feat(derive): add usage::Config derive for settings declared in code

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What

#[derive(usage::Config)] on the real typed Settings struct — the authoring surface for the config layer, mirroring #[derive(usage::Cli)]. The struct is the declaration; the derive generates:

• SETTINGS_PROPS / SETTINGS_REGISTRY — the registry the resolver reads, as consts beside the struct
• Settings::read(&Resolved) — every field read before anything returns, errors as the whole list
• Settings::spec_kdl() — the spec config {} block, and #[usage(config = Settings)] on a Cli root puts it in the emitted spec so docs, JSON schema and the config_keys/config_values completers read it

Field vocabulary mirrors the spec's prop grammar: env/deprecated_env, default/default_fn+default_note, cli, source, choices, merge, scope, parse, alias, key, hide/deprecated/since/examples. Doc comments become help/long_help. Field types are the settings' types (Option<T> = optional; ty = "duration" renames what the spec calls a field the table doesn't cover). Nested groups compose through the new usage_config::Props trait + compile-time concat_props, which refuses duplicate keys across flattened groups at compile time.

Also in here

• usage-config-build is removed. The build-time KDL-to-registry generator was the other backend; keeping it meant two generators emitting one registry shape, and a KDL-first adopter still holding a second description of every setting. The struct is the only declaration now. Its one test that outlived it — usage-lib and usage-config have to write a float the same way — moves to usage-conformance, the one crate that can see both.
• PropMeta gains long_help, default_note, since, deprecated_warn_at/remove_at, examples — the fields that previously never reached the runtime registry
• usage_config::spec_kdl — registry → config {} block, round-trip tested against the usage-lib parser
• A default and a choice are written as the type the field holds. Nothing coerces a declared default — the resolver seeds it as written and hands it to the field — so default = 1 on a String, default = -1 on a u64, and default = 80 on a Vec<u64> are compile errors instead of a type error at every read. Choices keep one spelling with them, except on a list setting, where they name what a single item may be and a list default is held against them item by item.
• parse_with_settings reports deprecations, like parse does: the settings entries carry the same Option<&mut Vec<Warning>> thread, with _and_warnings counterparts for a caller that renders them through its own logging
• FromValue for the narrower integers a real struct holds (usize, u8, …, f32)
• The generated ::usage_config:: paths now resolve through crate_name() with a usage-rs fallback, like the other three usage crates
• usage-rs gains a config feature: usage::Config + usage::config::*
• Docs: docs/rust/settings.md; PLAN.md Config section updated — the derive-on-the-real-struct decision supersedes the registry-only decision recorded earlier today, and the stale "Not started" line is gone

Why now

This is the missing piece for the fleet settings adoption: pitchfork, fnox, and tak will each get a PR (stacked on their clap-swap PRs) that deletes their home-grown settings.toml + build.rs codegen and declares settings with this derive.

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High Risk
Removes a published crate and introduces a new public derive/API for settings resolution used by fleet CLIs. Wrong defaults, optionality, or flatten composition would mis-resolve configuration at runtime.

Overview
Adds #[derive(usage::Config)] as the authoring surface for settings: the typed Settings struct is the declaration. The derive emits SETTINGS_PROPS/SETTINGS_REGISTRY, Settings::read(&Resolved), and spec_kdl(), and #[usage(config = Settings)] on a Cli root puts the config {} block in the emitted spec.

Removes usage-config-build. Settings are no longer generated from KDL at build time; nested groups compose via usage_config::Props and compile-time concat_props (duplicate keys/aliases fail the build). PropMeta gains docs-only fields (long_help, default_note, since, deprecation versions, examples) and usage_config::spec_kdl round-trips the registry back to the spec grammar.

Also: parse_with_settings now reports deprecations; FromValue covers narrower integers/f32; help no longer prefixes negate-only flags as no-credit: --no-credit; usage-rs gains a config feature.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added Rust settings support with typed configuration, defaults, nested settings, aliases, validation, merging, and layered resolution.
  • Added generated configuration metadata and KDL specification output, including help, examples, environment variables, CLI names, and deprecations.
  • Added settings-aware CLI parsing, command dispatch, completion installation, and self-describing specification endpoints.
  • Added structured deprecation warnings and support for additional numeric configuration types.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved negation-only option display, removing redundant names and duplicate flag output.
• Documentation
  • Added comprehensive settings guidance and documented config = Settings integration.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds usage::Config derivation for typed settings structs. It generates registries, readers, layered resolution, and KDL specifications. It also adds CLI integration, dispatch, metadata, completion support, documentation, conformance tests, and workspace cleanup.

