[chore] commit id display on version

.gitea/workflows/publish-snapshot.yml

@@ -123,7 +123,10 @@ jobs:
             # `g` prefix keeps the identifier a valid semver one even when the
             # abbreviated sha happens to be all digits.
             version="${base}-main.${{ github.run_number }}.g${short_sha}"
-            (cd "$dir" && npm pkg set "version=${version}")
+            # `buildInfo.commit` is what `nopy --version` annotates itself with.
+            # An unknown top-level key is ignored by npm and package.json is
+            # always in the tarball, so it ships without any `files` change.
+            (cd "$dir" && npm pkg set "version=${version}" "buildInfo.commit=${short_sha}")
           done
 
           # Pass 2: publish.

.gitea/workflows/release.yml

@@ -165,6 +165,20 @@ jobs:
         # Explicit, so the publish steps can skip lifecycle scripts entirely.
         run: pnpm run build
 
+      - name: Stamp the commit into the manifest
+        # What `nopy --version` annotates itself with. The version is untouched:
+        # this only adds a `buildInfo.commit` key, which npm ignores and which
+        # ships regardless of `files` because package.json is always packed.
+        # Before the pack below, so the artefact under test is the one publish
+        # ships. The tree is left dirty, which is why both publish steps pass
+        # --no-git-checks — they already did, for the detached HEAD.
+        env:
+          DIR: ${{ steps.target.outputs.dir }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          short_sha=$(git rev-parse --short=7 HEAD)
+          (cd "$DIR" && npm pkg set "buildInfo.commit=${short_sha}")
+
       - name: Verify the packed manifests
         # Packages link to each other with `workspace:*`, which npm cannot
         # install. Proves on the tarball that pack rewrote it.

CLAUDE.md

@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ publish order matters — see *Releasing*.
 `.nopyrc.json` names it in `cubePackages`, and the loader reads it out of
 `node_modules`. There is no `cubes/` directory at the repo root any more.
 
+## Documenting
+
+Be modest. Size the write-up to the change: most work needs none, and a small
+module never earns a section in `docs/API.md`. Where a reason is genuinely
+non-obvious, one comment next to the code beats three paragraphs in a document
+nobody re-reads. Document the surprising, not the obvious.
+
 ## Commands
 
 ```sh
@@ -97,14 +104,19 @@ One pass per invocation, `nopy.main.ts` orchestrating:
    if no config file exists anywhere — which is why `nopy.cli.ts` calls it lazily
    inside the action, so `--help`/`--version` work outside a project.
 2. **`cubes/packages.ts`** — `resolveCubePackages()` turns each `CubePackageRef`
-   into a package root plus the directories its `nopy.cubes` field declares.
+   into a package root plus its cube directories. The location is a **convention**:
+   `<root>/cubes`, so a bundle needs no nopy-specific `package.json` field at all.
+   `nopy.cubes` survives only as an override, for the bundle whose cubes are
+   elsewhere (`dist/cubes` after a build, say) — absent means the default, but
+   present-and-malformed is an error rather than a fall back, since saying
+   something that does not parse is not the same as saying nothing.
    Resolution goes through `createRequire(...).resolve.paths()` + `existsSync`,
    deliberately bypassing the `exports` map: a bundle ships directories and has
    no entry point to declare. `existsSync` also follows the symlink pnpm plants
    at `node_modules/<name>`, which a `readdir` scan skips outright (it reports
    `isSymbolicLink()`, not `isDirectory()`). A missing package, an unreadable
-   manifest, a missing `nopy.cubes`, a directory that does not exist, and an
-   entry pointing outside the package root are all errors, never silent skips.
+   manifest, no cube directory found, and an entry pointing outside the package
+   root are all errors, never silent skips.
    Duplicate refs are deduped here, last-wins, because `mergeValue` only dedupes
    arrays of primitives and these are objects.
 3. **`cubes/loader.ts`** — `findCubeRoots()` unions `config.cubeDirs`, the
@@ -295,6 +307,18 @@ numerically highest version on npmjs, so install with an explicit `@latest`.
 
 So: bump `packages/<pkg>/package.json`, land it on `main`, then tag that commit.
 
+Both workflows also stamp `buildInfo.commit` (the 7-char sha) into the manifest
+with the same `npm pkg set`, never committed either — the snapshot loop stamps
+every package, and the release step stamps whichever one the tag named. Both
+CLIs append it to `--version` in parentheses — `0.5.0 (ab12cd7)` — and print the
+bare version when the field is absent, which is every run from source. The
+version string itself is untouched: `nopy.cli.ts` and `keyman.cli.ts` decorate
+only the string they print, while `updateNotice()` and `selfUpdate()` keep
+reading the raw `version`, so channel derivation never sees the annotation. An
+unknown top-level key is ignored by npm and `package.json` is always packed, so
+nothing in `files` had to change. The two CLIs are kept in step here for the
+same reason their update modules are duplicated rather than shared.
+
 Three things the `workspace:*` links added, all of them non-obvious:
 
 - **`pnpm publish`, never `npm publish`.** `link-workspace-packages` is unset and

packages/cubes-core/README.md

@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ Then name it in `.nopyrc.json`:
 }
 ```
 
-`nopy` resolves the package from the directory of the config file that named it,
-reads `nopy.cubes` out of its `package.json`, and scans those directories exactly
-as it scans a `cubeDirs` entry. Nothing has to be linked or copied.
+`nopy` resolves the package from the directory of the config file that named it
+and scans its `cubes/` directory exactly as it scans a `cubeDirs` entry. Nothing
+has to be linked or copied.
 
