The documented `brief-validator.mjs <brief.md>` invocation (no flags) always
bailed to Usage/exit 2. Root cause: when --min-version is absent, minIdx is -1,
so the skip index minIdx+1 was 0 — excluding argv index 0, exactly where the
file positional sits in the no-flag case. Any leading flag (--soft, --json)
pushed the file to index >=1 and masked the bug, so the function-level tests
never caught it.
Guard the skip index to -1 when --min-version is absent. Add two CLI regression
tests (execFileSync, matching the next-session-prompt-validator pattern):
no-flag invocation reaches validation, and --min-version still skips its value
token to find the file. Suite 822 -> 824 (822/0/2).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WH1krHamUehZh6JqVqs85t
Kjell Tore Guttormsen
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