Changes

Typed configuration support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration runtime contracts config/src/lib.rs, config/src/props.rs, config/src/registry.rs, config/src/read.rs, config/src/spec.rs	The runtime adds property composition, extended metadata, checked numeric readers, and KDL specification rendering.
Config derive implementation derive/src/config.rs, derive/src/lib.rs	usage::Config parses typed settings fields and attributes, validates declarations, supports nested groups, and generates registries, readers, resolution methods, metadata, and KDL output.
CLI, dispatch, and facade integration derive/src/model.rs, derive/src/codegen.rs, usage-rs/Cargo.toml, usage-rs/src/lib.rs	Root CLI declarations accept config = Settings. Generated code supports settings-aware parsing, warnings, dispatch, completion, specification endpoints, and shared process handling.
Validation, documentation, and workspace transition conformance/tests/derive_config.rs, docs/rust/*, docs/spec/resolution.md, argv/src/help.rs, lib/src/spec/flag.rs, lib/src/docs/models.rs, .github/workflows/test.yml, Cargo.toml, PLAN.md	Tests cover settings resolution, metadata, CLI precedence, specifications, warnings, and negate-only flags. Documentation and workspace references adopt the derive-based configuration model and remove the build-time generator.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 25ff3

This PR introduces typed configuration derivation and changes how settings metadata and specs are generated, but the current implementation can still accept invalid unsigned defaults that make reads fail at runtime, emit malformed configuration nodes, silently discard some field attributes, and convert out-of-range f32 values to infinity; the documentation example also does not compile. These concrete correctness and integration issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CliDerive
  participant ConfigDerive
  participant UsageConfig
  participant SpecRenderer
  CliDerive->>ConfigDerive: Attach settings type and parse argv
  ConfigDerive->>UsageConfig: Build registry and settings layer
  UsageConfig->>UsageConfig: Resolve values and read Settings
  ConfigDerive->>SpecRenderer: Generate config metadata
  SpecRenderer-->>CliDerive: Return CLI specification

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config/src/spec.rs (1)

200-271: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extend the golden assertion to the metadata this PR added.

The test covers default_note, choices, a list default, scope, hide, and quote escaping. It does not cover alias, example, optional, long_help, since, deprecated, deprecated_warn_at, or deprecated_remove_at. Those render paths are new in this PR, and their entry-versus-child placement and ordering are exactly what a golden string pins down.

Add one more PropMeta to PROPS that sets each of them, and extend the expected block.

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In `@config/src/spec.rs` around lines 200 - 271, Extend
a_registry_renders_as_the_config_block_the_spec_grammar_defines by adding a
PropMeta entry that exercises alias, example, optional, long_help, since,
deprecated, deprecated_warn_at, and deprecated_remove_at, then update the
expected KDL golden string to assert each field’s rendered placement and
ordering.

config/src/registry.rs (1)

106-116: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

PropMeta stays exhaustively constructible, so each metadata addition ripples outward. The six new public fields force an edit at every site that builds PropMeta without ..PropMeta::new(key, ty), inside this workspace and in any crate that depends on usage-config.

• config/src/registry.rs#L106-L116: mark PropMeta #[non_exhaustive] so later fields are additive, or record this addition as a breaking change in the release notes.
• conformance/src/config.rs#L707-L712: build on PropMeta::new(leak(&setting.key), ty) and list only the fields the corpus sets, so this site stops restating the defaults.

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In `@config/src/registry.rs` around lines 106 - 116, Make PropMeta non-exhaustive
in config/src/registry.rs:106-116 so adding metadata fields remains additive,
and update the PropMeta construction in conformance/src/config.rs:707-712 to
start from PropMeta::new(leak(&setting.key), ty) while specifying only
corpus-defined fields.

derive/src/model.rs (1)

779-789: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add unit tests for the new config attribute.

The file has dedicated unit tests for every other root-only attribute added this way: one_spec_makes_one_claim_about_which_usage_can_read_it for min_usage_version, the_settings_attribute_belongs_on_the_root for settings, and package_metadata_belongs_on_the_root for author/license/repository. The new config attribute has neither:

• No test confirms config = Settings parses into cli.config.
• No test confirms config = "not-a-type" is rejected with the message at Line 784-786.
• No test confirms config is refused below the root, mirroring position_error tests for settings/min_usage_version.

