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Summary

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Removed framework adapters, secret providers, plugin loader, multiple subcommands, async validation API, and several flags.

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Major Changes

  • f1b3685: Trim surface to a focused .env schema validator.

    Removed: framework adapters (express/fastify/nextjs/nestjs/vite), secret providers (Vault/AWS SM/Doppler/1Password), the plugin loader, and the watch, onboard, hook, migrate, export, fix subcommands. Also removed validateAsync and the --check-live / --resolve-secrets / --concurrency flags on validate.

    Kept: validate, init, diff, generate-example, sync, detect, secrets, codegen. The validator registry remains for the 11 built-in types but no longer supports runtime-loaded plugins or secret providers.

Patch Changes

  • 4360845: Post-trim cleanup: sync READMEs with the actual command surface, drop a dead chokidar dep, and fix stale's summary passed count.

    • READMEs rewritten for the 5 trimmed tools so they match what the CLI actually ships. Removed references to commands and flags that no longer exist (vow fix|hook|audit|diff|policy, vow --offline|--api-key|ANTHROPIC_API_KEY; stale fix|watch, stale --deep, STALE_AI_KEY, SARIF format; aware watch|validate|doctor|add, --exit-code; envalid onboard|hook|export|watch|fix|migrate, plugins, secret providers, framework adapters). Documented the flags each command actually accepts today (e.g. aware diff --check|--json|--target|--quiet, vow check --ignore).
    • aware: removed unused chokidar dependency (carried over from the dropped aware watch command — grep chokidar src/ had zero hits).
    • stale: fixed summary.passed going negative on reports with many issues. buildSummary was computing totalChecks - errors - warnings - infos, where totalChecks was per (doc × analyzer) but issues are per finding, so a heavy report trivially overflowed it. totalChecks now counts analyzers run, and passed counts analyzers whose category produced zero issues. Per-category passed is now 1 when that analyzer ran and produced no issues, 0 otherwise. Test fixture + snapshot updated for the post-trim DriftCategory set.
    • vow: deleted docs/workflows/ — the three example workflow YAMLs and their README referenced vow check --offline, vow diff, vow policy compile, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, and the archived whenlabs-org/vow@v1 composite action, none of which exist anymore.

Breaking Changes

  • Removed framework adapters: express, fastify, nextjs, nestjs, vite
  • Removed secret providers: Vault, AWS SM, Doppler, 1Password
  • Removed plugin loader and runtime-loaded plugins support
  • Removed subcommands: watch, onboard, hook, migrate, export, fix (across tools)
  • Removed `validateAsync` API
  • Removed flags: --check-live, --resolve-secrets, --concurrency on validate

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Developer toolkit: auto-detect stack for AI context files, catch port conflicts, validate .env schemas, spot docs drift, audit dependency licenses, and time coding tasks — 7 MCP tools, one install.

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