grammar-help

A command guide for developing the tree-sitter-al grammar, which defines how AL code is parsed. It lists quick and full validation, baseline saving, test debugging, and the underlying manual commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after grammar changes, to run a specific parser test, investigate a failure, or save a known-good comparison baseline.
Why use it?
It makes common grammar-development checks easier to find and helps developers choose between fast feedback and a complete review.

Command for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/sshadows/tree-sitter-al/grammar-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SShadowS/tree-sitter-al

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 302 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00302
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash e2db5bfbbf25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grammar-help scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/commands/grammar-help.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Grammar Development Help

Available validation commands:

Command Description
/validate Full validation (generate, test, health check, analysis)
/quick-validate Fast validation (generate + test only)
/save-baseline Save current state as baseline for regression detection
/debug-test <pattern> Debug a specific failing test

Manual Commands

# Generate parser
tree-sitter generate

# Run all tests
tree-sitter test

# Run specific test
tree-sitter test -i "test name pattern"

# Health check
python3 tools/check_grammar_health.py

# Find unused rules
python3 tools/find_unused_definitions.py

# Find duplicate rule keys in grammar.js's rules object
python3 tools/analyze_duplicates.py

# Full validation script
./validate-grammar.sh

Common Workflows

After making grammar changes:

  1. /quick-validate - fast feedback
  2. If passing: /validate - full check
  3. If all good: /save-baseline - update baseline

Debugging a test failure:

  1. /debug-test "test name" - get detailed analysis
  2. Read the test file in test/corpus/
  3. Check grammar.js for the relevant rules

Before committing:

  1. /validate - ensure no regressions
  2. Check for any warnings or issues
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 52 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e2db5bfbbf25

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grammar-help is a command published in the GitHub repository SShadowS/tree-sitter-al (24 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 302 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.