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What changed?

Adds docs/COMMAND_CONVENTIONS.md, a short guide to how commands, flags, messages and exit codes are written, and points AGENTS.md at it so coding agents follow the same rules.

Why?

Requested in #1646 (comment) after the recent consistency passes, so there is one place to refer to.

How was this tested?

Docs only, written after our latest changes.

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#1646

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  • Documentation
    • Added command-development guidance covering descriptions, arguments, flags, errors, logging, exit codes, output, testing, and change verification.
    • Added a reference to the command conventions guide in the contributor instructions.

- docs/COMMAND_CONVENTIONS.md: how commands, flags, messages and exit codes are written
- AGENTS.md: point coding agents at the guide
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The command-conventions guide is linked correctly and its failure guidance matches the root command, but one Long-description example contradicts the stated rule and could mislead contributors. This is a low-risk documentation issue.

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  • observed — AGENTS.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
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  • observed — Modified behavior in AGENTS.md: Added command conventions covering required and optional argument notation, leaf-command Args declarations, wording and capitalization for texts and errors, non-zero exits on failures in every output format, avoiding success logs after failed steps, and testing invoked internal/ behavior rather than Cobra or message wording.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/COMMAND_CONVENTIONS.md: Adds conventions for command short and long descriptions, examples, argument notation and validation, aliases, and deprecation messages.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/COMMAND_CONVENTIONS.md: Adds rules for flag help text, enumerated values, shared and persistent flags, NoOptDefVal, numeric flag types, and deprecation wording.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/COMMAND_CONVENTIONS.md: Adds conventions for returned errors, wrapping, user-facing messages and hints, naming schema values, and rejecting invalid input without panicking.
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Review comments at @docs/COMMAND_CONVENTIONS.md:
- Line 50: Update the root-command guidance in COMMAND_CONVENTIONS to say it
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This PR adds docs/COMMAND_CONVENTIONS.md, an internal contributor guide describing how commands, flags, messages, and exit codes should be written in this repo, and updates AGENTS.md to point coding agents at it.

Changed files:

  • AGENTS.md (contributor instructions, +8/-0)
  • docs/COMMAND_CONVENTIONS.md (new internal guide, +71/-0)

Why no shopware/docs update is required:
These changes are internal developer/contributor tooling and conventions, not user-facing CLI behavior. No command, flag, configuration file/key, supported version, output, or error behavior was added, removed, or changed for end users. As such, this falls under "internal refactoring/tooling" and does not require a corresponding change to the public developer documentation in shopware/docs.


**Use and arguments**

- Required arguments are bare, optional ones are in brackets, variadic ones get three dots: `validate path`, `fix [path]`, `activate name...`, `package path [branch]`. No angle brackets.

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@shopware/product-dx I've never seen required positional arguments like a path presented bare - usually, only the command names themselves are shown without any additional notation 🤔

I know it as:
<required>
[optional]

Since I am however not sure, what the standard says, I looked it up :)
https://developers.google.com/style/code-syntax#optional-arguments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface#Command_description_syntax
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21503865/how-to-denote-that-a-command-line-argument-is-optional-when-printing-usage

So if there is no other reason I would suggest:

Suggested change
- Required arguments are bare, optional ones are in brackets, variadic ones get three dots: `validate path`, `fix [path]`, `activate name...`, `package path [branch]`. No angle brackets.
- The command itself is always presented without brackets. Required positional arguments are shown in angle brackets, e.g. `copy <file>`, while optional arguments are shown in square brackets, e.g. `copy <file> [output]`. Variadic arguments are indicated by three dots, e.g. `<file>...` or `[file...]`.`

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Nice! 🤩 I added one comment (although it was already merged, but I thought it is important) but other than that I have no complaints :)

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