headroom/CONTRIBUTING.md
Tejas Chopra bd76235f5c
fix(cli): harden all CLI surfaces + fix docs accuracy (#1491)
## Summary

Full CLI audit + documentation accuracy pass. All 5 commits on this
branch:

### CLI Hardening (4 commits)
- **Clean errors instead of tracebacks**: corrupt manifests, missing
Docker, malformed JSONL, bad `--profile`, invalid env-var values all now
raise `click.ClickException` with helpful messages
- **Range validation**: ~25 numeric flags across 10 files now use
`click.IntRange`/`FloatRange` — `--port 0`, `--hours -1`, `--limit 0`
etc. produce clean usage errors instead of silent wrong behavior
- **Flag combination warnings**: conflicting combos (`--no-rate-limit` +
`--rpm`, `--no-optimize` + `--target-ratio`, `--telemetry` +
`--no-telemetry`) emit yellow warnings on stderr
- **`memory --db-path` default fixed**: was resolving to
`headroom_memory.db` (wrong bare file); now uses project store
`./.headroom/memory.db` if present, else `~/.headroom/memory.db`
- **`memory list --search` + filters**: `--scope`/`--session`/`--since`
were silently ignored when `--search` was also set; now filters are
applied to search results
- **`learn --verbosity --apply` now works**: the output shaper is off by
default (`HEADROOM_OUTPUT_SHAPER`); `--apply` now hot-enables it via
`POST /admin/runtime-env` on a running proxy, or prints explicit `export
HEADROOM_OUTPUT_SHAPER=1` instructions when no proxy is running
- **`perf --hours` overflow**: `1e9` hours no longer raises
`OverflowError`; treated as "all data"
- **`evals memory --categories` invalid input**: `abc,1,2` now raises
`BadParameter` instead of a raw `ValueError` traceback

### Documentation (1 commit, 20 files)

Corrected factual errors found by 3 parallel audit agents across root
docs, wiki, and the published Fumadocs site:

**Critical (caused runtime errors or wrong behavior if followed):**
- `simulation.mdx`: `plan.transforms_applied` -> `plan.transforms`;
`plan.savings_percent` -> computed from available fields (both raised
`AttributeError`)
- `shared-context.mdx`: `import { SharedContext } from "headroom"` ->
`"headroom-ai"` (5x `ImportError`)
- `claude-code-azure-foundry.mdx`: `pip install headroom` -> `pip
install headroom-ai`
- `api-reference.mdx` + `configuration.mdx`: `from headroom import
GoogleProvider` -> `from headroom.providers import GoogleProvider`
- `ccr.mdx`: CCR TTL default 300s -> 1800s (30 min)

**Fabricated flags removed:**
- `wiki/proxy.md` + `wiki/cli.md`: `--no-intelligent-context`,
`--no-intelligent-scoring`, `--no-compress-first` (none exist); replaced
with real CCR flags
- `wiki/configuration.md`: `--no-ccr-responses`, `--no-ccr-expansion`
(none exist); replaced with real flags
- `wiki/troubleshooting.md`, `wiki/metrics.md`,
`docs/troubleshooting.mdx`: `headroom proxy --log-level debug` (flag
doesn't exist)

**Stale content corrected:**
- `llms.txt`: telemetry stated as enabled-by-default (it's opt-in); wrap
list had 5 tools (now 11)
- `README.md`: compatibility matrix added 5 missing `wrap` targets;
`unwrap`, `doctor`, `init`/`install`, savings-analytics now mentioned
- `SECURITY.md`: supported version table showed 0.2.x (current: 0.27.x)
- `wiki/learn.md`: 5 missing flags added; verbosity shaper-off behavior
documented
- `wiki/quickstart.md`: "Configuration Reference" linked to `api.md`
(wrong) -> `configuration.md`
- `CacheAlignerConfig.enabled` default corrected: `True` -> `False`
- `opencode.mdx`: `--port` default wrong ("random") -> 8787; `openai`
backend removed
- `CONTRIBUTING.md`: broken Markdown table cell fixed
- `docs/meta.json`: `claude-code-azure-foundry` added to nav (was
unreachable orphan page)
- `configuration.mdx`: SDK modes vs proxy `--mode` now clearly
distinguished

## Test plan

- [x] `python -m pytest tests/ -x -q` — 857 passed, 0 failures
- [x] 41-combination CLI smoke test (all flag combos across 8 commands)
— 0 tracebacks
- [x] `ruff check` on all modified Python files — clean
- [x] Docs changes are removals/corrections of fabricated or stale
content; no new claims introduced
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# Contributing to Headroom
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## Development setup
```bash
git clone https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom.git
cd headroom
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
node --version # Node 18+ required for commitlint hooks
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install -e ".[dev,relevance,proxy]"
python -m pytest
```
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### Dev Containers
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Inside, use: `uv run ruff check .`, `uv run pytest`, etc.
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## Coding standards
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- Type hints on public functions; Google-style docstrings.
- Cover new behavior + edge cases; aim >80% coverage on new code.
- Python 3.10+. Optional features go behind extras.
## Architecture principles
**Safety first:** never drop user/assistant content, never break tool call/response pairing, malformed content passes through unchanged, prefer false negatives.
**Performance:** transforms <50ms at P99, lazy-load optional deps, profile before optimizing.
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