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DESIGN.md from joshsmithxrm/ppds-skills is a DESIGN.md file: the design rules coding agents follow in that repo.

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DESIGN.md file
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DESIGN.md
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MIT

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What the file says

# Design notes

Why this package looks the way it does.

## The problem: flag hallucination

AI coding agents are good at *intent* ("export this solution") but routinely
invent CLI flags that don't exist, or fall back to a different tool (`pac`)
when unsure. For a package that drives destructive operations against live
Dataverse environments, a hallucinated flag is worse than a refusal.

## The approach: the reference IS the real `--help`

Rather than hand-write flag tables (which drift from the tool), this package
generates them verbatim from the selected CLI build:

- `tools/capture_cli_help.py` walks the CLI's full command tree (271 nodes
  at published CLI 1.4.2) into `captured-help/*.txt` + `manifest.json`.
- `tools/capture_mcp_tools.py` records the MCP server's actual `tools/list`
  response (41 tools at published MCP 1.2.2).
- `skills/ppds-core/references/candidate-provenance.json` records the exact source commit and
  public package URLs and package/binary hashes. These captures come from independently verified public NuGet tools.
- `tools/generate_flag_tables.py` embeds those captures **verbatim** into
  `skills/*/references/cli-*.md` and `mcp-tools.md`.
…

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joshsmithxrm/ppds-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main

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GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=joshsmithxrm/ppds-skills/DESIGN.md
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