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Michael Ramos 747b5ea7e6 fix(annotate): resolve natural-language arguments or hand off to the agent (#1183)
* fix(annotate): resolve natural-language arguments or hand off to the agent

Claude Code skills run the CLI through a bash-substitution prefix that
executes before the model sees anything, so any trailing natural language
in /plannotator-annotate died with 'File not found: the'. Worse, a
non-zero exit from that prefix aborts the whole prompt before the model
runs (verified empirically), so the error was never even visible to the
agent.

Three-tier resolution in the binary's annotate argument handling, shared
by every host via packages/shared/annotate-target.ts:

1. Fast path: probe each whitespace-delimited token; exactly one naming
   an existing file, URL, or folder proceeds with it directly.
2. Ambiguity: two or more tokens resolve; error naming every candidate,
   never guess.
3. Handoff: nothing resolves; emit an agent-addressed message echoing
   the words tried and asking the reading agent to interpret the request
   and re-run with a concrete target, preserving flags. In plain mode it
   lands on stdout with exit 0, the only combination that reaches the
   model through the bang prefix; in --json/--hook mode it goes to
   stderr with exit 1 so machine stdout stays clean.

Single-token invocations run the unchanged pipeline first, so bare
correct invocations are byte-identical. Strict gates (--require-approval
or --result-file) bypass the tolerance entirely: a typo'd path stays a
startup failure with exit 2 and no agent-facing prose.

The CLI resolution pipeline moves to apps/hook/server/annotate-resolution.ts
(returns typed outcomes instead of exiting) so the token fallback can run
it once with a selected candidate; OpenCode and Pi wire the same shared
selection into their own not-found paths. Skill bodies gain one line
telling the agent to re-run with a concrete target when the command
reports unresolvable arguments.

Closes #1182

Reported-by: @technicalpickles

* fix(annotate): harden tolerant resolution per review

Review fixes for the three-tier annotate argument handling:

- A single unresolvable token now falls through to the legacy pipeline
  verbatim: 'annotate nope.md' is exit 1 with 'File not found: nope.md'
  again in every non-strict mode, instead of an exit-0 handoff that
  fail-opened scripts gating on the exit code. The handoff fires only
  when two or more words resolve to nothing.
- Unrecognized dash-prefixed tokens disable tolerance instead of being
  skipped, so a typo'd flag ('--no-jna') errors the way it did on base
  rather than silently fetching via Jina. Known flags are stripped
  before selection as before.
- Token selection now receives the original argv tokens, so a quoted
  missing path ('my notes.md') is probed as one token and can never be
  re-split into a silently resolving 'notes.md'.
- Bare directory names only count as fast-path candidates when they are
  the sole argument; a stray word matching a directory (or '.') hands
  off instead of opening folder mode. Explicit paths like 'src/' keep
  resolving, and the bare-existence probe fallback is file-only.
- The handoff re-run suggestion echoes content flags only (--markdown,
  --no-jina, --render-html), never transport flags (--gate, --json,
  --hook).
- New subprocess suite (annotate-cli.test.ts) spawns the real CLI entry
  and pins the contract: single-token typo exit 1, strict invocations
  (--require-approval and --result-file) exit 2 with empty stdout and
  no handoff prose, unknown-flag error, quoted-token preservation, and
  the directory-hijack case. Placeholder dist files are created when a
  build is absent so the suite runs in CI.
- The copilot and gemini annotate command bodies gain the same handoff
  instruction as the Claude, core, and kiro skills.
- AGENTS.md documents the three tiers under Annotate Flow and corrects
  the strict-section sentences that claimed non-strict behavior was
  fully unchanged; the marketing annotate doc mentions the tolerant
  arguments.

Refs #1182
2026-08-03 10:14:37 -07:00

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description, allowed-tools
description allowed-tools
Open interactive annotation UI for a markdown file shell(plannotator:*)

Markdown Annotations

!plannotator annotate $ARGUMENTS

Your task

The output above will be one of:

  1. The exact text The user approved., OR a JSON object with "decision": "approved". The user approved the markdown file. If that object also carries a "feedback" field, the user approved with notes: read them and carry them into subsequent work — they are non-blocking guidance, not a request to revise the file. Otherwise acknowledge with a single sentence ("Approved.") and stop. Either way, do not begin any work.
  2. Empty, OR a JSON object with "decision": "dismissed". The user closed the session without requesting changes. Acknowledge with a single sentence ("Annotation session closed.") and stop. Do not begin any work.
  3. Plaintext annotation feedback, OR a JSON object with "decision": "annotated" and a "feedback" field. Address the feedback. The user has reviewed the markdown file and provided specific annotations and comments.
  4. A message that the arguments could not be resolved to a file, URL, or folder. The user described what to annotate in natural language: work out which file, URL, or folder they mean, run plannotator annotate <path-or-url> yourself with that concrete target (keeping any flags the message echoes), then handle its output per cases 1-3.