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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"make cli help human first","articleBody":"onecli cli help is kinda unusable for a human\n\nI think LLMs can easily read help text, can discover the command to get a json output if necessary. \n\na common pattern now is also to ship the cli with a skill that gives the hints an agent would need to use the cli effectively anyhow.\n\n\"should human be the default or json? and how would you want to flip between them?\"\n\nso: human default, since if i'm reaching for the cli, its probably to debug or investigate a problem. \n\nre: flpping between them (@johnnyfish ) that i'm not sure about - i like your idea of detecting tty / env vars to make a good guess. but i do agree with --json flag would make sense (and again, easy enough for agent to discover/ know about)  Otherwise, what did you mean by flipping?","author":{"url":"https://github.com/meeech","@type":"Person","name":"meeech"},"datePublished":"2026-05-06T16:20:15.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/44/onecli-cli/issues/44"}