 ## What is in it
 

packages/keyman/src/keyman.cli.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,17 @@ import { keyman } from './keyman.main.js';
 import type { Channel } from './keyman.update.js';
 import { formatCommand, selfUpdate, updateNotice } from './keyman.update.js';
 
-const { version } = createRequire(import.meta.url)('../package.json') as { version: string };
+const { version, buildInfo } = createRequire(import.meta.url)('../package.json') as {
+  version: string;
+  buildInfo?: { commit?: string };
+};
+
+/**
+ * What `--version` prints. `version` itself stays untouched everywhere else —
+ * the commit is an annotation, stamped into `package.json` on the runner by the
+ * publish workflows and absent when running from source.
+ */
+const versionLabel = buildInfo?.commit ? `${version} (${buildInfo.commit})` : version;
 
 const args = process.argv.slice(2);
 
@@ -24,7 +34,7 @@ if (args.includes('--print-config')) {
 }
 
 if (args.includes('--version') || args.includes('-V')) {
-  console.log(version);
+  console.log(versionLabel);
   process.exit(0);
 }
 

packages/nopy/README.md

@@ -302,12 +302,12 @@ All three are unioned and scanned the same way. A directory is a cube when it ho
 
 #### Cube packages
 
-A cube package is an ordinary npm package that ships cube directories and points at them from its own `package.json`:
+A cube package is an ordinary npm package that ships its cubes in a `cubes/` directory at its root. That is the whole contract — no nopy-specific `package.json` field is required. A bundle whose cubes live elsewhere (compiled into `dist/cubes`, say) overrides the location:
 
 ```json
 {
-  "name": "@bitsquare/cubes-core",
-  "nopy": { "cubes": ["./cubes"] }
+  "name": "@acme/cubes-web",
+  "nopy": { "cubes": ["./dist/cubes"] }
 }
 ```
 
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ pnpm add -D @bitsquare/cubes-core
 { "cubePackages": ["@bitsquare/cubes-core"] }
 ```
 
-Naming a package is a statement that cubes are expected from it, so anything wrong is an error that aborts the run rather than a silent skip: the package is not installed, it declares no `nopy.cubes`, or an entry points at a directory that does not exist or lies outside the package.
+Naming a package is a statement that cubes are expected from it, so anything wrong is an error that aborts the run rather than a silent skip: the package is not installed, it has neither a `cubes/` directory nor a `nopy.cubes` override, its `nopy.cubes` is malformed, or an entry points at a directory that does not exist or lies outside the package.
 
 #### Ids are claimed globally
 

packages/nopy/docs/API.md

@@ -325,8 +325,9 @@ mirror the path, and they are claimed **globally** — across `cubeDirs`,
 - a duplicate id (the message names every claimant and how each got into the run);
 - a manifest that throws on import, exports a non-object, or has no `name`;
 - a `secrets` entry naming a key that is not in the schema;
-- a package in `cubePackages` that is not installed, cannot be read, or declares
-  no `nopy.cubes`;
+- a package in `cubePackages` that is not installed, cannot be read, has neither a
+  `cubes/` directory nor a `nopy.cubes` override, or whose `nopy.cubes` is not a
+  non-empty array of strings;
 - a `nopy.cubes` entry that does not exist or points outside its package root.
 
 Any of them aborts the run (`nopy.main.ts` returns before the workflow). None is
@@ -380,7 +381,7 @@ const { packages, errors } = resolveCubePackages(config.cubePackages);
 interface CubePackage {
   name: string;    // the name it was requested under
   root: string;    // absolute path to the package root
-  dirs: string[];  // absolute paths, from the package's `nopy.cubes` field
+  dirs: string[];  // absolute paths: `<root>/cubes`, or the package's `nopy.cubes`
 }
 ```
 
@@ -892,8 +893,8 @@ Nothing feeds the result into the built command — see
 const { selectedCubes } = await CubeSelection(cubes);  // string[] of ids
 ```
 
-Multi-select with fuzzy filtering on the rendered label. A cancelled prompt
-returns an empty array rather than throwing.
+Multi-select with fuzzy filtering on the rendered label. A prompt dismissed with
+Escape returns an empty array rather than throwing.
 
 ### `HostSelection(hosts)`
 
@@ -1182,7 +1183,7 @@ Real behaviour that a reader would otherwise take on trust. Tracked in
   `Cube.getDefaults()`, against `{}` — and prompt input is type-coerced, which is
   not the same thing.
 - **Nothing checks bundle/CLI compatibility.** A cube package declares no
-  supported nopy range and the loader reads whatever `nopy.cubes` points at.
+  supported nopy range and the loader scans whatever directories it finds.
 - **`self-update` reports an empty channel as unreachable.** `latest === null`
   means either the request failed *or* the registry answered normally and the
   dist-tag simply has no version — the second is exactly what a Gitea package

packages/nopy/docs/CUBE-BUNDLES.md

@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@ The rest of this document is for writing one.
 
 ## What a bundle is
 
-An ordinary npm package that ships cube directories and points at them from its
-own `package.json`. There is no build step, no plugin API and no entry point —
-nopy reads the directories off disk and imports each `manifest.mjs` directly.
+An ordinary npm package that ships its cubes in a `cubes/` directory. There is no
+build step, no plugin API and no entry point — nopy reads the directory off disk
+and imports each `manifest.mjs` directly.
 
