    arg.validate.as_deref(),
                    arg.validate_error.as_deref(),
                    value,
                    &mut errors,
                );
            }
        }
        for arg in &clause.args {
            let given = instance.keys().any(|present| present.name == arg.name);
            if !given {
                let required_if = arg
                    .required_if
                    .iter()
                    .any(|selector| selector_is_explicit(selector));
                let required_if_eq = arg
                    .required_if_eq
                    .iter()
                    .any(|condition| selector_has_value(&condition.selector, &condition.value));
                let required_if_eq_all = !arg.required_if_eq_all.is_empty()
                    && arg
                        .required_if_eq_all
                        .iter()
                        .all(|condition| selector_has_value(&condition.selector, &condition.value));
                let unless_any = arg
                    .required_unless
                    .iter()
                    .any(|selector| selector_is_explicit(selector));
                let unless_all = !arg.required_unless_all.is_empty()
                    && arg
                        .required_unless_all
                        .iter()
                        .all(|selector| selector_is_explicit(selector));
                let required_unless = !(unless_any
                    || unless_all
                    || (arg.required_unless.is_empty() && arg.required_unless_all.is_empty()));
                if required_if || required_if_eq || required_if_eq_all || required_unless {
                    errors.push(UsageErr::MissingClauseArg {
                        clause: clause.name.clone(),
                        instance: instance_index + 1,
                        arg: arg.name.clone(),
                    });
                }
                continue;
            }
            for other in &arg.conflicts {
                if selector_is_explicit(other) {
                    errors.push(UsageErr::InvalidFlag {
                        token: arg.name.clone(),
                        reason: format!("conflicts with {other}"),
                        span: (0, 0).into(),
                        input: format!("{} {other}", arg.name),
                    });
                }
            }
            for other in &arg.requires {
                if selector_is_satisfied(other) {
                    continue;
                }
                if other.starts_with('-') {
                    errors.push(UsageErr::MissingFlag(selector_name(other)));
                } else {
                    errors.push(UsageErr::MissingClauseArg {
                        clause: clause.name.clone(),
                        instance: instance_index + 1,
                        arg: other.clone(),
                    });
                }
            }
        }
    }
    out.errors.extend(errors);
}

fn selector_explicit_has_value(
    selector: &str,
    expected: &str,
    out: &ParseOutput,
    overridden_flags: &HashSet<String>,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
) -> bool {
    if let Some(flag) = selected_clause_flag(out, selector) {
        return clause_flag_has_value(out, flag, expected);
    }
    if let Some(flag) = out
        .available_flags
        .values()
        .chain(out.flags.keys())
        .filter(|flag| !is_clause_scoped_flag(out, flag))
        .find(|flag| flag_matches_selector(flag, selector))
    {
        return !overridden_flags.contains(&flag.name)
            && explicit_flag_has_value(flag, expected, out, custom_env);
    }
    let Some(arg) = selector_arg(selector, out) else {
        return false;
    };
    let parsed = out
        .args
        .iter()
        .find(|(given, _)| given.name == arg.name)
        .map(|(_, value)| value)
        .or_else(|| {
            out.clauses.values().flatten().find_map(|instance| {
                instance
                    .iter()
                    .find(|(given, _)| given.name == arg.name)
                    .map(|(_, value)| value)
            })
        });
    if let Some(value) = parsed {
        return match value {
            ParseValue::String(value) => value == expected,
            ParseValue::MultiString(values) => values.iter().any(|value| value == expected),
            ParseValue::Bool(value) => value.to_string() == expected,
            ParseValue::MultiBool(values) => {
                values.iter().any(|value| value.to_string() == expected)
            }
        };
    }
    let value = arg.env_names().find_map(|env| match custom_env {
        Some(values) => values.get(env).cloned(),
        None => std::env::var(env).ok(),
    });
    value.is_some_and(|value| match arg.delimiter {
        Some(delimiter) => value.split(delimiter).any(|value| value == expected),
        None => value == expected,
    })
}

fn selector_is_explicit(
    selector: &str,
    out: &ParseOutput,
    overridden_flags: &HashSet<String>,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
) -> bool {
    let scoped_flag_is_explicit =
        selected_clause_flag(out, selector).is_some_and(|flag| clause_flag_is_explicit(out, flag));
    let flag_is_explicit = out
        .available_flags
        .values()
        .chain(out.flags.keys())
        .filter(|flag| !is_clause_scoped_flag(out, flag))
        .any(|flag| {
            flag_matches_selector(flag, selector)
                && !overridden_flags.contains(&flag.name)
                && (out.flags.contains_key(flag) || flag_has_env(flag, custom_env))
        });
    scoped_flag_is_explicit
        || flag_is_explicit
        || selector_arg(selector, out).is_some_and(|arg| arg_is_explicit(arg, out, custom_env))
}

/// The name of the flag a selector points at, for an error that has to name it.
///
/// `selector_is_explicit` only answers yes or no, which is all a check needs; a message
/// about a flag that is *missing* has to say which one, and the selector may be a short
/// form or an alias rather than the name.
fn selector_flag_name(selector: &str, out: &ParseOutput) -> Option<String> {
    if let Some(flag) = selected_clause_flag(out, selector) {
        return Some(flag.name.clone());
    }
    out.available_flags
        .values()
        .chain(out.flags.keys())
        .filter(|flag| !is_clause_scoped_flag(out, flag))
        .find(|flag| flag_matches_selector(flag, selector))
        .map(|flag| flag.name.clone())
        .or_else(|| selector_arg(selector, out).map(|arg| arg.name.clone()))
}

/// Whether a selector's flag ended up with a value, however it got one.
///
/// The rule for a *positive* relationship, and the difference from
/// [`selector_is_explicit`] is deliberate. A negative rule — `conflicts`, or a group's
/// exclusivity — has to count only what was given, or a flag with a default would
/// conflict with everything and no command line would parse. A positive one asks whether
/// the flag it names has a value, and a default is a value: that is already how plain
/// `required`, `required_if` and `required_unless` read a default, and `requires` saying
/// otherwise would have made the same flag missing here and present ten lines below.
fn selector_is_satisfied(
    selector: &str,
    out: &ParseOutput,
    overridden_flags: &HashSet<String>,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
) -> bool {
    if selector_is_explicit(selector, out, overridden_flags, custom_env) {
        return true;
    }
    let flag_is_satisfied = out
        .available_flags
        .values()
        .chain(out.flags.keys())
        .filter(|flag| !is_clause_scoped_flag(out, flag))
        .filter(|flag| flag_matches_selector(flag, selector))
        .any(|flag| {
            !overridden_flags.contains(&flag.name)
                && (!flag.default.is_empty()
                    || flag.arg.iter().any(|a| !a.default.is_empty())
                    || flag.default_if.iter().any(|condition| {
                        default_if_condition_matches(condition, out, overridden_flags, custom_env)
                    }))
        });
    flag_is_satisfied || selector_arg(selector, out).is_some_and(|arg| !arg.default.is_empty())
}

fn selector_arg<'a>(selector: &str, out: &'a ParseOutput) -> Option<&'a SpecArg> {
    // Bare words are positional selectors. Keep accepting a flag's internal name above
    // for existing specs; when both exist, the dashed flag spelling removes ambiguity.
    if selector.starts_with('-') {
        return None;
    }
    out.cmds
        .iter()
        .flat_map(active_args)
        .find(|arg| arg.name == selector)
}

fn arg_is_explicit(
    arg: &SpecArg,
    out: &ParseOutput,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
) -> bool {
    out.args.keys().any(|given| given.name == arg.name)
        || out
            .clauses
            .values()
            .flatten()
            .any(|instance| instance.keys().any(|given| given.name == arg.name))
        || arg
            .env
            .as_ref()
            .is_some_and(|env| env_contains(custom_env, env))
}

fn apply_flag_overrides(
    flag: &Arc<SpecFlag>,
    available_flags: &BTreeMap<String, Arc<SpecFlag>>,
    parsed_flags: &mut IndexMap<Arc<SpecFlag>, ParseValue>,
    pending_flags: &mut Vec<Arc<SpecFlag>>,
    overridden_flags: &mut HashSet<String>,
    // The reportable half of the same fact: which flag did the overriding. The set above
    // only stops a default or an environment value restoring what was overridden, and
    // "`--quiet` is unset despite its default" has no answer without the name.
    attributed: &mut BTreeMap<String, String>,
) {
    let overridden_names: HashSet<String> = available_flags
        .values()
        .chain(parsed_flags.keys())
        .filter(|other| flags_override(flag, other) || flags_override(other, flag))
        .map(|other| other.name.clone())
        .collect();

    parsed_flags.retain(|parsed, _| !overridden_names.contains(&parsed.name));
    pending_flags.retain(|pending| !overridden_names.contains(&pending.name));
    for name in &overridden_names {
        attributed.insert(name.clone(), flag.name.clone());
    }
    overridden_flags.extend(overridden_names);
    // An explicit occurrence always restores this flag, including self-overrides.
    overridden_flags.remove(&flag.name);
    attributed.remove(&flag.name);
}

/// The help a parse answers `--help` with. A parse is a program running, so its page lists
/// what `choices run=` prints, run against the environment the parse was given.
#[cfg(feature = "cli-help")]
fn render_help_err(spec: &Spec, cmd: &SpecCommand, long: bool, env: Env<'_>) -> UsageErr {
    UsageErr::Help(docs::cli::render_runtime_help(
        spec,
        cmd,
        long,
        docs::cli::Style::PLAIN,
        env,
    ))
}

#[cfg(feature = "cli-help")]
fn render_help_all_err(spec: &Spec, cmd: &SpecCommand, env: Env<'_>) -> UsageErr {
    fn append(out: &mut String, spec: &Spec, cmd: &SpecCommand, env: Env<'_>) {
        if !out.is_empty() {
            out.push('\n');
        }
        out.push_str(&docs::cli::render_runtime_help(
            spec,
            cmd,
            true,
            docs::cli::Style::PLAIN,
            env,
        ));
        let mut children: Vec<_> = cmd
            .subcommands
            .values()
            .filter(|child| !child.hide)
            .collect();
        children.sort_by_key(|child| (child.display_order.unwrap_or(999), child.name.as_str()));
        for child in children {
            append(out, spec, child, env);
        }
    }

    let mut out = String::new();
    append(&mut out, spec, cmd, env);
    UsageErr::Help(out)
}

#[cfg(not(feature = "cli-help"))]
fn render_help_err(_spec: &Spec, _cmd: &SpecCommand, _long: bool, _env: Env<'_>) -> UsageErr {
    UsageErr::Help("help".to_string())
}

#[cfg(not(feature = "cli-help"))]
fn render_help_all_err(_spec: &Spec, _cmd: &SpecCommand, _env: Env<'_>) -> UsageErr {
    UsageErr::Help("help".to_string())
}

/// The version to answer with. `--version` prefers the long text and `-V` the concise
/// one, each falling back to the other when only one is declared.
fn render_version_err(spec: &Spec, long: bool) -> UsageErr {
    let value = if long {
        spec.long_version.as_ref().or(spec.version.as_ref())
    } else {
        spec.version.as_ref().or(spec.long_version.as_ref())
    };
    UsageErr::Version(value.cloned().unwrap_or_default())
}

/// The environment a parse was given, which is also what a `choices run=` command runs with.
type Env<'a> = Option<&'a HashMap<String, String>>;

fn render_action_err(
    spec: &Spec,
    cmd: &SpecCommand,
    flag: &SpecFlag,
    spelling: &str,
    env: Env<'_>,
) -> UsageErr {
    use crate::SpecFlagAction;
    match flag.action {
        SpecFlagAction::Help => render_help_err(spec, cmd, spelling.starts_with("--"), env),
        SpecFlagAction::HelpShort => render_help_err(spec, cmd, false, env),
        SpecFlagAction::HelpLong => render_help_err(spec, cmd, true, env),
        SpecFlagAction::HelpAll => render_help_all_err(spec, cmd, env),
        SpecFlagAction::Version => render_version_err(spec, spelling.starts_with("--")),
        SpecFlagAction::Set => unreachable!("binding actions are handled before this helper"),
    }
}

/// Report a required flag value that was displaced by a later option.
fn render_missing_flag_value(flag: &SpecFlag, following: &str) -> UsageErr {
    let token = flag
        .long
        .first()
        .map(|long| format!("--{long}"))
        .or_else(|| flag.short.first().map(|short| format!("-{short}")))
        .unwrap_or_else(|| flag.name.clone());
    UsageErr::InvalidFlag {
        token: token.clone(),
        reason: "requires an argument".to_string(),
        span: (0, 0).into(),
        input: format!("{token} {following}"),
    }
}

#[derive(Copy, Clone)]
struct ChoiceTarget<'a> {
    kind: &'a str,
    name: &'a str,
}

impl<'a> ChoiceTarget<'a> {
    fn arg(arg: &'a SpecArg) -> Self {
        Self {
            kind: "arg",
            name: &arg.name,
        }
    }

    fn option(flag: &'a SpecFlag) -> Self {
        Self {
            kind: "option",
            name: &flag.name,
        }
    }
}

/// Whether every letter of a short token names a flag in scope.
///
/// Scanning stops at the first letter whose flag takes a value, because everything
/// after it is that value rather than more letters.
fn short_bundle_is_known(
    spec: &Spec,
    cmds: &[SpecCommand],
    available: &BTreeMap<String, Arc<SpecFlag>>,
    token: &str,
) -> bool {
    for c in token.chars().skip(1) {
        match available.get(&format!("-{c}")) {
            // `-h` and `-V` are recognized letters even though no spec declares them, so a
            // bundle containing one is a bundle. Without this `-vh` was not read as one at
            // all and fell through to `unexpected word`, while usage-argv, usage-go and
            // clap all answer it with help.
            None if supplies_short(spec, cmds, c) => {}
            None => return false,
            Some(f) if f.arg.is_some() => return true,
            Some(_) => {}
        }
    }
    true
}

/// The response `-h` or `-V` produces where nothing declares that letter.
///
/// The letter form of the flags the parser supplies rather than a spec declaring them,
/// under exactly the conditions [`is_help_arg`] and [`is_version_arg`] state — asked
/// about here one letter at a time, because a bundle is read one letter at a time.
///
/// Always the short response: `-h` is short help however many letters share its token,
/// and `-V` the concise version. The long forms belong to the long spellings. `-?` is not
/// here — it is a whole-token spelling of `-h` rather than a letter anyone bundles.
fn supplied_short(
    spec: &Spec,
    cmds: &[SpecCommand],
    letter: char,
    env: Env<'_>,
) -> Option<UsageErr> {
    let cmd = cmds.last()?;
    match letter {
        'h' if is_help_arg(spec, cmd, "-h") => Some(render_help_err(spec, cmd, false, env)),
        'V' if is_version_arg(spec, cmds, "-V") => Some(render_version_err(spec, false)),
        _ => None,
    }
}

/// Whether [`supplied_short`] would answer for `letter`, without drawing the page it would
/// answer with — which can mean running `choices run=` commands.
fn supplies_short(spec: &Spec, cmds: &[SpecCommand], letter: char) -> bool {
    cmds.last().is_some_and(|cmd| match letter {
        'h' => is_help_arg(spec, cmd, "-h"),
        'V' => is_version_arg(spec, cmds, "-V"),
        _ => false,
    })
}

/// Refuse a flag-like token that named nothing, if this command asked for that.
///
/// Called from the flag branches, where the lookup has just failed and nothing from
/// the token has been applied yet — so a bundle like `-az` is refused whole rather
/// than after setting `-a`.
fn reject_unknown_flag_if_asked(
    spec: &Spec,
    path: &[SpecCommand],
    token: &str,
) -> Result<(), UsageErr> {
    // A lone `-` is a value by convention. A negative number reaches this only
    // when no pending value opted into the narrower exception.
    if !is_flag_like(token) {
        return Ok(());
    }
    if effective_unknown_flags(spec, path) != UnknownFlags::Error {
        return Ok(());
    }
    Err(UsageErr::InvalidFlag {
        token: token.to_string(),
        reason: "no such flag".to_string(),
        span: (0, 0).into(),
        input: token.to_string(),
    })
}

/// Whether a flag-like token that matches nothing is a value or an error, here.
///
/// The nearest enclosing command that stated a preference wins, then the spec,
/// then the default. Inherited, unlike `effect`: it describes how a command line
/// is read, and a CLI that forwards options tends to forward them at every level.
fn effective_unknown_flags(spec: &Spec, path: &[SpecCommand]) -> UnknownFlags {
    path.iter()
        .rev()
        .find_map(|cmd| cmd.unknown_flags)
        .or(spec.unknown_flags)
        .unwrap_or_default()
}

/// Whether a token would be read as a flag, for the purpose of rejecting unknown
/// ones.
///
/// A lone `-` is a value by convention. Other dash-prefixed tokens are flag-like;
/// a field may make the narrower negative-number exception.
fn is_flag_like(token: &str) -> bool {
    match token.strip_prefix('-') {
        None | Some("") => false,
        Some(_) => true,
    }
}

fn is_negative_number(token: &str) -> bool {
    token.strip_prefix('-').is_some_and(is_number)
}

/// Whether a flag may claim its following token as a detached value.
///
/// A required value keeps the historical negative-number exception. A value
/// that may be omitted needs an explicit opt-in to distinguish a negative value
/// from the flag's bare form.
fn accepts_detached_flag_value(flag: &SpecFlag, token: &str) -> bool {
    !flag.require_equals
        && (!is_flag_like(token)
            || flag.allow_hyphen_values()
            || (is_negative_number(token)
                && (flag
                    .arg
                    .as_ref()
                    .is_some_and(|arg| arg.allow_negative_numbers)
                    || (flag.default_missing.is_none() && !flag.value_optional))))
}

fn record_scalar_flag_occurrence(
    cmds: &[SpecCommand],
    flag: &Arc<SpecFlag>,
    command_level: usize,
    bool_value: Option<bool>,
    occurrences: &mut HashMap<(usize, usize), u8>,
    errors: &mut Vec<UsageErr>,
) {
    let strict = cmds.get(command_level).is_some_and(|cmd| {
        !cmd.args_override_self
            || cmd
                .clause
                .as_ref()
                .is_some_and(|clause| clause.flags.iter().any(|candidate| candidate == &**flag))
    });
    let collects_values = flag.var || flag.arg.as_ref().is_some_and(|arg| arg.var);
    if !strict || flag.count || collects_values {
        return;
    }

    let bit = match bool_value {
        Some(false) if flag.negate.is_some() => 0b10,
        _ => 0b01,
    };
    let key = (Arc::as_ptr(flag) as usize, command_level);
    let seen = occurrences.entry(key).or_default();
    if *seen & bit != 0 {
        errors.push(UsageErr::DuplicateFlag(flag.name.clone()));
    }
    *seen |= bit;
}

/// A token that can select a subcommand, trigger a mount, or be forwarded as an
/// external command.
///
/// Flag-like tokens are not words. A lone `-` is a value — conventionally stdin —
/// so it was never a candidate to *select* anything either. usage-argv uses the
/// same rule; without it, `-1` skipped the external-subcommand path because Phase 1
/// treated every token that `starts_with('-')` as a flag.
fn is_command_word(token: &str) -> bool {
    (!is_flag_like(token) || is_negative_number(token)) && token != "-"
}

/// Whether an otherwise numeric-looking token is an exact declared short flag.
///
/// This check belongs in both parse phases: phase 1 must skip the flag while it
/// searches for a later subcommand, and phase 2 must bind it instead of offering
/// it to an `allow_negative_numbers` positional.
fn declared_numeric_short(available_flags: &BTreeMap<String, Arc<SpecFlag>>, token: &str) -> bool {
    token.len() == 2 && token.as_bytes()[1].is_ascii_digit() && available_flags.contains_key(token)
}

/// Whether an unmatched word belongs to the root's default command.
///
/// Ordinary words always do. A negative number only does when the default command's
/// first positional explicitly accepts one; otherwise it stays at the root, matching
/// usage-argv and generated Go.
fn default_accepts_word(cmd: &SpecCommand, default_name: &str, token: &str) -> bool {
    !is_negative_number(token)
        || cmd
            .find_subcommand(default_name)
            .and_then(|default| default.args.first())
            .is_some_and(|arg| arg.allow_negative_numbers)
}

/// Digits, at most one `.`, and an optional exponent.
///
/// Spelled out rather than deferred to `f64::from_str`, which also accepts `inf` and
/// `NaN`: `-inf` is far likelier to be a misspelled flag than a number somebody meant
/// to pass. usage-argv implements the same rule, and the corpus pins the edges — the
/// two disagreed about `-1e5` when one used a float parse and the other did not.
fn is_number(rest: &str) -> bool {
    let (mantissa, exponent) = match rest.find(['e', 'E']) {
        Some(at) => (&rest[..at], Some(&rest[at + 1..])),
        None => (rest, None),
    };

    let mut seen_digit = false;
    let mut seen_dot = false;
    for c in mantissa.chars() {
        match c {
            '0'..='9' => seen_digit = true,
            '.' if !seen_dot => seen_dot = true,
            _ => return false,
        }
    }
    if !seen_digit {
        return false;
    }

    match exponent {
        None => true,
        Some(exp) => {
            let digits = exp
                .strip_prefix('+')
                .or_else(|| exp.strip_prefix('-'))
                .unwrap_or(exp);
            !digits.is_empty() && digits.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_digit())
        }
    }
}

/// Bind one value to the flag waiting for it, and let a variadic argument go on
/// collecting from the words that follow.
///
/// Every route to a flag's value comes through here — the following word, the text
/// after an `=`, and the token a `allow_hyphen_values` flag takes whatever it looks
/// like — so that all three agree on how many values the flag ends up with.
#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
fn bind_pending_flag_value(
    spec: &Spec,
    cmd: &SpecCommand,
    errors: &mut Vec<UsageErr>,
    flags: &mut IndexMap<Arc<SpecFlag>, ParseValue>,
    flag_awaiting_value: &mut Vec<Arc<SpecFlag>>,
    word: &mut String,
    input: &mut VecDeque<Token>,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
    trace: &mut Trace,
    // Which token supplied `word`, and whether it rode along on the flag's own token
    // (`--jobs=8`, `-j8`) rather than following it. A variadic run's later words carry
    // their own positions and are recorded where they are read.
    argv: usize,
    attached: bool,
) -> miette::Result<bool> {
    // Held before the drain pops it, along with what the flag is already carrying: a
    // `var_max` bounds the values this occurrence takes, not the list they are appended
    // to, so a second `--include` starts counting again.
    let collecting = flag_awaiting_value
        .last()
        .filter(|flag| flag.arg.as_ref().is_some_and(|arg| arg.var))
        .cloned()
        .map(|flag| {
            let carried = flags.get(&flag).map(value_count).unwrap_or(0);
            (flag, carried)
        });
    let mut bound = vec![];
    let refused = drain_pending_flag_values(
        spec,
        cmd,
        errors,
        flags,
        flag_awaiting_value,
        word,
        custom_env,
        &mut bound,
    )?;
    for (flag, values) in bound {
        trace.record(
            argv,
            TokenRole::Value {
                flag,
                values,
                attached,
            },
        );
    }
    if refused {
        return Ok(true);
    }
    let Some((flag, carried)) = collecting else {
        return Ok(false);
    };
    collect_variadic_flag_values(
        spec,
        cmd,
        errors,
        flags,
        flag_awaiting_value,
        &flag,
        carried,
        input,
        custom_env,
        trace,
    )
}

