2026-09-10 - One vocabulary, and an attribute that outlived its variant

REQ-20260910T0125Z-5e17 asked for the last of two vocabularies to go: delete build rather than documenting it as superseded, move stamp and wrap onto --target, and bring the documentation with them.

Done, and the CLI now has one way to say each thing:

• build deleted, with BuildTarget and the three build_* functions behind it. The previous resolution had left it present-but-superseded with a help notice naming the replacement - which was what the earlier request asked for and, under the greenfield rule, is itself the cruft.
• native deleted too. It was a deprecated alias pointing at selfish build title, so its target no longer existed. Not named in the request; the same rule reaches it.
• stamp and wrap take --target orbis|neo|prospero|trinity. Both keep their place for the reasons already given - --library is the only route to a .prx, and --privilege and --sdk have no pipeline spelling - but they no longer speak a second dialect. stamp and wrap now take a Generation rather than a u8, so the "4 or 5, anything else is a typo" conversion disappears from both.

Which hits were deliberately left

Three of the five references the request flagged are not the subcommand: bin/selfish:7, docs/BUILDING.md:149 and .github/workflows/release.yml all say ./bin/selfish build, which is the shared workspace verb - a release build through the collection's own entry point. The request warned about exactly this and it was right to; a string replacement would have broken the release workflow.

Also left, as the request pre-judged: the SCE_*_LEGACY vendor tag names in selfish-container, which are ABI facts, and data/*.tsv, where a quoted term is part of a citation.

The surprise, and it is a small nasty one

Removing the Native variant left its #[command(hide = true)] and its doc line behind, and an attribute does not know which variant it was for. It attached itself to the next one - Image - and quietly hid a working subcommand from --help.

Nothing failed. The gate passed, the binary built, every test stayed green, and selfish image still ran perfectly if you already knew it was there. It was caught by counting the commands in --help against the ones in the source, which is not a check anybody had reason to run.

That is the day's shape once more: a deletion that removed the code and left the decoration, and the decoration silently changed the behaviour of its new neighbour. An attribute is attached to whatever follows it, so deleting an item and leaving its attributes is not a partial deletion - it is a redirection.