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conflictMEDIUM2026-04-26 12:06 UTC

The Airgap Test: Refactoring a Cobra CLI into a Library API

How a single rule — only RunE touches *cobra.Command — turned a CLI codebase into a library that happens to ship with a CLI. I run a static analysis pass on my Go CLI that I call a contamination scan. It looks for places where the CLI framework has leaked out of the adapter layer and into code that

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