Adding these keeps the new attribute covered by the same regression net as its siblings.

Example tests mirroring the existing pattern

#[test]
fn config_names_a_type_deriving_usage_config() {
    let parsed = cli(r#"#[usage(config = Settings)] struct Ex {}"#).expect("parses");
    assert!(parsed.config.is_some());

    let err = rejection(r#"#[usage(config = "Settings")] struct Ex {}"#);
    assert!(err.contains("names a type deriving"), "unhelpful: {err}");
}

#[test]
fn config_belongs_on_the_root() {
    let err = position_error(
        r#"
        #[usage(config = Settings)]
        struct Ex {
            #[usage(long)]
            plain: bool,
        }
        "#,
        false,
    );
    assert!(err.contains("`config` belongs on the root"), "unhelpful: {err}");
}

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In `@derive/src/model.rs` around lines 779 - 789, Add unit-test coverage for the
new config attribute in the existing root-attribute test module: verify config =
Settings populates cli.config, config assigned a string is rejected with the
existing “names a type deriving” message, and config nested below the root is
rejected with the established “config belongs on the root” position error.
Follow the patterns used by
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Inline comments:
In `@config/src/read.rs`:
- Around line 253-257: Update the FromValue implementation for f32 to reject
finite f64 inputs whose conversion would produce f32::INFINITY or
f32::NEG_INFINITY, returning the existing TypeError path used for out-of-range
values; continue allowing finite values that only lose precision through
rounding.

In `@config/src/spec.rs`:
- Around line 123-130: Update the choices-rendering loop in spec_kdl to skip
non-scalar choices that cannot be represented as one KDL argument, including
Const::Map and Const::List values, rather than emitting malformed choice nodes.
Preserve rendering for scalar constants and continue generating the surrounding
choices block only according to the remaining valid choices.
- Around line 178-193: Update quoted to escape any remaining control characters
using the KDL \u{...} representation when c.is_control(), while preserving the
existing escapes for backslashes, quotes, newlines, carriage returns, and tabs.

In `@derive/src/config.rs`:
- Around line 201-222: Update ConstAdmits::admits so Self::Uint accepts only
non-negative integer constants, while Self::Int and Self::Float retain their
existing integer acceptance; ensure both default and choice validation reject
negative Const::Int values for uint fields during derive-time checks.
- Around line 457-479: Extend the described attribute list in the flatten
validation around described to reject alias, deprecated_env, example,
default_note, optional, deprecated, deprecated_warn_at, deprecated_remove_at,
and since. Keep help and long_help excluded, and preserve the existing error
path so every setting attribute on a flattened field is reported before prop is
discarded.

In `@derive/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 422-444: Replace the private intra-doc link `[config
module](config)` in the Config derive documentation with either a direct
description of the field vocabulary or a link to the published guide, avoiding
any reference to the private `config` module while preserving the
documentation’s guidance.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@config/src/registry.rs`:
- Around line 106-116: Make PropMeta non-exhaustive in
config/src/registry.rs:106-116 so adding metadata fields remains additive, and
update the PropMeta construction in conformance/src/config.rs:707-712 to start
from PropMeta::new(leak(&setting.key), ty) while specifying only corpus-defined
fields.

In `@config/src/spec.rs`:
- Around line 200-271: Extend
a_registry_renders_as_the_config_block_the_spec_grammar_defines by adding a
PropMeta entry that exercises alias, example, optional, long_help, since,
deprecated, deprecated_warn_at, and deprecated_remove_at, then update the
expected KDL golden string to assert each field’s rendered placement and
ordering.

In `@derive/src/model.rs`:
- Around line 779-789: Add unit-test coverage for the new config attribute in
the existing root-attribute test module: verify config = Settings populates
cli.config, config assigned a string is rejected with the existing “names a type
deriving” message, and config nested below the root is rejected with the
established “config belongs on the root” position error. Follow the patterns
used by one_spec_makes_one_claim_about_which_usage_can_read_it,
the_settings_attribute_belongs_on_the_root,
package_metadata_belongs_on_the_root, and position_error tests.

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Instruction counts

benchmark	trend	instructions	Δ	wall (min)	Δ
markdown	████▅▅▂▂▁▇▇▇	225,512,163 → 225,548,851	+0.02%	20.73 → 20.57ms	-0.77%
startup	████████▁▁▁▁	845,855 → 845,362	-0.06%	0.89 → 0.88ms	-0.47%

No instruction-count regression above 1%.

