test(spec): a rendering corpus, for the shapes the fleet cannot cover

[jdx]

Rebased onto main, which changed this PR's premise twice over — see the note at the bottom. What is left is the corpus.

What this adds

corpus/render/ does for rendering what corpus/ does for parsing: 41 vectors pairing a spec with the text it must produce, in the same language-neutral JSON shape, each carrying the same two-way reference label.

• 01-flag-values.json — every pairing of the flag's brackets against its value's, defaults on the flag against defaults on the value, the variadic and repeatable ellipses
• 02-usage-line.json — positional brackets, [-- COMMAND]…, the collapse thresholds and hidden entries not counting towards them, and the <SUBCOMMAND>-with-no-Commands-section oddity mise reaches on direnv
• 03-sections.json — supplied --help/--version, annotations in both layouts, headings, inherited globals, aliases, negations, the short column, long-help wrapping, and the examples fallback

conformance/tests/render.rs runs them against both Rust implementations. render-oracle mirrors oracle: --json prints what each rendered in expect's own shape, so a page goes in as a measurement rather than a transcription.

Why, now that the gate covers seven CLIs

#972 widened the parity gate from mise alone to the whole fleet, and found three bugs doing it. That is the argument for this corpus, not against it: a fixture asks only about the vocabulary its CLIs happen to use.

Measured rather than asserted. Across all 809 value-taking flags in mise and the fleet, three of the four flag/value bracket pairings appear and one appears nowhere:

pairing	in the fleet
[--tool <TOOL>] optional flag, required value	796
<--v <n>> both required	8
[--opt [n]] both optional	5 — all in pitchfork and aube
<--jobs [n]> required flag, optional value	0
a value carrying a default, which relaxes its brackets by another route	0

The third row is what #969 fixed, and those five instances are the only reason it was visible. The last two rows have nothing but these vectors holding them.

A divergence it found

an-explicit-synopsis-replaces-the-root-line is the corpus's first recorded reference divergence: usage-lib's help renderer ignores a declared top-level usage synopsis and writes the generated line; usage-argv honours it, which is what #965 added it for. usage-lib's manpage renderer honours it too (lib/src/docs/manpage/renderer.rs:198), so it is the help renderer that is the odd one out.

Six of the fleet's seven CLIs declare one, and the gate still cannot see this — because xtask gen-shadow does not carry the node into the shadow it generates, so every shadow's Spec::usage is None and both sides render the generated line. This corpus builds usage-argv's tables from KDL directly, so it sees the real behaviour.

Recorded rather than fixed: the expectation is right and the reference needs changing, and the two-way label check means whoever fixes it is told to delete the label. @jdx — your #965 feature, and the fix looks like a one-liner in lib/src/docs/cli/mod.rs if you want it here instead. The gen-shadow drop is a separate issue (it touches 16k lines of generated shadow).

Out of usage-argv's scope

disable_help is KDL-only with no derive spelling, so no spec the derive produces carries one — which is why lib/src/docs/cli/mod.rs says the two renderers cannot disagree about it. This harness breaks that premise by building tables from KDL, so a vector declaring it is answered by the reference alone and skipped, the way the argv corpus skips a post-binding vector. The count of exemptions is asserted.

Review fixes folded in

Both from Cursor Bugbot, both real, both mine rather than usage-argv's:

1. Top-level examples dropped — example at the top level hangs off Spec and leaves spec.cmd.examples empty, so every page lost its Examples section. @jdx fixed it in c53756e and pinned the root page; this adds the fallback cases, which is the half page_examples actually implements.
2. ..EMPTY in flag_meta/arg_meta contradicting the module doc. complete genuinely cannot come from a spec (a Rust function vs. a shell command) and now says so explicitly; complete_type can, and now does — and writing its test found the mapping broken for the same reason as the examples, third field in this file that lives on Spec rather than spec.cmd.

That pattern is worth naming: examples, usage and complete are all written at the top level, all hang off Spec, and all three were silently dropped by a builder that read only the command. A usage-lib helper for "what the top level declares that belongs to the root" would stop it recurring — separate issue if wanted.

