Transcript Lake

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Inspect zero state and product identity

1. Goal: Confirm the installed product identity and inspect configuration without creating Lake state. 2. Risk: Read-only. 3. Environment: macOS terminal with installed transcript-lake. 4. Preconditions: Choose a path that does not exist and is not used by ano

  1. Goal: Confirm the installed product identity and inspect configuration without creating Lake state.
  2. Risk: Read-only.
  3. Environment: macOS terminal with installed transcript-lake.
  4. Preconditions: Choose a path that does not exist and is not used by another process.
  5. Inputs: An absolute LAKE_DATA path beneath an operator-owned temporary parent.
  6. Artifacts and side effects: None. These commands must not create the selected root or contact external tools.
  7. Steps:
sh
PARENT="$(mktemp -d)"
LAKE="$PARENT/not-created"
transcript-lake
transcript-lake --help
transcript-lake help doctor
transcript-lake --version
transcript-lake --data-dir "$LAKE" paths
transcript-lake --data-dir "$LAKE" sources
transcript-lake --data-dir "$LAKE" doctor --json
transcript-lake --data-dir "$LAKE" status --json
  1. Observable result: Help states the product purpose, commands, state default, and help URL. Version identifies the installed binary. Status names the selected path and reports no partitions, cursors, or live stream; the selected root remains absent.
  2. Failure path: An unknown command prints error: unknown command, guidance, and exits non-zero without creating state.
  3. Cleanup: Remove only the empty temporary parent created by this example.
  4. Related operation: Create the first local archive.