Two cobra conventions a fresh operator tries first are unmet: abcd --version is an unknown flag, and abcd intent status <itd-N> is an unknown sub-verb. Reproduced at v0.9.0 (4ae6f221). The version verb exists (abcd version), and the record dispatcher answers the status question (abcd <itd-N> prints the bucket, the path and the next move), but neither refusal points at the form that works: --version refuses with "unknown flag" alone, and the intent refusal lists the five sub-verbs and says nothing of abcd <itd-N>. Relayed from the Gropius session gropiusllm-66 on 2026-09-19 (a forty-lane autonomous sweep), where both were the first thing tried. Wanted: accept --version as an alias of the version verb (cobra's Version field does it in one line), and have the unknown-sub-verb refusal name abcd <itd-N> when the rejected word is status or show.

Two cobra conventions a fresh operator tries first are unmet: abcd --version is an unknown flag, and abcd intent status <itd-N> is an unknown sub-verb. Reproduced at v0.9.0 (4ae6f221). The version verb exists (abcd version), and the record dispatcher answers the status question (abcd <itd-N> prints the bucket, the path and the next move), but neither refusal points at the form that works: --version refuses with "unknown flag" alone, and the intent refusal lists the five sub-verbs and says nothing of abcd <itd-N>. Relayed from the Gropius session gropiusllm-66 on 2026-09-19 (a forty-lane autonomous sweep), where both were the first thing tried. Wanted: accept --version as an alias of the version verb (cobra's Version field does it in one line), and have the unknown-sub-verb refusal name abcd <itd-N> when the rejected word is status or show.

Grounds

• pursued: the first thing a fresh operator tries is answered with the form that works; a status or show refusal under intent, capture or spec that does not name abcd <record-id> would show it wrong