/// Keep feeding a flag whose argument is variadic from the words that follow it.
///
/// `--include <pattern>...` collects from a single occurrence, so it takes tokens until
/// one is flag-like, a `--` arrives, its `var_max` is reached, or the command line ends.
/// This is greedy by design — a command declaring both such a flag and positionals will
/// find the flag eating them, and `--` or a `var_max` is how the run is stopped.
///
/// `carried` is what the flag already held when this occurrence began, so the bound
/// counts this run rather than everything the flag has collected across the command
/// line. Each value goes through the same drain as the first, so choices are checked
/// and the value lands in the same list rather than by a second route that could
/// disagree.
#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
fn collect_variadic_flag_values(
    spec: &Spec,
    cmd: &SpecCommand,
    errors: &mut Vec<UsageErr>,
    flags: &mut IndexMap<Arc<SpecFlag>, ParseValue>,
    flag_awaiting_value: &mut Vec<Arc<SpecFlag>>,
    flag: &Arc<SpecFlag>,
    carried: usize,
    input: &mut VecDeque<Token>,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
    trace: &mut Trace,
) -> miette::Result<bool> {
    let max = flag
        .arg
        .as_ref()
        .and_then(|arg| arg.var_max)
        .unwrap_or(usize::MAX);
    while flags
        .get(flag)
        .map(value_count)
        .unwrap_or(0)
        .saturating_sub(carried)
        < max
    {
        let Some(next) = input.front().map(|token| token.word.as_str()) else {
            break;
        };
        if flag
            .arg
            .as_ref()
            .and_then(|arg| arg.value_terminator.as_deref())
            == Some(next)
        {
            let terminator = input.pop_front().unwrap();
            trace.record(
                terminator.argv,
                TokenRole::ValueTerminator {
                    ends: flag.name.clone(),
                },
            );
            break;
        }
        // The separator is left where it is: stopping here hands it to the arm that
        // knows what it means, rather than reading it as one more value.
        if next == "--"
            || (is_flag_like(next)
                && !(flag
                    .arg
                    .as_ref()
                    .is_some_and(|arg| arg.allow_negative_numbers)
                    && is_negative_number(next)))
        {
            break;
        }
        let taken = input.pop_front().unwrap();
        let argv = taken.argv;
        let mut word = taken.word;
        flag_awaiting_value.push(Arc::clone(flag));
        let mut bound = vec![];
        let refused = drain_pending_flag_values(
            spec,
            cmd,
            errors,
            flags,
            flag_awaiting_value,
            &mut word,
            custom_env,
            &mut bound,
        )?;
        for (flag, values) in bound {
            // A later word of the same occurrence is its own token, and never attached:
            // only the first value can ride along on the flag.
            trace.record(
                argv,
                TokenRole::Value {
                    flag,
                    values,
                    attached: false,
                },
            );
        }
        if refused {
            return Ok(true);
        }
    }
    // The loop stops once the occurrence has reached its bound, which without a delimiter is
    // exactly when it has taken `max` words. A delimiter breaks that: one word can carry
    // several values, so the run can end up *past* the bound rather than on it, and stopping
    // is no longer the same as staying within it. `--include a,b,c` under `var_max=2` is the
    // case — three values out of the one word the loop was entitled to take.
    //
    // Counted against `carried` like the loop itself, so this stays a statement about the
    // occurrence rather than about the list the occurrences build up.
    let taken = flags
        .get(flag)
        .map(value_count)
        .unwrap_or(0)
        .saturating_sub(carried);
    if let Some(min) = flag.arg.as_ref().and_then(|arg| arg.var_min)
        && taken < min
    {
        errors.push(UsageErr::VarFlagTooFew {
            name: flag.name.clone(),
            min,
            got: taken,
        });
    }
    if taken > max {
        errors.push(UsageErr::VarFlagTooMany {
            name: flag.name.clone(),
            max,
            got: taken,
        });
    }
    Ok(false)
}

/// How many values a flag is holding, for a bound that counts them.
fn value_count(value: &ParseValue) -> usize {
    match value {
        ParseValue::MultiString(values) => values.len(),
        ParseValue::MultiBool(values) => values.len(),
        _ => 1,
    }
}

/// Finish a value-optional flag that was given with no value.
///
/// Returns whether anything was bound. Completions keep the flag waiting — a
/// half-typed `--color ` is a question about the value — so this is asked only
/// once a full parse has decided the value is not coming, or once the next token
/// has made that decision.
///
/// The missing string is a real value: if the flag names `choices`, it has to
/// be one of them, the same way an env var or a `default` is checked. Binding
/// first and failing later would leave the flag set to a value the spec forbids.
fn try_bind_default_missing(
    flags: &mut IndexMap<Arc<SpecFlag>, ParseValue>,
    flag_awaiting_value: &mut Vec<Arc<SpecFlag>>,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
    origins: &mut IndexMap<Arc<SpecFlag>, Vec<ValueOrigin>>,
) -> miette::Result<bool> {
    let Some(flag) = flag_awaiting_value.last() else {
        return Ok(false);
    };
    let value = match flag.default_missing.clone() {
        Some(value) => value,
        None if flag.value_optional => {
            let flag = flag_awaiting_value.pop().unwrap();
            // Presence in the map distinguishes this from an absent flag; an
            // empty collection distinguishes it from an explicitly empty
            // `--flag=` string without inventing a sentinel value.
            let variadic_value = flag.arg.as_ref().is_some_and(|arg| arg.var);
            origins
                .entry(Arc::clone(&flag))
                .or_default()
                .push(ValueOrigin::DefaultMissing);
            if flag.var {
                // A repeated bare occurrence is still an occurrence. The string collection
                // uses an empty value for it, just as the concrete `default_missing` path
                // pushes one value per occurrence; otherwise bounds and consumers silently
                // lose every bare repeat after the first.
                flags
                    .entry(flag)
                    .or_insert_with(|| ParseValue::MultiString(Vec::new()))
                    .try_as_multi_string_mut()
                    .unwrap()
                    .push(String::new());
            } else if variadic_value {
                // A variadic occurrence stays pending after each value. Reaching the next
                // flag (or EOF) closes that same occurrence; it must not erase what it took.
                flags
                    .entry(flag)
                    .or_insert_with(|| ParseValue::MultiString(Vec::new()));
            } else {
                // A scalar pending here is a new bare occurrence. The normal permissive
                // repeat policy makes the later occurrence a correction, including a
                // correction from an explicit value back to the bare tri-state.
                flags.insert(flag, ParseValue::MultiString(Vec::new()));
            }
            return Ok(true);
        }
        None => return Ok(false),
    };
    if let Some(arg) = flag.arg.as_ref() {
        validate_choice_value(
            ChoiceTarget::option(flag),
            &value,
            arg.choices.as_ref(),
            custom_env,
        )?;
    }
    let flag = flag_awaiting_value.pop().unwrap();
    origins
        .entry(Arc::clone(&flag))
        .or_default()
        .push(ValueOrigin::DefaultMissing);
    let collecting = flag.var || flag.arg.as_ref().is_some_and(|arg| arg.var);
    if collecting {
        let arr = flags
            .entry(flag)
            .or_insert_with(|| ParseValue::MultiString(vec![]))
            .try_as_multi_string_mut()
            .unwrap();
        arr.push(value);
    } else {
        flags.insert(flag, ParseValue::String(value));
    }
    Ok(true)
}

/// `bound` collects what each drained flag took, in the order it took it. The values are
/// the word after any `delimiter` split, which is the only place that split is known: by the
/// time they are in `flags` a scalar and a one-element list are indistinguishable, and a
/// second occurrence has appended to the same list.
#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
fn drain_pending_flag_values(
    spec: &Spec,
    cmd: &SpecCommand,
    errors: &mut Vec<UsageErr>,
    flags: &mut IndexMap<Arc<SpecFlag>, ParseValue>,
    flag_awaiting_value: &mut Vec<Arc<SpecFlag>>,
    word: &mut String,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
    bound: &mut Vec<(Arc<SpecFlag>, Vec<String>)>,
) -> miette::Result<bool> {
    while let Some(flag) = flag_awaiting_value.pop() {
        let arg = flag.arg.as_ref().unwrap();
        // Split before anything judges the word, because after the split it is no longer
        // one value: `--env dev,prod` is two, and `choices` has to be asked about each.
        // Judging first would reject the whole word against a list neither half is on.
        let parts: Vec<String> = match arg.delimiter {
            Some(delimiter) => word.split(delimiter).map(str::to_string).collect(),
            None => vec![std::mem::take(word)],
        };
        for part in &parts {
            if validate_choices(
                spec,
                cmd,
                errors,
                ChoiceTarget::option(&flag),
                part,
                arg.choices.as_ref(),
                custom_env,
            )? {
                return Ok(true);
            }
        }
        word.clear();
        bound.push((Arc::clone(&flag), parts.clone()));
        // Two ways to hold several values, and both record a list: a `var` flag
        // collects one per occurrence, a variadic argument collects several from one.
        if flag.var || arg.var {
            let arr = flags
                .entry(flag)
                .or_insert_with(|| ParseValue::MultiString(vec![]))
                .try_as_multi_string_mut()
                .unwrap();
            arr.extend(parts);
        } else {
            // Nowhere for a second value to go, so the word stands as it was typed. A
            // delimiter on a flag that takes one value is refused where it is written.
            flags.insert(
                flag,
                ParseValue::String(parts.into_iter().next().unwrap_or_default()),
            );
        }
    }
    Ok(false)
}

fn choice_error(
    target: ChoiceTarget<'_>,
    value: &str,
    choices: Option<&SpecChoices>,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
) -> Option<String> {
    let choices = choices?;
    if !choices.strict {
        return None;
    }
    // The declared values and `env=` first, so a value they accept never costs a command.
    match choices.matches_resolved(value, custom_env) {
        Ok(true) => return None,
        Ok(false) => {}
        // Only a command could say, and this parse may not run one: let the value through
        // rather than report an error the real run might not have.
        Err(_) if choices.run().is_some() && crate::spec::choices::runs_disabled() => return None,
        Err(err) => {
            return Some(format!(
                "Could not check {} {}: {value} against its choices: {err}",
                target.kind, target.name,
            ));
        }
    }
    // Already run by the check above, so this reads what it printed rather than running it
    // again.
    let values = choices
        .resolved_values(custom_env)
        .unwrap_or_else(|_| choices.values_with_env(custom_env));
    if let Some(run) = choices.run()
        && values.is_empty()
    {
        return Some(format!(
            "Invalid choice for {} {}: {value}, `{run}` printed no choices",
            target.kind, target.name,
        ));
    }
    if let Some(env) = choices.env()
        && values.is_empty()
    {
        return Some(format!(
            "Invalid choice for {} {}: {value}, no choices resolved from env {env}",
            target.kind, target.name,
        ));
    }
    Some(format!(
        "Invalid choice for {} {}: {value}, expected one of {}",
        target.kind,
        target.name,
        values.join(", ")
    ))
}

fn validate_choices(
    spec: &Spec,
    cmd: &SpecCommand,
    errors: &mut Vec<UsageErr>,
    target: ChoiceTarget<'_>,
    value: &str,
    choices: Option<&SpecChoices>,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
) -> miette::Result<bool> {
    // A choice named like a help flag is a value, whether it was declared or printed by
    // `run=`. A command that cannot be run leaves the word to mean help, which is what a
    // user typing it most likely wanted.
    if is_help_arg(spec, cmd, value)
        && choices.is_some_and(|choices| {
            choices.strict && !choices.matches_resolved(value, custom_env).unwrap_or(false)
        })
    {
        errors.push(render_help_err(spec, cmd, value.len() > 2, custom_env));
        return Ok(true);
    }

    if let Some(err) = choice_error(target, value, choices, custom_env) {
        bail!("{err}");
    }
    Ok(false)
}

fn validate_choice_value(
    target: ChoiceTarget<'_>,
    value: &str,
    choices: Option<&SpecChoices>,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
) -> miette::Result<()> {
    if let Some(err) = choice_error(target, value, choices, custom_env) {
        bail!("{err}");
    }
    Ok(())
}

fn validate_choice_values(
    target: ChoiceTarget<'_>,
    values: &[String],
    choices: Option<&SpecChoices>,
    custom_env: Option<&HashMap<String, String>>,
) -> miette::Result<()> {
    for value in values {
        validate_choice_value(target, value, choices, custom_env)?;
    }
    Ok(())
}

/// Everything a parse records about where it stopped: the positional cursor, so callers that
/// do not re-run the parse — completions, above all — agree with it, and the token trace.
///
/// Every exit from the binding phase comes through here, which is what makes it the right
/// place to close the trace: whatever is still queued was never read, and saying so is more
/// useful than leaving those words out of the report entirely.
fn record_stop(
    out: &mut ParseOutput,
    next_arg_idx: usize,
    seen_double_dash: bool,
    trace: &mut Trace,
    unread: &VecDeque<Token>,
) {
    out.next_arg = active_args(&out.cmd)
        .get(cursor_skip_sigils(&out.cmd, next_arg_idx))
        .cloned()
        .map(Arc::new);
    out.double_dash_seen = seen_double_dash;
    finalize_current_clause(out);
    trace.close(unread);
    out.tokens = std::mem::take(&mut trace.tokens);
}

fn finalize_current_clause(out: &mut ParseOutput) {
    let Some(clause) = out.cmd.clause.as_ref() else {
        return;
    };
    let has_scoped_flags = clause
        .flags
        .iter()
        .any(|flag| out.flags.contains_key(&Arc::new(flag.clone())));
    if clause.separator.is_none() && out.args.is_empty() && !has_scoped_flags {
        return;
    }
    out.clauses
        .entry(clause.name.clone())
        .or_default()
        .push(std::mem::take(&mut out.args));
    let mut flags = IndexMap::new();
    for clause_flag in &clause.flags {
        let key = Arc::new(clause_flag.clone());
        if let Some((flag, value)) = out.flags.shift_remove_entry(&key) {
            flags.insert(flag, value);
        }
    }
    out.clause_flags
        .entry(clause.name.clone())
        .or_default()
        .push(flags);
}

fn restore_current_clause(out: &mut ParseOutput) {
    let Some(clause) = out.cmd.clause.as_ref() else {
        return;
    };
    if let Some(current) = out.clauses.get_mut(&clause.name).and_then(Vec::pop) {
        out.args = current;
    }
    if let Some(current) = out.clause_flags.get_mut(&clause.name).and_then(Vec::pop) {
        out.flags.extend(current);
    }
}

fn reset_clause_scalar_occurrences(
    out: &ParseOutput,
    occurrences: &mut HashMap<(usize, usize), u8>,
) {
    let Some(clause) = out.cmd.clause.as_ref() else {
        return;
    };
    let names = clause
        .flags
        .iter()
        .map(|flag| flag.name.as_str())
        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
    let pointers = unique_flags(out.available_flags.values())
        .filter(|flag| names.contains(flag.name.as_str()))
        .map(|flag| Arc::as_ptr(flag) as usize)
        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
    occurrences.retain(|(flag, _), _| !pointers.contains(flag));
}

fn cursor_skip_sigils(cmd: &SpecCommand, mut idx: usize) -> usize {
    while active_args(cmd)
        .get(idx)
        .is_some_and(|arg| arg.sigil.is_some())
    {
        idx += 1;
    }
    idx
}

fn active_args(cmd: &SpecCommand) -> &[SpecArg] {
    cmd.clause
        .as_ref()
        .map(|clause| clause.args.as_slice())
        .unwrap_or(cmd.args.as_slice())
}

fn match_sigil_arg<'a>(
    cmd: &'a SpecCommand,
    word: &'a str,
) -> Option<(&'a SpecArg, &'a str, &'a str)> {
    cmd.args
        .iter()
        .filter_map(|arg| {
            let sigil = arg.sigil.as_deref()?;
            let value = word.strip_prefix(sigil)?;
            Some((arg, sigil, value))
        })
        .max_by_key(|(_, sigil, _)| sigil.len())
}

fn match_sigil_arg_chain<'a>(
    cmds: &'a [SpecCommand],
    word: &'a str,
) -> Option<(&'a SpecArg, &'a str, &'a str)> {
    cmds.iter()
        .filter_map(|cmd| match_sigil_arg(cmd, word))
        .max_by_key(|(_, sigil, _)| sigil.len())
}

/// Record that `arg` was handed a word before the `--` it requires.
///
/// A variadic arg would otherwise report the same mistake once per word it was offered, so the
/// message is emitted only the first time each arg is seen. The set is also what suppresses the
/// `MissingArg` that a `required` + `double_dash="required"` arg would otherwise collect at the
/// end of the parse.
fn report_double_dash_violation(
    arg: &SpecArg,
    errors: &mut Vec<UsageErr>,
    violations: &mut HashSet<String>,
) {
    if violations.insert(arg.name.clone()) {
        errors.push(UsageErr::ArgRequiresDoubleDash(arg.name.clone()));
    }
}

/// `--version` and `-V`, which the parser supplies where the spec declares a version.
///
/// The twin of [`is_help_arg`], and of the `version` bit in usage-argv's and usage-go's
/// command tables — both of which accepted these spellings while this parser called them
/// unknown words. The help page has always listed `-V, --version` under the same
/// condition, and said in as many words that it did so "only where a version is
/// declared, which is where a parser accepts one", so a spec with a `version` rendered a
/// page advertising a flag the parse refused.
///
/// The root only, because that is where the page lists it: `version` is a property of
/// the program, and a subcommand answering with the program's version is a claim no spec
/// made. A declared flag wins by arriving first — every scan consults this only after
/// nothing declared matched — so a CLI that spends `-V` on something else keeps it, and
/// keeps `--version` supplied beside it.
fn is_version_arg(spec: &Spec, cmds: &[SpecCommand], w: &str) -> bool {
    (spec.version.is_some() || spec.long_version.is_some())
        && cmds.len() == 1
        && !spec.cmd.disable_version_flag
        && (w == "--version" || w == "-V")
}

fn is_help_arg(spec: &Spec, cmd: &SpecCommand, w: &str) -> bool {
    spec.disable_help != Some(true)
        && (((w == "--help" || w == "-h" || w == "-?") && !cmd.disable_help_flag)
            || (w == "help" && !cmd.disable_help_subcommand && cmd.subcommands.is_empty()))
}

impl ParseOutput {
    pub fn as_env(&self) -> BTreeMap<String, String> {
        let mut env = BTreeMap::new();
        for (flag, val) in &self.flags {
            let key = format!("usage_{}", crate::case::snake(&flag.name));
            let val = match val {
                ParseValue::Bool(b) => if *b { "true" } else { "false" }.to_string(),
                ParseValue::String(s) => s.clone(),
                ParseValue::MultiBool(b) => b.iter().filter(|b| **b).count().to_string(),
                ParseValue::MultiString(s) => crate::shell_words::join(s),
            };
            env.insert(key, val);
        }
        for (arg, val) in &self.args {
            let key = format!("usage_{}", crate::case::snake(&arg.name));
            env.insert(key, val.to_string());
        }
        // The subcommand path, canonical names joined by spaces (`db migrate`), so a script can
        // dispatch on it without re-reading argv. Unset at the root, where there is nothing to
        // dispatch on. `cmd` is also an ordinary argument name, so a flag or arg the spec
        // declares under it anywhere on the path, clauses included, keeps the variable: a
        // script reading `$usage_cmd` for its own `<cmd>` must never get the path instead,
        // even when the arg was left out.
        let path = self.cmds.iter().skip(1).map(|c| c.name.as_str()).join(" ");
        let declared = |c: &SpecCommand| {
            let clause = c.clause.as_ref();
            c.args
                .iter()
                .chain(clause.into_iter().flat_map(|cl| &cl.args))
                .any(|a| crate::case::snake(&a.name) == "cmd")
                || c.flags
                    .iter()
                    .chain(clause.into_iter().flat_map(|cl| &cl.flags))
                    .any(|f| crate::case::snake(&f.name) == "cmd")
        };
        if !path.is_empty() && !self.cmds.iter().any(declared) {
            env.entry("usage_cmd".to_string()).or_insert(path);
        }
        env
    }
}

impl Display for ParseValue {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
        match self {
            ParseValue::Bool(b) => write!(f, "{b}"),
            ParseValue::String(s) => write!(f, "{s}"),
            ParseValue::MultiBool(b) => write!(f, "{}", b.iter().join(" ")),
            ParseValue::MultiString(s) => write!(f, "{}", crate::shell_words::join(s)),
        }
    }
}

/// One `tokens` line for [`Debug`]: the position, the word, and what it became.
fn render_token(token: &TokenBinding) -> String {
    let roles = token.roles.iter().map(render_role).join(", ");
    let synthesized = if token.synthesized { " (read as)" } else { "" };
    format!("[{}] {}{synthesized}: {roles}", token.index, token.word)
}

fn render_role(role: &TokenRole) -> String {
    match role {
        TokenRole::Program => "program".to_string(),
        TokenRole::Command { name } => format!("subcommand {name}"),
        TokenRole::Flag {
            flag,
            spelling,
            negated,
        } => {
            let negated = if *negated { ", negated" } else { "" };
            format!("flag {} as {spelling}{negated}", flag.name)
        }
        TokenRole::Value {
            flag,
            values,
            attached,
        } => {
            let attached = if *attached { ", attached" } else { "" };
            format!("value of {} = {values:?}{attached}", flag.name)
        }
        TokenRole::Arg { arg, values } => format!("arg {} = {values:?}", arg.name),
        TokenRole::Sigil { arg, sigil, values } => {
            format!("sigil arg {} ({sigil}) = {values:?}", arg.name)
        }
        TokenRole::Separator => "separator".to_string(),
        TokenRole::Builtin { spelling } => format!("built-in {spelling}"),
        TokenRole::ValueTerminator { ends } => format!("value terminator, ends {ends}"),
        TokenRole::Restart => "restart".to_string(),
        TokenRole::ClauseSeparator { name } => format!("clause separator for {name}"),
        TokenRole::UnknownFlag { bound_as } => match bound_as {
            Some(arg) => format!("unknown flag, bound as {}", arg.name),
            None => "unknown flag".to_string(),
        },
        TokenRole::Refused { reason } => format!("refused: {reason}"),
        TokenRole::External => "external".to_string(),
        TokenRole::Unread => "unread".to_string(),
    }
}

impl Debug for ParseOutput {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
        f.debug_struct("ParseOutput")
            .field("cmds", &self.cmds.iter().map(|c| &c.name).join(" ").trim())
            .field(
                "args",
                &self
                    .args
                    .iter()
                    .map(|(a, w)| format!("{}: {w}", a.name))
                    .collect_vec(),
            )
            .field("clauses", &self.clauses)
            .field(
                "available_flags",
                &self
                    .available_flags
                    .iter()
                    .map(|(f, w)| format!("{f}: {w}"))
                    .collect_vec(),
            )
            .field(
                "flags",
                &self
                    .flags
                    .iter()
                    .map(|(f, w)| format!("{}: {w}", f.name))
                    .collect_vec(),
            )
            .field("flag_awaiting_value", &self.flag_awaiting_value)
            .field("errors", &self.errors)
            .field("external", &self.external)
            // Provenance, one line per token and one per fallback. This is the parser's
            // debug channel under `USAGE_LOG=trace`, so it is where a spec author looks
            // first — `usage explain` renders the same facts for a reader.
            .field(
                "tokens",
                &self.tokens.iter().map(render_token).collect_vec(),
            )
            .field(
                "origins",
                &self
                    .flag_origins
                    .iter()
                    .map(|(f, o)| format!("{}: {o:?}", f.name))
                    .chain(
                        self.arg_origins
                            .iter()
                            .map(|(a, o)| format!("{}: {o:?}", a.name)),
                    )
                    .collect_vec(),
            )
            .field("overridden_flags", &self.overridden_flags)
            .finish()
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;
    use crate::SpecFlagAction;

    fn input(words: &[&str]) -> Vec<String> {
        words.iter().map(|word| (*word).to_string()).collect()
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_declared_version_supplies_the_flag_the_help_page_lists() {
        // The page has always listed `-V, --version` wherever a `version` is declared,
        // and usage-argv and usage-go have always accepted both. This parser called them
        // unknown words, so the one implementation the corpus measures the others against
        // was the one that disagreed.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nversion \"1.2.3\"\ncmd \"run\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        for spelling in ["--version", "-V"] {
            let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", spelling]))
                .expect_err("answering with a version ends the parse");
            assert_eq!(err.to_string(), "1.2.3", "{spelling}");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_supplied_version_flag_is_the_roots_alone() {
        // `version` describes the program, and the page lists the entry on the program's
        // own page only. A subcommand answering with it would be a claim no spec made.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nversion \"1.2.3\"\ncmd \"run\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "--version"])).unwrap_err();
        assert_eq!(err.to_string(), "unexpected word: --version");
    }

    #[test]
    fn no_declared_version_supplies_nothing() {
        // A `--version` answering with nothing is worse than one that is not there, which
        // is why the entry is conditional on the page and the spelling on the parse.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\n".parse().unwrap();

        for spelling in ["--version", "-V"] {
            let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", spelling])).unwrap_err();
            assert_eq!(err.to_string(), format!("unexpected word: {spelling}"));
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn disable_version_flag_removes_the_supplied_spellings() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nversion \"1.2.3\"\ndisable_version_flag #true\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        for spelling in ["--version", "-V"] {
            let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", spelling])).unwrap_err();
            assert_eq!(err.to_string(), format!("unexpected word: {spelling}"));
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_spelling_the_spec_spends_elsewhere_keeps_its_meaning() {
        // The page drops each supplied spelling the CLI claimed and keeps the other; the
        // parse agrees without being told, because a declared flag is matched first.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nversion \"1.2.3\"\nflag \"-V --verbose\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let out = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "-V"])).expect("-V is the CLI's own flag");
        assert_eq!(out.flags.len(), 1);

