refactor(stdlib): remove commander native binding

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Summary

Fixes #10686 — the removal is the fix.

Removes the native commander binding so import { Command } from "commander" (no
perry.compilePackages entry) resolves to the real npm package, compiled from source, per the
owner's decision to stop shipping hand-written Rust reimplementations of npm packages.

Base branch

This PR is based on fix/10439-native-binding-import-provenance (#10699), not main. Superseded: #10699 has landed on main; this PR was rebased onto and retargeted at main directly (see "Rebased onto main" section below, two rounds since main moved twice during the unstack) and is now independently mergeable.

The defects this closes (#10686)

• program.args was undefined — a real user need (reading parsed positionals) with no native
  implementation reachable from the fluent path used in practice.
• Boolean option defaults serialized as the string "false" — truthy in every conditional,
  the opposite of the intended default.
• Subcommand .action() callbacks never fired.
• Missing-required-argument and unknown-option validation was entirely absent — Node throws
  commander.missingArgument / commander.unknownOption; the native binding silently did nothing.

What was found and removed (both copies, per #10678)

• crates/perry-ext-commander/ (crate deleted; governance-tracked, well_known_bindings.toml's
  [bindings.commander])
• crates/perry-stdlib/src/commander.rs (feature-gated bundled-commander, exporting the same
  js_commander_* symbols) + the feature itself (no extra Rust dep — pure-Rust, so no dangling
  dependency to clean up, unlike decimal.js's rust_decimal/lru-cache's lru) + its registered GC
  root scanner (gc_runtime_root_holders.json's "stdlib:commander" entry — the file held a
  thread_local! GC_REGISTERED latch gating gc_register_mutable_root_scanner_named)
• Command-only recognition in the shared HIR match blocks — LRUCache/Command/Big/Decimal/
  BigNumber share several of these; only Command's line is touched here, across
  lower_patterns.rs (detect_native_instance_expr), native_new.rs (×2), native_fetch.rs,
  module_decl.rs (×2), and js_transform/imports.rs's NATIVE_CODEGEN_CLASSES
• The dedicated is_commander/is_commander_method fluent-chain-continuation block in
  lower/expr_call/static_and_instance.rs (kept is_math_lib/is_fastify_reply — those are
  Native decimal.js binding returns wrong division results and ABORTS the process on large multiplication (96-bit rust_decimal backing an arbitrary-precision library) #10684's and unrelated respectively)
• The "Command" construction arm in crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/builtin.rs
• The 11 commander NativeModSig rows in native_table/node_misc.rs (the tail of that file)
• The 15 js_commander_* FFI declarations, split across stdlib_ffi/utilities.rs (13) and
  stdlib_ffi_part2.rs (2, args_array/argument — kept separate there for the 2000-line CI cap)
• The commander manifest rows (perry-api-manifest's part_1.rs, 12 rows including the
  method+property pair for program.args; NATIVE_MODULES in entries.rs), feature_detect.rs's
  native-module scan list, stdlib_features.rs's feature-flip mapping
• 13 Android stub exports (js_commander_*) in perry-ui-android/src/stdlib_stubs.rs
• The perry-ext-commander workspace member + path dependency in the root Cargo.toml, and a
  release-testing fixture's now-nonexistent bundled-commander feature reference
  (tests/release/packages/next-app-route/provider/stdlib/Cargo.toml)
• workspace-architecture.json's entry (workspace_members 83→82, externalize 33→32)
• scripts/native_result_ledger.{tsv,py} — 11 js_commander_* NR_HANDLE_ID provider rows,
  EXPECTED_ROWS/EXPECTED_PROVIDERS 371/322 → 360/311. Confirmed green after the edit.
• Two stale entries (both crates/perry-ext-commander/src/lib.rs and
  crates/perry-stdlib/src/commander.rs) in scripts/unrooted_local_shape_baseline.json
• Docs: docs/src/stdlib/overview.md, docs/src/stdlib/other.md (+ its
  docs/examples/stdlib/other/snippets.ts anchor and the _keep array's now-dangling
  commanderExample reference), docs/src/native-libraries/governance.md,
  docs/src/api/reference.md, docs/api/perry.d.ts

