When AI agents run `create-next-app` with explicit flags like
`--typescript --tailwind --eslint --app --src-dir`, the CLI still enters
interactive mode and prompts for any unspecified options:
```
➜ npx create-next-app my-app --typescript --tailwind --eslint --app --src-dir --use-pnpm
✔ Would you like to use React Compiler? … No / Yes
✔ Would you like to customize the import alias (`@/*` by default)? … No / Yes
? Would you like to include AGENTS.md to guide coding agents to write up-to-date Next.js code? › No / Yes
```
Agents can sometimes answer these interactive prompts correctly, but
often they can't. When they fail to navigate the prompts, they fall back
to scaffolding the project themselves from scratch — generating files
based on stale training data. This means they might initialize an app
using deprecated patterns or pin to an older version of Next.js (e.g.
15) instead of the latest. Using `create-next-app` non-interactively is
the best way to ensure agents always produce up-to-date scaffolding.
Previously, `hasProvidedOptions` only skipped the initial "use
recommended defaults?" meta-prompt but still showed individual prompts
for each missing option. Now when any config flags are provided, all
remaining options use the recommended defaults without prompting.
The resolved defaults are printed to stdout so the caller knows exactly
what was assumed and which flags to pass to override:
```
Using defaults for unprovided options:
--eslint ESLint (use --biome for Biome, --no-eslint for None)
--no-react-compiler No React Compiler (use --react-compiler for React Compiler)
--agents-md AGENTS.md (use --no-agents-md for No AGENTS.md)
--import-alias "@/*"
To customize, re-run with explicit flags.
```
The `displayConfig` array is extended with a `flags` field so this
output is auto-generated from the same source of truth used for the
interactive prompts. Existing behavior for `--yes`, CI mode, and fully
interactive mode (no flags) is unchanged.
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