Add structured validate output with text/json/yaml formats#63
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Motivation
validatecommand so callers can consume structured results as JSON or YAML in addition to existing human-readable text.--strict) while enabling automated tooling to inspect validation outcomes.Description
--format(text|json|yaml, defaulttext) to thevalidatesubparser viavalidate_parser.add_argument._validate_commandto build a structuredresultdict containing an overallstatus, per-file entries withfile,status,warnings, anderrors, plus top-levelwarningsanderrorsarrays.--format textis used, and emitjson.dumps(result, indent=2)forjsonandyaml.safe_dump(result)foryaml(with a PyYAML check).--strictstill causes failures on warnings and errors always return non-zero.tests/test_cli_validate.pyto assert JSON output shape and strict-mode behavior.Testing
pytest -q tests/test_cli_validate.py tests/test_cli_protocol_output.py tests/test_cli_plan.pyand all tests passed.7 passed(covers new JSON-shape assertions and strict vs non-strict exit behavior).Codex Task