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--version"])).unwrap_err();
        assert_eq!(err.to_string(), "1.2.3");
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_supplied_spellings_split_the_two_version_texts() {
        // The same split `render_action_err` gives a declared version flag: the long
        // spelling prefers `long_version`, the short prefers the concise one.
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nversion \"1.2.3\"\nlong_version \"1.2.3 (abcdef)\"\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();

        assert_eq!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--version"]))
                .unwrap_err()
                .to_string(),
            "1.2.3 (abcdef)"
        );
        assert_eq!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "-V"])).unwrap_err().to_string(),
            "1.2.3"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_supplied_short_is_a_letter_a_bundle_may_contain() {
        // `-h` and `-V` are recognized letters that no spec declares, so a token holding
        // one beside a declared letter is a bundle. usage-lib alone read `-vh` as a word
        // naming nothing: usage-argv and usage-go both resolve the letter through the
        // same lookup that finds a declared short, and clap prints help for it too.
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nversion \"1.2.3\"\nflag \"-v --verbose\"\ncmd \"run\"\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();

        for token in ["-vh", "-hv"] {
            let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", token])).expect_err("help ends the parse");
            assert!(err.to_string().starts_with("ex 1.2.3"), "{token}: {err}");
        }
        for token in ["-vV", "-Vv"] {
            let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", token])).expect_err("a version ends it too");
            assert_eq!(err.to_string(), "1.2.3", "{token}");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_bundled_help_letter_asks_for_the_short_page() {
        // Whatever else shares the token: `-h` is the short spelling, and the letters
        // beside it say nothing about which page was asked for.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"-v --verbose\" help=\"Be loud\" {\n    long_help \"Be loud, and say so at length.\"\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let short = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "-vh"]))
            .unwrap_err()
            .to_string();
        let long = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--help"]))
            .unwrap_err()
            .to_string();
        assert!(short.contains("Be loud"), "{short}");
        assert!(!short.contains("at length"), "{short}");
        assert!(long.contains("at length"), "{long}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_bundled_version_letter_is_the_roots_alone() {
        // The same rule the whole-token spelling follows, asked one letter at a time.
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nversion \"1.2.3\"\nflag \"-v --verbose\" global=#true\ncmd \"run\"\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "-vV"])).unwrap_err();
        assert_eq!(err.to_string(), "unexpected word: -vV");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_declared_letter_keeps_its_meaning_inside_a_bundle() {
        // Nothing is supplied where the CLI spent the letter itself, so `-vh local` is
        // this spec's own `-h`, taking its value from the rest of the token.
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nversion \"1.2.3\"\nflag \"-v --verbose\"\nflag \"-h --host <host>\"\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();

        let out = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "-vhlocal"])).expect("a bundle and its value");
        assert_eq!(out.flags.len(), 2);
        assert!(
            out.flags
                .iter()
                .any(|(flag, value)| flag.name == "host" && value.to_string() == "local")
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn disabling_help_takes_the_letter_back_out_of_the_bundle() {
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\ndisable_help_flag #true\nflag \"-v --verbose\"\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "-vh"])).unwrap_err();
        assert_eq!(err.to_string(), "unexpected word: -vh");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_letter_nothing_supplies_still_refuses_the_whole_bundle() {
        // The rule this must not weaken: `-az` is not a bundle at all, so `-a` is not set
        // on the way to discovering that `z` names nothing.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"-a --all\"\narg \"[file]\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let out = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "-az"])).expect("it falls through to the argument");
        assert!(out.flags.is_empty(), "{:?}", out.flags);
        assert_eq!(out.args.len(), 1);
    }

    fn spec_with_arg(arg: SpecArg) -> Spec {
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").arg(arg).build();
        Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        }
    }

    fn spec_with_flag(flag: SpecFlag) -> Spec {
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").flag(flag).build();
        Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        }
    }

    fn parse_with_env(
        spec: &Spec,
        words: &[&str],
        env: &[(&str, &str)],
    ) -> Result<ParseOutput, miette::Error> {
        let env = env
            .iter()
            .map(|(k, v)| ((*k).to_string(), (*v).to_string()))
            .collect();
        Parser::new(spec).with_env(env).parse(&input(words))
    }

    fn first_string_value(parsed: &ParseOutput) -> &str {
        if let Some(ParseValue::String(value)) = parsed.args.values().next() {
            return value;
        }
        if let Some(ParseValue::String(value)) = parsed.flags.values().next() {
            return value;
        }
        panic!("expected first parsed value to be ParseValue::String");
    }

    #[test]
    fn custom_environment_parser_dispatches_executable_views() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
bin "ex"
view "runner" root="run"
cmd "run" {
    flag "--token <token>" env="TOKEN"
}
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let parsed = Parser::new(&spec)
            .with_env([("TOKEN".to_string(), "secret".to_string())].into())
            .parse(&input(&["runner"]))
            .unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.cmd.name, "runner");
        assert!(parsed.flags.iter().any(|(flag, value)| flag.name == "token"
            && matches!(value, ParseValue::String(value) if value == "secret")));
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_executable_view_keeps_the_hosts_version_action() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
bin "ex"
version "1.2.3"
flag "-V --version" action="version"
flag "--verbose" global=#true
view "runner" root="run" globals=#true
cmd "run"
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let error = Parser::new(&spec)
            .parse(&input(&["runner", "--version"]))
            .expect_err("the host version action should answer before view projection");
        assert_eq!(error.to_string(), "1.2.3");

        let error = Parser::new(&spec)
            .parse(&input(&["runner", "--verbose", "--version"]))
            .expect_err("the host version action should remain after a carried global");
        assert_eq!(error.to_string(), "1.2.3");
    }

    fn flag_string_value<'a>(parsed: &'a ParseOutput, name: &str) -> &'a str {
        let flag = parsed
            .flags
            .keys()
            .find(|flag| flag.name == name)
            .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("expected flag {name}"));
        let value = parsed
            .flags
            .get(flag)
            .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("expected value for flag {name}"));
        match value {
            ParseValue::String(value) => value,
            _ => panic!("expected flag {name} to be ParseValue::String"),
        }
    }

    fn assert_parse_err(result: Result<ParseOutput, miette::Error>, expected: &str) {
        let err = result.expect_err("expected parser error");
        assert_eq!(format!("{err}"), expected);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_short_version_action_falls_back_to_the_long_version() {
        let flag = SpecFlag::builder()
            .short('R')
            .action(SpecFlagAction::Version)
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            long_version: Some("1.2.3\ncommit abc123".to_string()),
            ..Default::default()
        };
        let UsageErr::Version(version) = render_action_err(&spec, &spec.cmd, &flag, "-R", None)
        else {
            panic!("expected version action")
        };
        assert_eq!(version, "1.2.3\ncommit abc123");
    }

    #[cfg(feature = "unstable_choices_env")]
    fn spec_arg_choices_env(key: &str) -> Spec {
        spec_with_arg(
            SpecArg::builder()
                .name("env")
                .choices_env(key)
                .required(false)
                .build(),
        )
    }

    #[cfg(feature = "unstable_choices_env")]
    fn spec_flag_choices_env(key: &str) -> Spec {
        spec_with_flag(
            SpecFlag::builder()
                .long("env")
                .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("env").choices_env(key).build())
                .build(),
        )
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_parse() {
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("arg").build())
            .flag(SpecFlag::builder().long("flag").build())
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };
        let input = vec!["test".to_string(), "arg1".to_string(), "--flag".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds[0].name, "test");
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(parsed.flags.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(parsed.available_flags.len(), 1);
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_flag_overrides_last_occurrence_wins() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
flag "--stdin" default=#true
flag "--file <file>" overrides="--stdin"
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let file_wins = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--stdin", "--file", "input.txt"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(file_wins.flags.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&file_wins, "file"), "input.txt");
        assert!(!file_wins.flags.keys().any(|flag| flag.name == "stdin"));

        let stdin_wins = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--file", "input.txt", "--stdin"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(stdin_wins.flags.len(), 1);
        assert!(stdin_wins.flags.keys().any(|flag| flag.name == "stdin"));
        assert!(!stdin_wins.flags.keys().any(|flag| flag.name == "file"));
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_flag_override_clears_pending_value() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
flag "--file <file>" overrides="--stdin"
flag "--stdin"
arg "[input]"
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--file", "--stdin", "input.txt"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.flags.len(), 1);
        assert!(parsed.flags.keys().any(|flag| flag.name == "stdin"));
        assert_eq!(first_string_value(&parsed), "input.txt");
    }

    #[cfg(unix)]
    #[test]
    fn a_mount_on_the_root_discovers_subcommands() {
        // The root is a command like any other, so it can find its own subcommands
        // by running something. Uses `echo` rather than a fixture because resolving
        // a mount is what is being tested.
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
cmd "declared"
mount run="echo 'cmd \"discovered\"'"
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let out = parse(&spec, &["ex".to_string(), "discovered".to_string()]).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.cmd.name, "discovered");
    }

    #[test]
    fn injected_mount_outputs_are_complete_and_never_fall_back_to_processes() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
mount run="this command must never run"
cmd "declared"
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        Parser::new(&spec)
            .with_mount_outputs(HashMap::new())
            .parse(&input(&["ex", "declared"]))
            .expect("a declared command does not resolve the mount");

        let error = Parser::new(&spec)
            .with_mount_outputs(HashMap::new())
            .parse(&input(&["ex", "discovered"]))
            .unwrap_err();
        assert!(
            error
                .to_string()
                .contains("No injected output was provided for mount command"),
            "{error}"
        );
    }

    #[cfg(unix)]
    #[test]
    fn completion_sees_root_mounted_commands_with_nothing_typed() {
        // The case a root mount exists for. `mycli <tab>` has no word to trigger
        // discovery with, so a completion has to resolve up front or the mounted
        // commands are never offered.
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
cmd "declared"
mount run="echo 'cmd \"discovered\"'"
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let out = parse_partial(&spec, &["ex".to_string()]).unwrap();
        assert!(
            out.cmd.subcommands.contains_key("discovered"),
            "a completion should see mounted commands; got {:?}",
            out.cmd.subcommands.keys().collect::<Vec<_>>()
        );
    }

    #[cfg(unix)]
    #[test]
    fn completion_and_execution_agree_about_discovery() {
        // Offering a command that a real parse would hand to the default instead is
        // worse than not offering it, so the gate applies to both paths. The mount
        // fails if it runs, which is how both halves are checked at once.
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
default_subcommand "run"
cmd "run" {
  arg "<task>"
}
mount run="exit 1"
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let out = parse_partial(&spec, &["ex".to_string()]).unwrap();
        assert!(
            !out.cmd.subcommands.contains_key("discovered"),
            "a completion must not offer what execution will not route"
        );

        let out = parse(&spec, &["ex".to_string(), "mytask".to_string()]).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.cmd.name, "run");
    }

    #[cfg(unix)]
    #[test]
    fn a_default_subcommand_outranks_discovery() {
        // The default already says what an unmatched word means, and says it for
        // free. The mount fails if it runs, so parsing proves discovery was skipped.
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
default_subcommand "run"
cmd "run" {
  arg "<task>"
}
mount run="exit 1"
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let out = parse(&spec, &["ex".to_string(), "mytask".to_string()]).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.cmd.name, "run");
    }

    #[cfg(unix)]
    #[test]
    fn a_mount_may_ask_to_outrank_the_default() {
        // Opting in, and paying for it: discovery runs first, so a discovered
        // command wins over the fallback.
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
default_subcommand "run"
cmd "run" {
  arg "<task>"
}
mount run="echo 'cmd \"discovered\"'" overrides_default=#true
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let out = parse(&spec, &["ex".to_string(), "discovered".to_string()]).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.cmd.name, "discovered");

        // A word it does not know still reaches the default.
        let out = parse(&spec, &["ex".to_string(), "mytask".to_string()]).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.cmd.name, "run");
    }

    #[cfg(unix)]
    #[test]
    fn a_flag_does_not_run_the_mount() {
        // A flag matches no subcommand, which would have been enough to trigger
        // discovery — so `ex --help` spawned a process. The mount fails if it runs,
        // so parsing at all is the proof that it did not.
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
flag "--verbose"
cmd "declared"
mount run="exit 1"
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let out = parse(&spec, &["ex".to_string(), "--verbose".to_string()]).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.cmd.name, "ex");
    }

    #[cfg(unix)]
    #[test]
    fn a_declared_subcommand_does_not_run_the_mount() {
        // The mount would fail if it ran, so this parsing at all is the proof that
        // discovery is skipped when the word is already known. Worth pinning: a root
        // mount that resolved eagerly would spawn a process on every invocation.
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
cmd "declared"
mount run="exit 1"
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let out = parse(&spec, &["ex".to_string(), "declared".to_string()]).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.cmd.name, "declared");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_root_mount_survives_being_written_out() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nmount run=\"ex plugins --usage\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(spec.cmd.mounts.len(), 1);

        let reparsed: Spec = spec.to_string().parse().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(reparsed.cmd.mounts.len(), 1, "written:\n{spec}");
        assert_eq!(reparsed.cmd.mounts[0].run, "ex plugins --usage");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_mount_prefix_applies_flag_overrides() {
        let stdin = Arc::new(
            SpecFlag::builder()
                .name("stdin")
                .long("stdin")
                .global(true)
                .build(),
        );
        let file = Arc::new(
            SpecFlag::builder()
                .name("file")
                .long("file")
                .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("file").build())
                .global(true)
                .overrides_with(vec!["--stdin".to_string()])
                .build(),
        );
        let mut prefix_flags = vec![(stdin, vec!["--stdin".to_string()])];

        apply_prefix_flag_overrides(&mut prefix_flags, Arc::clone(&file));
        prefix_flags.push((file, vec!["--file".to_string(), "input.txt".to_string()]));

        assert_eq!(mount_prefix_words(&prefix_flags), ["--file", "input.txt"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_flag_override_suppresses_env_value() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
flag "--stdin" env="USE_STDIN"
flag "--file <file>" overrides="--stdin"
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse_with_env(
            &spec,
            &["test", "--file", "input.txt"],
            &[("USE_STDIN", "true")],
        )
        .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.flags.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "file"), "input.txt");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_flag_override_suppresses_required_check() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
flag "--stdin" required=#true
flag "--file <file>" overrides="--stdin"
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--file", "input.txt"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.flags.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "file"), "input.txt");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_flag_required_if() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
flag "--dir <dir>"
flag "--file <file>" required_if="--dir"
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["test"])).unwrap();
        assert_parse_err(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--dir", "src"])),
            "Missing required flag: --file <file>",
        );
        parse(
            &spec,
            &input(&["test", "--dir", "src", "--file", "input.txt"]),
        )
        .unwrap();
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_flag_required_unless() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
flag "--stdin"
flag "--file <file>" required_unless="--stdin"
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        assert_parse_err(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["test"])),
            "Missing required flag: --file <file>",
        );
        parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--stdin"])).unwrap();
        parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--file", "input.txt"])).unwrap();
    }

    #[test]
    fn complete_required_relationship_truth_tables() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
flag "--mode <mode>"
flag "--scope <scope>"
flag "--token <token>" {
    required_if_eq "--mode" "remote"
}
flag "--approval <approval>" {
    required_if_eq_all "--mode" "remote" "--scope" "global"
}
flag "--input <input>" {
    required_unless "--stdin" "--file"
}
flag "--checksum <checksum>" {
    required_unless_all "--stdin" "--file"
}
flag "--stdin"
flag "--file <file>"
arg "[request]" {
    requires "--mode" "--scope"
}
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let parse_args = |args: &[&str]| {
            parse(
                &spec,
                &args
                    .iter()
                    .map(|arg| (*arg).to_string())
                    .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
            )
        };

        assert!(parse_args(&["ex", "--mode", "remote", "--stdin"]).is_err());
        assert!(
            parse_args(&[
                "ex", "--mode", "remote", "--token", "secret", "--scope", "global", "--stdin",
            ])
            .is_err()
        );
        parse_args(&[
            "ex",
            "--mode",
            "remote",
            "--token",
            "secret",
            "--scope",
            "global",
            "--approval",
            "yes",
            "--stdin",
            "--file",
            "in",
        ])
        .unwrap();
        parse_args(&[
            "ex",
            "--mode",
            "local",
            "--scope",
            "project",
            "--stdin",
            "--checksum",
            "sum",
            "request.json",
        ])
        .unwrap();

        let reparsed: Spec = spec.to_string().parse().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(reparsed.cmd.flags[2].required_if_eq.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(reparsed.cmd.flags[3].required_if_eq_all.len(), 2);
        assert_eq!(reparsed.cmd.flags[5].required_unless_all.len(), 2);
        assert_eq!(reparsed.cmd.args[0].requires.len(), 2);
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_conditional_requirements_treat_env_as_explicit() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
flag "--dir <dir>" env="INPUT_DIR"
flag "--stdin" env="USE_STDIN"
flag "--file <file>" required_if="--dir" required_unless="--stdin"
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        assert_parse_err(
            parse_with_env(&spec, &["test"], &[("INPUT_DIR", "src")]),
            "Missing required flag: --file <file>",
        );
        parse_with_env(&spec, &["test"], &[("USE_STDIN", "true")]).unwrap();
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_custom_env_does_not_fall_back_to_process_env() {
        assert!(std::env::var("PATH").is_ok());
        let spec: Spec = r#"flag "--file <file>" env="PATH" required=#true"#.parse().unwrap();

        assert_parse_err(
            parse_with_env(&spec, &["test"], &[]),
            "Missing required flag: --file <file>",
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_conditional_requirements_ignore_defaults_on_condition_flags() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
flag "--dir <dir>" default="src"
flag "--file <file>" required_if="--dir"
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["test"])).unwrap();
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_conditional_requirements_see_overridden_flags_as_absent() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
flag "--stdin"
flag "--dir <dir>" overrides="--stdin"
flag "--file <file>" required_unless="--stdin"
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        assert_parse_err(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--stdin", "--dir", "src"])),
            "Missing required flag: --file <file>",
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn short_flag_is_one_character_not_one_byte() {
        // A short is declared and read by character. Counting bytes instead either
        // refuses the declaration or slices the token inside the character, and clap
        // — which many specs are generated from — accepts shorts like this one.
        let spec = spec_with_flag(
            SpecFlag::builder()
                .short('磨')
                .long("polish")
                .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("opt").build())
                .build(),
        );
        let attached = Parser::new(&spec)
            .parse(&input(&["test", "-磨VALUE"]))
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&attached, "polish"), "VALUE");
        let detached = Parser::new(&spec)
            .parse(&input(&["test", "-磨", "V"]))
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&detached, "polish"), "V");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_as_env() {
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("arg").build())
            .flag(SpecFlag::builder().long("flag").build())
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .long("force")
                    .negate("--no-force")
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };
        let input = vec![
            "test".to_string(),
            "--flag".to_string(),
            "--no-force".to_string(),
        ];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();
        let env = parsed.as_env();
        assert_eq!(env.len(), 2);
        assert_eq!(env.get("usage_flag"), Some(&"true".to_string()));
        assert_eq!(env.get("usage_force"), Some(&"false".to_string()));
    }

    #[test]
    fn as_env_names_the_subcommand_path() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
            flag "-v --verbose"
            cmd "db" {
                cmd "migrate" {
                    alias "m"
                    arg "[target]"
                }
            }
            "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let env = |args: &[&str]| {
            let input: Vec<String> = std::iter::once("test")
                .chain(args.iter().copied())
                .map(String::from)
                .collect();
            parse(&spec, &input).unwrap().as_env()
        };

        // The canonical name, not the alias that was typed.
        let nested = env(&["db", "m", "v2"]);
        assert_eq!(
            nested.get("usage_cmd").map(String::as_str),
            Some("db migrate")
        );
        assert_eq!(nested.get("usage_target").map(String::as_str), Some("v2"));
        assert_eq!(
            env(&["db"]).get("usage_cmd").map(String::as_str),
            Some("db")
        );
        assert!(!env(&["-v"]).contains_key("usage_cmd"));
    }

    #[test]
    fn as_env_leaves_usage_cmd_to_a_declared_cmd() {
        // Declared on the chosen command, and supplied: the value is the arg's.
        let spec: Spec = r#"
            cmd "run" {
                arg "[cmd]"
            }
            "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let input = ["test", "run", "build"].map(String::from);
        let env = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap().as_env();
        assert_eq!(env.get("usage_cmd").map(String::as_str), Some("build"));
        // Declared but left out: still the arg's, so unset rather than the path.
        let input = ["test", "run"].map(String::from);
        assert!(
            !parse(&spec, &input)
                .unwrap()
                .as_env()
                .contains_key("usage_cmd")
        );

        // Declared as a global flag on an ancestor.
        let spec: Spec = r#"
            flag "--cmd <cmd>" global=#true
            cmd "run"
            "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let input = ["test", "run"].map(String::from);
        assert!(
            !parse(&spec, &input)
                .unwrap()
                .as_env()
                .contains_key("usage_cmd")
        );

        // Declared inside a clause, and the clause left out.
        let spec: Spec = r#"
            cmd "run" {
                clause "steps" separator=":::" {
                    arg "[cmd]"
                }
            }
            "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let input = ["test", "run"].map(String::from);
        assert!(
            !parse(&spec, &input)
                .unwrap()
                .as_env()
                .contains_key("usage_cmd")
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_arg_env_var() {
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .arg(
                SpecArg::builder()
                    .name("input")
                    .env("TEST_ARG_INPUT")
                    .required(true)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // Set env var
        // FIXME: Audit that the environment access only happens in single-threaded code.
        unsafe { std::env::set_var("TEST_ARG_INPUT", "test_file.txt") };

        let input = vec!["test".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        let arg = parsed.args.keys().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(arg.name, "input");
        let value = parsed.args.values().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "test_file.txt");

        // Clean up
        // FIXME: Audit that the environment access only happens in single-threaded code.
        unsafe { std::env::remove_var("TEST_ARG_INPUT") };
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_flag_env_var_with_arg() {
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .long("output")
                    .env("TEST_FLAG_OUTPUT")
                    .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("file").build())
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // Set env var
        // FIXME: Audit that the environment access only happens in single-threaded code.
        unsafe { std::env::set_var("TEST_FLAG_OUTPUT", "output.txt") };

        let input = vec!["test".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.flags.len(), 1);
        let flag = parsed.flags.keys().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag.name, "output");
        let value = parsed.flags.values().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "output.txt");

        // Clean up
        // FIXME: Audit that the environment access only happens in single-threaded code.
        unsafe { std::env::remove_var("TEST_FLAG_OUTPUT") };
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_flag_env_var_boolean() {
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .long("verbose")
                    .env("TEST_FLAG_VERBOSE")
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // Set env var to true
        // FIXME: Audit that the environment access only happens in single-threaded code.
        unsafe { std::env::set_var("TEST_FLAG_VERBOSE", "true") };

        let input = vec!["test".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.flags.len(), 1);
        let flag = parsed.flags.keys().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag.name, "verbose");
        let value = parsed.flags.values().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "true");

        // Clean up
        // FIXME: Audit that the environment access only happens in single-threaded code.
        unsafe { std::env::remove_var("TEST_FLAG_VERBOSE") };
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_env_var_precedence() {
        // CLI args should take precedence over env vars
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .arg(
                SpecArg::builder()
                    .name("input")
                    .env("TEST_PRECEDENCE_INPUT")
                    .required(true)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // Set env var
        // FIXME: Audit that the environment access only happens in single-threaded code.
        unsafe { std::env::set_var("TEST_PRECEDENCE_INPUT", "env_file.txt") };

        let input = vec!["test".to_string(), "cli_file.txt".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        let value = parsed.args.values().next().unwrap();
        // CLI arg should take precedence
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "cli_file.txt");

