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CLI

Tama Desktop bundles a sealed native Rust CLI at Tama.app/Contents/Resources/hooks-release/bin/tama. Its public usage starts with tama <command>. This index links every public top-level command and command leaf; hidden runner and bridge entrypoints are intentionally not part of the public surface.

Tama Desktop bundles a sealed native Rust CLI at Tama.app/Contents/Resources/hooks-release/bin/tama. Its public usage starts with tama <command>. This index links every public top-level command and command leaf; hidden runner and bridge entrypoints are intentionally not part of the public surface.

#Catalog and release inspection

#Command declaration review

When block-one-off-commands finds a declaration without a kept verdict, it refuses the write immediately and names tama commands judge <request>. The write atomically publishes the request but starts no background judge. Run the named foreground command to own the real review and read PASS or BLOCK with its reason for each declaration, then repeat the write. A failed judge call remains a refusal, not an approval. Its actual diagnostic is also retained in command-verdicts/judge.log under Tama's state directory; inability to retain that diagnostic is reported separately without losing the review cause.

Verdicts belong to the file path, command name and declaration together. Copying a declaration into another file requires its own review, because the judge receives that file's product context. Simultaneous requests for the same declarations share a locked request record; they never overwrite a record while its judge reads it. A second judge invocation refuses a request already owned by another review instead of starting a competing model call. The hook decision appears in the attached editor's refusal surface as well as the CLI output.

The real journey one_off_commands_kept_verdicts invokes the actual built hook and foreground CLI with the real Oko model route, then checks the persisted verdict and a repeated write. Its negative journey uses an isolated home and executable path genuinely without Oko: the CLI must retain its failure and the same declaration must remain refused. Both require TAMA_TEST_SOURCE_REVISION, matching clean source and retained executable, input and output evidence. Runs keep separate build directories and never delete earlier evidence.

#Machine enforcement

#Installation and repository operations

#Adaptive doctor

tama adaptive <command> is the public adaptive-layer command group. Its leaves are:

#Worktrees

tama worktrees <command> is the public worktree command group. A linked worktree is a second checkout of a repository you already have, and creating one is refused by the block-repository-copies hook; this group is how you inventory and remove the ones that already exist. Its leaves are:

--root is repeatable and required at least once on both leaves; there is deliberately no machine-wide default root. --except is repeatable, takes the path of one linked worktree to leave completely alone, and exists on remove only — list removes nothing, so it has no --except.

#Copies

tama copies <command> is the public group for the other noun block-repository-copies refuses: a second full checkout with its own .git directory, which a clone of a local path or a recursive copy produces and which git never lists from the original. Its leaves are:

A pass refuses any copy carrying uncommitted changes, commits absent from every remote, no origin to compare against, linked worktrees of its own, or no canonical checkout under the roots given. --except spares a copy and --only narrows the pass to named copies, accepting them as removable when they are the sole checkout here; the two are never combined.

#Existing policy bundles

A supported self-contained policy bundle or sealed release contains shared-hooks/registry.json and regular, non-symlink files under shared-hooks/, claude-hooks/, codex-hooks/, repo-githooks/, adaptive/, external-hooks/, and bin/, plus supported root metadata such as release.json and external-sources.json. Other top-level paths are reported in ignoredPaths.

The complete registry and every registered source are validated before the editable store changes. A sealed release must also match its release.json tree identity. Results report imported, unchanged, removed, conflicting, and rejected counts. Repeating an identical source is unchanged; differing content conflicts unless explicit replacement is safe. Untracked and locally changed stored files remain conflicts even with --replace.

Every imported bundle is inactive: zero hooks are installed or enabled, and the command does not change the current release, ~/.shared-hooks, agent settings, or Git configuration. policy list returns canonical source paths, SHA-256 identities, timestamps, hook counts, file counts, and retained bundle paths without printing policy contents.

#Exit and refusal contract

Successful commands exit 0. Usage errors exit 2. Operational failures and findings that fail the command's contract exit 1, except for explicitly documented disabled or empty outcomes. Each command page records its required inputs, effects, output, and exact relevant refusal text from the sealed dispatcher.