feat(derive): generate command dispatch

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What

The match from a parsed subcommand enum to the code that carries the command out — one arm per command, ~210 of them at mise's size, none of them checkable because every arm has the same shape. This generates it.

#[derive(Subcommands)]
#[usage(run)]
enum Commands {
    Install(Install),
    Sponsors(Sponsors),
}

impl Run for Install {
    type Output = miette::Result<()>;
    fn run(self) -> Self::Output { install(&self.tools, self.force) }
}

fn main() -> miette::Result<()> {
    Cli::parse().command.run()
}

Two traits in usage-argv, behind no feature (two traits, no code): Run for commands that need nothing but what they parsed, RunWith<Ctx> for a CLI that hands its commands a config, an output handle, or a client. #[usage(run)] / #[usage(run_with)] on a Subcommands enum generate the match; on a struct that holds nothing but its subcommand field they generate the forward, which is the usage generate / mise config container.

Nothing reaches the spec

Which Rust function runs a command is not part of what the CLI is, and a spec recording it could be read by nothing but the program that wrote it — so this is #[usage(skip)]'s rule, not a new spec node. No KDL, usage-lib, Go or bridge changes are in this PR.

Proved on usage-cli. Both of its matches (10 root commands, 9 generators) are gone, and usage --usage-spec is byte-identical to the checked-in cli/usage.usage.kdl — so no manpage, reference page, or completion script changed. Command::Sponsors became Sponsors(sponsors::Sponsors) with the effect and description moving to the struct, which the spec cannot tell apart.

Decisions, each because the alternative is a wrong program rather than a missing one

• Two traits, not one with a defaulted context. A hundred commands needing nothing shared would each carry fn run(self, _: ()). RunWith's generated impl is generic over Ctx, so &Config, &mut App and an owned handle all work from one emission; an enum may declare both.
• The output is the first variant's, with the others bound to agree — a match has one type. A command returning something else is an E0271 naming that command; a command added and not implemented is an E0277 naming it.
• Opt-in. The generated impl is the only one an enum can have, so a CLI that wants to act between the parse and the dispatch keeps its match. Asking is also what makes an undispatchable variant an error where it is declared.
• A run struct forwards and does nothing else, so it holds one field: its subcommands, not in an Option. A struct with arguments of its own has to decide what becomes of them, and an Option has a state nothing generated can decide about — both implement the trait by hand, which is the root's usual case.
• A variant that holds nothing cannot be dispatched — bare, inline-fields, or external_subcommand. The first two are served by a struct the derive writes under a name nothing else can name; the third holds argv rather than a command. Naming the Args struct is the fix, and is where effect belongs anyway. A per-variant #[usage(run = path::to::fn)] is the shape if an adopter ever wants the bare spelling dispatched; not built, because one mechanism covers the fleet.

Tests

• conformance/tests/dispatch.rs — selection, a command's own failure, boxed variants, no-argument commands, a nested group where the enum's dispatch reaches a struct whose dispatch forwards to the next enum, a root reading its globals before dispatching, &mut Ctx threading, one enum dispatching both ways, and the spec-invisibility check.
• 7 new derive/src/model.rs unit tests for each refusal and for run parsing beside rename_all.
• usage-rs/tests/facade.rs — the traits reach an adopter through the usage:: alias.
• cargo test --all --all-features, cargo clippy --all --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo fmt --all --check, prettier -c . all clean.

Docs

New Dispatch page, cross-linked from the Rust index, Subcommands, and the clap migration guide; the derive crate docs gained a # Dispatch section; PLAN.md records the item and the decisions above under "what a CLI framework has to have".

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Medium Risk
Adds a new derive-generated dispatch surface and rewires usage-cli’s command routing. Spec, help, and completions are unchanged, but a codegen bug would mis-route commands.

Overview
Adds opt-in generated dispatch so the hand-written match from a parsed subcommand enum to handlers is emitted from the same declaration as parse and spec.