Rebase note

This branch opened with a fix for the optional flag value. #969 landed the same rule independently as FlagMeta::value_optional — opposite polarity to the field here — with the derive attribute, the KDL emitter, and a conformance test. That commit is dropped and the builder speaks main's spelling; all 41 vectors pass against it, which is an independent confirmation of that fix.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added a rendering conformance tool with human-readable and JSON reporting.
  • Added support for comparing command usage and help output across implementations.
  • Added rendering coverage for flags, arguments, aliases, defaults, sections, and edge cases.

• Documentation

  • Documented the rendering corpus format, expected results, supported cases, and testing workflow.
  • Clarified the roles of the argv, configuration, and rendering corpora.

• Tests

  • Added comprehensive rendering vectors and validation for implementation agreement and known differences.

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Overview
Adds a rendering conformance layer parallel to the argv corpus: JSON vectors under corpus/render/ pin usage lines and optional full -h / --help pages, with the same two-way reference labels when usage-lib disagrees.

Harness: conformance/src/render.rs runs each vector through usage-lib and usage-argv; conformance/tests/render.rs enforces agreement, reference-label honesty, and a fixed count of usage-argv out-of-scope cases (e.g. disable_help). render-oracle (human + --json output) supports authoring expectations from measured output.

Refactor: Spec → usage-argv table construction moves into shared conformance/src/tables.rs (parse tables + help metadata, including top-level Spec fields like examples, usage, and completer lookup). The argv harness now calls tables::build instead of inlined leaking logic.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds rendering conformance infrastructure. It builds shared parser tables, loads JSON rendering vectors, compares usage-lib and usage-argv, adds an oracle binary, and introduces rendering corpus coverage.

Changes

Rendering conformance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared table construction conformance/src/tables.rs, conformance/src/argv.rs	The conformance package builds parser and metadata tables from Spec. The argv harness uses this shared builder.
Rendering models and implementations conformance/src/render.rs, conformance/src/lib.rs	The render module defines vector models, render outcomes, reference rendering, usage-argv rendering, comparisons, and corpus loading.
Oracle binary and conformance tests conformance/Cargo.toml, conformance/src/bin/render-oracle.rs, conformance/tests/render.rs	The package exposes a render-oracle binary. It reports vector results in text or JSON. Tests validate corpus integrity and renderer output.
Rendering corpus and documentation corpus/README.md, corpus/render/*	The corpus adds vectors for flag values, usage lines, help sections, and documented renderer divergence. README files describe the corpus format and workflow.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 23338

The rendering corpus documentation omits the required argv field, so users copying its example can encounter a deserialization failure before rendering; the PR is otherwise mergeable with this bounded documentation follow-up.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Author
  participant RenderOracle
  participant RenderCorpus
  participant Renderers
  participant ExpectedValues
  Author->>RenderOracle: select vectors
  RenderOracle->>RenderCorpus: load JSON corpus
  RenderOracle->>Renderers: evaluate reference and usage-argv renderers
  Renderers-->>RenderOracle: return rendered outcomes
  RenderOracle->>ExpectedValues: compare outputs
  ExpectedValues-->>Author: report match, mismatch, or out-of-scope status

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Possibly related PRs

• jdx/usage#913: Related command-chain and inherited-flag help behavior overlaps with the table-building and rendering conformance changes.
• jdx/usage#926: Related argv corpus and parser conformance work covers different parsing behavior.
• jdx/usage#936: Related usage-argv parser and metadata-table changes cover a different integration area.

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A rabbit checks each usage line,
Through flags and help in neat design.
Tables bloom and vectors hop,
The oracle marks each pass or stop.
JSON carrots, clearly shown—
Conformance grows from code well-known.

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The PR adds a language-neutral rendering corpus and runs it against both Rust renderers.

• Adds 41 vectors covering flag/value shapes, usage lines, help sections, examples, aliases, defaults, and known reference divergence.
• Introduces shared runtime construction of usage-argv parse and metadata tables from KDL specs.
• Adds a render oracle for human-readable and JSON measurements.

