The CLI only accepted a single inline JSON argument (cbm cli <tool> '<json>'),
which PowerShell mangles on Windows and which made `cli <tool> --help` return
"repo_path is required" -- the "--help" token was parsed as the JSON args, and
there was no per-tool help at all.
run_cli now resolves tool arguments by precedence: --args-file <path>, a raw
JSON object (back-compat), --flag / --flag=value / bare-boolean flags, piped
stdin, then empty {}. Flags are converted to a JSON object via the tool's
input_schema: kebab-case keys map to snake_case, values are typed
(string/integer/boolean), and repeated flags accumulate into array-typed
properties (--semantic-query a --semantic-query b -> ["a","b"]). stdin and
--args-file are UTF-8-clean and bypass shell quoting entirely (the robust path
on Windows). `cli <tool> --help` prints usage + the tool's flags, generated
from the same input_schema the MCP tools/list advertises -- no hand-maintained
table.
cbm_mcp_tool_input_schema() exposes a tool's schema; cbm_cli_build_args_json()
and cbm_cli_print_tool_help() do the conversion and help.
Reproduce-first: 8 cli tests (string / integer-not-string / bare-boolean /
repeated-array / kebab->snake / --key=value with spaces / bad-positional-errors
/ help) -- RED on a stub, GREEN after. Full suite 5730/0.
Note: true CJK-path support on Windows still needs a UTF-8/wmain entry point
(argv is ANSI-codepage-mangled upstream of parsing); stdin/--args-file mitigate
it and are tracked separately.
Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
Martin Vogel
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