No dedicated native-subclass machinery to remove, unlike #10685 (lru-cache): commander's real
npm source does class Command extends EventEmitter directly (Node's real node:events), and
Perry already has generic EventEmitter-subclass support (used by many packages) that this reaches
once compiled from source — confirmed by comments already in perry-runtime/src/node_stream_constructors/builders.rs
and node_stream_readwrite.rs describing exactly this path. Nothing to delete there.

No cross-umbrella feature coupling (checked per the campaign's uuid/ids-umbrella precedent):
bundled-commander is referenced only by perry-stdlib's full feature list, which this PR
already updates. No other feature umbrella in crates/perry-stdlib/Cargo.toml references it, and
this removal doesn't touch any feature bundled-decimal/bundled-lru-cache need — the three
removal PRs (#10684/#10685/this one) are independent on this axis and can merge in any order
relative to each other.

Left alone, deliberately: docs/audits/rust-dependency-decisions-2026-09-14.{md,json} (dated,
frozen audit snapshots) and test-files/test_parity_commander.ts, which imports the real package
with no node_modules of its own — it was already quarantined pre-existing and unrelated to
this PR: test-parity/known_failures.json tracks it under #8271 since 2026-08-17 ("Node 26.5.1
exits ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND for 'commander' … absent from package.json/package-lock.json"), and
it's in test-parity/parity_matrix_baseline.json's allowed_statuses: [parity_fail].

One obsolete test deleted: crates/perry/tests/issue_10439_native_binding_import_provenance.rs's
commander_default_name_still_uses_native_binding_without_compile_packages guarded the "legitimate
native case" (no compilePackages, native binding still answers) that this PR intentionally deletes.

A pre-existing red test found on the base branch, not caused by this PR — same one flagged in
#10704 and #10708: perry-hir's fluent_chain_lowering.rs had
native_fluent_chain_still_dispatches_through_native_methods (new Decimal(1)..., no import),
asserting the exact ambient/no-import, spelling-based dispatch #10699 itself eliminated. Already red
on #10699's own tip (08325f1e6); flagged on #10699 directly
(#10699 (comment)). Fixed identically here since
it blocks this PR's own cargo test -p perry-hir run — expect a small, trivially-resolved merge
conflict between this PR and #10704/#10708 on that one comment block if more than one lands; each
independently deletes the same pre-existing test.

Acceptance test: program.args, boolean defaults, subcommand actions, missing-arg/unknown-option validation, no compilePackages entry

Built on perrymaster (--profile perry-dev, -p perry -p perry-runtime-static -p perry-stdlib-static),
confirmed .a mtimes moved. Test project:

{ "dependencies": { "commander": "^15.0.0" }, "type": "module" }

No perry.compilePackages entry at all. Compile log: Compile package wildcard: expanded to 1 installed package(s) — real AOT compile from source (and on-demand builds libperry_ext_events.a,
since Command extends EventEmitter).

Diffed the compiled binary's output against node --experimental-strip-types (Node 26.5.1, the
pinned oracle):

program.args: ["input.txt"]                          (both -- was undefined)
verbose value: false typeof: boolean                  (both -- was the string "false")
action fired: true arg: world                         (both -- action never fired before)
missing-arg threw: commander.missingArgument          (both -- validation was absent before)
unknown-option threw: commander.unknownOption          (both -- validation was absent before)
chained name: my-cli                                  (both)

One residual mismatch, found by this acceptance test and not caused by this PR: commander's own
error: ... text, which it writes to stderr via _outputConfiguration.outputError(msg, writeErr)
before throwing under exitOverride(), is silently dropped by Perry — the thrown error's code
(commander.missingArgument etc.) is unaffected and matches exactly. Isolated to a minimal repro
(an object holding two function properties, one invoking the other passed as its own parameter) —
filed as #10711.

