From 9bd3f0d3daea4391912a80d9bfe44580fbbeabd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2026 15:44:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] test(cli): follow extracted error reporter in import guard

---
 src/cli/runtime-client-deferral.test.ts | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/cli/runtime-client-deferral.test.ts b/src/cli/runtime-client-deferral.test.ts
index 658cc60f0a4..5fcdf8b9686 100644
--- a/src/cli/runtime-client-deferral.test.ts
+++ b/src/cli/runtime-client-deferral.test.ts
@@ -84,14 +84,12 @@ describe('RuntimeClient module-graph deferral', () => {
     process.exitCode = 0
   })
 
-  // Why: the whole point of the change. These six modules load on EVERY
-  // invocation, so a value-import of the barrel from any of them drags the
-  // RuntimeClient graph (zod, ws, tweetnacl) back onto the --help path.
+  // These eager modules must not pull the RuntimeClient dependency graph into help.
   it.each([
     'args.ts',
     'flags.ts',
     'dispatch.ts',
-    'format.ts',
+    'cli-error.ts',
     'selectors.ts',
     'execution-host-flag.ts'
   ])('%s imports error classes from ./runtime/types, not the barrel', (file) => {
@@ -110,6 +108,7 @@ describe('RuntimeClient module-graph deferral', () => {
     expect(source).toContain("import type { RuntimeClient } from './runtime-client'")
     expect(source).not.toMatch(/^import \{[^}]*RuntimeClient[^}]*\} from '\.\/runtime-client'/m)
     expect(source).toContain("await import('./runtime-client.js')")
+    expect(source).toContain("import { reportCliError } from './cli-error'")
   })
 
   it('constructs no client for --help', async () => {