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* zen CLI: suggest similar commands on typos (#1000)Stefan Boberg2026-04-221-0/+230
Surface "did you mean?" suggestions when the `zen` CLI is invoked with an unknown command or subcommand, so users don't have to dig through `zen --help` every time they mistype. ``` $ zen stauts Unknown command specified: 'stauts' The most similar commands are: status Run 'zen --help' for the full list of commands. ``` ``` $ zen cache statz Unknown subcommand: 'statz' The most similar subcommands are: stats ``` ## Algorithm - Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance with case-insensitive ASCII comparison — handles insertions, deletions, substitutions, and adjacent transpositions (e.g. `versoin` → `version`). - Small prefix-match bonus so short inputs like `ca` still surface longer commands like `cache` without having to relax the distance threshold to the point where it admits noise. - Distance threshold scales with input length (`clamp(len/2, 1, 3)`). Very short inputs rely on the prefix bonus; longer inputs tolerate up to three edits. - Top 5 results by distance, stable-sorted. - Hidden commands (deprecated shims like `cache-stats`) are excluded from the candidate set so we don't advertise them.