Verification

• cargo check --workspace --all-targets (excluding the cross-host UI crates per this repo's own
  exclusion list) under RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings": clean.
• cargo test -p perry-hir --tests: 459+ lib tests + all integration binaries, 0 failures.
• cargo test -p perry-codegen --tests: 1632 lib tests + all integration binaries incl.
  manifest_consistency, 0 failures.
• cargo test -p perry-api-manifest --tests: 39+4+other binaries, 0 failures.
• cargo test -p perry --test issue_10439_native_binding_import_provenance: all 4 remaining pass.
• python3 scripts/native_result_ledger.py: passes at the new 360/311 counts.
• python3 scripts/binding_governance.py --check: OK (39 extension crates, was 40).
• node scripts/binding_pins.mjs --check: OK (37 pinned, was 38).
• python3 scripts/workspace_architecture.py --check: OK.
• python3 scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.py --self-test and (no args): OK.
• cargo fmt --all -- --check: clean.
• SKIP_COMPILE_GATES=1 ./scripts/run_lint_gates.sh: 76 of 77 passed (compile tier skipped). The
  one failure (Public benchmark evidence freshness) is the documented pre-existing red on every PR
  in this repo, untouched by this PR.
• Real commander round-trip + all four named defects: see above.

Not run / out of scope

• Compile tier of run_lint_gates.sh (known-red on Linux per this campaign's contract).
• Full gap suite (host stalls under auto-optimize per contract); ran the targeted registry/consistency
  tests plus the direct acceptance test instead.
• No fix for A function read from an object property silently drops its own call to a second function passed to it as a parameter (also read from an object property) — commander error-message output is lost #10711 (the object-property double-indirection call bug) — out of scope for a removal PR.
• No version bump / CLAUDE.md edit — the maintainer bumps at merge time.

Rebased onto main (unstacked from #10699)

This PR was originally stacked on fix/10439-native-binding-import-provenance (#10699). #10699 has
since landed on main, so the base-branch warning above no longer applies — this PR now targets
main directly (gh pr edit --base main).

The rebase happened in two rounds because main moved twice underneath it while this PR was being
unstacked:

1. First rebase, git rebase --onto origin/main <old-fix/10439-tip> <branch>, landed on main @
   91a566c8af (train 226). Between resolving that round's conflicts and pushing, train 227
   landed on main, taking refactor(stdlib): remove dotenv native binding #10691 (dotenv removal) with it — gh pr edit --base main correctly
   reported CONFLICTING (a real move, confirmed via git log <old-main>..origin/main, not a
   transient GitHub recompute).
2. Second rebase, git rebase --onto origin/main 91a566c8af... <branch>, replayed the same 2
   commits onto the new tip, main @ 7fe800949 (v0.5.1606, train 227).

Recomputed triple (re-derived from the resolved tree, never taken from arithmetic, and verified via
workspace_architecture.py --check --print-summary): workspace_members: 76, externalize: 27,
keep: 44. This reflects both removals landing on the same baseline — commander's own decrement
plus dotenv's, which had already landed on main by the time this PR's second rebase happened.

The three-way internal-consistency check (sum(decision_counts) == workspace_members == len(crates)) caught a real defect on the second rebase that the script's own --check would
not have: workspace-architecture.json auto-merged with zero conflict markers, silently
keeping this branch's stale 77/28/44 (correct after the first rebase, stale after the second).
len(crates) was already 76 (main's dotenv removal had shrunk the crate map; this PR's own
commander deletion compounded it), so sum == workspace_members (77 == 77) agreed with each other
but disagreed with len(crates) (76) — the three-way check is what surfaced it. Fixed to 76/27/44
as above.