 ```
 @acme/cubes-web
-├── package.json          nopy.cubes → ["./cubes"]
+├── package.json          no nopy block needed
 ├── README.md
 └── cubes/
     ├── nginx/
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ special-cased.
   "name": "@acme/cubes-web",
   "version": "1.0.0",
   "type": "module",
-  "nopy": { "cubes": ["./cubes"] },
   "files": ["cubes", "!cubes/**/*.log", "README.md", "LICENSE"],
   "publishConfig": { "access": "public" },
   "dependencies": {
@@ -60,10 +59,24 @@ special-cased.
 }
 ```
 
-**`nopy.cubes`** is the only field nopy requires. It is an array of directories,
-relative to the package root, each scanned recursively for cubes. Several
-entries are fine; a single `["./cubes"]` is the norm. Every entry must exist and
-must stay inside the package — a path escaping the root is refused, not resolved.
+**Nothing declares the cubes.** `cubes/` at the package root is the convention,
+scanned recursively, and a bundle that follows it needs no nopy-specific field at
+all. Naming the package in `cubePackages` is already the statement that cubes are
+expected from it.
+
+**`nopy.cubes`** overrides that, for the bundle whose cubes are somewhere else — a
+package compiled from TypeScript sources into `dist/cubes`, say, or one shipping
+two separate trees:
+
+```json
+  "nopy": { "cubes": ["./dist/cubes", "./contrib"] }
+```
+
+It is an array of directories relative to the package root. Every entry must
+exist and must stay inside the package — a path escaping the root is refused, not
+resolved. Present-but-malformed (an empty array, a bare string, non-strings) is an
+error rather than a fall back to the default: saying something that does not parse
+is not the same as saying nothing.
 
 **`type: "module"`** matters: manifests are ESM. Without it a `manifest.mjs` still
 loads (the extension carries the day), but anything it imports relatively will
@@ -222,7 +235,7 @@ Nothing bundle-specific: `npm publish` (or `pnpm publish`) with a version bump.
 Some things worth deciding once:
 
 - **Version the bundle independently of nopy.** There is no compatibility check
-  between the two — the loader reads whatever `nopy.cubes` points at. Document
+  between the two — the loader scans whatever directories it finds. Document
   the nopy version you test against in your README.
 - **Renaming or removing an id is breaking.** It invalidates recorded sessions
   and breaks any manifest listing it as a dependency, including manifests in
@@ -254,8 +267,9 @@ For how this repository releases its own packages, see
 | Symptom | Cause |
 | --- | --- |
 | `Cube package 'X' is not installed (looked up from …)` | Not installed, or installed somewhere other than the config that named it. The path in the message is where the lookup started. |
-| `Cube package 'X' declares no cubes` | Missing or malformed `nopy.cubes` in the package's `package.json`. It must be a non-empty array of strings. |
-| `'./cubes' does not exist in …` | The directory was not packed. Check `files` and `npm pack --dry-run`. |
+| `Cube package 'X' has no cubes/ directory in …` | No `cubes/` at the package root and no `nopy.cubes` pointing elsewhere. Usually the directory was not packed — check `files` and `npm pack --dry-run`. |
+| `"nopy": { "cubes": … } must be a non-empty array of strings` | The override is present but malformed. Fix it, or omit it entirely to use `./cubes`. |
+| `'…' does not exist in …` | A `nopy.cubes` entry pointing at a directory the tarball does not contain. |
 | `'…' points outside the package` | A `nopy.cubes` entry escaping the package root. Not allowed. |
 | `Duplicate cube id 'X' from N sources:` | Two or more cubes claiming one id; the message lists each source. Rename one — there is no precedence rule to lean on. |
 | `ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND` for `zod` or `@bitsquare/nopy-cube` | The bundle did not declare them as dependencies. The resolve-hook fallback covers loose local cubes, not published packages. |

packages/nopy/docs/CUBE-PACKAGES.md

@@ -141,7 +141,6 @@ A cube bundle is an npm package with a `nopy` field:
   "name": "@acme/cubes-net",
   "version": "1.0.0",
   "type": "module",
-  "nopy": { "cubes": ["./cubes"] },
   "files": ["cubes", "README.md", "LICENSE"],
   "keywords": ["nopy", "nopy-cubes", "pyinfra"],
   "dependencies": {
@@ -154,10 +153,16 @@ A cube bundle is an npm package with a `nopy` field:
 
 Rules:
 
-- `nopy.cubes` — directories relative to the package root, scanned exactly like
-  `cubeDirs` entries. Required; a package listed in `cubePackages` without a
-  `nopy` field is an error, not a silent skip. Listing it means the user expects
-  cubes from it.
+- **Cube location is a convention, `<root>/cubes`.** *(Amended after Phase 5;
+  originally `nopy.cubes` was a required field.)* The field bought nothing a
+  convention does not: it is not a discovery marker — naming the package in
+  `cubePackages` already is one — and it says nothing about whether the
+  directories were actually packed, which is the failure authors really hit.
+  `nopy.cubes` remains as an **override**, directories relative to the package
