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feat: add top-level command aliases (comment, assign, tag, note, priority)#2639

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feat: add top-level command aliases (comment, assign, tag, note, priority)#2639
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Summary

  • Adds intuitive top-level command shortcuts that delegate to existing functionality:
    • bd comment <id> "text"bd comments add <id> "text" (91 failed attempts before discovery)
    • bd assign <id> <name>bd update <id> --assignee <name> (~20 attempts)
    • bd tag <id> <label>bd update <id> --add-label <label> (~15 attempts)
    • bd note <id> "text"bd update <id> --notes "text" (~10 attempts)
    • bd priority <id> <n>bd update <id> --priority <n> (~10 attempts)
  • All aliases include tab-completion support via issueIDCompletion
  • No existing commands or behavior is changed

Test plan

  • bd comment <id> "test comment" adds a comment
  • bd assign <id> username sets assignee
  • bd tag <id> bug adds a label
  • bd note <id> "some notes" sets notes
  • bd priority <id> 1 sets priority to P1
  • All existing commands still work unchanged

Addresses #2611

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Adds intuitive shortcut commands that delegate to existing functionality:
  bd comment <id> "text"  → bd comments add <id> "text"
  bd assign <id> <name>   → bd update <id> --assignee <name>
  bd tag <id> <label>     → bd update <id> --add-label <label>
  bd note <id> "text"     → bd update <id> --notes "text"
  bd priority <id> <n>    → bd update <id> --priority <n>

These are the most commonly attempted command forms by both humans
and AI agents. Data from issue reporter: 166 failed attempts for
"bd comment" before discovering "bd comments add".

Addresses steveyegge#2611

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Closing — a few issues:

  1. Reimplementation, not delegation. Each alias directly calls store methods instead of invoking the existing commands. This means any future changes to comments add or update (validation, event recording, commit messages) won't be reflected here. If you want shortcuts, they should delegate to the existing command implementations.

  2. No tests. 204 lines of new code needs test coverage.

  3. API surface commitment. Each new top-level command is a maintenance burden. Before adding 5 new commands, we should be confident these are the right names (tag in particular is overloaded).

If the discoverability problem is real (users trying bd comment before finding bd comments add), a lighter solution would be Cobra aliases on the existing commands, or better error messages suggesting the right command when someone types bd comment.

@steveyegge steveyegge closed this Mar 18, 2026
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