        // Clean up
        // FIXME: Audit that the environment access only happens in single-threaded code.
        unsafe { std::env::remove_var("TEST_PRECEDENCE_INPUT") };
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_flag_var_true_with_single_default() {
        // When var=true and default="bar", the default should be MultiString(["bar"])
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .long("foo")
                    .var(true)
                    .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("foo").build())
                    .default_value("bar")
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // User doesn't provide the flag
        let input = vec!["test".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.flags.len(), 1);
        let flag = parsed.flags.keys().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag.name, "foo");
        let value = parsed.flags.values().next().unwrap();
        // Should be MultiString, not String
        match value {
            ParseValue::MultiString(v) => {
                assert_eq!(v.len(), 1);
                assert_eq!(v[0], "bar");
            }
            _ => panic!("Expected MultiString, got {:?}", value),
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_flag_var_true_with_multiple_defaults() {
        // When var=true and multiple defaults, should return MultiString(["xyz", "bar"])
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .long("foo")
                    .var(true)
                    .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("foo").build())
                    .default_values(["xyz", "bar"])
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // User doesn't provide the flag
        let input = vec!["test".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.flags.len(), 1);
        let value = parsed.flags.values().next().unwrap();
        // Should be MultiString with both values
        match value {
            ParseValue::MultiString(v) => {
                assert_eq!(v.len(), 2);
                assert_eq!(v[0], "xyz");
                assert_eq!(v[1], "bar");
            }
            _ => panic!("Expected MultiString, got {:?}", value),
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_flag_var_false_with_default_remains_string() {
        // When var=false (default), the default should still be String("bar")
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .long("foo")
                    .var(false) // Default behavior
                    .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("foo").build())
                    .default_value("bar")
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // User doesn't provide the flag
        let input = vec!["test".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.flags.len(), 1);
        let value = parsed.flags.values().next().unwrap();
        // Should be String, not MultiString
        match value {
            ParseValue::String(s) => {
                assert_eq!(s, "bar");
            }
            _ => panic!("Expected String, got {:?}", value),
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_arg_var_true_with_single_default() {
        // When arg has var=true and default="bar", the default should be MultiString(["bar"])
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .arg(
                SpecArg::builder()
                    .name("files")
                    .var(true)
                    .default_value("default.txt")
                    .required(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // User doesn't provide the arg
        let input = vec!["test".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        let value = parsed.args.values().next().unwrap();
        // Should be MultiString, not String
        match value {
            ParseValue::MultiString(v) => {
                assert_eq!(v.len(), 1);
                assert_eq!(v[0], "default.txt");
            }
            _ => panic!("Expected MultiString, got {:?}", value),
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_arg_var_true_with_multiple_defaults() {
        // When arg has var=true and multiple defaults
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .arg(
                SpecArg::builder()
                    .name("files")
                    .var(true)
                    .default_values(["file1.txt", "file2.txt"])
                    .required(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // User doesn't provide the arg
        let input = vec!["test".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        let value = parsed.args.values().next().unwrap();
        // Should be MultiString with both values
        match value {
            ParseValue::MultiString(v) => {
                assert_eq!(v.len(), 2);
                assert_eq!(v[0], "file1.txt");
                assert_eq!(v[1], "file2.txt");
            }
            _ => panic!("Expected MultiString, got {:?}", value),
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_arg_var_false_with_default_remains_string() {
        // When arg has var=false (default), the default should still be String
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .arg(
                SpecArg::builder()
                    .name("file")
                    .var(false)
                    .default_value("default.txt")
                    .required(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // User doesn't provide the arg
        let input = vec!["test".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        let value = parsed.args.values().next().unwrap();
        // Should be String, not MultiString
        match value {
            ParseValue::String(s) => {
                assert_eq!(s, "default.txt");
            }
            _ => panic!("Expected String, got {:?}", value),
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_scalar_defaults_validate_only_first_default_choice() {
        let specs = [
            spec_with_arg(
                SpecArg::builder()
                    .name("env")
                    .var(false)
                    .default_values(["dev", "prod"])
                    .choices(["dev"])
                    .required(false)
                    .build(),
            ),
            spec_with_flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .long("env")
                    .arg(
                        SpecArg::builder()
                            .name("env")
                            .default_values(["dev", "prod"])
                            .choices(["dev"])
                            .build(),
                    )
                    .build(),
            ),
        ];

        for spec in specs {
            let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test"])).unwrap();
            assert_eq!(first_string_value(&parsed), "dev");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_delimiter_turns_one_word_into_several_values() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--tags <tag>\" var=#true delimiter=\",\"\narg \"[files]...\" var=#true delimiter=\":\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--tags", "a,b,c", "x:y"])).unwrap();
        let multi = |value: &ParseValue| match value {
            ParseValue::MultiString(values) => values.clone(),
            other => panic!("expected several values, got {other:?}"),
        };
        let tags = parsed
            .flags
            .iter()
            .find(|(f, _)| f.name == "tags")
            .map(|(_, v)| v)
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(multi(tags), vec!["a", "b", "c"]);
        assert_eq!(multi(parsed.args.values().next().unwrap()), vec!["x", "y"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_positional_splits_before_its_choices_are_asked() {
        // The flag path did this and the positional path did not, so a word whose parts
        // were all choices was rejected as one value, and a bad half was reported as the
        // whole word.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\narg \"[paths]...\" var=#true delimiter=\":\" {\n  choices \"src\" \"docs\"\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "src:docs"])).expect("both halves are choices");

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "src:nowhere"])).unwrap_err();
        let message = err.to_string();
        assert!(message.contains("nowhere"), "{message}");
        assert!(
            !message.contains("src:nowhere"),
            "the bad half should be named, not the whole word: {message}"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_split_value_is_counted_and_judged_as_values() {
        // Split during the parse rather than after it, so everything downstream sees the
        // values the user meant rather than the words they typed: `choices` judges each
        // one, and the bounds count them.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--env <e>\" var=#true delimiter=\",\" var_max=2 {\n  choices \"dev\" \"prod\"\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--env", "dev,prod"])).expect("two values, both allowed");
        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--env", "dev,staging"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("staging"), "{err}");
        assert!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--env", "dev,prod,dev"])).is_err(),
            "three values should breach var_max=2"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_split_bound_counts_one_occurrence_at_a_time() {
        // The bound on a variadic flag *argument* is what one occurrence may take. Without a
        // delimiter the collection simply stops at it, so it could never be exceeded; a word
        // carrying several values can carry an occurrence past it in one step, and that is
        // the only way this bound is ever breached.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--include <pattern>...\" delimiter=\",\" {\n  arg \"<pattern>...\" var=#true var_max=2\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--include", "a,b"])).expect("exactly the bound is fine");
        assert!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--include", "a,b,c"])).is_err(),
            "three values out of one word is still three values"
        );
        // The rule the corpus documents for plain words, on split ones: a second occurrence
        // starts counting again rather than adding to the first.
        parse(
            &spec,
            &input(&["ex", "--include", "a,b", "--include", "c,d"]),
        )
        .expect("two per occurrence, twice, is within the bound");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_nested_minimum_is_checked_once_per_flag_occurrence() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--pair <value>...\" {\n  arg \"<value>...\" var=#true var_min=2 var_max=2\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(
            &spec,
            &input(&["ex", "--pair", "a", "b", "--pair", "c", "d"]),
        )
        .expect("each occurrence satisfies the bound independently");

        let error = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--pair", "a", "--pair", "b", "c"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(
            error
                .to_string()
                .contains("requires at least 2 value(s), got 1"),
            "{error:?}"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_exclusive_flag_has_to_be_alone() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--dump\" exclusive=#true\nflag \"--verbose\"\narg \"[target]\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--dump"])).expect("alone is the point");

        // Any other flag.
        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--dump", "--verbose"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("on its own"), "{err}");

        // And a positional, which is what makes this more than a conflict with every
        // other flag.
        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--dump", "t"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("on its own"), "{err}");

        // Not given, so it imposes nothing.
        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--verbose", "t"])).expect("without it, nothing changes");
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_exclusive_flag_conflicts_with_clause_arguments() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"name "ex"
bin "ex"
flag "--dump" exclusive=#true
clause "tasks" separator=":::" {
  arg "<task>"
}
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--dump", "lint"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("on its own"), "{err}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_partial_parse_reports_the_next_implicit_clause_argument() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"name "ex"
bin "ex"
clause "tools" {
  arg "<tool@version>"
}
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["ex"])).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(
            parsed.next_arg.as_ref().map(|arg| arg.name.as_str()),
            Some("tool@version")
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_exclusive_flag_is_not_disturbed_by_a_default() {
        // Only what was supplied counts, as `conflicts` reads it. A default counting as
        // company would make an exclusive flag unusable on any command that has one.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--dump\" exclusive=#true\nflag \"--jobs <n>\" default=\"4\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--dump"])).expect("a default is nobody saying anything");
        assert!(parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--dump", "--jobs", "8"])).is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_exclusive_flag_bypasses_required_siblings() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--dump\" exclusive=#true\nflag \"--out <path>\" required=#true\narg \"<target>\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--dump"]))
            .expect("exclusive is the command's requiredness escape");
        assert!(
            parse(
                &spec,
                &input(&["ex", "--dump", "--out", "somewhere", "target"])
            )
            .is_err()
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_environment_value_counts_for_an_exclusive_flag() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--dump\" exclusive=#true\nflag \"--out <path>\" env=\"EX_OUT\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        assert!(parse_with_env(&spec, &["ex", "--dump"], &[("EX_OUT", "somewhere")]).is_err());
        parse_with_env(&spec, &["ex", "--dump"], &[]).expect("without the value it is alone");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_selected_subcommand_counts_for_an_ancestor_exclusive_flag() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--version\" global=#true exclusive=#true\ncmd \"run\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--version"])).expect("alone is allowed");
        assert!(parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--version", "run"])).is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_child_exclusive_flag_is_not_mistaken_for_a_same_named_parent_flag() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--clean\" exclusive=#true\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"--clean\" exclusive=#true\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "--clean"]))
            .expect("the child flag is alone within the child command");
        assert!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--clean", "run"])).is_err(),
            "the parent flag still conflicts with selecting the child"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_child_local_exclusive_redeclaration_belongs_to_the_child() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--clean\" global=#true exclusive=#true\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"--clean\" exclusive=#true\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "--clean"]))
            .expect("the child-local exclusive flag is alone inside the child command");
        assert!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--clean", "run"])).is_err(),
            "the ancestor spelling still conflicts with selecting the child"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_same_named_parent_flag_is_company_for_a_child_exclusive_flag() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--clean\" global=#true\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"--clean\" global=#true exclusive=#true\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "--clean"])).expect("the child exclusive flag is alone");
        assert!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--clean", "run", "--clean"])).is_err(),
            "the distinct parent declaration is still company despite sharing a name"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_local_child_redeclaration_keeps_its_exclusivity_when_merged() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--clean\" global=#true\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"--clean\" exclusive=#true\n  flag \"--verbose\"\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "--clean"]))
            .expect("the child exclusive flag is valid alone");
        assert!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "--clean", "--verbose"])).is_err(),
            "merging with the inherited global must not discard child exclusivity"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_orphan_parent_alias_does_not_disown_a_child_local_exclusive_flag() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"-c --clean\" global=#true exclusive=#true\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"--clean\" exclusive=#true\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "--clean"]))
            .expect("the typed long form belongs to the child declaration");
        assert!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "-c"])).is_err(),
            "the inherited short form still belongs to the ancestor"
        );
        assert!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "-c", "--clean"])).is_err(),
            "a child spelling cannot mask the ancestor-exclusive occurrence on the same merged flag"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_inherited_alias_keeps_its_ancestor_exclusivity() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"-c --clean\" global=#true exclusive=#true\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"--clean\" global=#true\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "--clean"]))
            .expect("the child's spelling does not activate the orphan ancestor alias");
        assert!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "-c"])).is_err(),
            "the inherited short alias still belongs to the ancestor exclusive flag"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_inherited_negated_alias_keeps_its_ancestor_exclusivity() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"-c --clean\" negate=\"--no-clean\" global=#true exclusive=#true\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"-c --clean\" global=#true\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        assert!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "--no-clean"])).is_err(),
            "the inherited negated alias still belongs to the ancestor exclusive flag"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_colliding_alias_does_not_disown_the_child_from_the_rest() {
        // The child re-declares the inherited `--clean` as exclusive and gives it a `-c` that
        // an unrelated inherited global already owns. That collision is resolved in the other
        // global's favor, so the child's `-c` resolves elsewhere — but the child plainly owns
        // the `--clean` it declared, and its exclusivity holds.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--clean\" global=#true\nflag \"-c --config <f>\" global=#true\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"-c --clean\" exclusive=#true\n  flag \"--verbose\"\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "--clean"])).expect("alone is allowed");
        assert!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "--clean", "--verbose"])).is_err(),
            "one unrelated alias collision cannot disown the child from its own flag"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_local_child_declaration_is_not_in_scope_before_the_subcommand() {
        // A child's *local* re-declaration describes the flag at the child. Typed ahead of the
        // subcommand word the flag can only be the ancestor's, because that is the only one in
        // scope there — so the ancestor's exclusivity is the one that answers, whichever way it
        // is set. The pair below differ in nothing else, which is what makes this one rule
        // rather than two behaviors.
        let quiet: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--clean\" global=#true\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"--clean\" exclusive=#true\n  flag \"--verbose\"\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();
        parse(&quiet, &input(&["ex", "--clean", "run", "--verbose"]))
            .expect("the ancestor owns this occurrence, and it is not exclusive");
        assert!(
            parse(&quiet, &input(&["ex", "run", "--clean", "--verbose"])).is_err(),
            "after the subcommand word the child's declaration is in scope, and it is exclusive"
        );

        let loud: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--clean\" global=#true exclusive=#true\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"--clean\" exclusive=#true\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();
        assert!(
            parse(&loud, &input(&["ex", "--clean", "run"])).is_err(),
            "the same rule, with an exclusive ancestor: selecting the child is company for it"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_orphan_ancestor_alias_keeps_its_exclusivity_past_a_plain_child_redeclaration() {
        // The mirror of `a_local_child_redeclaration_keeps_its_exclusivity_when_merged`: the
        // child owns `--clean` and says nothing about exclusivity, but `-c` is a spelling only
        // the ancestor ever declared, so the ancestor's answer still governs it.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"-c --clean\" global=#true exclusive=#true\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"--clean\"\n  flag \"--verbose\"\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        assert!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "-c"])).is_err(),
            "the orphan ancestor alias is still the ancestor's exclusive flag"
        );
        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "--clean", "--verbose"]))
            .expect("the child's own spelling drops the exclusivity the child did not restate");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_child_spelling_carries_its_exclusivity_even_beside_an_ancestor_spelling() {
        // Both spellings of one merged flag, typed together. The child's `--clean` is exclusive
        // whatever else was typed alongside it, so `--verbose` is company; attributing the whole
        // occurrence to the ancestor because `-c` appeared in it lost that.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"-c --clean\" global=#true\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"--clean\" exclusive=#true\n  flag \"--verbose\"\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        assert!(
            parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "-c", "--clean", "--verbose"])).is_err(),
            "the child spelling is exclusive whatever it was typed beside"
        );
        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "-c", "--verbose"]))
            .expect("the ancestor's own spelling was never exclusive");
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_environment_value_takes_the_exclusivity_of_the_declaration_in_scope() {
        // An environment value has no spelling to attribute, so the declaration the selected
        // command has in scope answers — in both directions. Comparing whole alias sets asked
        // the ancestor instead, because the merged flag also carries its orphan `-c`.
        let added: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"-c --clean\" global=#true env=\"EX_CLEAN\"\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"--clean\" exclusive=#true\n  flag \"--verbose\"\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        assert!(
            parse_with_env(&added, &["ex", "run", "--verbose"], &[("EX_CLEAN", "1")]).is_err(),
            "the child added exclusivity the environment value has to honor"
        );

        let dropped: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"-c --clean\" global=#true exclusive=#true env=\"EX_CLEAN\"\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"--clean\"\n  flag \"--verbose\"\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse_with_env(&dropped, &["ex", "run", "--verbose"], &[("EX_CLEAN", "1")])
            .expect("the child dropped the exclusivity, and the environment value follows it");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_merged_child_exclusive_flag_still_escapes_requiredness() {
        // Exclusivity suppresses missing-value checks, and that has to survive the merge for
        // the same reason the companion check does.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--clean\" global=#true\ncmd \"run\" {\n  flag \"--clean\" exclusive=#true\n  flag \"--out <path>\" required=#true\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run", "--clean"]))
            .expect("a merged child exclusive flag is still the command's requiredness escape");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_group_allows_one_member_and_refuses_two() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--file <f>\"\nflag \"--url <u>\"\nflag \"--stdin\"\ngroup \"input\" \"--file\" \"--url\" \"--stdin\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        // One is fine, and so is none: a plain group says "at most one".
        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--file", "a.txt"])).expect("one member is fine");
        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex"])).expect("a group that is not required asks for nothing");

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--file", "a.txt", "--stdin"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("group input"), "{err}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn positional_selectors_work_in_conflicts_and_groups() {
        let conflicts: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--from-file <path>\" conflicts=\"value\"\narg \"[value]\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();
        parse(&conflicts, &input(&["ex", "--from-file", "vars.env"]))
            .expect("the flag alone is valid");
        parse(&conflicts, &input(&["ex", "literal"])).expect("the positional alone is valid");
        assert!(
            parse(
                &conflicts,
                &input(&["ex", "--from-file", "vars.env", "literal"])
            )
            .is_err()
        );

        let positional_source: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--from-file <path>\"\narg \"[value]\" conflicts=\"--from-file\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();
        assert!(
            parse(
                &positional_source,
                &input(&["ex", "--from-file", "vars.env", "literal"])
            )
            .is_err()
        );

        let group: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--file <path>\"\narg \"[target]\"\ngroup \"input\" \"--file\" \"target\" required=#true\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();
        assert!(parse(&group, &input(&["ex"])).is_err());
        parse(&group, &input(&["ex", "target-name"]))
            .expect("a positional satisfies a required group");
        assert!(
            parse(
                &group,
                &input(&["ex", "--file", "input.txt", "target-name"])
            )
            .is_err()
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_required_group_needs_one_of_its_members() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--file <f>\"\nflag \"--url <u>\"\ngroup \"input\" \"--file\" \"--url\" required=#true\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex"])).unwrap_err();
        // The members, because that is what a user has to type; the name, because a
        // command with several groups would otherwise report the same sentence twice.
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("--file, --url"), "{err}");
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("input"), "{err}");

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--url", "u"])).expect("one member satisfies it");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_multiple_group_only_polices_requiredness() {
        // `multiple` with `required` is "at least one of these", so two is fine and
        // none is not.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--a\"\nflag \"--b\"\ngroup \"any\" \"--a\" \"--b\" required=#true multiple=#true\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--a", "--b"])).expect("multiple allows both");
        assert!(parse(&spec, &input(&["ex"])).is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_group_reads_a_default_for_requiredness_and_not_for_exclusivity() {
        // The two halves of a group are two kinds of rule, and they read a default
        // differently on purpose. Requiredness asks whether a member has a value, and a
        // default is a value — the rule `requires` follows. Exclusivity asks what the
        // user supplied, because a defaulted member counted as supplied would collide
        // with the sibling they actually typed and refuse a correct command line.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--file <f>\" default=\"a.txt\"\nflag \"--url <u>\"\ngroup \"input\" \"--file\" \"--url\" required=#true\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex"])).expect("the default fills the group");
        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--url", "u"]))
            .expect("the default must not conflict with the flag the user typed");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_group_naming_two_spellings_of_one_flag_is_not_a_conflict() {
        // `-f` and `--file` are one flag. Counted by selector, giving it once would
        // report it as conflicting with itself.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"-f --file <f>\"\nflag \"--url <u>\"\ngroup \"input\" \"-f\" \"--file\" \"--url\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--file", "a.txt"])).expect("one flag is one member");
        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "-f", "a.txt"])).expect("either spelling, still one member");

        // A genuine collision is still one.
        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--file", "a.txt", "--url", "u"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("group input"), "{err}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_group_reads_the_environment_as_given() {
        // The environment does count, which is the same asymmetry `conflicts` has: an
        // env var is somebody saying something, a default is nobody saying anything.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--file <f>\" env=\"EX_FILE\"\nflag \"--url <u>\"\ngroup \"input\" \"--file\" \"--url\" required=#true\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse_with_env(&spec, &["ex"], &[("EX_FILE", "a.txt")]).expect("the environment fills it");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_requirement_names_the_flag_that_is_missing() {
        // Reported as the missing flag rather than as something wrong with `--out`,
        // which is what clap says for an unmet `requires` and what a user can act on.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--out <p>\" requires=\"--format\"\nflag \"--format <f>\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--out", "a.txt"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(
            err.to_string().contains("format"),
            "the missing flag should be named: {err}"
        );

        // Satisfied, in either order.
        for words in [
            &["ex", "--out", "a.txt", "--format", "json"][..],
            &["ex", "--format", "json", "--out", "a.txt"][..],
        ] {
            parse(&spec, &input(words)).unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("{words:?}: {e}"));
        }

        // Nothing happens when the flag that imposes the rule is absent: a requirement
        // is a consequence of using the flag, not a rule about the command line.
        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex"])).expect("a bare invocation requires nothing");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_value_activates_only_its_conditional_requirement() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--config <file>\" {\n  requires_if \"special.toml\" \"--key\"\n  requires_if \"remote.toml\" \"--token\"\n}\nflag \"--key <key>\"\nflag \"--token <token>\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--config", "ordinary.toml"]))
            .expect("an unrelated value requires nothing");

        let key = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--config", "special.toml"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(key.to_string().contains("key"), "{key}");
        parse(
            &spec,
            &input(&["ex", "--config", "special.toml", "--key", "secret"]),
        )
        .expect("the matching requirement is satisfied");

        let token = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--config", "remote.toml"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(token.to_string().contains("token"), "{token}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn conditional_requirements_read_explicit_env_but_not_defaults() {
        let from_env: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--config <file>\" env=\"EX_CONFIG\" {\n  requires_if \"special.toml\" \"--key\"\n}\nflag \"--key <key>\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();
        let err = parse_with_env(&from_env, &["ex"], &[("EX_CONFIG", "special.toml")]).unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("key"), "{err}");

        let from_default: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--config <file>\" default=\"special.toml\" {\n  requires_if \"special.toml\" \"--key\"\n}\nflag \"--key <key>\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();
        parse(&from_default, &input(&["ex"]))
            .expect("a default is not an explicit conditional value");
    }

    #[test]
    fn command_line_values_override_env_for_conditional_requirements() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--config <file>\" env=\"EX_CONFIG\" {\n  requires_if \"special.toml\" \"--key\"\n}\nflag \"--key <key>\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse_with_env(
            &spec,
            &["ex", "--config", "ordinary.toml"],
            &[("EX_CONFIG", "special.toml")],
        )
        .expect("the command-line value takes precedence over the environment");
    }

    #[test]
    fn conditional_requirements_normalize_boolean_env_values() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--feature\" env=\"EX_FEATURE\" {\n  requires_if \"true\" \"--key\"\n}\nflag \"--key <key>\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        for value in ["1", "true", "True", "TRUE"] {
            let err = parse_with_env(&spec, &["ex"], &[("EX_FEATURE", value)]).unwrap_err();
            assert!(err.to_string().contains("key"), "{value}: {err}");
        }
        parse_with_env(&spec, &["ex"], &[("EX_FEATURE", "false")])
            .expect("a false environment value does not activate a true condition");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_default_satisfies_a_requirement() {
        // The flag it names has a value, which is the question a requirement asks. Read
        // any other way, `--format` would be missing here and present ten lines further
        // down, where plain required-ness reads the same default as filling it.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--out <p>\" requires=\"--format\"\nflag \"--format <f>\" default=\"json\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--out", "a.txt"]))
            .expect("a defaulted flag is not a missing one");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_present_flag_binds_a_conditional_default() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--bin-names\" {\n  default_if \"--json\" \"true\"\n}\nflag \"--json\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let with = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--json"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            with.as_env().get("usage_bin_names").map(String::as_str),
            Some("true")
        );

        let without = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex"])).unwrap();
        assert!(
            !without.as_env().contains_key("usage_bin_names"),
            "IsPresent does nothing when the selector is absent"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_equals_condition_binds_a_conditional_default() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--style <s>\" {\n  default_if \"--output\" \"json\" \"pretty\"\n}\nflag \"--output <fmt>\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let json = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--output", "json"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            json.as_env().get("usage_style").map(String::as_str),
            Some("pretty")
        );
        let yaml = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--output", "yaml"])).unwrap();
        assert!(!yaml.as_env().contains_key("usage_style"));
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_equals_condition_reads_a_negated_flag() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--pretty\" {\n  default_if \"--json\" \"false\" \"true\"\n}\nflag \"--json\" negate=\"--no-json\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let off = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--no-json"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            off.as_env().get("usage_pretty").map(String::as_str),
            Some("true")
        );
        let on = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--json"])).unwrap();
        assert!(
            !on.as_env().contains_key("usage_pretty"),
            "--json is true, so when=false should miss"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_first_matching_conditional_default_wins() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--style <s>\" {\n  default_if \"--json\" \"compact\"\n  default_if \"--pretty\" \"pretty\"\n}\nflag \"--json\"\nflag \"--pretty\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let out = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--json", "--pretty"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            out.as_env().get("usage_style").map(String::as_str),
            Some("compact")
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn argv_and_env_suppress_a_conditional_default() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--bin-names\" env=\"EX_BIN\" {\n  default_if \"--json\" \"true\"\n}\nflag \"--json\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let from_env = parse_with_env(&spec, &["ex", "--json"], &[("EX_BIN", "false")]).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            from_env.as_env().get("usage_bin_names").map(String::as_str),
            Some("false"),
            "the target's environment wins over default_if"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_sibling_env_activates_a_conditional_default() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--bin-names\" {\n  default_if \"--json\" \"true\"\n}\nflag \"--json\" env=\"EX_JSON\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let out = parse_with_env(&spec, &["ex"], &[("EX_JSON", "1")]).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            out.as_env().get("usage_bin_names").map(String::as_str),
            Some("true")
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_default_does_not_activate_a_conditional_default() {
        // `--json` sorts before `--pretty` in the available-flag map, so a one-pass
        // bind would put json's default into `out.flags` and then treat it as
        // explicit for pretty's `default_if`. Go and the derive ignore defaults.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--pretty\" {\n  default_if \"--json\" \"true\"\n}\nflag \"--json\" default=#true\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let out = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            out.as_env().get("usage_json").map(String::as_str),
            Some("true")
        );
        assert!(
            !out.as_env().contains_key("usage_pretty"),
            "a default is not an explicit value for default_if"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_conditional_default_does_not_activate_requires_if() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--format <f>\" {\n  default_if \"--json\" \"json\"\n  requires_if \"json\" \"--schema\"\n}\nflag \"--schema <s>\"\nflag \"--json\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--json"]))
            .expect("a default_if value is not explicit for requires_if");
        assert!(parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--format", "json"])).is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_conditional_default_satisfies_a_requirement() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--out <p>\" requires=\"--format\"\nflag \"--format <f>\" {\n  default_if \"--json\" \"json\"\n}\nflag \"--json\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--out", "a.txt", "--json"]))
            .expect("default_if fills the required flag");
        assert!(parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--out", "a.txt"])).is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_environment_value_satisfies_a_requirement() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--out <p>\" requires=\"--format\"\nflag \"--format <f>\" env=\"EX_FORMAT\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        assert!(parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--out", "a.txt"])).is_err());
        parse_with_env(&spec, &["ex", "--out", "a.txt"], &[("EX_FORMAT", "json")])
            .expect("the environment supplies it");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_requirement_is_satisfied_by_a_short_form() {
        // The selector may spell the other flag any way it answers to, so the check
        // resolves it the way every other selector is resolved rather than matching
        // text. The error names the flag, not the selector.
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--sign\" requires=\"-k\"\nflag \"-k --key <k>\"\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--sign", "--key", "x"])).expect("--key satisfies -k");