+  root, for the bundle whose cubes are elsewhere (`dist/cubes` after a build).
+  Absent means the default; present-and-malformed is an error rather than a fall
+  back. Finding no cube directory at all is still an error, not a silent skip:
+  listing a package means the user expects cubes from it.
 - Both dependencies are **regular dependencies, not peers**, and both are
   load-bearing: a manifest imports `Manifest` from `@bitsquare/nopy-cube` and `z`
   from `zod`. `@bitsquare/nopy-cube` peer-depends on zod, so the bundle's copy is
@@ -255,7 +260,8 @@ Errors (each aborts the run, consistent with the existing `errors` contract):
 
 - package not found on any candidate path
 - `package.json` unparseable
-- no `nopy.cubes`, or it is not a non-empty array of strings
+- neither a `cubes/` directory nor a `nopy.cubes` override
+- `nopy.cubes` present but not a non-empty array of strings
 - a `nopy.cubes` entry escapes the package root, or does not exist
 
 ### Wiring
@@ -625,7 +631,8 @@ runner alike.
 - resolves through a symlinked package directory (mimicking pnpm)
 - resolves from the declaring config's directory, not `cwd`
 - missing package → error naming the spec
-- package without `nopy.cubes` → error
+- package without `nopy.cubes` → falls back to `cubes/`
+- package with neither → error; malformed `nopy.cubes` → error, no fall back
 - `nopy.cubes` entry that does not exist, and one that escapes the root → errors
 - last-wins dedupe when parent and child config both name a package
 

packages/nopy/src/cubes/packages.ts

@@ -8,13 +8,23 @@ import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import type { CubePackageRef } from '../nopy.config.js';
 
+/**
+ * Where a bundle's cubes live when its `package.json` does not say otherwise.
+ *
+ * Convention over configuration: shipping `cubes/` at the package root needs no
+ * `nopy` block at all. `nopy.cubes` remains as an override for the bundle whose
+ * cubes sit somewhere else — one compiled from TypeScript into `dist/cubes`,
+ * say — so the escape hatch survives without every author paying for it.
+ */
+const DEFAULT_CUBE_DIRS = ['./cubes'];
+
 /** An installed cube package, located and validated. */
 export interface CubePackage {
   /** The name it was requested under. */
   name: string;
   /** Absolute path to the package root. */
   root: string;
-  /** Absolute paths to its cube directories, from `nopy.cubes`. */
+  /** Absolute paths to its cube directories, from `nopy.cubes` or the default. */
   dirs: string[];
 }
 
@@ -40,7 +50,8 @@ function findPackageRoot(ref: CubePackageRef): string | undefined {
 }
 
 /**
- * Resolves every named package to its cube directories.
+ * Resolves every named package to its cube directories — {@link DEFAULT_CUBE_DIRS}
+ * unless its `package.json` overrides them with `nopy.cubes`.
  *
  * Anything wrong is an error rather than a silent skip: naming a package in
  * `cubePackages` is a statement that cubes are expected from it, and errors
@@ -75,27 +86,40 @@ export function resolveCubePackages(refs: CubePackageRef[]): {
       continue;
     }
 
+    // Absent is the ordinary case and means the convention. Present-but-wrong
+    // is a different thing entirely — the author meant to say something and it
+    // did not parse — so it stays an error rather than falling back silently.
     const declared = manifest.nopy?.cubes;
+    const defaulted = declared === undefined;
+
     if (
-      !Array.isArray(declared) ||
+      !defaulted &&
+      (!Array.isArray(declared) ||
         declared.length === 0 ||
-      !declared.every((entry) => typeof entry === 'string')
+        !declared.every((entry) => typeof entry === 'string'))
     ) {
       errors.push(
-        `Cube package '${ref.spec}' declares no cubes. ` +
-          `Expected "nopy": { "cubes": ["./cubes"] } in ${root}/package.json.`
+        `Cube package '${ref.spec}': "nopy": { "cubes": … } in ${root}/package.json ` +
+          `must be a non-empty array of strings. Omit it to use the default, ./cubes.`
       );
       continue;
     }
 
     const dirs: string[] = [];
-    for (const entry of declared as string[]) {
+    for (const entry of defaulted ? DEFAULT_CUBE_DIRS : (declared as string[])) {
       const dir = path.resolve(root, entry);
 
       if (dir !== root && !dir.startsWith(root + path.sep)) {
         errors.push(`Cube package '${ref.spec}': '${entry}' points outside the package.`);
       } else if (!fs.existsSync(dir)) {
-        errors.push(`Cube package '${ref.spec}': '${entry}' does not exist in ${root}.`);
+        // Naming the entry would be misleading when nobody wrote one; say what
+        // was looked for and what would change it instead.
+        errors.push(
+          defaulted
+            ? `Cube package '${ref.spec}' has no cubes/ directory in ${root}, and its ` +
+                `package.json declares no "nopy": { "cubes": [...] } pointing elsewhere.`
+            : `Cube package '${ref.spec}': '${entry}' does not exist in ${root}.`
+        );
       } else {
         dirs.push(dir);
       }

packages/nopy/src/index.ts