Other conflicts across the two rounds, all independently verified rather than trusted from
auto-merge:

• Round 1 (onto train 226): Cargo.lock, crates/perry-hir/tests/fluent_chain_lowering.rs
  (comment-only, took HEAD's consolidated fix(hir): resolve native-instance chain detection by import provenance, not spelling #10699 explanation), crates/perry-stdlib/Cargo.toml
  (removed bundled-commander, did not reintroduce stale validation), scripts/native_result_ledger.py
  (script-driven recount to 365 rows / 315 providers), workspace-architecture.json (real
  conflict, resolved to 77/28/44 for that base).
• Round 2 (onto train 227, post-dotenv-landing): each of Cargo.lock,
  crates/perry-codegen/src/runtime_decls/stdlib_ffi/utilities.rs, crates/perry-stdlib/Cargo.toml,
  and crates/perry/src/commands/stdlib_features.rs had the same shape — this branch's own stale
  dotenv/bundled-dotenv reference (predating dotenv's landing) opposite main's own stale
  commander/bundled-commander reference (predating this PR's rebase) — resolved by deleting
  both sides' entries, since neither should survive.
• docs/api/perry.d.ts / docs/src/api/reference.md: real conflicts on round 2 (both sides'
  header counts legitimately differ), resolved with a placeholder then fully regenerated from a
  freshly built perry-dev binary — never trusted, including the body content: the regen also
  caught a stale declare module "commander" { ... } block and its ## commander doc section that
  a manual header-only patch would have missed. Final: perry.d.ts 2064 entries / 130 modules,
  reference.md 2995 entries / 132 modules.
• Cargo.lock stale-entry finding: in both rounds, git checkout --ours Cargo.lock left a
  stale perry-ext-commander package entry (the crate deleted from Cargo.toml but not yet
  re-resolved in the lockfile) that only surfaced when the next cargo build silently regenerated
  it out. Per the campaign-wide audit this triggered (all six other removal PRs' lockfiles checked
  for the same stale-entry pattern, all clean), the fix going forward is to run
  cargo metadata --offline --format-version 1 immediately after every --ours resolution rather
  than deferring to the next build to catch it.
• native_result_ledger.py (365/315) and scripts/unrooted_local_shape_baseline.json (571) both
  carried over unchanged from round 1 into round 2 — verified by inspecting dotenv's own removal
  commit directly rather than assuming: it touched neither file (dotenv has zero native-table rows
  and zero unrooted-local-shape hits).

On the require.main === module question (#10735/#10749): commander's own pinned upstream
source ([bindings.commander.upstream] = 15.0.0) was checked directly —
grep -rn "require.main" node_modules/commander/ on the installed package returns nothing.
15.0.0 is pure ESM ("type": "module", no main/CJS entry at all), so the #10735 entry-guard
class of bug does not apply to this package at this pinned version; nothing anomalous was observed
at import time. Noting this explicitly rather than silently, since the absence of a signal here is
itself information about scope, not about the fix.

Acceptance re-run against the final tree (post both rebase rounds, docs regen folded in via
fixup — confirmed by checking the build stamp against HEAD immediately before compiling, not
assumed to still hold from an earlier build): fixture defines a program with subcommands, options
with defaults, and required arguments, and parses a fixed argv array (program.parse([...], {from: "node"})) rather than a bare import. Pins commander at exactly 15.0.0
([bindings.commander.upstream]'s declared version), no perry.compilePackages entry, version
printed from node_modules/commander/package.json at runtime. Diffed against
node --experimental-strip-types on the pinned oracle (Node 26.5.1): byte-for-byte identical,
including the printed COMMANDER_VERSION=15.0.0 line, subcommand action dispatch, option defaults,
and program.name()/.description()/.version() getters.

Re-ran full verification against the final rebased tree:

• cargo check --workspace --all-targets under -D warnings on the default dev profile: clean.
  No perry-ext-commander in the dependency graph; perry-ext-lru-cache/perry-ext-decimal still
  present as expected (neither refactor(stdlib): remove lru-cache native binding #10708 nor refactor(stdlib): remove decimal.js/big.js/bignumber.js native binding #10704 has landed on main yet).
• SKIP_COMPILE_GATES=1 ./scripts/run_lint_gates.sh: 78 of 79 passed — same single pre-existing
  failure (Public benchmark evidence freshness).
• git diff --stat clean after every gate, both rounds.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Breaking Changes

  • Removed Perry’s built-in commander binding and native CLI parsing support.
  • import { Command } from "commander" now uses the upstream npm package compiled from source.