Confidence Score: 5/5

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Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
conformance/src/tables.rs	Builds aligned usage-argv parse and metadata tables from specs, including top-level examples, usage, completion metadata, and version state.
conformance/src/render.rs	Defines the rendering corpus schema, loaders, renderer adapters, and focused output comparison.
conformance/tests/render.rs	Enforces renderer expectations, divergence labels, exemption counts, unique identifiers, and complete-page fixtures.
conformance/src/bin/render-oracle.rs	Adds an authoring tool that reports measured renderer output in readable or JSON form.
conformance/src/argv.rs	Reuses the shared table builder while preserving parser-specific default-subcommand and binding behavior.
corpus/render/01-flag-values.json	Adds rendering vectors for flag/value requiredness, defaults, repetition, and variadic shapes.
corpus/render/02-usage-line.json	Adds usage-line vectors for positional syntax, subcommands, hidden entries, and collapse thresholds.
corpus/render/03-sections.json	Adds full-page vectors covering help sections, headings, globals, aliases, wrapping, examples, and explicit synopsis behavior.

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[jdx]

Bugbot: top-level examples dropped — confirmed and fixed

Real, and mine rather than usage-argv's. example at the top level parses onto Spec::examples and leaves spec.cmd.examples empty, so the fold in build_spec copied the help texts and lost the examples — costing every page rendered through the corpus its Examples section, the one usage-lib still wrote from the same spec. usage-argv itself renders them correctly when the metadata carries them, which the gate fixture already proves.

@jdx's c53756e fixed it and pinned the root's own page. 1ed7f1a adds the two cases that were left, since the interesting half of the rule is the fallback:

• a-specs-examples-reach-a-page-that-has-none — a subcommand page showing the spec's, which is what page_examples actually implements and what a builder reading only spec.cmd.examples breaks
• a-page-with-its-own-examples-does-not-also-show-the-specs — and the long form putting a description before its command

One more, found while checking whether anything else was dropped

disable_help is the opposite problem, and worth a look. usage-lib reads it and drops the supplied --help entry. usage-argv has no equivalent — and lib/src/docs/cli/mod.rs says why the two can't disagree about it:

usage-argv has no equivalent: disable_help is a KDL-only word, so no spec that crate can hold ever carries one, and the two renderers cannot disagree about it.

This harness breaks that premise, because it builds usage-argv's tables from KDL rather than from a Rust type. A vector declaring it makes them disagree — argv offers a --help the spec turned off.

I've treated it the way the argv corpus treats a post-binding vector: answered by the reference alone, skipped for usage-argv with the reason attached, and the count of exemptions asserted so the set can't grow unnoticed. Recording it as a reference divergence would have been wrong — the divergence isn't usage-lib's, and nothing usage-argv rendered would be right, because the question never reaches it.

Worth deciding separately: whether disable_help should get a derive spelling. It's a real asymmetry, it just wasn't observable before this corpus made it so. Happy to open an issue rather than leave it in a test comment.

Also carried min_usage_version, which the builder was dropping. Nothing renders it, so nothing caught it.

cargo test --all --all-features, clippy -D warnings, fmt and prettier all clean on the rebase.

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Instruction counts

benchmark	trend	instructions	Δ	wall (min)	Δ
markdown	█▇▇█▇██▃▁▁	196,090,435 → 196,130,614	+0.02%	18.53 → 18.33ms	-1.06%
startup	███████▁▁▁	823,781 → 823,763	-0.00%	0.84 → 0.83ms	-0.18%

No instruction-count regression above 1%.

_{Only instruction counts gate. Wall clock is shown for context — on identical hardware it moves 4-20% run to run.}

_{Measured by tak — instruction-counted CLI benchmarks, stored in this repository's git notes.}

Shadow comparison

Parsing mise use -g node@20 against a shadow of mise's committed spec.
Reported, not gated: the shadow grows as the derive learns to express more, so
what to watch is the ratio rather than either column.

	usage	clap	ratio
instructions, cold parse	63818	5893640	92x

usage: argv -> struct                            1059 ns      1.06 µs
clap: build tree + parse -> struct             500649 ns    500.65 µs
clap: parse -> struct, tree reused              23608 ns     23.61 µs
clap: build tree only                          309181 ns    309.18 µs

_{233384d9042f vs 38bef2be9429 · measured on the runner, not pushed to the history.}

[jdx]

Bugbot round 2: ..EMPTY in flag_meta / arg_meta — correct, fixed in 5249c3a

The module doc I added in cf58be3 claims nothing in tables.rs ends in ..EMPTY, and those two did. Fair catch on a claim I'd just made.