@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ export {
   outputExecutionPlan,
   summarizeResults,
 } from './nopy.executor.js';
+// Graceful exit
+export {
+  CANCELLED_EXIT_CODE,
+  exitWithFarewell,
+  FAREWELL,
+  installGracefulExit,
+  isCancellation,
+  restoreTerminal,
+} from './nopy.exit.js';
 export type { HistoryEntry, SessionHistory } from './nopy.history.js';
 // History management
 export {

packages/nopy/src/nopy.cli.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
 import { Command } from 'commander';
 import { loadConfig } from './nopy.config.js';
+import { exitWithFarewell, installGracefulExit, isCancellation } from './nopy.exit.js';
 import {
   clearHistory,
   formatHistoryList,
@@ -19,7 +20,17 @@ import { nopy } from './nopy.main.js';
 import type { Channel } from './nopy.update.js';
 import { formatCommand, selfUpdate, updateNotice } from './nopy.update.js';
 
-const { version } = createRequire(import.meta.url)('../package.json') as { version: string };
+const { version, buildInfo } = createRequire(import.meta.url)('../package.json') as {
+  version: string;
+  buildInfo?: { commit?: string };
+};
+
+/**
+ * What `--version` prints. `version` itself stays untouched everywhere else —
+ * the commit is an annotation, stamped into `package.json` on the runner by the
+ * publish workflows and absent when running from source.
+ */
+const versionLabel = buildInfo?.commit ? `${version} (${buildInfo.commit})` : version;
 
 /**
  * Prints the update hint to stderr, so it never lands in `--json` output or in
@@ -32,11 +43,15 @@ async function printUpdateNotice(): Promise<void> {
   }
 }
 
+// Before anything can open a prompt: a cancelled TUI leaves through
+// nopy.exit, not through node's default unhandled-rejection trace.
+installGracefulExit();
+
 const program = new Command();
 
 program
   .name('nopy')
-  .version(version)
+  .version(versionLabel)
   .description('A CLI tool for pyinfra script management and execution.')
   .addHelpText(
     'after',
@@ -124,6 +139,11 @@ program
         process.exit(1);
       }
     } catch (error) {
+      // A prompt the user backed out of is not a failed run: inquirer rejects
+      // cleanly, so unlike the enquirer case this arrives here rather than at
+      // the process-level handler.
+      if (isCancellation(error)) exitWithFarewell();
+
       if (options.json) {
         console.log(
           JSON.stringify(

packages/nopy/src/nopy.exit.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+/**
+ * What happens when the user walks out of the TUI instead of finishing it.
+ * @module nopy.exit
+ */
+
+/** Parting words. Printed whenever a run ends because the user asked it to. */
+export const FAREWELL = 'Bye Bye Honeypie';
+
+/** Conventional exit code for "terminated by SIGINT" — 128 + 2. */
+export const CANCELLED_EXIT_CODE = 130;
+
+/** ETX: the byte a raw-mode terminal delivers for Ctrl-C. */
+const ETX = '\x03';
+
+/** Undoes `ansi.cursor.hide()`, which every enquirer prompt writes on start. */
+const SHOW_CURSOR = '\x1B[?25h';
+
+/**
+ * Error names the two prompt libraries use for "the user called it off".
+ *
+ * `ExitPromptError` is what `@inquirer/core` rejects with on Ctrl-C;
+ * `CancelPromptError` is the same thing reached from outside the prompt.
+ */
+const CANCEL_ERROR_NAMES = new Set(['ExitPromptError', 'CancelPromptError']);
+
+/**
+ * Whether a thrown value is the user cancelling rather than something failing.
+ *
+ * Three shapes, one per way out of a prompt:
+ *
+ * - `ERR_USE_AFTER_CLOSE` — enquirer's teardown exploding. Ctrl-C in raw mode
+ *   reaches *both* node's readline, which closes the interface because it has
+ *   no `SIGINT` listener, and enquirer's own keypress queue, which then cancels
+ *   the prompt and calls `rl.pause()` on the interface node has already closed.
+ *   Node >= 22 throws there rather than ignoring it. The throw happens inside
+ *   `Prompt.close()`, i.e. *before* `emit('cancel')`, so `prompt.run()` never
+ *   settles and the `try/catch` around it in `nopy.prompts` never runs — the
+ *   rejection surfaces with nothing awaiting it, which is why this has to be
+ *   caught at the process level.
+ * - `ExitPromptError` — inquirer, which does reject cleanly and whose rejection
+ *   travels up the normal call chain.
+ * - a bare `''` or an ETX byte — enquirer rejecting a cancelled prompt with the
+ *   keypress that cancelled it, on the runs where the teardown does not throw.
+ */
+export function isCancellation(error: unknown): boolean {
+  if (error === '' || error === ETX) return true;
+  if (typeof error !== 'object' || error === null) return false;
+
+  const { name, code } = error as { name?: unknown; code?: unknown };
+  return (
+    code === 'ERR_USE_AFTER_CLOSE' || (typeof name === 'string' && CANCEL_ERROR_NAMES.has(name))
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Puts the terminal back the way it was found.
+ *
+ * A prompt owns the terminal while it runs: stdin is in raw mode and the cursor
+ * is hidden. Exiting from under it leaves the shell with no cursor and no echo,