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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.

framework	instructions, cold parse	vs usage
usage	8352	—
argh	6307	0.8x
clap	6316290	756x
bpaf	21909019	2623x

                                              min       p01       p10    median
usage-rs: argv -> struct                      408       413       418       425  ns
argh: argv -> struct                          292       296       301       314  ns
clap: build tree + parse -> struct         526227    528834    538386    549219  ns
bpaf: build parser + parse -> struct      1589658   1589658   1601731   1624524  ns

usage: argv -> struct                             420 ns      0.42 µs
clap: build tree + parse -> struct             553815 ns    553.81 µs
clap: parse -> struct, tree reused              22680 ns     22.68 µs
clap: build tree only                          331573 ns    331.57 µs

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Review feedback addressed, plus the codegen backend removed.

Fixed — bugs

Finding	Fix
Required settings marked optional (derive/src/config.rs)	prop_meta now states the contract: Some(false) for a non-Option field with no default, Some(true) for an Option/default_fn, and nothing where a declared default makes the inference agree. Asserted through both the registry and the parsed spec block.
uint accepts a negative default/choice	Ty::admits splits Uint off from `Int
flatten drops setting attributes	The described list gained deprecated_env, alias, example, default_note, optional, deprecated, both version attributes, and since. help/long_help stay allowed — a doc comment describes the group.
f32 narrowing wraps silently	A finite f64 that would become an infinity is reported, matching the rule stated for the narrower integers. Rounding still allowed; a supplied infinity still reads as one.
Non-scalar Const renders a malformed choice	Skipped in the renderer, since spec_kdl is public and also renders hand-written registries.
Raw control characters in quoted	Escaped as \u{…}.
Negate-only flag: leading space (argv/src/help.rs)	display_usage_masked writes --{negate} directly when the masked usage is empty.
Negate-only flag: spelling duplicated (lib/src/docs/models.rs)	column_usage no longer appends the negation when the usage string already is it — --color / --color. A flag with a positive spelling still lists both.
Private intra-doc link (derive/src/lib.rs)	Links the published guide instead of derive's private config module.

Every one of these got a regression test; the two negate-only fixes had none before.

Fixed — nitpicks

The spec_kdl golden now covers alias, example, optional, long_help, since, deprecated and both version attributes, plus the two renderer guards above. config has the unit tests its sibling root attributes already had. The corpus builds a prop on PropMeta::new rather than restating twelve defaults.

Declined

#[non_exhaustive] on PropMeta — it would break the derive, not just tighten it. E0639 forbids struct-expression construction outside the defining crate including functional update, so the generated PropMeta { … ..PropMeta::new(key, ty) } would stop compiling in every adopter. Verified against a two-crate probe rather than from memory. The additive-metadata goal is real; ..PropMeta::new is what already delivers it.

Also in this push

usage-config-build is gone. It read a spec's config block at build time and generated the registry plus the typed struct; with the derive on the real struct, keeping it meant two generators emitting one registry shape and a KDL-first adopter still holding a second description of every setting — the drift this derive exists to remove. Its one test that outlived it (usage-lib and usage-config must write a float identically) moved to usage-conformance, the one crate that can see both. Marked !, since a published crate is being removed.

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Second round, after rebasing onto main three times.

Bot findings addressed

Finding	Resolution
Defaults admitted but fail at read (High)	Real, and wider than the uint case. Ty::admits now takes the position the constant stands in: a default must already be a value of the field's type, since resolve seeds it with Const::to_value and hands it over uncoerced; a choice keeps the merge's reading, because Registry's comparison coerces both sides first. Tightening both would have broken valid declarations in the other direction.
Default-choice check ignores type rules	Both halves real, fixed in opposite directions — see the thread. List default beside item choices: now compared item by item, the way the registry compares. String default beside numeric choices: fixed by requiring one spelling on the declaration side rather than by coercing, because coercing here would mean a third implementation of "how is a float written" — the exact drift conformance/tests/config_value_display.rs exists to catch.