The two fields being defaulted:

• complete genuinely cannot come from a spec — it's a Rust function the binary calls, where a spec says run=, a shell command. The emitted KDL turns the former into the latter, not the reverse. Now written out as None with the reason attached, so the exhaustiveness is real rather than nearly real.
• complete_type can, and now does.

Writing the test for complete_type found the mapping didn't work: top-level complete nodes hang off Spec and leave spec.cmd.complete empty — the same shape as the examples bug, third time in this file. Now filled from the spec's map where the command's own has nothing, so a complete inside a cmd block still wins for that command.

Both are covered by a unit test rather than a corpus vector, because neither reaches a page. corpus/render catches a dropped field by the difference it makes to rendered text — which is what caught the examples and what could never have caught these.

The pattern worth naming

Three fields now (examples, usage, complete) live on Spec rather than on spec.cmd because they're written at the top level, and all three were silently dropped by a builder that only read the command. If usage::Spec grew a helper for "everything the top level declares that belongs to the root", this class of bug would stop recurring. Happy to open an issue — it's a usage-lib API question, not this PR's.

Also on this branch since the last comment

Rebased onto main, which added Spec::usage in #965. The literals here are exhaustive, so it broke the build — kept that way deliberately and documented, because carrying the field took one line and turned up something worth knowing:

usage-argv honours a declared usage synopsis on the root page; usage-lib's help renderer ignores it (its manpage renderer honours it, lib/src/docs/manpage/renderer.rs:198). So an-explicit-synopsis-replaces-the-root-line is the corpus's first recorded reference divergence, expecting usage-argv's page with a note pointing at the file that would need to change. Not fixing usage-lib here — recording it is what the label is for, and the two-way check means whoever fixes it gets told to delete the label.

@jdx worth a look, since it's your #965 feature and the fix is a one-liner in lib/src/docs/cli/mod.rs if you want it in this PR instead.

All checks green on cf58be3 including the perf gate.

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[jdx]

Heads up: #969 merged an hour or so before this and put the same bit on FlagMeta with the opposite polarity, which is why this is now DIRTY. My merge caused the conflict, so flagging the reconciliation rather than leaving you to find it.

main currently has, from #969:

• FlagMeta::value_optional: bool, EMPTY false
• #[usage(value_optional)] on the derive, refused on anything that is not a flag with a value
• placeholder(name, variadic, optional) in the KDL emitter, plus required=#false on the emitted arg
• conformance/tests/optional_flag_value.rs
• xtask: value_optional in the usage dialect, and a skipped.note for clap

Your version is better and should win, on three counts:

1. It covers four pairings; mine covers two. I never handled a required flag whose value is defaulted — <--jobs [n]> — because I read the bit as "is the value optional" rather than folding the value's own default in. value_required: arg.is_none_or(|a| a.required && a.default.is_empty()) is the statement I should have written.
2. EMPTY = true is the honest default. Mine needed every construction site to opt in to "required", which is the common case.
3. No derive attribute, and you are right about why. I added #[usage(value_optional)] and shouldn't have. For a spec that already says required=#false the bit is fidelity; for a derive-based CLI it is an invitation to advertise a form the parser refuses, since nothing in usage-argv accepts a bare --bump. Your note — "emitting one would advertise a form the parser refuses" — is the argument against the attribute I wrote.

So the rebase is a replacement, not a merge: drop value_optional and the derive attribute wholesale, keep value_required. Two things from #969 worth carrying over rather than deleting:

• The clap dialect must note this rather than express it. I first emitted num_args = 0..=1 and Bugbot correctly pushed back — it makes the clap shadow accept a line the usage shadow rejects, so the perf pair stops measuring one grammar. main has skipped.note("a flag's value being optional in help only"); that reasoning still applies to value_required and the note should survive under whatever name fits.
• conformance/tests/optional_flag_value.rs has a round-trip case — square brackets alone come back required=#true, since usage-lib reads the attribute as well as the name. Worth keeping as a corpus vector if it isn't already among your 36.

