Document safe BB CLI automation workflows - #2951
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bb-cliskill did not explain five current operating contracts that live help alone does not make safe for automation: argv-only generated message text, per-command JSON shapes, provider-specific permission modes, sender attribution for queued agent messages, and terminal output loss after process exit. A Papercut triage found 65 original occurrences across these five patterns.What changed
thread spawnandthread telltext, including the shell argument-size limit.thread tell --mode queue, which preserves sender attribution, instead of an unattributed queue draft.This intentionally omits the earlier errored-thread workaround because #2715 fixed default
thread tellrecovery before this change.How you verified
Reviewed installed BB 0.41.0 help and behavior, then checked current
mainatcffc82ad4db651f6dad600db33528df4e87348ebagainst the command registrations, thread-send logic, queued-message sender handling, provider capabilities, and terminal output lifecycle.git diff --checkRelated to #2620, #2622, and #2520.