+ * so this runs on every abnormal exit, cancelled or crashed. Best-effort by
+ * design — a destroyed stdin throws on `setRawMode`, and a failure to tidy up
+ * must not replace the message explaining why we are leaving.
+ */
+export function restoreTerminal(): void {
+  try {
+    if (process.stdin.isTTY && process.stdin.isRaw) process.stdin.setRawMode(false);
+    if (process.stdout.isTTY) process.stdout.write(SHOW_CURSOR);
+  } catch {
+    // Nothing useful to do about a terminal that will not be restored.
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Says goodbye and leaves.
+ *
+ * The farewell goes to **stderr**, for the same reason the update hint does:
+ * `--json` and `--print-only` stay machine-readable no matter how the run ends.
+ *
+ * `process.exit` rather than letting the loop drain, because the prompt that
+ * was cancelled is still holding stdin — after the teardown above threw, its
+ * promise is pending forever and nothing else will end the process.
+ */
+export function exitWithFarewell(code: number = CANCELLED_EXIT_CODE): never {
+  restoreTerminal();
+  process.stderr.write(`\n${FAREWELL}\n`);
+  return process.exit(code) as never;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Reports a genuine crash, having first handed the terminal back.
+ *
+ * Deliberately as loud as node's own default — the stack, not a summary. The
+ * only thing being taken over is *when* it prints, so that {@link
+ * restoreTerminal} gets to run first.
+ */
+function reportFatal(error: unknown): never {
+  restoreTerminal();
+  console.error(error instanceof Error ? (error.stack ?? error.message) : String(error));
+  return process.exit(1) as never;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Installs the process-level handlers that turn a Ctrl-C into {@link FAREWELL}.
+ *
+ * Two entry points, because Ctrl-C arrives differently depending on who owns
+ * the terminal. During a prompt, stdin is in raw mode: the process gets no
+ * `SIGINT` at all, the keypress goes to the prompt library, and the failure
+ * comes back as an unhandled rejection. Everywhere else — cube loading, a
+ * pyinfra run — the signal arrives normally.
+ *
+ * Returns a disposer, which the CLI ignores and the tests do not.
+ */
+export function installGracefulExit(): () => void {
+  const onSignal = () => exitWithFarewell();
+  const onFatal = (reason: unknown) => {
+    if (isCancellation(reason)) {
+      exitWithFarewell();
+      return;
+    }
+    reportFatal(reason);
+  };
+
+  process.on('SIGINT', onSignal);
+  process.on('uncaughtException', onFatal);
+  process.on('unhandledRejection', onFatal);
+
+  return () => {
+    process.off('SIGINT', onSignal);
+    process.off('uncaughtException', onFatal);
+    process.off('unhandledRejection', onFatal);
+  };
+}

packages/nopy/src/nopy.prompts.ts

@@ -83,7 +83,9 @@ export async function AuthSelection(useAuthKey?: boolean): Promise<{
   if (useAuthKey) return { authMethod: 'ssh-key' };
   const answers = await inquirer.prompt([
     {
-      type: 'list',
+      // `select`, not `list`: inquirer 14 dropped the legacy name and rejects
+      // an unknown type outright.
+      type: 'select',
       name: 'authMethod',
       message: 'Select authentication method:',
       choices: ['ssh-key', 'password'],
@@ -118,7 +120,7 @@ export async function PasswordSelection(username: string): Promise<string> {
 export async function HostSelection(hosts: string[]): Promise<string> {
   const selectedHost = await inquirer.prompt([
     {
-      type: 'list',
+      type: 'select',
       name: 'host',
       message: 'Select host from inventory',
       choices: ['docker', 'vagrant', ...hosts, 'custom'],

packages/nopy/tests/cubes.packages.test.ts

@@ -108,19 +108,48 @@ describe('resolveCubePackages', () => {
     expect(errors[0]).toMatch(/cannot read/);
   });
 
-  it('reports a package that declares no cubes', () => {
-    install(tmpDir, 'plain', {});
+  it('falls back to cubes/ when the package declares nothing', () => {
+    // The convention. A bundle that ships cubes/ at its root needs no `nopy`
+    // block at all, and one with an unrelated `nopy` block still gets it.
+    const plain = install(tmpDir, 'plain', {});
+    const other = install(tmpDir, 'other', { nopy: { somethingElse: true } });
+
+    const { packages, errors } = resolveCubePackages(
+      ['plain', 'other'].map((spec) => ({ spec, from: tmpDir }))
+    );
+
+    expect(errors).toEqual([]);
+    expect(packages.map((pkg) => pkg.dirs)).toEqual([
+      [path.join(plain, 'cubes')],
+      [path.join(other, 'cubes')],
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('reports a package with neither a declaration nor a cubes/ directory', () => {
+    install(tmpDir, 'bare', {}, []);
+
+    const { packages, errors } = resolveCubePackages([{ spec: 'bare', from: tmpDir }]);
+
+    expect(packages).toEqual([]);
+    expect(errors).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(errors[0]).toMatch(/has no cubes\/ directory/);
+    expect(errors[0]).toMatch(/declares no "nopy"/);
+  });
+
+  it('reports a malformed declaration instead of falling back to the default', () => {