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--sign"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("key"), "{err}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn conflicting_flags_are_rejected_in_either_order() {
        // Declared once, on `--file`, which is all clap exposes — so the check has to
        // be order-independent by looking at every flag that was given rather than at
        // the one that declared the conflict.
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--file <f>\" conflicts=\"--stdin\"\nflag \"--stdin\"\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();

        for words in [
            &["ex", "--file", "a.txt", "--stdin"][..],
            &["ex", "--stdin", "--file", "a.txt"][..],
        ] {
            let err = parse(&spec, &input(words)).unwrap_err();
            assert!(
                err.to_string().contains("conflicts with --stdin"),
                "{words:?} should be refused: {err}"
            );
        }

        // Either one alone is fine.
        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--stdin"])).unwrap();
        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--file", "a.txt"])).unwrap();
    }

    #[test]
    fn unknown_flags_are_values_by_default() {
        // The default, and the reason it is the default: a spec often parses a
        // command line whose flags belong to something else.
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--force\"\narg \"[rest]...\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();
        let out = parse(
            &spec,
            &["ex".to_string(), "--wat".to_string(), "x".to_string()],
        )
        .unwrap();
        let rest = out.args.keys().find(|a| a.name == "rest").unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.args[rest].to_string(), "--wat x");
    }

    #[test]
    fn repeated_scalar_flags_override_by_default_and_can_be_strict() {
        let permissive: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--jobs <n>\"\nflag \"--verbose\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();
        let out = parse(&permissive, &input(&["ex", "--jobs", "1", "--jobs", "2"]))
            .expect("a repeat is a correction by default");
        let jobs = out.flags.keys().find(|f| f.name == "jobs").unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.flags[jobs].to_string(), "2");
        parse(&permissive, &input(&["ex", "--verbose", "--verbose"]))
            .expect("switches use the same default");

        let strict: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nargs_override_self #false\nflag \"--jobs <n>\"\nflag \"--verbose\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();
        for words in [
            &["ex", "--jobs", "1", "--jobs", "2"][..],
            &["ex", "--verbose", "--verbose"][..],
        ] {
            let err = parse(&strict, &input(words)).unwrap_err();
            assert!(
                err.to_string().contains("cannot be used multiple times"),
                "{err}"
            );
        }

        let reparsed: Spec = strict.to_string().parse().unwrap();
        assert!(!reparsed.cmd.args_override_self);
    }

    #[test]
    fn strict_negated_flags_allow_opposite_forms_but_reject_the_same_form() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nargs_override_self #false\nflag \"--color\" negate=\"--no-color\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let out = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--color", "--no-color"]))
            .expect("opposite forms override each other");
        let color = out.flags.keys().find(|f| f.name == "color").unwrap();
        assert!(matches!(out.flags[color], ParseValue::Bool(false)));

        for words in [
            &["ex", "--color", "--color"][..],
            &["ex", "--no-color", "--no-color"][..],
        ] {
            let err = parse(&spec, &input(words)).unwrap_err();
            assert!(err.to_string().contains("cannot be used multiple times"));
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn strict_global_flags_may_repeat_across_command_levels() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nargs_override_self #false\nflag \"--color\" negate=\"--no-color\" global=#true\nflag \"--jobs <n>\" global=#true\ncmd \"run\" {\n  args_override_self #false\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let out = parse(
            &spec,
            &input(&[
                "ex", "--color", "--jobs", "1", "run", "--color", "--jobs", "2",
            ]),
        )
        .expect("an inherited global is allowed once at each command level");
        let jobs = out.flags.keys().find(|f| f.name == "jobs").unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.flags[jobs].to_string(), "2");

        for words in [
            &["ex", "--color", "--color", "run", "--no-color"][..],
            &["ex", "--jobs", "1", "run", "--jobs", "2", "--jobs", "3"][..],
        ] {
            let err = parse(&spec, &input(words)).unwrap_err();
            assert!(err.to_string().contains("cannot be used multiple times"));
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_subcommand_can_negate_only_its_parents_requirements() {
        let base = r#"name "ex"
bin "ex"
flag "--config" required=#true
flag "--mode" requires="--config"
flag "--other"
arg "<input>"
group "source" "--config" "--other" required=#true
cmd "run" { flag "--child" required=#true }
"#;
        let strict: Spec = base.parse().unwrap();
        let err = parse(&strict, &input(&["ex", "run"])).unwrap_err();
        let message = err.to_string();
        assert!(
            message.contains("input") || message.contains("config"),
            "{message}"
        );

        let negated: Spec = base
            .replacen("bin \"ex\"", "bin \"ex\"\nsubcommand_negates_reqs #true", 1)
            .parse()
            .unwrap();
        let err = parse(&negated, &input(&["ex", "run"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(
            err.to_string().contains("child"),
            "the selected command keeps its own requirements: {err}"
        );

        let mut child_optional = negated.clone();
        child_optional.cmd.subcommands["run"].flags[0].required = false;
        parse(&child_optional, &input(&["ex", "run"]))
            .expect("the child selection satisfies all parent requirements");
        parse(&child_optional, &input(&["ex", "--mode", "run"]))
            .expect("parent requires relationships are negated too");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_parent_argument_can_conflict_with_a_later_subcommand() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"name "ex"
bin "ex"
args_conflicts_with_subcommands #true
flag "--verbose"
cmd "run"
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "run"]))
            .expect("the subcommand is valid without a parent argument");
        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--verbose", "run"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(
            err.to_string().contains("cannot be used with arguments"),
            "{err}"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_subcommand_can_take_precedence_over_a_variadic_flag() {
        let base = r#"name "ex"
bin "ex"
flag "--values <value>..."
cmd "run"
"#;
        let plain: Spec = base.parse().unwrap();
        let out = parse(&plain, &input(&["ex", "--values", "a", "run"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.cmd.name, "ex");

        let precedence: Spec = base
            .replacen(
                "bin \"ex\"",
                "bin \"ex\"\nsubcommand_precedence_over_arg #true",
                1,
            )
            .parse()
            .unwrap();
        let out = parse(&precedence, &input(&["ex", "--values", "a", "run"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.cmd.name, "run");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_required_positional_can_follow_an_unfilled_optional_one() {
        let base = r#"name "ex"
bin "ex"
arg "[optional]"
arg "<required>"
"#;
        let plain: Spec = base.parse().unwrap();
        let err = parse(&plain, &input(&["ex", "value"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("required"), "{err}");

        let enabled: Spec = base
            .replacen(
                "bin \"ex\"",
                "bin \"ex\"\nallow_missing_positional #true",
                1,
            )
            .parse()
            .unwrap();
        let out = parse(&enabled, &input(&["ex", "value"])).unwrap();
        assert!(!out.args.keys().any(|arg| arg.name == "optional"));
        let value = &out
            .args
            .iter()
            .find(|(arg, _)| arg.name == "required")
            .unwrap()
            .1;
        assert!(matches!(value, ParseValue::String(value) if value == "value"));
    }

    #[test]
    fn sigil_args_do_not_block_optional_positional_skipping() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"name "ex"
bin "ex"
allow_missing_positional #true
arg "[optional]"
arg "[tool]" sigil="@"
arg "<required>"
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let out = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "@node", "value"])).unwrap();
        assert!(!out.args.keys().any(|arg| arg.name == "optional"));
        let tool = out.args.keys().find(|arg| arg.name == "tool").unwrap();
        let required = out.args.keys().find(|arg| arg.name == "required").unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.args[tool].to_string(), "node");
        assert_eq!(out.args[required].to_string(), "value");
    }

    #[test]
    fn unknown_flags_can_be_rejected_for_the_whole_cli() {
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nunknown_flags \"error\"\nflag \"--force\"\nflag \"-0 --print0\"\narg \"[rest]...\" allow_negative_numbers=#true\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();
        let err = parse(&spec, &["ex".to_string(), "--wat".to_string()]).unwrap_err();
        assert!(
            err.to_string().contains("--wat"),
            "the message should name the token: {err}"
        );

        // The positional opts into the narrower negative-number carve-out without
        // accepting arbitrary unknown flags.
        let out = parse(&spec, &["ex".to_string(), "-1".to_string()]).unwrap();
        let rest = out.args.keys().find(|a| a.name == "rest").unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.args[rest].to_string(), "-1");

        let out = parse(&spec, &["ex".to_string(), "-0".to_string()]).unwrap();
        let print0 = out.flags.keys().find(|flag| flag.name == "print0").unwrap();
        assert!(matches!(out.flags[print0], ParseValue::Bool(true)));
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_declared_digit_short_does_not_stop_the_subcommand_scan() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
unknown_flags "error"
flag "-0 --print0" global=#true
cmd "run" {
  flag "--force"
}
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let out = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "-0", "run", "--force"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.cmd.name, "run");
        let print0 = out.flags.keys().find(|flag| flag.name == "print0").unwrap();
        let force = out.flags.keys().find(|flag| flag.name == "force").unwrap();
        assert!(matches!(out.flags[print0], ParseValue::Bool(true)));
        assert!(matches!(out.flags[force], ParseValue::Bool(true)));
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_command_may_override_the_cli_wide_setting() {
        // Strict overall, lenient for the one command that forwards options.
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
unknown_flags "error"
cmd "exec" unknown_flags="value" {
  arg "[rest]..."
}
cmd "build" {
  arg "[rest]..."
}
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let out = parse(
            &spec,
            &["ex".to_string(), "exec".to_string(), "--wat".to_string()],
        )
        .unwrap();
        let rest = out.args.keys().find(|a| a.name == "rest").unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.args[rest].to_string(), "--wat");

        assert!(
            parse(
                &spec,
                &["ex".to_string(), "build".to_string(), "--wat".to_string()]
            )
            .is_err(),
            "a command that says nothing inherits the CLI's choice"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_setting_survives_a_round_trip() {
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nunknown_flags \"error\"\ncmd \"x\" unknown_flags=\"value\"\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();
        let reparsed: Spec = spec.to_string().parse().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(reparsed.unknown_flags, Some(UnknownFlags::Error));
        assert_eq!(
            reparsed.cmd.subcommands["x"].unknown_flags,
            Some(UnknownFlags::Value)
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_default_subcommand() {
        // Test that default_subcommand routes to the specified subcommand
        let run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("task").build())
            .build();
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            default_subcommand: Some("run".to_string()),
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // "test mytask" should be parsed as if it were "test run mytask"
        let input = vec!["test".to_string(), "mytask".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        // Should have two commands: root and "run"
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds.len(), 2);
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds[1].name, "run");

        // Should have parsed the task argument
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        let arg = parsed.args.keys().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(arg.name, "task");
        let value = parsed.args.values().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "mytask");
    }

    #[test]
    fn default_subcommand_outranks_root_sigil_arg() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "test"
bin "test"
default_subcommand "run"
arg "[tools]..." sigil="+"
cmd "run" { arg "<task>" }
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "+node", "node"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmd.name, "run");
        let value = |name| {
            parsed
                .args
                .iter()
                .find(|(arg, _)| arg.name == name)
                .map(|(_, value)| value.to_string())
                .unwrap()
        };
        assert_eq!(value("tools"), "node");
        assert_eq!(value("task"), "node");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_default_subcommand_explicit_still_works() {
        // Test that explicit subcommand takes precedence
        let run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("task").build())
            .build();
        let other_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("other")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("other_arg").build())
            .build();
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);
        cmd.subcommands.insert("other".to_string(), other_cmd);

        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            default_subcommand: Some("run".to_string()),
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // "test other foo" should use "other" subcommand, not default
        let input = vec!["test".to_string(), "other".to_string(), "foo".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        // Should have used "other" subcommand
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds.len(), 2);
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds[1].name, "other");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_default_subcommand_applies_only_at_the_root() {
        // `default_subcommand` is declared once, for the whole spec, and only at the top. It
        // was being looked up wherever the parser happened to be standing, so a command with
        // an unrelated subcommand of the same name acquired a default of its own: with
        // `default_subcommand "ls"`, `ex config zzz` descended into `config ls` and bound
        // `zzz` there. Nothing declared that, and nothing could have.
        let mut config_ls = SpecCommand::builder().name("ls").build();
        config_ls.args.push(SpecArg::builder().name("what").build());
        let mut config_cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("config").build();
        config_cmd.subcommands.insert("ls".to_string(), config_ls);

        // The root's own `ls`, which is what its default points at. It takes an argument so
        // that a routed word has somewhere to land.
        let mut root_ls = SpecCommand::builder().name("ls").build();
        root_ls.args.push(SpecArg::builder().name("what").build());
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("ex").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("ls".to_string(), root_ls);
        cmd.subcommands.insert("config".to_string(), config_cmd);

        let spec = Spec {
            name: "ex".to_string(),
            bin: "ex".to_string(),
            cmd,
            default_subcommand: Some("ls".to_string()),
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // `config` has an `ls`, but `config` did not declare a default, so `zzz` is `config`'s
        // own business — and `config` takes no argument, so this is an error rather than a
        // silent descent.
        let input = vec!["ex".to_string(), "config".to_string(), "zzz".to_string()];
        assert!(
            parse(&spec, &input).is_err(),
            "`config` has no default subcommand and no argument, so `zzz` cannot bind"
        );

        // At the root, where it is declared, it still applies.
        let input = vec!["ex".to_string(), "zzz".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).expect("the root's default applies");
        assert_eq!(
            parsed
                .cmds
                .iter()
                .map(|c| c.name.as_str())
                .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
            ["ex", "ls"]
        );
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.args.values().next().map(|v| v.to_string()),
            Some("zzz".to_string()),
            "and the word binds inside the command it reached"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_default_subcommand_with_nested_subcommands() {
        // Test that default_subcommand works when the default subcommand has nested subcommands.
        // This is the mise use case: "mise say" should be parsed as "mise run say"
        // where "say" is a subcommand of "run" (a task).
        let say_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("say")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("name").build())
            .build();
        let mut run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("run").build();
        run_cmd.subcommands.insert("say".to_string(), say_cmd);

        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            default_subcommand: Some("run".to_string()),
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // "test say hello" should be parsed as "test run say hello"
        let input = vec!["test".to_string(), "say".to_string(), "hello".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        // Should have three commands: root, "run", and "say"
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds.len(), 3);
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds[0].name, "test");
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds[1].name, "run");
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds[2].name, "say");

        // Should have parsed the "name" argument
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        let arg = parsed.args.keys().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(arg.name, "name");
        let value = parsed.args.values().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "hello");
    }

    /// Build a spec equivalent to the post-mount structure produced by mise's
    /// `mise usage` output: a root with a value-taking global flag (`-C/--cd`), a `run`
    /// subcommand that re-declares the same flag as NON-global, and a mounted task
    /// (`sample:run`) carrying a positional arg with `choices`.
    ///
    /// We construct the merged structure directly instead of executing a real mount so the
    /// test stays hermetic and cross-platform while still exercising the parser defect.
    fn mounted_global_flag_spec() -> Spec {
        let task_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("sample:run")
            .arg(
                SpecArg::builder()
                    .name("profile")
                    .choices(["alpha", "beta", "gamma"])
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        // `run` re-declares `-C/--cd` but as a NON-global flag, mirroring the mise spec.
        let mut run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("cd")
                    .short('C')
                    .long("cd")
                    .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("dir").build())
                    .global(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        run_cmd
            .subcommands
            .insert("sample:run".to_string(), task_cmd);

        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("cd")
                    .short('C')
                    .long("cd")
                    .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("dir").build())
                    .global(true)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_prefix_global_flag_does_not_pollute_choices() {
        // Regression for the parser-side root cause referenced by jdx/mise#10069.
        //
        // When `run` re-declares the global `-C/--cd` as non-global, descending into it (and
        // then into the mounted `sample:run`) used to drop the inherited global flag from
        // `available_flags`. Phase 2 then no longer recognized the prefix `-C`, so it was
        // mis-validated against the task's `choices` positional arg.
        let spec = mounted_global_flag_spec();

        // The prefix global flag must stay recognized so it is consumed as a flag (not as the
        // positional). Before the fix this bailed with "Invalid choice for arg profile: -C".
        for words in [
            &["test", "-C", "/tmp", "run", "sample:run"][..],
            // Embedded-value form must behave identically.
            &["test", "--cd=/tmp", "run", "sample:run"][..],
        ] {
            let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(words)).unwrap();
            assert_eq!(
                parsed
                    .cmds
                    .iter()
                    .map(|c| c.name.as_str())
                    .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
                vec!["test", "run", "sample:run"],
            );
            // No positional arg should have been consumed by the leftover global-flag tokens.
            assert!(
                parsed.args.is_empty(),
                "args should be empty, got {:?}",
                parsed.args
            );

            // Fix (B): the inherited global flag survives the descent even though `run`
            // re-declares `-C/--cd` as non-global.
            let cd = parsed
                .available_flags
                .get("--cd")
                .expect("--cd should remain available after descending into the subcommand");
            assert!(cd.global, "--cd must stay global after descent");
            assert!(
                parsed.available_flags.get("-C").is_some_and(|f| f.global),
                "-C must stay global after descent",
            );

            // The global flag must still be recorded in `out.flags` so it reaches `as_env()`
            // for normal execution and for the env passed to mount scripts. (Removing the
            // token in Phase 1 instead of re-parsing it would silently drop `usage_cd`.)
            assert_eq!(
                parsed.as_env().get("usage_cd").map(String::as_str),
                Some("/tmp"),
                "global flag value must survive in as_env(), got {:?}",
                parsed.as_env(),
            );
        }

        // A real, valid choice still parses through the global flag prefix.
        let parsed = parse_partial(
            &spec,
            &input(&["test", "-C", "/tmp", "run", "sample:run", "alpha"]),
        )
        .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.values().next().unwrap().to_string(), "alpha");

        // And genuinely invalid choices are still rejected (we didn't disable validation).
        assert_parse_err(
            parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run", "sample:run", "wrong"])),
            "Invalid choice for arg profile: wrong, expected one of alpha, beta, gamma",
        );
    }

    /// Build a spec mirroring mise's orphan-short re-declarations: a root with a LONG-ONLY
    /// global boolean flag (`--raw`, no short), a `run` subcommand that re-declares it as a
    /// NON-global flag while ADDING a short (`-r --raw`) plus a purely-local `-f/--force`
    /// flag, and a mounted task (`sample:run`) with a `choices` positional arg.
    fn mounted_orphan_short_spec() -> Spec {
        let task_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("sample:run")
            .arg(
                SpecArg::builder()
                    .name("profile")
                    .choices(["alpha", "beta", "gamma"])
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        // `run` re-declares `--raw` as NON-global but adds a `-r` short that exists only here,
        // and also carries a purely-local `-f/--force` flag (shares nothing with a global).
        let mut run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("raw")
                    .short('r')
                    .long("raw")
                    .global(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("force")
                    .short('f')
                    .long("force")
                    .global(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        run_cmd
            .subcommands
            .insert("sample:run".to_string(), task_cmd);

        // Root global is LONG-ONLY: `--raw` with no short.
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("raw")
                    .long("raw")
                    .global(true)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_orphan_short_alias_survives_merge() {
        // Follow-up to test_prefix_global_flag_does_not_pollute_choices (jdx/mise#10069):
        // when `run` re-declares the long-only global `--raw` as a non-global `-r --raw`, the
        // added short `-r` must be unioned onto the surviving inherited global flag instead of
        // being discarded with the wholesale re-declaration. Otherwise `mycli run -r <task>`
        // would not recognize `-r` and would mis-validate it against the task's `choices` arg.
        let spec = mounted_orphan_short_spec();

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run", "-r", "sample:run"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            parsed
                .cmds
                .iter()
                .map(|c| c.name.as_str())
                .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
            vec!["test", "run", "sample:run"],
        );

        // (a) The orphan short `-r` survives the descent, merged onto the inherited global flag,
        // and the original long `--raw` is still global too.
        assert!(
            parsed.available_flags.get("-r").is_some_and(|f| f.global),
            "-r must be merged onto the inherited global flag and stay global after descent",
        );
        assert!(
            parsed
                .available_flags
                .get("--raw")
                .is_some_and(|f| f.global),
            "--raw must stay global after descent",
        );

        // (b) The token is consumed as a flag, not mistaken for the `choices` positional.
        assert!(
            parsed.args.is_empty(),
            "args should be empty, got {:?}",
            parsed.args
        );

        // (c) The value still reaches as_env() so `usage_raw` is produced for execution/mounts.
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.as_env().get("usage_raw").map(String::as_str),
            Some("true"),
            "merged short's value must survive in as_env(), got {:?}",
            parsed.as_env(),
        );

        // (d) Negative case: a purely-local flag that shares nothing with a global is NOT
        // promoted/merged — it is correctly dropped when descending into the mount.
        assert!(
            !parsed.available_flags.contains_key("-f"),
            "purely-local -f must not be promoted onto a global",
        );
        assert!(
            !parsed.available_flags.contains_key("--force"),
            "purely-local --force must not be promoted onto a global",
        );

        // A real, valid choice still parses through the merged short prefix.
        let parsed =
            parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run", "-r", "sample:run", "alpha"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.values().next().unwrap().to_string(), "alpha");

        // And genuinely invalid choices are still rejected.
        assert_parse_err(
            parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run", "-r", "sample:run", "wrong"])),
            "Invalid choice for arg profile: wrong, expected one of alpha, beta, gamma",
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_orphan_short_does_not_clobber_unrelated_global() {
        // When a re-declaration's orphan short collides with a DIFFERENT inherited global's
        // short, the merge must not steal it. Here the root has both a long-only `--raw` global
        // and a `-r --restrict` global; `run` re-declares `-r --raw` as non-global. `-r` is a
        // genuine collision with `--restrict`, so global precedence must keep `-r -> restrict`.
        let run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("raw")
                    .short('r')
                    .long("raw")
                    .global(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("raw")
                    .long("raw")
                    .global(true)
                    .build(),
            )
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("restrict")
                    .short('r')
                    .long("restrict")
                    .global(true)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run"])).unwrap();
        // `-r` stays owned by the unrelated `--restrict` global, not stolen by the merged raw.
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.available_flags.get("-r").map(|f| f.name.as_str()),
            Some("restrict"),
            "-r must remain owned by the unrelated global it already belonged to",
        );
        // Both globals are still recognized and global after the descent.
        assert!(
            parsed
                .available_flags
                .get("--raw")
                .is_some_and(|f| f.global)
        );
        assert!(
            parsed
                .available_flags
                .get("--restrict")
                .is_some_and(|f| f.global)
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_redeclared_global_aliases_share_one_flag() {
        // A global declared with BOTH a short and a long, re-declared non-globally by a
        // subcommand that adds a third alias. Every alias key must resolve to the SAME merged
        // flag: the child's keys iterate in BTreeMap order (`--assume-yes`, `--yes`, `-y`), so by
        // the time `-y` is reached the long already points at the merged flag. That merged flag is
        // not a *different* inherited global, so the collision guard must not skip `-y` and leave
        // it pointing at the pre-merge global (which lacks the added `assume-yes` alias).
        let spec = r#"
flag "-y --yes" global=#true effect="write"
cmd "run" {
    flag "-y --yes --assume-yes"
}
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run"])).unwrap();

        for key in ["-y", "--yes", "--assume-yes"] {
            let flag = parsed
                .available_flags
                .get(key)
                .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("{key} must be recognized after the descent"));
            assert!(flag.global, "{key} must stay global after the descent");
            assert_eq!(
                flag.long,
                vec!["yes".to_string(), "assume-yes".to_string()],
                "{key} must resolve to the flag carrying every alias",
            );
            assert_eq!(flag.short, vec!['y'], "{key} must keep the global's short");
        }

        // One logical flag means one object: all three keys share a single `Arc`.
        assert_eq!(
            unique_flags(parsed.available_flags.values()).count(),
            1,
            "all aliases must point at one flag object, got {:?}",
            parsed.available_flags,
        );