Commands implement Run, RunWith<Ctx>, RunAsync, or RunAsyncWith<Ctx> (always available in usage-argv, re-exported from usage). #[usage(run)] / run_with / run_async / run_async_with on a Subcommands enum generate the match; on a container struct they only forward to a required subcommand field. Output type is the first variant’s; others must agree. Async traits use impl Future with no Send bound. Dispatch never appears in the spec.

Refuses shapes that cannot be named for a trait impl (unit/inline variants, external_subcommand, structs with their own args or Option subcommands). usage-cli’s root and generate matches are gone; Sponsors is now a unit Args struct. Docs and conformance tests cover nested groups, boxed variants, context, non-Send futures, and spec invisibility.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added synchronous, contextual, and asynchronous command execution APIs.
  • Added opt-in automatic routing for nested commands, with validation for supported command shapes and consistent outputs.
  • Added source-code links to generated command documentation.
  • Added plain diagnostic rendering when color output is unavailable.

• Documentation

  • Added dispatch guidance, migration instructions, examples, testing documentation, and navigation updates.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for synchronous, asynchronous, nested, contextual, and error-handling dispatch scenarios.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds consuming synchronous and asynchronous execution traits, generated dispatch for opted-in commands, CLI migration to trait-based execution, conformance tests, source-link metadata, and documentation.

Changes

Command dispatch

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Dispatch contracts and validation argv/src/lib.rs, argv/src/run.rs, derive/src/model.rs	The crate exports Run, RunWith, RunAsync, and RunAsyncWith. The derive model parses dispatch attributes and validates supported struct and enum shapes.
Generated dispatch implementations derive/src/codegen.rs, derive/src/lib.rs	Generated routing supports synchronous, contextual, asynchronous, and contextual-asynchronous execution. Structs forward through one required subcommand, and variants must share an output type.
CLI command migration cli/src/cli/*, cli/src/cli/generate/*	CLI commands now implement consuming Run methods. Root execution uses generated dispatch, and generated file output uses path-aware writes.
Dispatch conformance coverage conformance/tests/*, usage-rs/tests/facade.rs, cli/src/cli/lint.rs	Tests cover direct, nested, contextual, asynchronous, boxed, non-Send, failing, metadata, and specification-exclusion cases.
Dispatch documentation PLAN.md, docs/rust/*, usage-rs/src/lib.rs	Documentation describes execution traits, generated routing, validation, asynchronous behavior, migration, testing support, and specification behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 96600

The PR adds opt-in generated command dispatch while preserving the CLI specification output; the only remaining merge-readiness issue is a bounded grammar correction in PLAN.md, with no runtime impact.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant GeneratedCommand
  participant CommandHandler
  CLI->>GeneratedCommand: parse command and call run
  GeneratedCommand->>CommandHandler: forward selected variant
  CommandHandler-->>GeneratedCommand: return Output
  GeneratedCommand-->>CLI: return command result

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Poem

I’m a rabbit with routes in my hat,
Commands hop forward, just like that.
Sync or async, they run on cue,
Context hops along there too,
And every leaf returns its view.

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Instruction counts

benchmark	trend	instructions	Δ	wall (min)	Δ
markdown	█▆▆▆▆▃▄▁▁	221,719,988 → 221,661,667	-0.03%	22.38 → 21.59ms	-3.56%
startup	███▁▁██▅▃	1,224,085 → 1,223,497	-0.05%	1.44 → 1.42ms	-1.04%

No instruction-count regression above 1%.