+    // Each of these ships a usable cubes/ directory. Saying something that does
+    // not parse is not the same as saying nothing, so none of them resolve.
     install(tmpDir, 'empty', { nopy: { cubes: [] } });
     install(tmpDir, 'wrong-type', { nopy: { cubes: 'cubes' } });
     install(tmpDir, 'not-strings', { nopy: { cubes: [1] } });
 
     const { packages, errors } = resolveCubePackages(
-      ['plain', 'empty', 'wrong-type', 'not-strings'].map((spec) => ({ spec, from: tmpDir }))
+      ['empty', 'wrong-type', 'not-strings'].map((spec) => ({ spec, from: tmpDir }))
     );
 
     expect(packages).toEqual([]);
-    expect(errors).toHaveLength(4);
-    for (const error of errors) expect(error).toMatch(/declares no cubes/);
+    expect(errors).toHaveLength(3);
+    for (const error of errors) expect(error).toMatch(/must be a non-empty array of strings/);
   });
 
   it('reports a cube directory that does not exist', () => {

packages/nopy/tests/exit.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,218 @@
+/**
+ * Tests for nopy.exit.
+ *
+ * The handlers are invoked by calling the listener `installGracefulExit`
+ * registered, not by `process.emit()`-ing the event: vitest listens for
+ * `unhandledRejection` and `uncaughtException` itself and would report a
+ * synthetic one as a failure of the test file.
+ */
+
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import {
+  CANCELLED_EXIT_CODE,
+  exitWithFarewell,
+  FAREWELL,
+  installGracefulExit,
+  isCancellation,
+  restoreTerminal,
+} from '../src/nopy.exit.js';
+
+let exit: ReturnType<typeof vi.spyOn>;
+let stderr: ReturnType<typeof vi.spyOn>;
+
+/** Pretends stdin/stdout are the terminal a prompt would have taken over. */
+function fakeTerminal(opts: { isTTY: boolean; isRaw?: boolean }) {
+  const setRawMode = vi.fn();
+  const original = {
+    isTTY: process.stdin.isTTY,
+    isRaw: process.stdin.isRaw,
+    setRawMode: process.stdin.setRawMode,
+    outTTY: process.stdout.isTTY,
+  };
+
+  Object.defineProperty(process.stdin, 'isTTY', { value: opts.isTTY, configurable: true });
+  Object.defineProperty(process.stdin, 'isRaw', { value: opts.isRaw ?? false, configurable: true });
+  Object.defineProperty(process.stdin, 'setRawMode', { value: setRawMode, configurable: true });
+  Object.defineProperty(process.stdout, 'isTTY', { value: opts.isTTY, configurable: true });
+
+  const restore = () => {
+    Object.defineProperty(process.stdin, 'isTTY', { value: original.isTTY, configurable: true });
+    Object.defineProperty(process.stdin, 'isRaw', { value: original.isRaw, configurable: true });
+    Object.defineProperty(process.stdin, 'setRawMode', {
+      value: original.setRawMode,
+      configurable: true,
+    });
+    Object.defineProperty(process.stdout, 'isTTY', { value: original.outTTY, configurable: true });
+  };
+
+  return { setRawMode, restore };
+}
+
+/** The listener `installGracefulExit` most recently added for `event`. */
+const lastListener = (event: string) =>
+  process.listeners(event as 'SIGINT').at(-1) as (reason?: unknown) => void;
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  exit = vi.spyOn(process, 'exit').mockImplementation(() => undefined as never);
+  stderr = vi.spyOn(process.stderr, 'write').mockImplementation(() => true);
+  vi.spyOn(process.stdout, 'write').mockImplementation(() => true);
+  vi.spyOn(console, 'error').mockImplementation(() => {});
+});
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  vi.restoreAllMocks();
+});
+
+describe('isCancellation', () => {
+  it('recognises enquirer tearing down a readline node already closed', () => {
+    const err = Object.assign(new Error('readline was closed'), { code: 'ERR_USE_AFTER_CLOSE' });
+
+    expect(isCancellation(err)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('recognises the inquirer cancellations', () => {
+    const exitPrompt = Object.assign(new Error('User force closed the prompt'), {
+      name: 'ExitPromptError',
+    });
+    const cancelPrompt = Object.assign(new Error('Prompt was canceled'), {
+      name: 'CancelPromptError',
+    });
+
+    expect(isCancellation(exitPrompt)).toBe(true);
+    expect(isCancellation(cancelPrompt)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('recognises the bare values enquirer rejects a cancelled prompt with', () => {
+    expect(isCancellation('')).toBe(true);
+    expect(isCancellation('\x03')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('leaves a genuine failure alone', () => {
+    expect(isCancellation(new Error('pyinfra exited 1'))).toBe(false);
+    expect(isCancellation(Object.assign(new Error('nope'), { code: 'ENOENT' }))).toBe(false);
+    expect(isCancellation('boom')).toBe(false);
+    expect(isCancellation(undefined)).toBe(false);
+    expect(isCancellation(null)).toBe(false);
+    expect(isCancellation(7)).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('restoreTerminal', () => {
+  it('leaves raw mode and shows the cursor again', () => {
+    const terminal = fakeTerminal({ isTTY: true, isRaw: true });
+
+    restoreTerminal();
+
+    expect(terminal.setRawMode).toHaveBeenCalledWith(false);
