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Design principles for `gp` cli

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component: gp cli meta: never-stale team: IDE
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Description

We could do with a set of design principles for gp CLI and/or any resultant clean-up to the API surface.

e.g. topics of:

  • <subject> <verb>
  • What lives top-level, etc.

Relates to:

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the gp CLI entry points and the related issue 10449, then review the linked internal conversation about gp info and gp url. Define the CLI design principles and identify any API-surface cleanup that follows; done means the principles and resulting scope are agreed.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
api, cli, developer-experience
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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