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Add Shell Completion Support (Bash & Zsh)

🎯 Overview

This PR adds comprehensive shell completion support for the ticket CLI tool, supporting both Bash and Zsh shells. The completion works with both the ticket command and the tk alias.

📦 What's New

Completion Scripts

  • ticket-completion.bash - Full Bash completion support
  • ticket-completion.zsh - Native Zsh completion with descriptions

Installation Tools

  • install-completion.sh - Smart installer that detects shell and OS
  • diagnose-completion.sh - Diagnostic tool for troubleshooting
  • fix-completion.sh - Automatic fix for common configuration issues

Documentation

  • README.md - Updated with installation and usage instructions

✨ Features

Complete Coverage

All commands and options are supported:

tk <TAB>                    # Commands: create, start, close, status, dep, etc.
tk create --type <TAB>      # Types: bug, feature, task, epic, chore
tk create --priority <TAB>  # Priorities: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
tk show <TAB>               # Lists all ticket IDs from .tickets/
tk status <ID> <TAB>        # Statuses: open, in_progress, closed
tk dep <TAB>                # Subcommand 'tree' + ticket IDs
tk dep tree --<TAB>         # Options: --full
tk link <ID1> <TAB>         # Additional ticket IDs

Smart Completion

  • Ticket ID discovery: Automatically reads IDs from .tickets/*.md
  • Partial matching: tk show abc<TAB> completes IDs starting with "abc"
  • Context-aware: Different completions based on command position
  • Multi-argument: Supports commands like link that accept multiple IDs

Cross-Platform

  • ✅ macOS (Homebrew & standalone)
  • ✅ Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.)
  • ✅ Bash 3.2+ and Zsh 5.0+

🚀 Installation

Quick Start

./install-completion.sh
exec zsh  # or exec bash

Manual Installation

Bash:

sudo cp ticket-completion.bash /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ticket

Zsh:

cp ticket-completion.zsh $(brew --prefix)/share/zsh/site-functions/_ticket

🧪 Testing

Test Scenarios Covered

  1. ✅ Command completion
  2. ✅ Ticket ID completion with partial matching
  3. ✅ Status and type completion
  4. ✅ Priority completion (0-4)
  5. ✅ Subcommand completion (dep tree)
  6. ✅ Options with values (--type, --parent)
  7. ✅ Multi-argument commands (link)
  8. ✅ Both ticket and tk aliases

Tested On

  • macOS Sequoia (Zsh 5.9)
  • macOS with Homebrew
  • Bash 3.2 (macOS default)
  • Bash 5.x (Linux)

🔧 Troubleshooting

If completion doesn't work after installation:

# 1. Diagnose the issue
./diagnose-completion.sh

# 2. Apply automatic fixes
./fix-completion.sh

# 3. Reload shell
exec zsh

Common issues handled:

  • Missing fpath configuration
  • Missing compinit in .zshrc
  • Completion cache issues

📝 Implementation Details

Bash Completion

  • Uses complete -F for function-based completion
  • Leverages compgen for efficient word matching
  • Avoids _init_completion dependency for portability

Zsh Completion

  • Native #compdef directive
  • Uses _arguments for structured completion
  • Provides command descriptions
  • Supports advanced Zsh features (interactive selection)

Design Decisions

  1. Separate files: Bash and Zsh have different syntaxes - keeping them separate ensures maintainability
  2. No external dependencies: Works with vanilla Bash/Zsh installations
  3. Graceful degradation: If .tickets/ doesn't exist, still completes commands
  4. Performance: Ticket ID discovery is fast even with hundreds of tickets

🔄 Backward Compatibility

  • ✅ No changes to existing code
  • ✅ No changes to existing CLI behavior
  • ✅ Purely additive feature
  • ✅ Optional installation (doesn't affect users who don't install)

📚 Documentation

Updated README.md with:

  • Quick installation guide
  • Usage examples
  • Troubleshooting section
  • Feature list

🎓 Usage Examples

Basic Workflow

# Create a ticket
tk create "Fix login bug" --type bug --priority 0

# Complete the ID
tk start <TAB>  # Shows all ticket IDs

# Complete status
tk status BUG-1234 <TAB>  # Shows: open in_progress closed

# Add dependency
tk dep BUG-1234 <TAB>  # Shows other ticket IDs

# View tree
tk dep tree --<TAB>  # Shows: --full
tk dep tree BUG-1234

Advanced Features

# Link multiple tickets
tk link <TAB> <TAB> <TAB>  # Keep suggesting IDs

# Create with parent
tk create "Sub-task" --parent <TAB>  # Shows parent IDs

# Filter by status
tk ls --status=<TAB>  # Shows: open in_progress closed

🙏 Credits

Implemented following shell completion best practices:

  • Bash completion framework conventions
  • Zsh completion system guidelines
  • Homebrew installation patterns

📋 Checklist

  • Bash completion implemented
  • Zsh completion implemented
  • Installation script provided
  • Diagnostic tools included
  • Documentation updated
  • Tested on macOS
  • Tested with both ticket and tk
  • No breaking changes
  • Follows conventional commits

🔗 Related

This PR addresses the need for improved developer experience when using the ticket CLI tool daily.


Ready for review! 🚀

- Add ticket-completion.bash for Bash shell
- Add ticket-completion.zsh for Zsh shell
- Support both 'ticket' and 'tk' commands
- Complete commands, ticket IDs, statuses, types, priorities
- Support subcommands (dep tree, --full, etc.)
- Handle multi-argument commands (link, dep, etc.)
- Add comprehensive PR description
- Add GitHub PR template
- Document all features and testing scenarios
Nathan-Schwartz added a commit to Nathan-Schwartz/ticket that referenced this pull request Mar 26, 2026
Port upstream PR wedow#1 completion scripts into completions/ directory.
Updated for current command set: super, dep cycle, list alias,
--id, --dir, --tags, --summary, -a/-T filter flags.
Resolves the README conflict by keeping upstream's README intact and adding
a Shell completion section instead of replacing the file. Drops files that
clobbered maintainer content or were not part of the feature
(PR_DESCRIPTION.md, .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md, diagnose-completion.sh,
fix-completion.sh).

Completion scripts updated for the current command set: list alias, super,
dep cycle, --tags, and the -a/-T filters on ls/ready/blocked/closed. Ticket
IDs now resolve the same way ticket does (TICKETS_DIR, then walk parents)
instead of only looking at ./.tickets. Bash script no longer hard-requires
bash-completion's _init_completion and guards compopt, so it works on the
bash 3.2 shipped with macOS.

install-completion.sh rewritten: English, non-interactive, user-scope only,
no sudo, no reference to the non-existent AUTOCOMPLETE.md.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WiLZnqcpQ8Y4rGqorcGiVC
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parweb commented Jul 25, 2026

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Rebased on master and reworked this — it was not in a mergeable state and I would not have merged it either.

What was wrong: the branch replaced your entire README.md with a French autocompletion doc, and overwrote .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md. It also carried PR_DESCRIPTION.md, diagnose-completion.sh and fix-completion.sh, none of which are the feature.

Now: the diff is purely additive — 4 files, no deletions, nothing of yours touched.

README.md              |  17 ++
install-completion.sh  |  55 ++
ticket-completion.bash | 253 ++++
ticket-completion.zsh  | 157 ++++
4 files changed, 482 insertions(+)

The README change is a single ## Shell completion section above "Migrating from Beads".

Completion scripts brought up to date with current master:

  • list alias, super, dep cycle
  • --tags on create; -a / -T filters on ls / list / ready / blocked / closed
  • ticket IDs now resolve the way tk itself resolves them (TICKETS_DIR, then walking parent directories). Previously it only looked at ./.tickets, so completion was dead in any subdirectory of a project.
  • no longer hard-depends on bash-completion's _init_completion, and compopt is guarded — it was erroring out on the bash 3.2 that ships with macOS.

install-completion.sh rewritten: English, non-interactive, user-scope only, no sudo, and no longer points at an AUTOCOMPLETE.md that does not exist. 226 lines down to 55.

Verified locally: make test — 12 features, 124 scenarios, 826 steps, 0 failed. Completion exercised under both bash 5.3 and macOS bash 3.2 (commands, IDs, dep, statuses, types, flags).

CI here is sitting at action_required and needs your approval to run.

Happy to split the script updates into a separate commit or drop the installer entirely if you would rather not ship one.

nickolay-kondratyev added a commit to Thorg-App/note-ticket that referenced this pull request Jul 30, 2026
parse_reported_cycles() returns ReportedCycle objects, not member-id sets,
and parity divergence wedow#1 is pinned by a three-way overlap now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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