+    expect(process.stdout.write).toHaveBeenCalledWith('\x1B[?25h');
+    terminal.restore();
+  });
+
+  it('touches nothing when the output is not a terminal', () => {
+    const terminal = fakeTerminal({ isTTY: false });
+
+    restoreTerminal();
+
+    expect(terminal.setRawMode).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(process.stdout.write).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    terminal.restore();
+  });
+
+  it('survives a stdin that refuses to leave raw mode', () => {
+    const terminal = fakeTerminal({ isTTY: true, isRaw: true });
+    terminal.setRawMode.mockImplementation(() => {
+      throw new Error('stdin destroyed');
+    });
+
+    expect(() => restoreTerminal()).not.toThrow();
+    terminal.restore();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('exitWithFarewell', () => {
+  it('says goodbye on stderr and exits 130', () => {
+    exitWithFarewell();
+
+    expect(stderr).toHaveBeenCalledWith(`\n${FAREWELL}\n`);
+    expect(exit).toHaveBeenCalledWith(CANCELLED_EXIT_CODE);
+  });
+
+  it('accepts a different exit code', () => {
+    exitWithFarewell(0);
+
+    expect(exit).toHaveBeenCalledWith(0);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('installGracefulExit', () => {
+  let dispose: () => void;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    dispose = installGracefulExit();
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    dispose();
+  });
+
+  it('says goodbye on SIGINT', () => {
+    lastListener('SIGINT')();
+
+    expect(stderr).toHaveBeenCalledWith(`\n${FAREWELL}\n`);
+    expect(exit).toHaveBeenCalledWith(CANCELLED_EXIT_CODE);
+  });
+
+  it('says goodbye for the rejection nothing is awaiting', () => {
+    // The shape of the real crash: enquirer's Ctrl-C teardown, which leaves
+    // `prompt.run()` pending forever, so no `catch` in nopy.prompts sees it.
+    lastListener('unhandledRejection')(
+      Object.assign(new Error('readline was closed'), { code: 'ERR_USE_AFTER_CLOSE' })
+    );
+
+    expect(stderr).toHaveBeenCalledWith(`\n${FAREWELL}\n`);
+    expect(exit).toHaveBeenCalledWith(CANCELLED_EXIT_CODE);
+  });
+
+  it('still reports a real crash, loudly, and exits 1', () => {
+    const boom = new Error('everything is on fire');
+
+    lastListener('uncaughtException')(boom);
+
+    expect(stderr).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(console.error).toHaveBeenCalledWith(boom.stack);
+    expect(exit).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1);
+  });
+
+  it('reports a thrown non-error too', () => {
+    lastListener('uncaughtException')('just a string');
+
+    expect(console.error).toHaveBeenCalledWith('just a string');
+    expect(exit).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1);
+  });
+
+  it('reports an error with no stack by its message', () => {
+    const stackless = new Error('no stack here');
+    stackless.stack = undefined;
+
+    lastListener('uncaughtException')(stackless);
+
+    expect(console.error).toHaveBeenCalledWith('no stack here');
+  });
+
+  it('hands the process back on dispose', () => {
+    const before = {
+      SIGINT: process.listenerCount('SIGINT'),
+      uncaughtException: process.listenerCount('uncaughtException'),
+      unhandledRejection: process.listenerCount('unhandledRejection'),
+    };
+
+    dispose();
+
+    expect(process.listenerCount('SIGINT')).toBe(before.SIGINT - 1);
+    expect(process.listenerCount('uncaughtException')).toBe(before.uncaughtException - 1);
+    expect(process.listenerCount('unhandledRejection')).toBe(before.unhandledRejection - 1);
+
+    // The afterEach disposer runs a second time; make it a no-op.
+    dispose = () => {};
+  });
+});

packages/nopy/tests/prompts.test.ts

@@ -218,6 +218,32 @@ describe('HostSelection', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('question types', () => {
+  it('declares only types the installed inquirer actually ships', async () => {
+    // Checked against the real module, not the mock: `list` was accepted for
+    // years and inquirer 14 dropped it, which took out host selection entirely
+    // — a failure no amount of mocked prompting can see.
+    const actual = await vi.importActual<typeof import('inquirer')>('inquirer');
+    const supported = Object.keys(actual.createPromptModule().prompts);
+
+    inquirerPrompt.mockResolvedValue({ host: 'web-1' });
+    await HostSelection(['web-1']);
+    inquirerPrompt.mockResolvedValue({ authMethod: 'password', username: 'u', password: 'p' });
+    await AuthSelection(false);
+    inquirerPrompt.mockResolvedValue({ password: 'p' });
+    await PasswordSelection('deploy');
+
+    const declared = new Set(
+      inquirerPrompt.mock.calls.flatMap(([asked]: [Record<string, any>[]]) =>
+        asked.map((q) => q.type ?? 'input')
+      )
+    );
+
+    expect(declared.size).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(supported).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining([...declared]));
+  });
+});
+
 describe('VariableAssignment', () => {
   const schema = z.object({
     port: z.number().default(8080).describe('Listen port'),