On your "why a corpus came with it": strongly agree, and #972 (also just merged) is the same conclusion reached from the other end. It holds all seven jdx CLIs against usage-lib rather than mise alone, which is what caught the missing version banner and pitchfork's [BUMP] — both invisible to a mise-only fixture for exactly the reason you give. But it is Rust-only: it compares compiled &'static tables, so it cannot cover the Go renderer in #974/#975. Your corpus/render/ can. If it would help, the seven specs are vendored at benches/fleet/*.usage.kdl and would make a reasonable source of render vectors — same fixtures, three renderers.

Happy to do the rebase myself if you'd rather not untangle someone else's merge; say the word and I'll take it.

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[jdx]

Rebased onto main — and main changed the premise twice

#969 landed the optional flag value independently. Same rule, opposite polarity: FlagMeta::value_optional where this branch carried value_required, plus the derive attribute, the KDL emitter, and conformance/tests/optional_flag_value.rs. That commit is dropped from this branch and the table builder now speaks main's spelling. All 41 vectors pass against it unchanged, which is an independent confirmation of that fix rather than a duplicate of it.

#972 widened the parity gate to seven CLIs, so "one CLI cannot cover this" is no longer the argument. The argument is better now and measured. Across all 809 value-taking flags in mise and the fleet:

pairing	in the fleet
[--tool <TOOL>]	796
<--v <n>>	8
[--opt [n]]	5 — all in pitchfork and aube
<--jobs [n]>	0
a value carrying a default	0

Those five instances are the entire reason #969's bug was visible. Two rows still sit at zero.

What the corpus found that the widened gate still cannot

usage-lib's help renderer ignores a declared top-level usage synopsis; usage-argv honours it. Verified on current main, with and without subcommands:

spec: usage "Usage: ex [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>"  (generated line would be: ex [FLAGS] <SUBCOMMAND>)
usage-lib : Usage: ex [FLAGS] <SUBCOMMAND>
usage-argv: Usage: ex [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

usage-lib's manpage renderer honours it (lib/src/docs/manpage/renderer.rs:198), so the help renderer is the odd one out.

Six of the fleet's seven CLIs declare one — mise and hk included — and fleet.rs is green anyway, because xtask gen-shadow never carries the node into the shadow. Every shadow's Spec::usage is None, so both sides render the generated line and the divergence is invisible. This corpus builds usage-argv's tables from KDL directly, which is why it sees it.

Recorded as the corpus's first reference divergence rather than fixed: the expectation is right and the reference needs changing. The two-way label check means whoever fixes usage-lib gets told to delete the label.

@jdx two follow-ups, neither this PR's business, say the word and I'll open issues or fold either in:

• the usage-lib help fix, which looks like a one-liner in lib/src/docs/cli/mod.rs
• gen-shadow carrying usage, which touches ~16k lines of generated shadow and would need the above first, or the gate goes red

Also

Three fields now (examples, usage, complete) are written at a spec's top level, hang off Spec rather than spec.cmd, and were each silently dropped by a builder that read only the command — the examples one being Bugbot's first finding here, complete_type being the third and found by writing its test. A usage-lib helper for "what the top level declares that belongs to the root" would stop this recurring.

Title and body updated to match what the PR now is. All checks were green before the rebase; re-running.

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conformance/src/tables.rs (1)

359-366: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Match SpecDoubleDashChoices explicitly.

SpecDoubleDashChoices has four variants and is not #[non_exhaustive]. Replace the wildcard arm with SpecDoubleDashChoices::Optional so future variants cause a build error.

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In `@conformance/src/tables.rs` around lines 359 - 366, Update double_dash to
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In `@conformance/src/bin/render-oracle.rs`:
- Around line 8-9: Correct the --json authoring guidance in
conformance/src/bin/render-oracle.rs lines 8-9 to explain that authors must
select one renderer result before copying it into a vector’s expect object,
rather than piping the full array directly. Update corpus/render/README.md lines
148-150 to document the JSON wrapper shape with id, usage-lib, and usage-argv
keys and include an extraction example for obtaining a single renderer result.

