cli-continues: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

TypeScript Review Guidelines

Type Safety

• Avoid any — use unknown for external data (JSON.parse results, JSONL lines), then narrow with type guards
• Define interfaces for all object shapes that cross module boundaries — not inline object literals
• Use as const for literal arrays like TOOL_NAMES to get narrower inferred types

// Avoid
const parsed = JSON.parse(line) as any;
return parsed.type;

// Prefer
const parsed = JSON.parse(line) as unknown;
if (typeof parsed !== 'object' || parsed === null || !('type' in parsed)) return;
// Narrowed — safe to access (parsed as Record<string, unknown>)

Discriminated Unions

• Use switch (d.category) for narrowing StructuredToolSample — not instanceof checks
• New tool sample types must be added to the StructuredToolSample union in src/types/index.ts
• The category field is the discriminant — never use string-equality checks outside of switch

Async Patterns

• All file I/O must be async: use fs.promises.* not fs.readFileSync / fs.writeFileSync
• JSONL files must be streamed with readline.createInterface — never loaded into memory wholesale
• Avoid blocking the event loop in parsers — they run in parallel via Promise.allSettled

Import Rules

• Local imports must end in .js: import { foo } from './bar.js' — required for Node.js ESM module resolution
• Never import from dist/ in source files
• Prefer named exports over default exports for better refactoring support

Defensive Patterns

• Use optional chaining (?.) and nullish coalescing (??) for optional fields from parsed session data
• Sessions returned from parsers must be sorted by updatedAt descending (newest first)
• Use process.exitCode = N over process.exit(N) to allow SIGTERM/SIGINT handlers to run