_{Only instruction counts gate. Wall clock is shown for context — on identical hardware it moves 4-20% run to run.}

_{Measured by tak — instruction-counted CLI benchmarks, stored in this repository's git notes.}

Shadow comparison

Parsing mise use -g node@20 against a shadow of mise's committed spec.
Reported, not gated: the shadow grows as the derive learns to express more, so
what to watch is the ratio rather than either column.

framework	instructions, cold parse	vs usage
usage	8370	—
argh	6307	0.8x
clap	6316072	754x
bpaf	21909147	2617x

                                              min       p01       p10    median
usage-rs: argv -> struct                      410       413       417       428  ns
argh: argv -> struct                          282       287       292       301  ns
clap: build tree + parse -> struct         523943    525652    530230    542428  ns
bpaf: build parser + parse -> struct      1612039   1612039   1626211   1659300  ns

usage: argv -> struct                             455 ns      0.46 µs
clap: build tree + parse -> struct             538567 ns    538.57 µs
clap: parse -> struct, tree reused              23323 ns     23.32 µs
clap: build tree only                          332325 ns    332.32 µs

_{822853ffd3c6 vs d5d6bf9475ef · measured on the runner, not pushed to the history.}

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derive/src/model.rs (1)

1484-1523: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Dispatch diagnostics hardcode "run" although both validators gate on run || run_with. An author who writes only #[usage(run_with)] reads an error about an attribute they did not write. Derive the word from the flag that is set in both validators.

• derive/src/model.rs#L1484-L1523: select "run" or "run_with" from self.run / self.run_with and format both struct messages with it.
• derive/src/model.rs#L4716-L4760: select the same word from the local run / run_with bindings and format the external-subcommand, empty-enum, and undispatchable-variant messages with it.

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In `@derive/src/model.rs` around lines 1484 - 1523, Derive the diagnostic
attribute name from the enabled flag instead of hardcoding “run”: update
derive/src/model.rs lines 1484-1523 to select between self.run and self.run_with
and use that name in both struct messages; apply the same selection to the local
run/run_with bindings in derive/src/model.rs lines 4716-4760 and use it in the
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Inline comments:
In `@argv/src/run.rs`:
- Around line 36-45: Update the documentation around Run::Output and async
command futures to avoid implying that Send is required: describe the boxed
future as Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = T>>> or explicitly mark Send as optional,
while preserving the existing trait behavior and noting that Run::Output has no
Send bound.

Apply the same fix in `@conformance/tests/dispatch_async.rs` at line 20: The
conformance alias also unconditionally requires Send and should be updated
consistently.

In `@cli/src/cli/sponsors.rs`:
- Around line 3-5: Update the module documentation for the Sponsors command to
replace the grammatically incorrect phrase “where every other command's do” with
“where every other command does.”

In `@derive/src/codegen.rs`:
- Around line 5189-5244: Update emit_command_dispatch to emit an explicit
compile error when no eligible non-optional subcommand field is found, rather
than returning an empty TokenStream. Ensure the generated error prevents
duplicate or missing Run/RunWith dispatch implementations when both Cli and Args
invoke this function, while preserving the existing implementations for valid
fields.

In `@docs/rust/dispatch.md`:
- Around line 110-131: Update the Task type alias to accept a lifetime parameter
and apply the +’a bound to its boxed Future; use Task<’static,
miette::Result<()>> in the owned Run implementation, while retaining the
lifetime-parameterized Task<’a, …> form for the borrowed RunWith example.
- Around line 77-90: Implement RunWith<&mut App> for the Sponsors command
alongside the existing Install implementation, using the same miette::Result<()>
output and delegating to the appropriate App sponsors operation with Sponsors’
fields. Ensure every Commands variant satisfies the #[usage(run_with)]
requirement; if the documentation snippet is intentionally incomplete, mark the
code block as partial instead.