        // The global's effect survives the merge, so `-y` still marks the command as writing.
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.available_flags["-y"].effect,
            Some(crate::SpecCommandEffect::Write),
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_redeclared_global_keeps_hidden_alias_metadata() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "--yes" global=#true {
    alias "-q" "--quietly" hide=#true
}
cmd "run" {
    flag "--yes --assume-yes" {
        alias "-s" "--secret" hide=#true
    }
}
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run"])).unwrap();
        let merged = &parsed.available_flags["--yes"];
        assert_eq!(merged.hidden_short_aliases, ['q', 's']);
        assert_eq!(merged.hidden_aliases, ["quietly", "secret"]);
        for key in ["-q", "-s", "--quietly", "--secret"] {
            assert!(Arc::ptr_eq(&parsed.available_flags[key], merged), "{key}");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_redeclared_global_can_promote_hidden_aliases() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "--yes" global=#true {
    alias "-q" "--quietly" hide=#true
}
cmd "run" {
    flag "-q --yes --quietly"
}
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run"])).unwrap();
        let merged = &parsed.available_flags["--yes"];
        assert!(merged.hidden_short_aliases.is_empty());
        assert!(merged.hidden_aliases.is_empty());
        for key in ["-q", "--quietly"] {
            assert!(Arc::ptr_eq(&parsed.available_flags[key], merged), "{key}");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_partially_redeclared_global_keeps_all_aliases_on_one_flag() {
        // Same one-flag-one-object requirement as above, but the child re-declares only ONE of
        // the global's three aliases (`--yes`, not `-y`/`--confirm`) while adding a new one. The
        // aliases the child omits are never visited by the merge loop, so they must be rebound to
        // the merged flag explicitly — otherwise `-y` and `--confirm` keep pointing at the
        // pre-merge global and miss the added `assume-yes`.
        let spec = r#"
flag "-y --yes --confirm" global=#true
cmd "run" {
    flag "--yes --assume-yes"
}
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run"])).unwrap();

        for key in ["-y", "--yes", "--confirm", "--assume-yes"] {
            let flag = parsed
                .available_flags
                .get(key)
                .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("{key} must be recognized after the descent"));
            assert!(flag.global, "{key} must stay global after the descent");
            assert_eq!(
                flag.long,
                vec![
                    "yes".to_string(),
                    "confirm".to_string(),
                    "assume-yes".to_string()
                ],
                "{key} must resolve to the flag carrying every alias",
            );
        }

        assert_eq!(
            unique_flags(parsed.available_flags.values()).count(),
            1,
            "all aliases must point at one flag object, got {:?}",
            parsed.available_flags,
        );
    }

    /// Build a spec shaped like mise's post-mount structure for jdx/mise#11282: a root with
    /// globals (`-E/--env <ENV>`, `--silent`), a `run` subcommand with a non-global flag, and a
    /// MOUNTED task command that declares its own `--env` (with choices) plus `--bump`.
    ///
    /// The task command is marked `mounted` the same way `SpecCommand::mount()` marks the
    /// commands it merges in, so the test stays hermetic (no mount subprocess).
    fn mounted_task_flag_spec() -> Spec {
        let mut task_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("mytask")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("env")
                    .long("env")
                    .arg(
                        SpecArg::builder()
                            .name("name")
                            .choices(["dev", "stage", "prod"])
                            .build(),
                    )
                    .global(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("bump")
                    .long("bump")
                    .arg(
                        SpecArg::builder()
                            .name("type")
                            .choices(["auto", "major"])
                            .build(),
                    )
                    .global(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        task_cmd.mounted = true;

        let mut run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("force")
                    .short('f')
                    .long("force")
                    .global(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        run_cmd.subcommands.insert("mytask".to_string(), task_cmd);

        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("env")
                    .short('E')
                    .long("env")
                    .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("ENV").build())
                    .global(true)
                    .build(),
            )
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("silent")
                    .long("silent")
                    .global(true)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_mount_boundary_does_not_apply_inside_the_mounted_tree() {
        // The mounted program's own commands are ordinary commands relative to each other, so
        // descending *within* the mounted tree must follow the normal rules — including keeping
        // an inherited global that a nested command re-declares as non-global (jdx/usage#649).
        // Treating every level of the tree as a mount boundary let the re-declaration shadow the
        // global, which the next descent's `retain(global)` then dropped entirely.
        let deep = SpecCommand::builder().name("deep").build();
        let mut sub = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("sub")
            // Re-declares the mounted program's own global as non-global.
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("cd")
                    .short('C')
                    .long("cd")
                    .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("dir").build())
                    .global(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        sub.subcommands.insert("deep".to_string(), deep);
        let mut task = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("task")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("cd")
                    .short('C')
                    .long("cd")
                    .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("dir").build())
                    .global(true)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        task.subcommands.insert("sub".to_string(), sub);
        task.mark_mounted();

        let mut run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("run").build();
        run_cmd.subcommands.insert("task".to_string(), task);
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run", "task", "sub", "deep"])).unwrap();
        assert!(
            parsed.available_flags.get("--cd").is_some_and(|f| f.global),
            "the mounted program's own global must survive descents inside the mounted tree",
        );
        assert!(
            parsed.completion_flags().contains_key("--cd"),
            "and must still be offered there: it belongs to the mounted program",
        );
        assert!(
            parsed.completion_flags().contains_key("-C"),
            "including the short the nested command re-declared",
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_mount_flags_merged_into_the_mounting_cmd_are_offered() {
        // A mounted spec may declare flags on its own root, which `SpecCommand::merge` folds
        // into the command the mount sits on. They belong to the mounted program, so they must
        // be offered inside the mounted commands rather than filtered out with the mounting
        // CLI's own flags.
        let mut task = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("task")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("bump")
                    .long("bump")
                    .global(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        task.mark_mounted();

        let mut run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("run").build();
        run_cmd.subcommands.insert("task".to_string(), task);
        // What `mount()` leaves behind when the mounted spec's root declares flags.
        run_cmd.flags = vec![
            SpecFlag::builder()
                .name("tglobal")
                .long("tglobal")
                .global(true)
                .build(),
            SpecFlag::builder()
                .name("tlocal")
                .long("tlocal")
                .global(false)
                .build(),
        ];
        run_cmd.flags_from_mount = true;

        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("silent")
                    .long("silent")
                    .global(true)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run", "task"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.completion_flags().keys().collect::<Vec<_>>(),
            vec!["--bump", "--tglobal"],
            "the mounted spec's root global belongs to the mounted program; the mounting CLI's \
             `--silent` does not, and the mount's non-global root flag is not inherited",
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_mounted_cmd_does_not_offer_mounting_cli_globals() {
        // Regression for jdx/mise#11282. A mounted command describes another program, which
        // does not accept the mounting CLI's globals (mise forwards everything after a task
        // name to the task). They must stay recognized — they may appear before the mounted
        // command — but must not be offered in completions there.
        let spec = mounted_task_flag_spec();
        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run", "mytask"])).unwrap();

        // Still recognized for parsing...
        assert!(parsed.available_flags.contains_key("--silent"));
        assert!(parsed.available_flags.contains_key("-E"));
        // ...but belonging to a command above the mount, so not offered.
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.completion_flags().keys().collect::<Vec<_>>(),
            vec!["--bump", "--env"],
            "only the mounted command's own flags may be offered",
        );

        // `run`'s own non-global flag is dropped on descent, as it always was.
        assert!(!parsed.available_flags.contains_key("--force"));
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_mounted_cmd_flag_wins_over_inherited_global() {
        // Second half of jdx/mise#11282: the mounted `--env` (with choices) used to be shadowed
        // by the root's `--env` global, so completing its value fell back to file completion.
        let spec = mounted_task_flag_spec();
        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run", "mytask", "--env"])).unwrap();

        let awaiting = parsed
            .flag_awaiting_value
            .first()
            .expect("--env should await a value");
        assert_eq!(
            awaiting
                .arg
                .as_ref()
                .and_then(|a| a.choices.as_ref())
                .map(|c| c.choices.clone()),
            Some(vec![
                "dev".to_string(),
                "stage".to_string(),
                "prod".to_string()
            ]),
            "the mounted command's own --env must win over the inherited global",
        );

        // The global's short is not declared by the mounted command, so it keeps pointing at
        // the global and a value passed before the mounted command still parses.
        let parsed =
            parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "-E", "anything", "run", "mytask"])).unwrap();
        assert!(
            parsed.args.is_empty(),
            "prefix global tokens must not be consumed as positionals, got {:?}",
            parsed.args
        );
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.as_env().get("usage_env").map(String::as_str),
            Some("anything"),
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_prefix_flag_keeps_the_flag_it_was_read_as() {
        // A word before the mounted command is re-parsed by Phase 2, when the mounted command
        // already owns the name. It has to stay bound to the flag Phase 1 read it as, or the
        // global's value would be validated against the mounted flag's choices and a legitimate
        // value would be rejected.
        let spec = mounted_task_flag_spec();
        let parsed = parse_partial(
            &spec,
            &input(&["test", "--env", "not-a-task-choice", "run", "mytask"]),
        )
        .unwrap();
        assert!(
            parsed.errors.is_empty(),
            "prefix global value must not be validated against the mounted flag: {:?}",
            parsed
                .errors
                .iter()
                .map(|e| e.to_string())
                .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
        );
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.as_env().get("usage_env").map(String::as_str),
            Some("not-a-task-choice"),
        );

        // The embedded-value form binds the same way.
        let parsed = parse_partial(
            &spec,
            &input(&["test", "--env=not-a-task-choice", "run", "mytask"]),
        )
        .unwrap();
        assert!(parsed.errors.is_empty());
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.as_env().get("usage_env").map(String::as_str),
            Some("not-a-task-choice"),
        );

        // Meanwhile a word *after* the mounted command belongs to the mounted flag, even when
        // the same name was already used before it.
        let parsed = parse_partial(
            &spec,
            &input(&["test", "--env", "prod", "run", "mytask", "--env"]),
        )
        .unwrap();
        let awaiting = parsed
            .flag_awaiting_value
            .first()
            .expect("--env should await a value");
        assert_eq!(
            awaiting
                .arg
                .as_ref()
                .and_then(|a| a.choices.as_ref())
                .map(|c| c.choices.clone()),
            Some(vec![
                "dev".to_string(),
                "stage".to_string(),
                "prod".to_string()
            ]),
            "the mounted command's --env must own the name after the mounted command",
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_non_global_flag_does_not_hide_subcommand() {
        // A non-global flag may precede a subcommand (`mycli run --force task`). Phase 1 used to
        // stop scanning at one, so the subcommand — and any mount on it — was never reached and
        // its name was left to Phase 2 to mis-read as a positional: `unexpected word: mytask`.
        let spec = mounted_task_flag_spec();

        for words in [
            // `run` declares `-f/--force` as non-global.
            &["test", "run", "--force", "mytask"][..],
            &["test", "run", "-f", "mytask"][..],
            // Mixed with a global before the subcommand.
            &["test", "-E", "prod", "run", "--force", "mytask"][..],
        ] {
            let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(words)).unwrap();
            assert_eq!(
                parsed
                    .cmds
                    .iter()
                    .map(|c| c.name.as_str())
                    .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
                vec!["test", "run", "mytask"],
                "{words:?} should descend into the mounted command",
            );
            assert!(
                parsed.args.is_empty(),
                "{words:?} should not consume a positional, got {:?}",
                parsed.args,
            );
            assert_eq!(
                parsed.as_env().get("usage_force").map(String::as_str),
                Some("true"),
                "the non-global flag must still be recorded for {words:?}",
            );
        }

        // A non-global flag that takes a value consumes it, rather than reading the value as the
        // subcommand.
        let mut run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("output")
                    .short('o')
                    .long("output")
                    .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("mode").build())
                    .global(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        run_cmd.subcommands.insert(
            "task".to_string(),
            SpecCommand::builder().name("task").build(),
        );
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        let parsed =
            parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run", "--output", "quiet", "task"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            parsed
                .cmds
                .iter()
                .map(|c| c.name.as_str())
                .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
            vec!["test", "run", "task"],
        );
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.as_env().get("usage_output").map(String::as_str),
            Some("quiet"),
        );

        // An unknown flag still stops the scan: it may take a value, so the next word cannot be
        // assumed to be a subcommand. `run` takes no positional, so this stays an error.
        assert_parse_err(
            parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run", "--nope", "task"])),
            "unexpected word: --nope",
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_non_mounted_subcommand_offers_inherited_globals() {
        // Nothing changes for ordinary (non-mounted) subcommands: a global declared above is
        // still both recognized and offered.
        let mut run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("run").build();
        run_cmd.subcommands.insert(
            "nested".to_string(),
            SpecCommand::builder().name("nested").build(),
        );
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("silent")
                    .long("silent")
                    .global(true)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run", "nested"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.completion_flags().keys().collect::<Vec<_>>(),
            parsed.available_flags.keys().collect::<Vec<_>>(),
        );
        assert!(parsed.completion_flags().contains_key("--silent"));
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_subcommand_alias_collision_keeps_last_owner() {
        // The orphan-alias merge must not disturb how two flags in the SAME subcommand that
        // share an alias are resolved. Historically the flattened flag map gave the shared
        // alias to the LAST-declared flag (last-writer-wins); that must be preserved.
        let run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("alpha")
                    .short('x')
                    .long("alpha")
                    .global(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("beta")
                    .short('x')
                    .long("beta")
                    .global(false)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "run"])).unwrap();
        // `-x` is declared by both flags; the last one (`beta`) keeps it, as before the fix.
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.available_flags.get("-x").map(|f| f.name.as_str()),
            Some("beta"),
            "the last-declared flag must keep a shared short alias",
        );
        // Both distinct long aliases remain recognized and point to their own flag.
        assert_eq!(
            parsed
                .available_flags
                .get("--alpha")
                .map(|f| f.name.as_str()),
            Some("alpha"),
        );
        assert_eq!(
            parsed
                .available_flags
                .get("--beta")
                .map(|f| f.name.as_str()),
            Some("beta"),
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_default_subcommand_same_name_child() {
        // Test that default_subcommand doesn't cause issues when the default subcommand
        // has a child with the same name (e.g., "run" has a task named "run").
        // This verifies we don't switch multiple times or get stuck in a loop.
        let run_task = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("args").build())
            .build();
        let mut run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("run").build();
        run_cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_task);

        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            default_subcommand: Some("run".to_string()),
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // "test run" explicitly matches the "run" subcommand (not via default_subcommand)
        let input = vec!["test".to_string(), "run".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        // Should have two commands: root and "run"
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds.len(), 2);
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds[0].name, "test");
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds[1].name, "run");

        // "test run run" should descend into the "run" task (child of "run" subcommand)
        let input = vec![
            "test".to_string(),
            "run".to_string(),
            "run".to_string(),
            "hello".to_string(),
        ];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds.len(), 3);
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds[0].name, "test");
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds[1].name, "run");
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds[2].name, "run");
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        let value = parsed.args.values().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "hello");

        // Key test case: "test other" should switch to default subcommand "run"
        // and treat "other" as a positional arg (not try to switch again because
        // "run" also has a "run" child).
        let mut run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("task").build())
            .build();
        let run_task = SpecCommand::builder().name("run").build();
        run_cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_task);

        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            default_subcommand: Some("run".to_string()),
            ..Default::default()
        };

        let input = vec!["test".to_string(), "other".to_string()];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        // Should have two commands: root and "run" (the default)
        // We should NOT have switched again to the "run" task child
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds.len(), 2);
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds[0].name, "test");
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmds[1].name, "run");

        // "other" should be parsed as a positional arg
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        let value = parsed.args.values().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "other");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_restart_token() {
        // Test that restart_token resets argument parsing
        let run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("task").build())
            .restart_token(":::".to_string())
            .build();
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // "test run task1 ::: task2" - should end up with task2 as the arg
        let input = vec![
            "test".to_string(),
            "run".to_string(),
            "task1".to_string(),
            ":::".to_string(),
            "task2".to_string(),
        ];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        // After restart, args were cleared and task2 was parsed
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        let value = parsed.args.values().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "task2");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_restart_token_multiple() {
        // Test multiple restart tokens
        let run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("task").build())
            .restart_token(":::".to_string())
            .build();
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // "test run task1 ::: task2 ::: task3" - should end up with task3 as the arg
        let input = vec![
            "test".to_string(),
            "run".to_string(),
            "task1".to_string(),
            ":::".to_string(),
            "task2".to_string(),
            ":::".to_string(),
            "task3".to_string(),
        ];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        // After multiple restarts, args were cleared and task3 was parsed
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        let value = parsed.args.values().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "task3");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_restart_token_clears_flag_awaiting_value() {
        // Test that restart_token clears pending flag values
        let run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("task").build())
            .flag(
                SpecFlag::builder()
                    .name("jobs")
                    .long("jobs")
                    .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("count").build())
                    .build(),
            )
            .restart_token(":::".to_string())
            .build();
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // "test run task1 --jobs ::: task2" - task2 should be an arg, not a flag value
        let input = vec![
            "test".to_string(),
            "run".to_string(),
            "task1".to_string(),
            "--jobs".to_string(),
            ":::".to_string(),
            "task2".to_string(),
        ];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        // task2 should be parsed as the task arg, not as --jobs value
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        let value = parsed.args.values().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "task2");
        // --jobs should not have a value
        assert!(parsed.flag_awaiting_value.is_empty());
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_restart_token_resets_double_dash() {
        // Test that restart_token resets the -- separator effect
        let run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("task").build())
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("extra_args").var(true).build())
            .flag(SpecFlag::builder().name("verbose").long("verbose").build())
            .restart_token(":::".to_string())
            .build();
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // "test run task1 -- extra ::: --verbose task2" - --verbose should be a flag after :::
        let input = vec![
            "test".to_string(),
            "run".to_string(),
            "task1".to_string(),
            "--".to_string(),
            "extra".to_string(),
            ":::".to_string(),
            "--verbose".to_string(),
            "task2".to_string(),
        ];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        // --verbose should be parsed as a flag (not an arg) after the restart
        assert!(parsed.flags.keys().any(|f| f.name == "verbose"));
        // task2 should be the arg after restart
        let task_arg = parsed.args.keys().find(|a| a.name == "task").unwrap();
        let value = parsed.args.get(task_arg).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "task2");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_double_dashes_without_preserve() {
        // Only the first `--` is a separator; a later one is a value, because flag
        // parsing has already stopped and there is nothing left for it to do.
        // `preserve` is about the *first* one — see the test below, where none is
        // consumed at all.
        let run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("args").var(true).build())
            .build();
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // "test run arg1 -- arg2 -- arg3": the first separates, the second is a value
        let input = vec![
            "test".to_string(),
            "run".to_string(),
            "arg1".to_string(),
            "--".to_string(),
            "arg2".to_string(),
            "--".to_string(),
            "arg3".to_string(),
        ];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        let args_arg = parsed.args.keys().find(|a| a.name == "args").unwrap();
        let value = parsed.args.get(args_arg).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "arg1 arg2 -- arg3");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_double_dashes_with_preserve() {
        // Test that variadic args WITH `preserve` keep all double dashes
        let run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .arg(
                SpecArg::builder()
                    .name("args")
                    .var(true)
                    .double_dash(SpecDoubleDashChoices::Preserve)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // "test run arg1 -- arg2 -- arg3" - all double dashes should be preserved
        let input = vec![
            "test".to_string(),
            "run".to_string(),
            "arg1".to_string(),
            "--".to_string(),
            "arg2".to_string(),
            "--".to_string(),
            "arg3".to_string(),
        ];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        let args_arg = parsed.args.keys().find(|a| a.name == "args").unwrap();
        let value = parsed.args.get(args_arg).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "arg1 -- arg2 -- arg3");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_double_dashes_with_preserve_only_dashes() {
        // Test that variadic args WITH `preserve` keep all double dashes even
        // if the values are just double dashes
        let run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .arg(
                SpecArg::builder()
                    .name("args")
                    .var(true)
                    .double_dash(SpecDoubleDashChoices::Preserve)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // "test run -- --" - all double dashes should be preserved
        let input = vec![
            "test".to_string(),
            "run".to_string(),
            "--".to_string(),
            "--".to_string(),
        ];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        let args_arg = parsed.args.keys().find(|a| a.name == "args").unwrap();
        let value = parsed.args.get(args_arg).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(value.to_string(), "-- --");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_double_dashes_with_preserve_multiple_args() {
        // Test with multiple args where only the second has has `preserve`
        let run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("task").build())
            .arg(
                SpecArg::builder()
                    .name("extra_args")
                    .var(true)
                    .double_dash(SpecDoubleDashChoices::Preserve)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);

        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // The first arg "task1" is captured normally
        // Then extra_args with `preserve` captures everything, including the "--" tokens
        let input = vec![
            "test".to_string(),
            "run".to_string(),
            "task1".to_string(),
            "--".to_string(),
            "arg1".to_string(),
            "--".to_string(),
            "--foo".to_string(),
        ];
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();

        let task_arg = parsed.args.keys().find(|a| a.name == "task").unwrap();
        let task_value = parsed.args.get(task_arg).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(task_value.to_string(), "task1");

        let extra_arg = parsed.args.keys().find(|a| a.name == "extra_args").unwrap();
        let extra_value = parsed.args.get(extra_arg).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(extra_value.to_string(), "-- arg1 -- --foo");
    }

    fn spec_with_args(args: impl IntoIterator<Item = SpecArg>) -> Spec {
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").args(args).build();
        Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        }
    }

    fn arg_value(parsed: &ParseOutput, name: &str) -> String {
        let arg = parsed
            .args
            .keys()
            .find(|a| a.name == name)
            .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("expected arg {name} to be parsed"));
        parsed.args.get(arg).unwrap().to_string()
    }

    fn required_arg(name: &str) -> SpecArg {
        SpecArg::builder()
            .name(name)
            .var(true)
            .required(false)
            .double_dash(SpecDoubleDashChoices::Required)
            .build()
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_double_dash_required_reports_error_once_for_variadic() {
        // A variadic arg is offered every remaining word, but the mistake is one mistake.
        let spec = spec_with_args([required_arg("files")]);

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "a", "b", "c"])).unwrap();

        assert!(parsed.args.is_empty());
        assert_eq!(parsed.errors.len(), 1);
        assert!(
            matches!(&parsed.errors[0], UsageErr::ArgRequiresDoubleDash(name) if name == "files")
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_double_dash_required_suppresses_missing_arg() {
        // The arg is never filled, so the end-of-parse check would also call it missing.
        let spec = spec_with_args([SpecArg::builder()
            .name("file")
            .required(true)
            .double_dash(SpecDoubleDashChoices::Required)
            .build()]);

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "x"])).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.errors.len(), 1);
        assert!(matches!(
            &parsed.errors[0],
            UsageErr::ArgRequiresDoubleDash(_)
        ));
        // The cursor stays put, so a completion keeps offering the same arg.
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.next_arg.as_ref().map(|a| a.name.as_str()),
            Some("file")
        );
        assert!(!parsed.double_dash_seen);
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_double_dash_routes_to_required_arg() {
        // Everything after `--` belongs to the arg that requires it, even though the greedy
        // variadic before it would otherwise swallow the rest (clap's `Arg::last(true)`).
        let spec = spec_with_args([
            SpecArg::builder()
                .name("tool")
                .var(true)
                .required(false)
                .build(),
            required_arg("command"),
        ]);

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "node@20", "--", "node", "app.js"])).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(arg_value(&parsed, "tool"), "node@20");
        assert_eq!(arg_value(&parsed, "command"), "node app.js");
        assert!(parsed.double_dash_seen);
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_double_dash_routes_with_gap_reports_missing_arg() {
        // Jumping the cursor leaves `tool` empty even though `command` is filled, so the
        // "is it filled?" check cannot be a count of how many args were filled.
        let spec = spec_with_args([
            SpecArg::builder()
                .name("tool")
                .var(true)
                .required(true)
                .build(),
            required_arg("command"),
        ]);

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "--", "ls"])).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(arg_value(&parsed, "command"), "ls");
        assert!(parsed.args.keys().all(|a| a.name != "tool"));
        assert!(
            parsed
                .errors
                .iter()
                .any(|e| matches!(e, UsageErr::MissingArg(name) if name == "tool"))
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_double_dash_gap_applies_defaults() {
        // Same gap, seen from `Parser::parse`: the skipped arg still gets its default.
        let spec = spec_with_args([
            SpecArg::builder()
                .name("tool")
                .var(true)
                .required(false)
                .default_value("node@20")
                .build(),
            required_arg("command"),
        ]);

