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Lift recovered tools CLI crate (byteport-cli) into a PR branch, providing a developer CLI for codec, transport, UI, and upload operations via the byteport-transport crate.

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This is the final step of E4 (lift recovered tools CLI to branch + open PR), following E3 which recovered the byteport-cli crate from stash-1. The crate exercises all byteport-transport port abstractions (codec, wire transport, terminal UI, mock UI, S3 upload) through a clap-based command-line interface.

Changes

  • crates/byteport-cli/ — new crate with a clap CLI binary supporting 4 subcommand families:
    • codec encode/decode — hex encode/decode via WireCodecAdapter
    • transport ping — in-memory wire transport send/receive via WireTransportAdapter
    • ui view/prompt — terminal UI view rendering + mock prompt flow
    • upload — S3 upload instruction generation via S3UploadTransport
  • Cargo.toml — added crates/byteport-cli to workspace members
  • README.md — added work-state header section
  • Cargo.lock — updated for workspace changes

Testing

# Verify compilation
cargo check --package byteport-cli

# Run CLI help
cargo run --package byteport-cli -- --help

# Test individual subcommands
cargo run --package byteport-cli -- codec encode "hello"
cargo run --package byteport-cli -- codec decode "68656c6c6f"
cargo run --package byteport-cli -- ui view dashboard
cargo run --package byteport-cli -- upload my-file.txt --content-type text/plain --content-length 1024

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Add a developer CLI for codec, transport, UI, and upload tasks

What Changed

  • Added a new byteport-cli command-line tool that can encode and decode text, run a transport ping, render UI views, prompt with common message types, and generate S3 upload instructions
  • The CLI now prints the result of each action directly, and shows clear errors for unknown views, prompt kinds, or upload failures
  • Updated the workspace so the new CLI crate is included in builds
  • Added a work-state section to the README with the current project phase, branch, build status, and next milestone

Impact

✅ Faster local testing of transport and UI flows
✅ Easier generation of upload instructions
✅ Clearer project status for contributors

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@KooshaPari KooshaPari added area:compute-infra Phenotype compute/infra epic epic-e BytePort: terminal UI, tools CLI, otel, governance labels Jun 26, 2026
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println!("{}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&encoded));
}
CodecAction::Decode { hex } => {
let decoded = codec.decode(hex.as_bytes()).expect("decode should succeed");

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Suggestion: Decoding user-provided hex with expect will panic on invalid input (odd-length or non-hex characters), causing an abrupt crash instead of a normal CLI error path. Replace this with explicit error handling that prints a friendly message to stderr and exits with a controlled non-zero status. [logic error]

Severity Level: Major ⚠️
-`codec decode` crashes on malformed hex input.
- ⚠️ CLI users see panic/backtrace instead of clear error.
- ⚠️ Developer tool less robust for manual testing flows.
Steps of Reproduction ✅
1. Build and run the CLI with the decode subcommand, e.g. `cargo run --package
byteport-cli -- codec decode abc` (entrypoint `main` in
`crates/byteport-cli/src/main.rs:104-119` uses clap to parse this into `Command::Codec {
action: CodecAction::Decode { hex: "abc".into() } }`).

2. `main` dispatches to `run_codec` (`crates/byteport-cli/src/main.rs:121-135`), which
matches on `CodecAction::Decode { hex }` at line 130 and executes `let decoded =
codec.decode(hex.as_bytes()).expect("decode should succeed");` at line 131.

3. `WireCodecAdapter::decode` implementation in
`crates/byteport-transport/src/ports/codec.rs:79-103` checks `if input.len() % 2 != 0` at
line 90 and returns `Err(io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::InvalidData, "hex input length must
be even"))` for odd-length input like `"abc"`, and similarly returns `Err` for invalid
characters in `parse_hex_nibble` at lines 118-127.

4. The `Err` from `codec.decode` is unwrapped via `.expect("decode should succeed")` at
`main.rs:131`, causing the process to panic with the message `"decode should succeed"`
instead of printing a user-friendly error and exiting with a controlled non-zero status.

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**Path:** crates/byteport-cli/src/main.rs
**Line:** 131:131
**Comment:**
	*Logic Error: Decoding user-provided hex with `expect` will panic on invalid input (odd-length or non-hex characters), causing an abrupt crash instead of a normal CLI error path. Replace this with explicit error handling that prints a friendly message to stderr and exits with a controlled non-zero status.

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Comment on lines +142 to +145
let sent = transport.send(data.as_bytes()).expect("send");
println!("Sent {sent} bytes");
let echoed = transport.take_tx();
println!("Echo (tx buffer): {}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&echoed));

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Suggestion: The transport ping flow claims to send and receive, but it never calls recv; it only dumps the internal TX buffer via take_tx, which bypasses the transport receive contract. Use recv (with prepared RX data if needed) so the command actually exercises the receive path it advertises. [incomplete implementation]

Severity Level: Major ⚠️
- ⚠️ `transport ping` never exercises the `recv` path.
- ⚠️ CLI help promises receive semantics not actually used.
- ⚠️ Developer transport adapter receive logic untested via CLI.
Steps of Reproduction ✅
1. Run the transport ping subcommand, e.g. `cargo run --package byteport-cli -- transport
ping hello`, which clap parses into `Command::Transport { action: TransportAction::Ping {
data: "hello".into() } }` via `main` in `crates/byteport-cli/src/main.rs:104-119`.

2. `main` dispatches to `run_transport` (`crates/byteport-cli/src/main.rs:137-148`), which
creates a `WireTransportAdapter` and calls
`transport.connect("memory://pipe").expect("connect");` at lines 138-139.

3. In the `TransportAction::Ping { data }` branch at lines 141-146, the code calls `let
sent = transport.send(data.as_bytes()).expect("send");` at line 142 and prints `"Sent
{sent} bytes"`, then calls `let echoed = transport.take_tx();` at line 144 and prints
`"Echo (tx buffer): ..."` at line 145; there is no call to `transport.recv(...)` anywhere
in this function.

4. The `Transport` trait and `WireTransportAdapter` implementation in
`crates/byteport-transport/src/ports/transport.rs:3-17` and `114-151` define a proper
`recv` method backed by an `rx` buffer (with `push_rx` helper at lines 103-106 to seed
data), but `run_transport` never invokes `recv`, so the advertised behavior "Connect,
send, and receive through an in-memory wire transport." (doc comment on
`TransportAction::Ping` at `main.rs:78-83`, used as help text by clap) is not actually
exercised: the ping command only inspects the internal TX buffer via `take_tx`.

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**Line:** 142:145
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	*Incomplete Implementation: The `transport ping` flow claims to send and receive, but it never calls `recv`; it only dumps the internal TX buffer via `take_tx`, which bypasses the transport receive contract. Use `recv` (with prepared RX data if needed) so the command actually exercises the receive path it advertises.

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