• Documentation

  • Updated API references, examples, supported-module lists, and governance documentation to remove the built-in Commander integration.

• Maintenance

  • Removed related build configuration and workspace components.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The native Commander implementation, compiler integrations, workspace crate, runtime symbols, API manifest entries, documentation, and related baselines were removed. Commander imports no longer select the bundled standard-library feature.

Changes

Commander runtime and workspace removal

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Runtime and workspace removal Cargo.toml, crates/perry-ext-commander/*, crates/perry-stdlib/*, crates/perry/well_known_bindings.toml, workspace-architecture.json, tests/release/...	The perry-ext-commander crate and bundled Commander runtime were deleted. Workspace membership, features, binding metadata, and release configuration were updated.
Compiler and FFI routing changes crates/perry-api-manifest/*, crates/perry-codegen/*, crates/perry-hir/*, crates/perry-ui-android/*, crates/perry/src/commands/*, crates/perry/tests/*	Native Commander manifest entries, constructor and method lowering, FFI declarations, Android stubs, native-module detection, and the obsolete native-binding regression test were removed.
Documentation and inventory updates docs/*, scripts/*	Commander API declarations, examples, supported-package documentation, governance data, GC tracking, and inventory baselines were updated or removed.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 00617

The release note points to an unrelated performance issue, making the shipped change history misleading; runtime behavior is otherwise low risk.

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❌ Failed checks (3 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	Issue #10686 requires investigation of the shared subsystem behind the approximately 25M-instruction cost, comparison of paths such as spread and for...of, and separate investigation of the approxim…	Add focused benchmarks and code investigation for all three #10686 objectives. Include regression coverage and implement the required performance fix, or provide evidence that the existing implementation satisfies each objective.
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The PR removes Commander Rust implementations, FFI declarations, HIR and codegen recognition, registry entries, feature mappings, Android stubs, documentation, and Commander-specific tests. These chan…	Move the Commander-binding removal to a PR linked to its Commander issue. For this PR, retain only changes that directly investigate or fix the performance objectives in #10686.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 8 files. (5 skipped: 5…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (2 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: removing the native Commander binding from the standard library.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is comprehensive and relevant. It explains the motivation, lists the removed components, identifies issue #10686, documents acceptance results, and provides detailed verification and s…

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Issue #10686 requires investigation of the shared subsystem behind the approximately 25M-instruction cost, comparison of paths such as spread and for...of, and separate investigation of the approximately 9,400-instruction per-element cost for array-like operations. The PR summary provides no profiling, benchmark, root-cause analysis, or implementation for these objectives. It only removes the native commander binding and verifies Commander behavior.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The PR removes Commander Rust implementations, FFI declarations, HIR and codegen recognition, registry entries, feature mappings, Android stubs, documentation, and Commander-specific tests. These changes support removal of a native Commander binding, not the performance investigation required by #10686. The supplied evidence does not connect the Commander removal to the reported for...of, object JSON.stringify, or array-like costs.

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Flagging a counting problem this PR shares with its two siblings, because it will fail a required gate rather than show up in review.

All three of #10704, #10708 and #10712 record the identical transition workspace_members 83→82 and decision_counts.externalize 33→32. They cannot all be right. Each removes a different crate and they land sequentially, so from a common base of 83 they would have to read 83→82, then 82→81, then 81→80. As it stands, whichever of the three lands first leaves the other two recording a from value that no longer exists, and workspace_architecture.py --check fails on the second one.

It is already moot in any case: the chain has moved on. Main is now at 79 members / externalize 30 / keep 44 after the validator and dotenv removals, with uuid in flight. These are absolute recorded baselines, not deltas.