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--", "ls"])).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(arg_value(&parsed, "command"), "ls");
        assert_eq!(arg_value(&parsed, "tool"), "node@20");
    }

    fn spec_with_restart_token_and_required_arg() -> Spec {
        let run_cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("run")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("task").build())
            .arg(required_arg("run_args"))
            .restart_token(":::".to_string())
            .build();
        let mut cmd = SpecCommand::builder().name("test").build();
        cmd.subcommands.insert("run".to_string(), run_cmd);
        Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_double_dash_required_restart_token_resets_separator() {
        // The `--` before `:::` belongs to the previous invocation only.
        let spec = spec_with_restart_token_and_required_arg();

        let parsed = parse_partial(
            &spec,
            &input(&["test", "run", "task1", "--", "a", ":::", "task2", "b"]),
        )
        .unwrap();

        assert_eq!(arg_value(&parsed, "task"), "task2");
        assert!(parsed.args.keys().all(|a| a.name != "run_args"));
        // Reported once even though the arg was violated after already succeeding once.
        assert_eq!(
            parsed
                .errors
                .iter()
                .filter(|e| matches!(e, UsageErr::ArgRequiresDoubleDash(_)))
                .count(),
            1
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_double_dash_required_restart_token_accepts_new_separator() {
        let spec = spec_with_restart_token_and_required_arg();

        let parsed = parse(
            &spec,
            &input(&["test", "run", "task1", "--", "a", ":::", "task2", "--", "c"]),
        )
        .unwrap();

        assert_eq!(arg_value(&parsed, "task"), "task2");
        assert_eq!(arg_value(&parsed, "run_args"), "c");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_double_dash_preserve_is_not_a_separator() {
        // A `--` that `preserve` keeps is a *value* of that arg, so it must not unlock the
        // arg that requires a separator. Deliberate: one token cannot be both.
        let spec = spec_with_args([
            SpecArg::builder()
                .name("kept")
                .var(true)
                .var_max(1)
                .required(false)
                .double_dash(SpecDoubleDashChoices::Preserve)
                .build(),
            required_arg("rest"),
        ]);

        let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "--", "x"])).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(arg_value(&parsed, "kept"), "--");
        assert!(parsed.args.keys().all(|a| a.name != "rest"));
        assert!(!parsed.double_dash_seen);
        assert_eq!(parsed.errors.len(), 1);
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_double_dash_required_does_not_bail_in_parse_partial() {
        // Completions parse half-typed command lines; they must still get a result.
        let spec = spec_with_args([required_arg("file")]);

        assert!(parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["test", "x"])).is_ok());
        assert!(parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "x"])).is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_double_dash_without_required_arg_does_not_move_cursor() {
        // Specs with no `double_dash="required"` arg are untouched by the jump.
        let spec = spec_with_args([
            SpecArg::builder().name("first").required(false).build(),
            SpecArg::builder().name("second").required(false).build(),
        ]);

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--", "a", "b"])).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(arg_value(&parsed, "first"), "a");
        assert_eq!(arg_value(&parsed, "second"), "b");
        assert!(parsed.next_arg.is_none());
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_parser_with_custom_env_for_required_arg() {
        let spec = spec_with_arg(
            SpecArg::builder()
                .name("name")
                .env("NAME")
                .required(true)
                .build(),
        );
        // FIXME: Audit that the environment access only happens in single-threaded code.
        unsafe { std::env::remove_var("NAME") };

        let parsed = parse_with_env(&spec, &["test"], &[("NAME", "john")])
            .expect("parse should succeed with custom env");
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(first_string_value(&parsed), "john");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_parser_with_custom_env_for_required_flag() {
        let spec = spec_with_flag(
            SpecFlag::builder()
                .long("name")
                .env("NAME")
                .required(true)
                .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("name").build())
                .build(),
        );
        // FIXME: Audit that the environment access only happens in single-threaded code.
        unsafe { std::env::remove_var("NAME") };

        let parsed = parse_with_env(&spec, &["test"], &[("NAME", "jane")])
            .expect("parse should succeed with custom env");
        assert_eq!(parsed.flags.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(first_string_value(&parsed), "jane");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_flag_environment_fallbacks_preserve_declaration_order() {
        let spec = spec_with_flag(
            SpecFlag::builder()
                .long("name")
                .env("NAME")
                .env_fallback("OLD_NAME")
                .env_fallback("OLDER_NAME")
                .deprecated_env("DEPRECATED_NAME")
                .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("name").build())
                .build(),
        );

        let parsed = parse_with_env(
            &spec,
            &["test"],
            &[
                ("NAME", "canonical"),
                ("OLD_NAME", "fallback"),
                ("DEPRECATED_NAME", "deprecated"),
            ],
        )
        .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(first_string_value(&parsed), "canonical");

        let parsed = parse_with_env(
            &spec,
            &["test"],
            &[("OLDER_NAME", "older"), ("OLD_NAME", "old")],
        )
        .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(first_string_value(&parsed), "old");

        let parsed =
            parse_with_env(&spec, &["test"], &[("DEPRECATED_NAME", "deprecated")]).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(first_string_value(&parsed), "deprecated");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_value_from_a_deprecated_alias_says_which_name_to_use() {
        let spec = spec_with_flag(
            SpecFlag::builder()
                .long("name")
                .env("NAME")
                .deprecated_env("DEPRECATED_NAME")
                .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("name").build())
                .build(),
        );

        // The current name is not a deprecated one, and says nothing.
        let parsed = parse_with_env(&spec, &["test"], &[("NAME", "canonical")]).unwrap();
        assert!(parsed.warnings.is_empty(), "{:?}", parsed.warnings);

        let parsed =
            parse_with_env(&spec, &["test"], &[("DEPRECATED_NAME", "deprecated")]).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.warnings.len(), 1, "{:?}", parsed.warnings);
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.warnings[0].kind,
            crate::warn::WarningKind::DeprecatedEnv
        );
        assert_eq!(parsed.warnings[0].name, "DEPRECATED_NAME");
        assert_eq!(parsed.warnings[0].replacement.as_deref(), Some("NAME"));
        // Reported, not printed, and the value still arrives.
        assert_eq!(first_string_value(&parsed), "deprecated");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_deprecated_flag_reports_only_when_it_was_used() {
        let spec = spec_with_flag(
            SpecFlag::builder()
                .long("output")
                .deprecated("use --out")
                .deprecated_remove_at("3.0.0")
                .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("output").build())
                .build(),
        );

        let parsed = parse_with_env(&spec, &["test"], &[]).unwrap();
        assert!(parsed.warnings.is_empty(), "{:?}", parsed.warnings);

        let parsed = parse_with_env(&spec, &["test", "--output", "a.txt"], &[]).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.warnings.len(), 1, "{:?}", parsed.warnings);
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.warnings[0].kind,
            crate::warn::WarningKind::DeprecatedFlag
        );
        // Named the way it was typed, dashes and all.
        assert_eq!(parsed.warnings[0].name, "--output");
        assert_eq!(parsed.warnings[0].remove_at.as_deref(), Some("3.0.0"));
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.warnings[0].render(),
            "warning: --output is deprecated, removed at 3.0.0: use --out\n",
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_milestone_the_spec_has_not_reached_stays_quiet() {
        let flag = SpecFlag::builder()
            .long("output")
            .deprecated("use --out")
            .deprecated_warn_at("9.0.0")
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("output").build())
            .build();
        let mut spec = spec_with_flag(flag);
        spec.version = Some("2.0.0".to_string());

        let parsed = parse_with_env(&spec, &["test", "--output", "a.txt"], &[]).unwrap();
        assert!(parsed.warnings.is_empty(), "{:?}", parsed.warnings);

        // And once the CLI is the release that was named, it speaks up.
        spec.version = Some("9.0.0".to_string());
        let parsed = parse_with_env(&spec, &["test", "--output", "a.txt"], &[]).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.warnings.len(), 1, "{:?}", parsed.warnings);
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_parser_with_custom_env_still_fails_when_missing() {
        let spec = spec_with_arg(
            SpecArg::builder()
                .name("name")
                .env("NAME")
                .required(true)
                .build(),
        );
        // FIXME: Audit that the environment access only happens in single-threaded code.
        unsafe { std::env::remove_var("NAME") };
        assert!(parse_with_env(&spec, &["test"], &[]).is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_parser_does_not_treat_env_choice_value_as_help() {
        let spec = spec_with_arg(
            SpecArg::builder()
                .name("env")
                .env("CURRENT_ENV")
                .choices(["dev", "staging"])
                .required(false)
                .build(),
        );

        assert_parse_err(
            parse_with_env(&spec, &["test"], &[("CURRENT_ENV", "--help")]),
            "Invalid choice for arg env: --help, expected one of dev, staging",
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_parser_does_not_treat_default_choice_value_as_help() {
        let spec = spec_with_flag(
            SpecFlag::builder()
                .long("env")
                .arg(
                    SpecArg::builder()
                        .name("env")
                        .choices(["dev", "staging"])
                        .build(),
                )
                .default_value("--help")
                .build(),
        );

        assert_parse_err(
            parse_with_env(&spec, &["test"], &[]),
            "Invalid choice for option env: --help, expected one of dev, staging",
        );
    }

    /// argv as `parse` wants it, program name included.
    fn words(of: &[&str]) -> Vec<String> {
        of.iter().map(|s| s.to_string()).collect()
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_command_that_needs_a_subcommand_says_so() {
        // The spec has carried `subcommand_required` since the derive needed it, and this parser
        // never read it — so `mise generate`, which declares it, parsed as a complete
        // invocation while usage-argv and clap both refused. Found by the differential fuzzer.
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
cmd "gen" subcommand_required=#true {
    cmd "two" {}
    cmd "one" {}
    cmd "secret" hide=#true {}
    alias "g"
}
cmd "open" {
    cmd "sub" {}
}
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let err = parse(&spec, &words(&["ex", "gen"])).unwrap_err();
        // Sorted, so the message does not depend on map order; hidden commands left out,
        // because a message telling someone to type a hidden name is worse than a vague one;
        // and the alias not listed beside the name it points at.
        assert_eq!(err.to_string(), "`gen` needs a subcommand: one of one, two");

        // Reached through its alias, and still about the command rather than the spelling.
        let err = parse(&spec, &words(&["ex", "g"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().starts_with("`gen` needs a subcommand"));

        // Given one: fine.
        parse(&spec, &words(&["ex", "gen", "one"])).unwrap();

        // And a command that has subcommands without declaring them required is untouched —
        // this is the half that keeps the check from being "any command with children".
        parse(&spec, &words(&["ex", "open"])).unwrap();
        parse(&spec, &words(&["ex", "open", "sub"])).unwrap();
    }

    #[test]
    fn arg_required_else_help_observes_the_selected_commands_argv() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
flag "--verbose" global=#true
cmd "run" arg_required_else_help=#true {
    flag "--all"
}
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let words = |items: &[&str]| items.iter().map(|s| (*s).to_string()).collect::<Vec<_>>();

        let err = parse(&spec, &words(&["ex", "run"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("Usage: ex run"), "{err}");

        // A global before the command belongs to the ancestor. It selected `run`, but did not
        // give `run` an argument of its own.
        let err = parse(&spec, &words(&["ex", "--verbose", "run"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("Usage: ex run"), "{err}");

        parse(&spec, &words(&["ex", "run", "--all"])).expect("run received an argv token");
    }

    #[test]
    fn empty_default_with_parent_flags_observes_child_argv() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
default_subcommand "run"
default_subcommand_on_empty #true
flag "--verbose" global=#true
cmd "run" arg_required_else_help=#true {}
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let words = |items: &[&str]| items.iter().map(|s| (*s).to_string()).collect::<Vec<_>>();
        let err = parse(&spec, &words(&["ex", "--verbose"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("Usage: ex run"), "{err}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_unmatched_word_is_forwarded_when_external_subcommand_is_set() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
unknown_flags "error"
external_subcommand #true
cmd "install"
flag "-v --verbose" global=#true
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "foo", "--help", "bar"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.external,
            Some(vec!["foo".into(), "--help".into(), "bar".into()])
        );
        assert!(parsed.flags.is_empty());

        // Known subcommands still win.
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "install"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmd.name, "install");
        assert!(parsed.external.is_none());

        // A global flag before the unmatched word still binds on the parent.
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "-v", "foo", "--verbose"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.external,
            Some(vec!["foo".into(), "--verbose".into()])
        );
        assert!(parsed.flags.keys().any(|flag| flag.name == "verbose"));

        // An unknown flag on the parent is still an error, which is what clap does.
        assert!(parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--wat"])).is_err());

        // A negative number is a value, not a flag, so it can be the unmatched word.
        // usage-argv already forwarded `-1`; Phase 1 used to treat every `starts_with('-')`
        // token as a flag and never reach the catch-all.
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "-1", "rest"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.external, Some(vec!["-1".into(), "rest".into()]));
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_external_subcommand_satisfies_subcommand_required() {
        let mut spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
external_subcommand #true
cmd "install"
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        spec.cmd.subcommand_required = true;

        parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "foo", "--help"])).unwrap();
        assert!(parse(&spec, &input(&["ex"])).is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_default_subcommand_outranks_an_external_one() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
default_subcommand "run"
external_subcommand #true
cmd "run" {
    arg "[task]"
}
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "build"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmd.name, "run");
        assert!(parsed.external.is_none());
        assert_eq!(first_string_value(&parsed), "build");
    }

    #[test]
    fn multicall_basename_strips_a_path_and_exe() {
        assert_eq!(multicall_basename("/usr/bin/ls"), "ls");
        assert_eq!(multicall_basename(r"C:\busybox\ls.exe"), "ls");
        assert_eq!(multicall_basename("LS.EXE"), "LS");
        assert_eq!(multicall_basename("busybox"), "busybox");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_multicall_applet_is_the_first_word() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "busybox"
bin "busybox"
multicall #true
cmd "ls" {
    arg "[ARGS]" var=#true
}
cmd "cat"
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        // A symlink: argv[0] is the applet.
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["/usr/bin/ls", "-l"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmd.name, "ls");
        match parsed.args.values().next() {
            Some(ParseValue::MultiString(values)) => assert_eq!(values, &["-l".to_string()]),
            other => panic!("expected ARGS to collect -l, got {other:?}"),
        }

        // A dispatcher invocation still skips argv[0].
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["/usr/bin/busybox", "ls", "-l"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmd.name, "ls");

        // Configured dispatcher values receive the same path and extension normalization.
        let mut configured = spec.clone();
        configured.name = "BusyBox".to_string();
        configured.bin = "/opt/bin/busybox.exe".to_string();
        let parsed = parse(&configured, &input(&["/usr/bin/busybox.exe", "ls", "-l"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmd.name, "ls");

        // `.exe` is stripped so Windows and Unix agree.
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["ls.exe"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmd.name, "ls");

        // Without the property, argv[0] is discarded as usual.
        let mut plain = spec.clone();
        plain.multicall = false;
        let parsed = parse(&plain, &input(&["/usr/bin/ls", "ls"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.cmd.name, "ls");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_multicall_unknown_applet_can_be_external() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "busybox"
bin "busybox"
multicall #true
unknown_flags "error"
external_subcommand #true
cmd "ls"
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["/usr/bin/git", "--help"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.external, Some(vec!["git".into(), "--help".into()]));

        let mut closed = spec.clone();
        closed.cmd.external_subcommand = false;
        assert!(parse(&closed, &input(&["wat"])).is_err());
    }

    #[cfg(feature = "unstable_choices_env")]
    #[test]
    fn test_parser_arg_choices_from_custom_env() {
        let spec = spec_arg_choices_env("DEPLOY_ENVS");

        let parsed =
            parse_with_env(&spec, &["test", "bar"], &[("DEPLOY_ENVS", "foo,bar baz")]).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(first_string_value(&parsed), "bar");

        assert_parse_err(
            parse_with_env(&spec, &["test", "prod"], &[("DEPLOY_ENVS", "foo,bar baz")]),
            "Invalid choice for arg env: prod, expected one of foo, bar, baz",
        );
        assert_parse_err(
            parse_with_env(&spec, &["test", "prod"], &[]),
            "Invalid choice for arg env: prod, no choices resolved from env DEPLOY_ENVS",
        );
    }

    #[cfg(feature = "unstable_choices_env")]
    #[test]
    fn test_parser_validates_flag_choices_from_custom_env() {
        let spec = spec_flag_choices_env("DEPLOY_ENVS");
        let parsed = parse_with_env(
            &spec,
            &["test", "--env", "baz"],
            &[("DEPLOY_ENVS", "foo,bar baz")],
        )
        .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(first_string_value(&parsed), "baz");
    }

    #[cfg(feature = "unstable_choices_env")]
    #[test]
    fn test_parser_revalidates_env_and_default_values_against_choices_env() {
        let arg_env_spec = spec_with_arg(
            SpecArg::builder()
                .name("env")
                .env("CURRENT_ENV")
                .choices_env("DEPLOY_ENVS")
                .build(),
        );
        assert_parse_err(
            parse_with_env(
                &arg_env_spec,
                &["test"],
                &[("CURRENT_ENV", "prod"), ("DEPLOY_ENVS", "dev,staging")],
            ),
            "Invalid choice for arg env: prod, expected one of dev, staging",
        );

        let flag_default_spec = spec_with_flag(
            SpecFlag::builder()
                .long("env")
                .arg(
                    SpecArg::builder()
                        .name("env")
                        .choices_env("DEPLOY_ENVS")
                        .build(),
                )
                .default_value("prod")
                .build(),
        );
        assert_parse_err(
            parse_with_env(
                &flag_default_spec,
                &["test"],
                &[("DEPLOY_ENVS", "dev,staging")],
            ),
            "Invalid choice for option env: prod, expected one of dev, staging",
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_variadic_arg_captures_unknown_flags_from_spec_string() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
            flag "-v --verbose" var=#true
            arg "[database]" default="myapp_dev"
            arg "[args...]"
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let input: Vec<String> = vec!["test", "mydb", "--host", "localhost"]
            .into_iter()
            .map(String::from)
            .collect();
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();
        let env = parsed.as_env();
        assert_eq!(env.get("usage_database").unwrap(), "mydb");
        assert_eq!(env.get("usage_args").unwrap(), "--host localhost");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_variadic_arg_captures_unknown_flags() {
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .flag(SpecFlag::builder().short('v').long("verbose").build())
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("database").required(false).build())
            .arg(
                SpecArg::builder()
                    .name("args")
                    .required(false)
                    .var(true)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // Unknown --host flag and its value should be captured by [args...]
        let input: Vec<String> = vec!["test", "mydb", "--host", "localhost"]
            .into_iter()
            .map(String::from)
            .collect();
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 2);
        let args_val = parsed
            .args
            .iter()
            .find(|(a, _)| a.name == "args")
            .unwrap()
            .1;
        match args_val {
            ParseValue::MultiString(v) => {
                assert_eq!(v, &vec!["--host".to_string(), "localhost".to_string()]);
            }
            _ => panic!("Expected MultiString, got {:?}", args_val),
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_variadic_arg_captures_unknown_flags_with_double_dash() {
        let cmd = SpecCommand::builder()
            .name("test")
            .flag(SpecFlag::builder().short('v').long("verbose").build())
            .arg(SpecArg::builder().name("database").required(false).build())
            .arg(
                SpecArg::builder()
                    .name("args")
                    .required(false)
                    .var(true)
                    .build(),
            )
            .build();
        let spec = Spec {
            name: "test".to_string(),
            bin: "test".to_string(),
            cmd,
            ..Default::default()
        };

        // With explicit -- separator
        let input: Vec<String> = vec!["test", "--", "mydb", "--host", "localhost"]
            .into_iter()
            .map(String::from)
            .collect();
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(parsed.args.len(), 2);
        let args_val = parsed
            .args
            .iter()
            .find(|(a, _)| a.name == "args")
            .unwrap()
            .1;
        match args_val {
            ParseValue::MultiString(v) => {
                assert_eq!(v, &vec!["--host".to_string(), "localhost".to_string()]);
            }
            _ => panic!("Expected MultiString, got {:?}", args_val),
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_variadic_arg_unknown_flag_equals_value_not_split() {
        // Regression: --flag=value should be treated as a single positional token when
        // --flag is not a known spec flag, not split into "--flag=value" AND "value".
        let spec: Spec = r#"arg "[other_args]" var=#true"#.parse().unwrap();

        // Single unknown --flag=value: must not produce a stray "3" positional.
        // as_env() shell-joins values, so "=" gets quoted.
        let input: Vec<String> = vec!["test", "--option=3"]
            .into_iter()
            .map(String::from)
            .collect();
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input).unwrap();
        let env = parsed.as_env();
        assert_eq!(
            env.get("usage_other_args").map(String::as_str),
            Some("'--option=3'"),
            "expected a single --option=3 token, got {:?}",
            env.get("usage_other_args"),
        );

        // Multiple unknown --flag=value args should each be kept intact
        let input2: Vec<String> = vec!["test", "--foo=bar", "--baz=qux"]
            .into_iter()
            .map(String::from)
            .collect();
        let parsed2 = parse(&spec, &input2).unwrap();
        let env2 = parsed2.as_env();
        assert_eq!(
            env2.get("usage_other_args").map(String::as_str),
            Some("'--foo=bar' '--baz=qux'"),
            "expected two intact tokens, got {:?}",
            env2.get("usage_other_args"),
        );

        // Mix of plain positional args and unknown --flag=value tokens
        let input3: Vec<String> = vec!["test", "positional1", "--option=3", "positional2"]
            .into_iter()
            .map(String::from)
            .collect();
        let parsed3 = parse(&spec, &input3).unwrap();
        let env3 = parsed3.as_env();
        assert_eq!(
            env3.get("usage_other_args").map(String::as_str),
            Some("positional1 '--option=3' positional2"),
            "expected positional args and intact flag token, got {:?}",
            env3.get("usage_other_args"),
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_allow_hyphen_values_consumes_short_flag_collision() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "-d --working-dir <DIR>"
flag "-a --args <ARGS>" allow_hyphen_values=#true
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "-a", "-destroy"])).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.flags.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "args"), "-destroy");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_allow_hyphen_values_consumes_embedded_long_value() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "-d --working-dir <DIR>"
flag "-a --args <ARGS>" allow_hyphen_values=#true
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--args=-destroy"])).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(parsed.flags.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "args"), "-destroy");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_allow_hyphen_values_takes_the_separator_as_its_value() {
        // The flag is declared to accept a token that looks like a flag, and `--` looks
        // like one, so it binds — which is what clap does with the same declaration.
        // Letting the separator arm run first consumed it and left the flag hungry, and
        // the flag then ate the word past it: `-a -- -x` bound `-x` with the `--` gone.
        let spec = r#"
flag "-a --args <ARGS>" allow_hyphen_values=#true
arg "[rest]..."
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "-a", "--", "-x"])).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "args"), "--");
        let rest = parsed
            .args
            .values()
            .next()
            .expect("expected the word after the separator to reach the argument");
        assert_eq!(rest.to_string(), "-x");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_variadic_allow_hyphen_values_collects_after_a_hyphenated_first_value() {
        // Which token supplied the first value says nothing about how many the argument
        // takes, so collection carries on from a hyphenated one exactly as from a plain
        // one. It still stops at the next flag-like token, which is what keeps a second
        // occurrence of the flag from being eaten as a value.
        let spec = r#"
flag "-a --args <ARGS>..." allow_hyphen_values=#true
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "-a", "-x", "b", "c"])).unwrap();

        let flag = parsed
            .flags
            .keys()
            .find(|flag| flag.name == "args")
            .expect("expected args flag");
        match parsed.flags.get(flag).expect("expected args value") {
            ParseValue::MultiString(values) => assert_eq!(values, &["-x", "b", "c"]),
            other => panic!("expected a list of values, got {other:?}"),
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_variadic_allow_hyphen_values_consumes_repeated_flag_values() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "-a --args <ARGS>" var=#true allow_hyphen_values=#true
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "-a", "-val1", "-a", "-val2"])).unwrap();

        let flag = parsed
            .flags
            .keys()
            .find(|flag| flag.name == "args")
            .expect("expected args flag");
        let value = parsed.flags.get(flag).expect("expected args value");
        match value {
            ParseValue::MultiString(values) => {
                assert_eq!(values, &vec!["-val1".to_string(), "-val2".to_string()]);
            }
            _ => panic!("expected MultiString, got {value:?}"),
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_require_equals_accepts_attached_and_refuses_detached() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "--inspect <PORT>" require_equals=#true
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--inspect=9229"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "inspect"), "9229");

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--inspect", "9229"])).unwrap_err();
        let msg = format!("{err}");
        assert!(
            msg.contains("requires an argument") || msg.contains("inspect"),
            "detached value must be refused: {msg}"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn boolean_flags_can_accept_attached_values_when_enabled() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
flag "--color" negate="--no-color" bool_value=#true
arg "[rest]"
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        for (token, expected) in [
            ("--color", true),
            ("--color=true", true),
            ("--color=false", false),
            ("--no-color", false),
            ("--no-color=false", true),
        ] {
            let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", token])).unwrap();
            assert!(
                matches!(
                    parsed.flags.get(&spec.cmd.flags[0]),
                    Some(ParseValue::Bool(value)) if *value == expected
                ),
                "{token}"
            );
        }

