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7.0.0 has shipped, so `V7.md` no longer collects anything: a change that breaks a published crate's public API now waits for 8.0. This replaces it with `V8.md` and points the contributor guidance in `AGENTS.md` at it.

`V8.md` starts with three size-related items found while shrinking the oxlint and oxfmt binaries, each with what changes, why it is breaking, and what adopters would do:

  • narrower flag and command tables (offsets into one string table instead of fat references, which removes relocations; about 550 bytes per flag today);
  • per-flag binding type names emitted only for flags that can be redeclared;
  • a const-specialised `Parser` so CLIs that do not use the default-flag route or sigil arguments do not carry them.

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After 7.0.0, contributor guidance now defers incompatible public API work to 8.0: AGENTS.md points at V8.md instead of V7.md, and V7.md is removed.

V8.md is the new backlog for the 7.x line. It lists planned (or candidate) breaking changes from oxc CLI binary-size work—compact Flag/FlagMeta tables via a shared string table, possible removal of Flag::binding_type / BindingType, const-generic Parser specialization, and smaller Event / help::Style payloads—with notes on why each breaks semver and what adopters would do.

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    • Updated crate versioning guidance to direct incompatible changes to the next major release and track deferred work in V8.md.
    • Added guidance on potential breaking changes for a future major release, including more compact data representations, parser specialization, and changes to event and style interfaces.
    • Documented a possible removal of binding-related APIs, contingent on an equivalent compatibility check.
    • Removed V7.md and its guidance on compatibility checks and sequencing changes.

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Release guidance now points to V8.md for incompatible changes. V8.md documents candidate API and data-size changes for a future major release. V7.md has been removed.

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AGENTS.md, V7.md, V8.md
AGENTS.md now points to V8.md. V8.md states its scope and release context. V7.md has been removed.
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V8.md
V8.md describes replacing table string references and wide integer fields with shared-string-table offsets and narrower integers. It notes effects on hand-written tables and derive users.
Public API and payload proposals
V8.md
V8.md documents a conditional candidate removal of Flag::binding_type and BindingType, const generic parameters for Parser, smaller Event::ClauseSeparator and help::Style payloads, and further flag and argument metadata size changes.

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Updates the breaking-change backlog for the next major release.

  • Contributor guidance now sends breaking changes to the version 8 backlog.
  • The new backlog describes ways to shrink flag and command tables.
  • The backlog tracks removing per-flag binding type names.
  • The backlog proposes parser settings chosen at compile time.
  • The backlog tracks smaller parser events and help styles.

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…icing and searching (#1553)

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https://entire.io/gh/jdx/usage/trails/94
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Second pass on the size of usage-argv's help rendering, which is still
the largest piece of what usage adds to a CLI binary. Stacked on #1551
(`perf/argv-size`); merge that first, then retarget.

### What changed

- The text wrapper was inlined into `page_sections` at every call.
Keeping `write_wrapped_indented` and `wrap_lines` out of line is the
single largest saving, about 21 KB.
- About 60 `&str[a..b]` sites in `help.rs` and `help/template.rs` each
carried a bounds check and a slice-error call. They go through three
small non-inlined helpers (`head`, `tail`, `slice`), about 5 KB.
- `own_and_global` builds flag spellings with plain helpers
(`push_forms`, `has_form`, `first_long`, ...) instead of iterator
chains, and the char and string searches use one byte scan rather than
core's searcher and its monomorphised copies.
- Line and `;`/`+` splitting use one `split_line`/`split_first`; style
names are one packed string; the prose span table is a `match` (no
relocations); and several small panic sites are gone.

Help output is byte-identical (plain, forced colour, and at width 200 on
oxfmt's real CLI) and the full workspace test suite passes.

### Measured

Linux x86_64, oxlint and oxfmt built from the oxc PR with usage-argv
patched in from this branch, exact loadable-section sums against the
parent branch: oxlint 14,906,504 → 14,863,744 B (-42,760), oxfmt
9,243,420 → 9,200,652 B (-42,768).

Speed: interleaved min-of-500 `--help` is 769 µs against 780 µs for the
parent (parity; two copies of the same binary differ by about 35 µs
here). Instruction count for `oxlint --help` under cachegrind is +0.7%
(1,637,947 → 1,648,957), the price of the byte scan's first-byte filter.
Parse paths are untouched.

Ideas that need public API changes (for 8.0) are in #1550.

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> **Overview**
> **Shrinks the usage-argv help renderer binary footprint** by routing
repeated string work through shared, `#[inline(never)]` helpers
(`head`/`tail`/`slice`, `find_str`/`find_byte`, `lines_of`,
`split_line`, a `Text` trait for trim/blank checks) instead of
duplicating `core` slicing and search at dozens of call sites in
`help.rs` and `help/template.rs`.
> 
> **Template and inline styling** drop static string tables for span
kinds and style names (packed `span_kind` match + `STYLE_NAMES` with
`style_index`), and flag spelling collection uses `push_forms` / small
lookup helpers rather than iterator chains.
> 
> **`page()`** now resolves path/chain once then calls `assembled_help`
/ `recursive_help` for both routed and address-based lookup; a few panic
paths become graceful `Option` handling (empty chain, implicit
positional clause).
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Help output now handles empty command chains and missing or
unavailable items without failing.
* Implicit clauses omit the argument synopsis when no visible argument
is available.
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### 📚 Documentation

- replace V7.md with V8.md for pending breaking changes by
[@jdx](https://github.com/jdx) in
[#1550](#1550)

### ⚡ Performance

- **(complete)** shrink completion splitting and error suggestions by
[@jdx](https://github.com/jdx) in
[#1554](#1554)
- **(lib)** shrink the help, completion and error rendering code in
usage-argv by [@jdx](https://github.com/jdx) in
[#1551](#1551)
- **(lib)** shrink the help renderer further by outlining wrapping,
slicing and searching by [@jdx](https://github.com/jdx) in
[#1553](#1553)

### 📦️ Dependency Updates

- bump jactionlint to 2.2.0 and mbx to 1.24.0 by
[@jdx](https://github.com/jdx) in
[#1549](#1549)
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Instruction counts

benchmark trend instructions Δ wall (min) Δ
markdown ███▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 266,454,587 → 266,417,007 -0.01% 47.18 → 47.15ms -0.08%
startup ▂██▆▆▆▆▅▅▅▆▆▆▆▁▇ 1,055,683 → 1,062,546 +0.65% 1.38 → 1.37ms -1.29%

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.

framework stripped binary, bytes
usage 1261952
bpaf 2494640
clap 3100904
framework instructions, cold parse vs usage
usage 8302 —
clap 6313736 760x
bpaf 21909300 2639x
                                              min       p01       p10    median
usage-rs: argv -> struct                      767       770       774       783  ns
clap: build tree + parse -> struct        1240372   1244912   1255515   1270046  ns
bpaf: build parser + parse -> struct      3356924   3356924   3406139   3457212  ns

usage: argv -> struct                             764 ns      0.76 µs
clap: build tree + parse -> struct            1251098 ns   1251.10 µs
clap: parse -> struct, tree reused              49963 ns     49.96 µs
clap: build tree only                          746164 ns    746.16 µs

777d3d483e3a vs a39e2b33b3ae · measured on the runner, not pushed to the history.

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