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  • Documentation
    • Updated environment-file guidance to explain that missing required files now generate warnings instead of being silently ignored.
    • Documented the optional: true syntax for environment files that may be absent without warnings.
    • Clarified how ahoy config validate reports missing required and optional files.
    • Added schema and reference documentation for environment-file mappings, including compatibility guidance for older versions.

ahoy-cli/ahoy#189 changes what happens when an env file is missing. The
file is still skipped and the command still runs, but Ahoy now reports it
on stderr, and `optional: true` marks the entries meant to be absent.

Three statements were wrong as a result:

- guides/environment.mdx said missing files are silently skipped
- reference/environment.mdx said the same in an aside
- reference/yaml-schema.mdx documented only the string and list forms of
  `env`, with no mention of the mapping form

Correct all three, and cross-reference `optional` for imports, which
carries the identical meaning. The layered .env.base/.env.local example
keeps its plain-string form so it stays valid for the v2.5.0 readers that
section is badged for, with a pointer to the new section instead.

Every YAML example here was run against a binary built from #189
(2c87d93), and the warning text and `config validate` symbols are copied
from that binary's output rather than transcribed. The v2 parse failure
quoted in the compatibility asides was reproduced against a v2 build.

Documents an unreleased feature: #189 is still open, so this should land
only once it merges and v3.0.1 ships.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KHtzL6Sv2wCVrXpgku2zJ2
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The documentation now describes optional environment file mappings. It documents stderr warnings for missing required files, silent handling for optional files, validation output, supported YAML forms, and compatibility limits before v3.0.1.

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Environment file documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Environment file schema contract
src/content/docs/reference/yaml-schema.mdx
The schema documents path and optional mappings for global and command-specific environment files. It distinguishes per-entry environment optionality from the command-level import option.
Environment file behaviour and usage
src/content/docs/guides/environment.mdx, src/content/docs/reference/environment.mdx
The documentation describes missing-file warnings, optional-file handling, validation output, supported entry forms, and version compatibility.

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The documentation now explains optional environment-file mappings, missing-file reporting, validation output, and version compatibility without an identified current risk to users or production behavior.

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A rabbit reads the YAML bright
Optional files stay out of sight
Required gaps now warn the ear
Validation marks the state clear
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8-8: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the overview to include mapping entries.

The overview still says that both levels accept only a single path or an array of paths. The new syntax also accepts mixed arrays containing string paths and { path, optional } mappings. Update this sentence and distinguish the v3.0.1 mapping support from the older path forms.

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In `@src/content/docs/reference/environment.mdx` at line 8, Update the Overview
section to document that both levels accept mixed arrays of string paths and {
path, optional } mapping entries, while distinguishing mapping support
introduced in v3.0.1 from the older single-path and array-of-path forms.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/content/docs/guides/environment.mdx`:
- Line 72: In the guidance sentence near the edited text, replace the unclear
phrase “pleaser start to mark” with “please mark” or “please start marking,”
preserving the surrounding wording.

In `@src/content/docs/reference/environment.mdx`:
- Line 42: Update the sentence beginning “The command still runs” to use a comma
before “and” and a semicolon before “only,” preserving its meaning while
clarifying the clause boundaries.

In `@src/content/docs/reference/yaml-schema.mdx`:
- Line 357: Update the optional field description in the YAML schema
documentation to state explicitly that command-level optional only suppresses
missing imported command files, while env-file optionality must be configured
within each env mapping; clarify that setting commands.<name>.optional does not
silence missing env files.

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In `@src/content/docs/reference/environment.mdx`:
- Line 8: Update the Overview section to document that both levels accept mixed
arrays of string paths and { path, optional } mapping entries, while
distinguishing mapping support introduced in v3.0.1 from the older single-path
and array-of-path forms.

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Review feedback: the Overview named only the single-path and array-of-paths
forms, so the mapping entries added in v3.0.1 were absent from the first
thing a reader meets. Spell out all three, badge them by the version that
introduced each, and point at the section that covers optional entries.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KHtzL6Sv2wCVrXpgku2zJ2
Review feedback: the `optional` field description implied one flag covered
both imports and env files. It does not - the two are independent, and a
command carrying `optional: true` still warns about every env file it
cannot find.

Confirmed against a binary built from ahoy-cli/ahoy#189: a command with
`optional: true` and a missing env file produces the same warning as one
without the flag. In the source, `cmd.Optional` guards only the imports
branch, while the env warning is guarded by each entry's own
`envFile.Optional`.

State that `optional` applies to imports and nothing else, add a caution
contrasting it with the per-entry env form, and reword the two env
cross-references that called them the same thing.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KHtzL6Sv2wCVrXpgku2zJ2
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