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--color=false", "word"])).unwrap();
        assert!(matches!(
            parsed.args.get(&spec.cmd.args[0]),
            Some(ParseValue::String(value)) if value == "word"
        ));
        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--color=maybe"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("expected `true` or `false`"));

        let strict: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
args_override_self #false
flag "--color" negate="--no-color" bool_value=#true
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        assert!(parse(&strict, &input(&["ex", "--color=false", "--color=true"])).is_err());
        let parsed = parse(
            &strict,
            &input(&["ex", "--color=false", "--no-color=false"]),
        )
        .unwrap();
        assert!(matches!(
            parsed.flags.get(&strict.cmd.flags[0]),
            Some(ParseValue::Bool(true))
        ));
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_require_equals_refuses_a_detached_value_after_a_short_bundle() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "-a --all"
flag "-i --inspect <PORT>" require_equals=#true
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "-ai", "9229"])).unwrap_err();
        let msg = format!("{err}");
        assert!(
            msg.contains("requires an argument") || msg.contains("inspect"),
            "bundled short must refuse the following word: {msg}"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_default_missing_binds_when_the_value_is_left_off() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "-c --color <WHEN>" default_missing="always"
flag "-v --verbose"
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--color"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "color"), "always");

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--color=never"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "color"), "never");

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--color", "never"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "color"), "never");

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--color", "--verbose"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "color"), "always");
        assert!(parsed.flags.keys().any(|f| f.name == "verbose"));

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--color="])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "color"), "");

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "-cnever"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "color"), "never");

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "-c", "-v"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "color"), "always");
        assert!(parsed.flags.keys().any(|f| f.name == "verbose"));
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_default_missing_requires_opt_in_for_detached_negative_flag_values() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "--apps <N>"
flag "--jobs <N>" default_missing="default missing"
flag "--kids <N>" default_missing="default missing" allow_negative_numbers=#true
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--apps", "-1"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "apps"), "-1");

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--jobs", "-1"])).unwrap_err();
        assert!(
            err.to_string().contains("unexpected word: -1"),
            "default_missing must keep an unopted negative value separate: {err}"
        );

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--kids", "-1"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "kids"), "-1");

        let external_spec = r#"
external_subcommand #true
flag "--apps <N>"
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();
        let parsed = parse(&external_spec, &input(&["test", "--apps", "-1"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "apps"), "-1");
        assert!(parsed.external.is_none());

        for words in [
            &["test", "--apps", "--jobs", "1"][..],
            &["test", "--apps", "--kids", "-1"][..],
        ] {
            let err = parse(&spec, &input(words)).unwrap_err();
            let message = err.to_string();
            assert!(
                message.contains("--apps") && message.contains("requires an argument"),
                "the earlier flag must report its missing value for {words:?}: {message}"
            );
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_optional_flag_value_preserves_bare_and_explicit_empty_forms() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "--bump [LEVEL]" value_optional=#true
flag "--verbose"
arg "[FILE]"
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let absent = parse(&spec, &input(&["test"])).unwrap();
        assert!(!absent.flags.keys().any(|flag| flag.name == "bump"));

        let bare = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--bump", "--verbose", "file.txt"])).unwrap();
        let bump = bare
            .flags
            .iter()
            .find(|(flag, _)| flag.name == "bump")
            .map(|(_, value)| value)
            .unwrap();
        assert!(matches!(bump, ParseValue::MultiString(values) if values.is_empty()));
        assert!(bare.flags.keys().any(|flag| flag.name == "verbose"));
        assert_eq!(arg_value(&bare, "FILE"), "file.txt");

        let explicit = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--bump=", "file.txt"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&explicit, "bump"), "");

        let corrected = parse(
            &spec,
            &input(&["test", "--bump=2", "--bump", "--verbose", "file.txt"]),
        )
        .unwrap();
        let bump = corrected
            .flags
            .iter()
            .find(|(flag, _)| flag.name == "bump")
            .map(|(_, value)| value)
            .unwrap();
        assert!(matches!(bump, ParseValue::MultiString(values) if values.is_empty()));

        let collecting = r#"
flag "--tag [TAG]..." value_optional=#true
flag "--verbose"
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();
        let valued = parse(
            &collecting,
            &input(&["test", "--tag", "one", "two", "--verbose"]),
        )
        .unwrap();
        let tag = valued
            .flags
            .iter()
            .find(|(flag, _)| flag.name == "tag")
            .map(|(_, value)| value)
            .unwrap();
        assert!(matches!(tag, ParseValue::MultiString(values) if values == &["one", "two"]));
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_repeatable_bare_optional_values_count_each_occurrence() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "--tag [TAG]" var=#true var_min=2 var_max=2 value_optional=#true
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--tag", "--tag"])).unwrap();
        let tag = parsed
            .flags
            .iter()
            .find(|(flag, _)| flag.name == "tag")
            .map(|(_, value)| value)
            .unwrap();
        assert!(matches!(tag, ParseValue::MultiString(values) if values == &["", ""]));

        assert!(parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--tag"])).is_err());
        assert!(parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--tag", "--tag", "--tag"])).is_err());
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_repeatable_variadic_optional_values_do_not_gain_bare_occurrences() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "--tag [TAG]..." var=#true value_optional=#true
flag "--verbose"
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        for argv in [
            &["test", "--tag", "one", "two"][..],
            &["test", "--tag", "one", "two", "--verbose"][..],
            &["test", "--tag", "one", "--tag", "two"][..],
        ] {
            let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(argv)).unwrap();
            let tag = parsed
                .flags
                .iter()
                .find(|(flag, _)| flag.name == "tag")
                .map(|(_, value)| value)
                .unwrap();
            assert!(
                matches!(tag, ParseValue::MultiString(values) if values == &["one", "two"]),
                "argv={argv:?}: {tag:?}"
            );
        }

        let bare = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--tag", "--verbose"])).unwrap();
        let tag = bare
            .flags
            .iter()
            .find(|(flag, _)| flag.name == "tag")
            .map(|(_, value)| value)
            .unwrap();
        assert!(matches!(tag, ParseValue::MultiString(values) if values == &[""]));
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_default_missing_with_require_equals_refuses_the_following_word() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "--inspect <PORT>" require_equals=#true default_missing="9229"
arg "[rest]"
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--inspect"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "inspect"), "9229");

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--inspect=1234"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "inspect"), "1234");

        // The following word is not the value; the missing value is, and 80 is a positional.
        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--inspect", "80"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "inspect"), "9229");
        assert_eq!(
            parsed
                .args
                .values()
                .next()
                .map(|v| v.to_string())
                .as_deref(),
            Some("80")
        );

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--inspect="])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "inspect"), "");
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_default_missing_must_be_a_choice() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "--color <WHEN>" default_missing="always" {
    choices "auto" "always" "never"
}
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--color"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "color"), "always");

        let parsed = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--color=never"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(flag_string_value(&parsed, "color"), "never");

        let spec = r#"
flag "--color <WHEN>" default_missing="wat" {
    choices "auto" "always" "never"
}
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--color"])).unwrap_err();
        let msg = format!("{err}");
        assert!(
            msg.contains("Invalid choice for option color: wat"),
            "missing default has to pass choices the same way a typed value does: {msg}"
        );

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--color=wat"])).unwrap_err();
        let msg = format!("{err}");
        assert!(
            msg.contains("Invalid choice for option color: wat"),
            "an attached value that is not a choice is still refused: {msg}"
        );

        let spec = r#"
flag "--inspect <PORT>" require_equals=#true default_missing="wat" {
    choices "9229" "80"
}
arg "[rest]"
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "--inspect", "80"])).unwrap_err();
        let msg = format!("{err}");
        assert!(
            msg.contains("Invalid choice for option inspect: wat"),
            "require_equals still binds the missing string, so the error is the choice: {msg}"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn test_hyphen_values_still_start_short_flag_parsing() {
        let spec = r#"
flag "-d --working-dir <DIR>"
flag "-a --args <ARGS>"
"#
        .parse::<Spec>()
        .unwrap();

        let err = parse(&spec, &input(&["test", "-a", "-destroy"])).unwrap_err();
        let message = err.to_string();
        assert!(
            message.contains("--args") && message.contains("requires an argument"),
            "the recognized -d must leave the earlier -a missing: {message}"
        );
    }

    /// `available_flags` has to agree with what an actual parse accepts, since
    /// its whole reason to exist is answering that question without one.
    mod available_flags {
        use super::*;

        fn spec() -> Spec {
            r#"
bin "test"
flag "-v --verbose" global=#true
flag "--raw" global=#true effect="write"
flag "--local-only"
cmd "run" {
    flag "-r --raw"
    flag "-w --watch"
    cmd "once"
}
"#
            .parse::<Spec>()
            .unwrap()
        }

        fn chain<'a>(spec: &'a Spec, path: &[&str]) -> Vec<&'a SpecCommand> {
            let mut chain = vec![&spec.cmd];
            for segment in path {
                chain.push(chain.last().unwrap().find_subcommand(segment).unwrap());
            }
            chain
        }

        fn names(spec: &Spec, path: &[&str]) -> Vec<String> {
            let mut names: Vec<_> = available_flags(&chain(spec, path))
                .iter()
                .map(|f| f.name.clone())
                .collect();
            names.sort();
            names
        }

        #[test]
        fn an_empty_chain_yields_nothing() {
            assert!(available_flags(&[]).is_empty());
        }

        #[test]
        fn the_root_gets_its_own_flags() {
            let spec = spec();
            assert_eq!(names(&spec, &[]), ["local-only", "raw", "verbose"]);
        }

        #[test]
        fn a_subcommand_keeps_globals_and_drops_local_only_ancestors() {
            let spec = spec();
            assert_eq!(names(&spec, &["run"]), ["raw", "verbose", "watch"]);
        }

        #[test]
        fn a_re_declared_global_is_listed_once() {
            // The merge can leave the long key on the merged flag and the short
            // key on the pre-merge one. Same flag; it must not be listed twice.
            let spec = r#"
bin "test"
flag "-y --yes" global=#true effect="write"
cmd "rm" {
    flag "-y --yes"
}
"#
            .parse::<Spec>()
            .unwrap();
            let flags = available_flags(&chain(&spec, &["rm"]));
            assert_eq!(flags.len(), 1, "{flags:?}");
            assert_eq!(flags[0].effect.map(|e| e.as_str()), Some("write"));
        }

        #[test]
        fn a_re_declared_global_keeps_the_globals_declaration() {
            // `run` re-declares the long-only global `--raw` as `-r --raw`
            // without `global`. That is the same flag: the global's `effect`
            // survives, the orphan short is unioned in, and it stays global.
            let spec = spec();
            let flags = available_flags(&chain(&spec, &["run"]));
            let raw = flags.iter().find(|f| f.name == "raw").unwrap();
            assert!(raw.global);
            assert_eq!(raw.effect.map(|e| e.as_str()), Some("write"));
            assert_eq!(raw.short, ['r']);
        }

        #[test]
        fn it_matches_what_a_parse_accepts() {
            // The invariant. If these ever disagree, one of them is lying to a
            // caller about which flags a command takes.
            let spec = spec();
            for path in [vec![], vec!["run"], vec!["run", "once"]] {
                let argv = std::iter::once("test".to_string())
                    .chain(path.iter().map(|s| s.to_string()))
                    .collect::<Vec<_>>();
                let parsed = parse_partial(&spec, &argv).unwrap();

                let mut from_parse: Vec<_> = unique_flags(parsed.available_flags.values())
                    .map(|f| f.name.clone())
                    .collect();
                from_parse.sort();
                assert_eq!(names(&spec, &path), from_parse, "path {path:?}");
            }
        }
    }

    // Provenance: which token bound what, and where a value came from when no token did.

    /// Every role a token was given, rendered the way `Debug` renders it, so a test can
    /// assert on the whole picture rather than on one field at a time.
    fn roles(parsed: &ParseOutput, index: usize) -> Vec<String> {
        parsed
            .tokens
            .iter()
            .find(|token| token.index == index)
            .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("no token at {index}"))
            .roles
            .iter()
            .map(render_role)
            .collect()
    }

    fn origins(parsed: &ParseOutput, flag: &str) -> Vec<ValueOrigin> {
        parsed
            .flag_origins
            .iter()
            .find(|(f, _)| f.name == flag)
            .map(|(_, origins)| origins.clone())
            .unwrap_or_default()
    }

    fn explain_with_env(spec: &Spec, words: &[&str], env: &[(&str, &str)]) -> ParseOutput {
        let env = env
            .iter()
            .map(|(k, v)| ((*k).to_string(), (*v).to_string()))
            .collect();
        Parser::new(spec)
            .with_env(env)
            .explain(&input(words))
            .unwrap()
    }

    fn explain(spec: &Spec, words: &[&str]) -> ParseOutput {
        explain_with_env(spec, words, &[])
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_attached_long_value_is_recorded_on_the_flag_token() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--env <env>\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "--env=prod"]);

        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 0), ["program"]);
        assert_eq!(
            roles(&parsed, 1),
            ["flag env as --env", "value of env = [\"prod\"], attached"]
        );
        // This is jdx/mise discussion #8883: a hand-written scanner dropped the attached
        // form while the detached one worked, and nothing could show the difference.
        assert!(origins(&parsed, "env").is_empty(), "typed, so no fallback");
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_detached_long_value_is_recorded_on_its_own_token() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--env <env>\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "--env", "prod"]);

        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 1), ["flag env as --env"]);
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 2), ["value of env = [\"prod\"]"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_short_bundle_is_attributed_to_the_bundle_token() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"-a\"\nflag \"-b\"\nflag \"-j <n>\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "-abj8"]);

        // One word the caller wrote, four things it did — and the re-queued tails are
        // folded back onto it rather than appearing as tokens nobody typed.
        assert_eq!(
            roles(&parsed, 1),
            [
                "flag a as -a",
                "flag b as -b",
                "flag j as -j",
                "value of j = [\"8\"], attached",
            ]
        );
        assert_eq!(parsed.tokens.len(), 2);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_delimiter_splits_one_token_into_several_values() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--tags <tags>...\" delimiter=\",\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "--tags", "a,b,c"]);

        assert_eq!(
            roles(&parsed, 2),
            ["value of tags = [\"a\", \"b\", \"c\"]"],
            "the values meant, not the word typed"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_separator_and_the_words_after_it_are_distinguished() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\narg \"<src>\"\narg \"[raw]...\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "a", "--", "-x"]);

        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 1), ["arg src = [\"a\"]"]);
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 2), ["separator"]);
        // Past the separator `-x` is data, not an unknown flag.
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 3), ["arg raw = [\"-x\"]"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_second_separator_is_data() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\narg \"[raw]...\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "--", "a", "--", "b"]);

        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 1), ["separator"]);
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 3), ["arg raw = [\"--\"]"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_unknown_flag_says_what_took_it() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\narg \"[rest]...\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "--wat"]);

        // The default is lax, so the word became data. Which is the useful thing to be
        // told: the alternative reading is "you have a typo".
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 1), ["unknown flag, bound as rest"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_subcommand_word_is_not_a_positional() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\ncmd \"build\" {\n    arg \"<target>\"\n}\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "build", "a"]);

        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 1), ["subcommand build"]);
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 2), ["arg target = [\"a\"]"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_multicall_applet_is_read_at_argv0() {
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"box\"\nbin \"box\"\nmulticall #true\ncmd \"ls\" {\n    flag \"-l\"\n}\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["/usr/bin/ls", "-l"]);

        // argv[0] is both the program and the word that selected the applet, and the word
        // read there is not the word the caller wrote.
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 0), ["program", "subcommand ls"]);
        assert!(parsed.tokens[0].synthesized);
        assert_eq!(parsed.tokens[0].word, "/usr/bin/ls");
    }

    #[test]
    fn words_the_parse_never_reached_say_so() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\narg \"[rest]...\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let parsed = Parser::new(&spec)
            .explain(&input(&["ex", "--help", "a"]))
            .unwrap();

        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 2), ["unread"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_env_origin_names_the_variable_that_fired() {
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--token <t>\" env=\"EX_TOKEN\" env_fallback=\"EX_TOKEN_OLD\"\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();

        let primary = explain_with_env(&spec, &["ex"], &[("EX_TOKEN", "a")]);
        assert_eq!(
            origins(&primary, "token"),
            [ValueOrigin::Env("EX_TOKEN".to_string())]
        );

        // The fallback firing is a different fact from the primary firing, and which one it
        // was is what says which declaration to delete.
        let fallback = explain_with_env(&spec, &["ex"], &[("EX_TOKEN_OLD", "b")]);
        assert_eq!(
            origins(&fallback, "token"),
            [ValueOrigin::Env("EX_TOKEN_OLD".to_string())]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_default_origin_is_recorded_for_flags_and_args() {
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--color <when>\" default=\"auto\"\narg \"[src]\" default=\".\"\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex"]);

        assert_eq!(origins(&parsed, "color"), [ValueOrigin::Default]);
        let (arg, origins) = parsed.arg_origins.iter().next().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(arg.name, "src");
        assert_eq!(origins, &[ValueOrigin::Default]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_default_if_origin_carries_the_condition_that_fired() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
flag "--profile <p>"
flag "--strict" {
    default_if "--profile" "prod" "true"
}
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "--profile", "prod"]);

        // The selector alone is ambiguous: several conditions may name it with different
        // `when` values, so the report has to say which one matched.
        assert_eq!(
            origins(&parsed, "strict"),
            [ValueOrigin::DefaultIf {
                selector: "--profile".to_string(),
                when: Some("prod".to_string()),
            }]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_bare_optional_value_flag_records_default_missing() {
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--color <when>\" default_missing=\"always\"\nflag \"-v\"\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "--color", "-v"]);

        // The flag was typed and the value was not, which is the distinction a spec author
        // is asking about when they ask why `--color` came out `always`.
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 1), ["flag color as --color"]);
        assert_eq!(origins(&parsed, "color"), [ValueOrigin::DefaultMissing]);
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 2), ["flag v as -v"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_var_flag_can_take_one_value_from_argv_and_one_from_default_missing() {
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--color <when>\" var=#true default_missing=\"always\"\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "--color=red", "--color"]);

        // Why origins are a list: one declaration, two occurrences, two different answers.
        assert_eq!(
            roles(&parsed, 1),
            [
                "flag color as --color",
                "value of color = [\"red\"], attached"
            ]
        );
        assert_eq!(origins(&parsed, "color"), [ValueOrigin::DefaultMissing]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_override_names_the_flag_that_did_it() {
        let spec: Spec =
            "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--quiet\" default=\"true\"\nflag \"--loud\" overrides=\"--quiet\"\n"
                .parse()
                .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "--loud"]);

        // Without the overriding name, "`--quiet` is unset despite its default" has no
        // answer: the fallback phase silently declines to fill an overridden flag.
        assert_eq!(parsed.overridden_flags.get("quiet").unwrap(), "loud");
        assert!(origins(&parsed, "quiet").is_empty());
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_restart_token_leaves_the_tokens_and_clears_the_arg_origins() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
cmd "run" restart_token=":::" {
    arg "<task>" default="build"
}
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "run", "lint", ":::", "test"]);

        // The values belong to the last invocation, so provenance must too — but the words
        // of the first were still read, and a report that dropped them would show a command
        // line with a hole in it.
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 2), ["arg task = [\"lint\"]"]);
        // And the token that did the resetting says so: without a role of its own it reads
        // as a word that did nothing, next to a `lint` that filled an arg now empty.
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 3), ["restart"]);
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 4), ["arg task = [\"test\"]"]);
        assert!(parsed.arg_origins.is_empty());
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_value_terminator_says_which_run_it_ended() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
flag "--exec <cmd>..." value_terminator=";"
arg "<src>"
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "--exec", "rm", "tmp", ";", "a"]);

        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 3), ["value of exec = [\"tmp\"]"]);
        // The terminator is consumed and is not one of the values, which is the whole reason
        // it was declared — so it needs a row saying that rather than an empty one.
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 4), ["value terminator, ends exec"]);
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 5), ["arg src = [\"a\"]"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_args_value_terminator_says_which_run_it_ended() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
arg "<files>..." value_terminator=";"
arg "[dest]"
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "a", "b", ";", "out"]);

        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 2), ["arg files = [\"b\"]"]);
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 3), ["value terminator, ends files"]);
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 4), ["arg dest = [\"out\"]"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn explain_keeps_the_bindings_of_a_command_line_that_fails() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nflag \"--env <env>\"\narg \"<src>\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let parsed = Parser::new(&spec)
            .explain(&input(&["ex", "--env=prod"]))
            .unwrap();

        // `parse` reports "missing required <src>" and nothing else, which is the report the
        // caller already had. This is the case the whole thing exists for.
        assert!(
            Parser::new(&spec)
                .parse(&input(&["ex", "--env=prod"]))
                .is_err()
        );
        assert_eq!(
            roles(&parsed, 1),
            ["flag env as --env", "value of env = [\"prod\"], attached"]
        );
        assert!(
            parsed.errors.iter().any(|e| e.to_string().contains("src")),
            "{:?}",
            parsed.errors
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn an_external_subcommand_forwards_whole_tokens() {
        let spec: Spec = "name \"ex\"\nbin \"ex\"\nexternal_subcommand #true\ncmd \"build\"\n"
            .parse()
            .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["ex", "deploy", "--now"]);

        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 1), ["external"]);
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 2), ["external"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_view_keeps_the_callers_argv_positions() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
bin "ex"
view "runner" root="run"
cmd "run" {
    flag "--token <token>"
}
        "#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();

        let parsed = explain(&spec, &["runner", "--token", "secret"]);

        // A view re-enters the parse with the same argv, so the positions still mean what
        // the caller wrote.
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 0), ["program"]);
        assert_eq!(roles(&parsed, 2), ["value of token = [\"secret\"]"]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn empty_default_does_not_hide_a_missing_parent_flag_value() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
default_subcommand "run"
default_subcommand_on_empty #true
flag "--value <value>"
cmd "run" arg_required_else_help=#true
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let err = Parser::new(&spec)
            .parse(&input(&["ex", "--value"]))
            .unwrap_err();
        assert!(err.to_string().contains("requires an argument"), "{err}");
        assert!(!err.to_string().contains("Usage: ex run"), "{err}");
    }

    #[test]
    fn empty_default_honors_parent_args_conflict_policy() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
default_subcommand "run"
default_subcommand_on_empty #true
args_conflicts_with_subcommands #true
flag "--verbose"
cmd "run"
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let err = Parser::new(&spec)
            .parse(&input(&["ex", "--verbose"]))
            .unwrap_err();
        assert!(
            err.to_string().contains("cannot be used with arguments"),
            "{err}"
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn empty_default_mount_matches_explicit_selection() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
default_subcommand "run"
default_subcommand_on_empty #true
cmd "run" { mount run="discover" }
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let mut mounts = HashMap::new();
        mounts.insert(
            "discover".to_string(),
            "name \"run\"\nbin \"run\"\nflag \"--mounted <mounted>\" default=\"yes\"\n".to_string(),
        );
        for argv in [
            vec!["ex".to_string()],
            vec!["ex".to_string(), "run".to_string()],
        ] {
            let out = Parser::new(&spec)
                .with_mount_outputs(mounts.clone())
                .parse(&argv)
                .unwrap();
            assert_eq!(out.cmds.last().unwrap().name, "run");
            assert_eq!(out.flags.values().next().unwrap().to_string(), "yes");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn pending_parent_value_stays_pending_in_partial_parse() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
default_subcommand "run"
default_subcommand_on_empty #true
flag "--value <value>"
cmd "run" {}
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let out = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["ex", "--value"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.cmd.name, "ex");
        assert_eq!(out.flag_awaiting_value[0].name, "value");
    }

    #[test]
    fn optional_default_missing_still_selects_empty_child() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
default_subcommand "run"
default_subcommand_on_empty #true
flag "--value <value>" default_missing="fallback"
cmd "run" {}
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let out = Parser::new(&spec)
            .parse(&input(&["ex", "--value"]))
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.cmd.name, "run");
        assert_eq!(out.flags.values().next().unwrap().to_string(), "fallback");
    }

    #[test]
    fn empty_default_resets_cursor_after_root_sigil() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
default_subcommand "run"
default_subcommand_on_empty #true
arg "[tool]..." sigil="@"
cmd "run" { arg "[path]" }
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let out = parse_partial(&spec, &input(&["ex"])).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.cmd.name, "run");
        assert_eq!(out.next_arg.as_ref().unwrap().name, "path");
    }

    #[test]
    fn root_clause_positional_prevents_empty_default() {
        let spec: Spec = r#"
name "ex"
bin "ex"
default_subcommand "run"
default_subcommand_on_empty #true
clause "tasks" {
  arg "<number>" allow_negative_numbers=#true
}
cmd "run" { arg "[task]" }
"#
        .parse()
        .unwrap();
        let out = Parser::new(&spec).parse(&input(&["ex", "-7"])).unwrap();
        assert!(
            out.cmds.iter().all(|cmd| cmd.name != "run"),
            "cmds={:?} args={:?}",
            out.cmds.iter().map(|c| &c.name).collect::<Vec<_>>(),
            out.args
        );
        let number = spec.cmd.clause.as_ref().unwrap().args.first().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            out.clauses["tasks"][0].get(number).unwrap().to_string(),
            "-7"
        );
    }
}