In `@docs/rust/index.md`:
- Around line 106-114: Update the Rust dispatch example around Cli::parse and
the Command type so the shown Cli definition includes a command field annotated
with #[usage(subcommand)] and a corresponding Command enum, or replace the
example with a link to docs/rust/dispatch.md; ensure Cli::parse().command.run()
compiles against the documented declarations.
- Around line 106-108: Document both dispatch opt-ins consistently: update the
referenced passages in docs/rust/index.md (lines 106-108),
docs/rust/migrating-from-clap.md (lines 203-208), docs/rust/subcommands.md
(lines 52-53), and usage-rs/src/lib.rs (lines 13-17) to state that
RunWith&lt;Ctx&gt; and generated dispatch require #[usage(run_with)], alongside
the existing #[usage(run)] requirement.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@derive/src/model.rs`:
- Around line 1484-1523: Derive the diagnostic attribute name from the enabled
flag instead of hardcoding “run”: update derive/src/model.rs lines 1484-1523 to
select between self.run and self.run_with and use that name in both struct
messages; apply the same selection to the local run/run_with bindings in
derive/src/model.rs lines 4716-4760 and use it in the external-subcommand,
empty-enum, and undispatchable-variant diagnostics.

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RunAsync / RunAsyncWith, plus review feedback

Async dispatch

Four traits now, differing only in whether a command is handed a context and whether it is awaited:

	no context	a context
sync	Run — #[usage(run)]	RunWith<Ctx> — #[usage(run_with)]
async	RunAsync — #[usage(run_async)]	RunAsyncWith<Ctx> — #[usage(run_async_with)]

An implementation writes async fn run_async(self); the generated dispatch is an async fn that awaits the selected command. The emitters describe one dispatch rather than repeating four: a context makes the impl generic, and being awaited puts async on the signature and .await on each arm.

The async pair declares -> impl Future<Output = Self::Output> rather than async fn, which is the same signature to implement against and imposes no Send bound. A CLI that spawns gets Send by inference out of the concrete commands the dispatch reaches; one on a single-threaded runtime keeps a future holding an Rc across an await. Both are asserted in conformance/tests/dispatch_async.rs (send_is_inferred_and_never_required, a_future_that_is_not_send_still_dispatches). The alternative, -> impl Future + Send in the trait, buys the ability to demand Send in generic code at the cost of the single-threaded case — there is no way to have both without a fifth trait.

Addressed

• Diagnostics quote back the attribute that was written — an author who writes #[usage(run_async_with)] no longer reads an error about run; the trait name follows it. New test: a_dispatch_refusal_names_the_attribute_that_was_written.
• Send in the boxed-future examples is now documented as the CLI's choice rather than part of the contract, since Output has no bound — and the test carries a non-Send case to prove it.
• The run_with example implements every variant, as a dispatched enum requires.
• The Rust index example declares the command field it dispatches through.
• Both (now four) opt-ins are named wherever dispatch is mentioned in passing — index, subcommands, migration guide, facade docs.
• Task alias is lifetime-parameterised consistently with its use.
• Grammar in the Sponsors module doc.

Declined, with reason

#[derive(Cli, Args)] on one struct with #[usage(run)] emits two identical impls. Real, but the diagnostic is already precise, because it lands on the user's own line rather than in generated code:

error[E0119]: conflicting implementations of trait `Run` for type `Ex`
23 | #[derive(Cli, Args)]
   |          ---  ^^^^ conflicting implementation for `Ex`
   |          |
   |          first implementation here

The suggested remedy — a compile error when no eligible subcommand field is found — does not address this case (a struct with a subcommand field and both derives still double-emits) and would fire on a path Cli::check has already rejected. Emitting from only one of the two derives is not available either: a derive cannot see which others are applied. Left as is.

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PLAN.md (1)

351-354: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the sentence structure.

Line 353 makes which page a help request becomes ... was ~150 lines emitted the grammatical subject. State that the page-selection logic was previously emitted into each derive and is now centralized.

Proposed wording

-      That function is the other half of the change: which page a help request
-      becomes — short, long, recursive, by route or by address, view or not — was
-      ~150 lines emitted into every derive three times over, and is now decided
+      That function is the other half of the change: the logic that selects which
+      page a help request becomes — short, long, recursive, by route or by address,
+      view or not — was implemented as ~150 lines emitted into every derive three
+      times over and is now decided

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