So at rebase time, for each of the three: recompute from the resolved tree and have workspace_architecture.py --check --print-summary independently reproduce the number. Do not derive it by arithmetic from 83, and do not copy the sibling's figure. scripts/native_result_ledger.tsv carries the same absolute-count hazard.

Two related notes:

• This branch is stacked on fix(hir): resolve native-instance chain detection by import provenance, not spelling #10699's branch, not main, and fix(hir): resolve native-instance chain detection by import provenance, not spelling #10699 squash-merges. That makes a rebase onto main mandatory once fix(hir): resolve native-instance chain detection by import provenance, not spelling #10699 lands — the ordering note in the body is necessary but not sufficient.
• Because all three touch the same registry surfaces (well_known_bindings.toml, NATIVE_MODULES/entries/part_*.rs, native_table/*.rs, stdlib_features.rs, binding_governance.py, binding_pins.mjs, the ledger, workspace-architecture.json), they should be rebased one at a time, on demand rather than all three up front — each rebase invalidates the next.

Finally, for whoever runs the acceptance check: #10735 is live on main — require.main === module is true in every compiled CommonJS module, so any package with a CLI entry guard runs its CLI branch when merely imported. A fix is in flight. If acceptance fails in a way that looks like the package misbehaving at import time, test a dependency-free fixture that never mentions the package before attributing it to the removal.

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Correction to my comment above: I gave main's baseline as 79 members / externalize 30 / keep 44. That is wrong — 79/30 is the figure after the uuid removal, not main's. Main (023dc0b653) reads 80 members / externalize 31 / keep 44.

The attribution was wrong too: I said "after validator and dotenv". Only #10690 (validator) has landed; #10691 (dotenv) is still open, and a jsonwebtoken removal landed instead.

This does not change the advice, and the advice is the point: recompute from the resolved tree at rebase time and have workspace_architecture.py --check --print-summary reproduce it — do not copy a number out of a comment, including this one. Main moved twice while I was writing these, which is exactly why any figure quoted here goes stale. The defect I flagged stands unchanged: five queued PRs record the identical 83→82 / 33→32, and at most one of them can be right.

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Pathfinder result from #10704 — this PR needs two steps to unstack, not one, and the second is easy to miss.

#10704 was rebased onto origin/main with git rebase --onto origin/main <shared-branch-tip> <PR-branch>, force-pushed, gates green — and GitHub still reported CONFLICTING. The content was fine. The cause was that the PR's base pointer was still fix/10439-native-binding-import-provenance, so mergeability was being computed against that stale branch rather than against main. gh pr edit 10704 --base main flipped it to MERGEABLE immediately, with no change to headRefOid.

This PR has the same problem right now — baseRefName is still fix/10439-native-binding-import-provenance, and it reports CONFLICTING for that reason alone. Since #10699 squash-merged, that branch still exists while no longer appearing anywhere in main's history, which is why the stale pointer looks plausible and resolves to nonsense.

So whoever picks this up needs both:

1. git rebase --onto origin/main <shared-branch-tip> <PR-branch> — replays only the commits genuinely unique to this PR.
2. gh pr edit <N> --base main — retargets the PR itself.

Step 1 alone looks complete and succeeds. The PR only reveals the problem afterwards as CONFLICTING, and the natural reading of that is "my conflict resolution was wrong", which sends you back into the diff rather than at the base pointer.

Also inherited from #10704, since these three are structurally identical:

• The recorded counts are stale. This PR carries 82/32/45 from a base of 83, several trains back. Main is now 78/29/44. Recompute from the resolved tree and have workspace_architecture.py --check --print-summary reproduce it — do not subtract, do not copy a sibling's number. Note refactor(stdlib): remove dotenv native binding #10691 and refactor(stdlib): remove decimal.js/big.js/bignumber.js native binding #10704 both currently compute to 77/28/44, so whichever lands after them needs a further re-derivation.
• EXPECTED_ROWS/EXPECTED_PROVIDERS may genuinely decrement for these removals, unlike axios/dotenv/uuid which touch no ledger rows. refactor(stdlib): remove decimal.js/big.js/bignumber.js native binding #10704 recounted to 364 / 314 from the resolved tree; the value is not obtainable by subtracting the PR's old delta from main's new base, because the tree shape differs.
• The generated docs merge clean and stay stale. docs/api/perry.d.ts and docs/src/api/reference.md auto-merged with zero conflict markers on refactor(stdlib): remove decimal.js/big.js/bignumber.js native binding #10704, correctly stripped the removed package from the body, and silently kept main's header counts. Regenerate from a fresh build rather than trusting a clean merge — nothing gates this one. See Every queued binding-removal PR records an absolute workspace count; six are stale and the two correct ones collide with each other #10739.
• unrooted_local_shape_baseline.json — re-derive even if --check passes; a passing stale number is how native_result_ledger.py is red on pristine main (expected 371, found 376), and its path filter means it can only fail on an unrelated PR #10738's masked defect survived.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the unrelated Fixes #10686`` reference.

Issue #10686 tracks lazy-initialization and array-like performance costs. This change removes the native Commander binding. It does not resolve that issue. Replace this reference with the Commander tracking issue, if applicable.

Based on learnings: changelog fragments must describe one coherent shipped behavior.

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In `@changelog.d/10712-remove-commander-binding.md` at line 7, Remove the
unrelated “Fixes `#10686`” reference from the changelog fragment and replace it
with the appropriate Commander tracking issue reference, if one exists. Keep the
fragment focused on removing the native Commander binding and preserve the
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[proggeramlug]

Landed via merge train 233 (#10783) as v0.5.1612 — 1698e7fbc8.

This PR was CONFLICTING against main (train 231 removed six other bindings and moved the same registry surfaces), so it was resolved and combined with the other conflicting removal rather than rebased on its own — they shift the same absolute counts, and two independently-correct rebases would collide with each other. That is #10739. Closing because a train lands content rather than merging the source branch.

Both packages verified against the real npm source at their pinned upstream versions, no perry.compilePackages entry, diffed byte-for-byte against node --experimental-strip-types on Node 26.5.1:

• lru-cache 11.5.2 — byte-identical, including instanceof, constructor.name, forEach and dispose-on-eviction, all four of which the native binding got wrong.
• commander 15.0.0 — stdout byte-identical across option defaults, --no- negation, subcommand dispatch, variadics, helpInformation(), and all four CommanderError codes under exitOverride().

On commander's stderr (#10711): four error: ... lines that Node prints are missing. Kept the removal in, because it is not a regression and the evidence is on main rather than in an argument — perry-ext-commander/src/lib.rs and perry-stdlib/src/commander.rs both contain zero matches for eprintln!|stderr|io::stderr, so the native binding never wrote that text either, and zero for exit_override|configure_output|help_information|processed_args, so the acceptance fixture could not have run on main at all. stderr was empty before and after; everything commander computes now matches Node where previously no CommanderError was thrown.

One defect in this PR was caught and fixed during resolution, worth knowing about: it removed the "LRUCache" => ("lru-cache","LRUCache") native-parent arm from class_decl.rs but not the parallel copy in from_ast.rs, whose own comment says to keep the two in lockstep. With lower_lru_cache_subclass_init deleted from codegen, class X extends LRUCache in real compiled source would have routed to a path that no longer exists — and because there is a _ => None catch-all it compiles fine, so no gate would have caught it.

Every absolute count was re-derived on the resolved tree rather than carried across the rebase: 70 members / externalize=21 / keep=44, ledger 356/307, unrooted 555, governance 28 crates, pins 24. Cargo.lock regenerated with cargo metadata --offline — exactly 32 lines, exactly the three removed crates.

Validation: nine cheap gates, cargo check --workspace --all-targets under -D warnings, all five pinned artifacts byte-identical before and after, seven unit suites with an empty failing set, and a seven-area gap sweep (class 83, import 20, module 14, cache 14, extends 8, require 5, cli 1) with zero unexplained regressions.