Found while in there

• A list default was held against its choices as a whole value, so default("a") beside choices("a", "b") was refused outright — the opposite failure to the two above, and the one that would have met hk first, whose list settings are exactly that shape.
• parse_with_settings threw away the deprecation warnings that #1186 taught parse to report. Both are entry points that are the process, so a CLI that adopted settings went quiet about every deprecation it had — the sort of difference nobody notices until a release removes the flag. The settings entries now carry the same warnings thread, with _and_warnings counterparts, which is the form a settings adopter actually wants: deprecations through its own logging rather than raw stderr.
• The metadata this PR added to PropMeta (long_help, since, examples, both deprecation versions) had its rendering pinned by a golden but nothing asserting usage-lib reads it back — and those fields exist only for docs, the JSON schema and the completers, all of which reach them through the spec. It does read them all back; now asserted.

Rebase notes

Four conflicts, all from main moving underneath: usage-rs/Cargo.toml (test feature vs config feature — both kept), derive/src/model.rs (dispatch vs config — both kept), derive/src/codegen.rs (main's deprecation warnings in parse vs this branch's extracted preamble and shared exit path — merged, which is what surfaced the gap above), and config-build/ twice, where main added a per-crate NOTICE.md and tightened deps on a crate this branch deletes.

Worth flagging: #1185 added cargo clippy -p usage-config-build to the trimmed-feature-shape job. That would have failed CI after the removal, so it's gone along with two manifest comments that named the crate as their rationale — the rules they record still hold, so the reasoning stays and the dangling name doesn't.

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Requesting a fresh pass: the last review landed at 16:37 and the rate limit meant the five rounds of changes since then were never looked at. The substantive ones are the settings-declaration validation (derive/src/config.rs — defaults and choices held to the field's own type, in both positions), the name-collision checks (derive/src/config.rs and config/src/props.rs), the deprecation-warning thread through the settings entries (derive/src/codegen.rs), and the removal of usage-config-build.

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One design question this PR surfaced but does not settle, flagged rather than decided because either answer is defensible and it is an API call rather than a bug.

#[usage(prefix = "task")] is applied to key and not to alias. So inside a flattened group, output with alias("out") gets the key task.output and the alias out — a bare top-level name, reaching outside the group's own namespace.

Arguments for prefixing aliases too: key is relative to the group, an alias names the same kind of thing (a config key for this setting), and the guide already says a group "declares its own dotted keys". An author reading prefix as "everything this group names lives under task." gets a surprise.

Argument for leaving it: an alias is often a legacy name, and a setting that moved into a group may legitimately want its old top-level spelling — task.jobs keeping jobs. Prefixing unconditionally makes that unexpressible, since there would be no way to write an unprefixed alias.

It was neither tested nor documented, so I have pinned the current behavior with a test that says plainly it is pinned and not endorsed, and added the caveat to the vocabulary table. The name-collision checks added earlier in this PR are what keep the current reading from quietly taking a name off another group — before them, a group's bare alias could shadow a parent's key silently.

Happy to change it either way; it needs a decision, not a guess.

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Remove the obsolete spec-to-registry description.

Lines 17-20 say that a build step produces the registry from a CLI spec. The new model generates the registry from the typed Rust declaration. This conflicts with Lines 22-23 and with the migration described by this PR.

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derive/src/model.rs (1)

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Add the newer struct options to the unknown-option message.

The message lists the options a struct takes. It omits config, settings, spec_endpoint, and spec_extra, which from_input accepts. An author who reads this list cannot discover them.

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+                                 `settings`, `config`, `spec_endpoint`, `spec_extra` and \

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In `@config/src/spec.rs`:
- Around line 84-89: Update the list-default branch in spec_kdl to filter out
Const::List and Const::Map items before calling const_kdl, matching the existing
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In `@docs/rust/settings.md`:
- Around line 12-15: Update the Rust dependency example in the dependencies
block to use the crate name usage consistently, removing or correcting any
usage_rs alias, and add a direct dirs dependency required by dirs::cache_dir().

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In `@corpus/config/README.md`:
- Around line 17-23: Update the README’s introductory model description to
remove the obsolete claim that a CLI build step produces the registry from a
spec, and describe the registry as being generated from the typed Rust
declaration consistently with usage::Config and the migration model.

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In `@derive/src/model.rs`:
- Around line 1019-1032: Update the unknown-option error message in the
from_input option handling to include config, settings, spec_endpoint, and
spec_extra alongside the other accepted struct options.

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Fix the Rust example’s dependency names.

The key usage exposes the crate as usage, so use usage_rs as usage; fails. Remove that line or use use usage;. Add a direct dirs dependency for dirs::cache_dir().

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