In `@conformance/src/tables.rs`:
- Around line 222-250: Update build_flag so short flags are validated as ASCII
before conversion to u8, rejecting any non-ASCII character instead of truncating
it into an unrelated byte. Preserve the existing collection behavior for valid
ASCII short flags and use an explicit checked conversion consistent with the
neighboring var_max handling.
- Around line 172-193: Update build_spec so every command’s flags and arguments
resolve complete_type from spec.complete using the same precedence as the root
metadata: retain command-level values and fall back to the spec-level lookup.
Apply this consistently while constructing subcommand metadata, not only in the
root_flags and root_args mappings.

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- Around line 359-366: Update double_dash to replace the wildcard match arm with
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[jdx]

Review round 3: the completer lookup was wrong three ways, and fnox proves each one

Both bots landed on the same field from different sides — Bugbot on case and on subcommands, CodeRabbit on subcommands and precedence. All of it is real, and the three faults compound: fnox's completers resolved to nothing at all through this builder.

Its spec writes, once, at the top level:

// Complete secret keys - this will automatically match args named "key"
complete "key" run="fnox list --complete 2>/dev/null || true"

and means the arg <KEY> of get, rm, set, and a dozen more. The reference (cli/src/cli/complete_word.rs:468,513) resolves that with spec.complete.get(&arg.name.to_lowercase()).or(cmd.complete.get(...)). Three rules in one line, and the builder had a different answer for each:

the reference	the builder had
key lowercased, because SpecComplete::parse stores the node's name lowercased	the name as written, so <KEY> never met key
consulted for whichever command is being completed	folded onto the root's flags and args only
the spec's nodes before the command's	the command's first

Fixed by threading the spec's completers down through build in the reference's order of preference, so the first match wins, and lowercasing the key.

One more the findings didn't name. The lookup tried the flag's name first and the value's second. The reference never keys a completer by a flag's name — it completes a flag by handing the flag's SpecArg to the same code that completes a positional (complete_word.rs:183), so the key is always the value's. A spec that declares both complete "out" and complete "file" for --out <FILE> got out's type here and file's there. Now the value's name, with the flag's kept only as the fallback for a flag that takes no value — which is exactly the value_name.unwrap_or(flag.name) that Spec::to_kdl writes back, so the round trip closes.

Unit tests rather than corpus vectors, and worth saying why: complete_type reaches no page. corpus/render catches a dropped field by the difference it makes to rendered text — which is how the missing examples surfaced and why it could never have caught any of this. This is the second finding in this file of that shape.

Non-ASCII short flags — correct, refused rather than truncated

'é' as u8 is 0xE9. A UTF-8 line spells -é as 0xC3 0xA9, so the table described a flag nobody could type. usage-argv holds a short as one byte and has no representation for anything else, so the builder now asserts rather than mirroring a lie:

a short flag must be ASCII for usage-argv's tables, and `-é` is not

Deliberately not the saturating treatment var_max gets: there is no nearest honest value for a character the table cannot hold.

The oracle's --json, corrected

Fair, and the instruction as written did not work. A row is {"id", "usage-lib", "usage-argv"}; only each renderer's object is an expect as a vector writes one. The doc comment says that now, and corpus/render/README.md shows the extraction:

cargo run -q -p usage-conformance --bin render-oracle -- --json flag-optional-value-optional \
  | jq '.[0]."usage-lib"'

Verified against the real vector rather than written from memory.

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cargo test --all --all-features, clippy -D warnings, fmt and prettier all clean. 41 vectors unchanged — none of this reaches a page, which was the point.

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Document the required argv field.

conformance/src/lib.rs defines Vector.argv as a required Vec<String> without #[serde(default)]. The example in Lines 57-63 and the field table in Lines 66-73 omit argv. A vector copied from this README can fail to deserialize before rendering starts. Add "argv": [] to the example and document argv; list env and layer too if this table is intended to describe the complete vector schema.

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