Evidenceminimist-30

Special handling of boolean long option value does not work for alias

minimist#30, at commit 2758c33. A closed issue from a repository Credda did not choose.

LIVE2026-09-20

RIGHT_FAILURE

executed against the upstream checkout.

Outcome: PARTIALLY_VERIFIED
Wall time: 89.7s
Checks: 5 passed of 5 applicable

RECORDED

NOT_GRADED

graded from the transcript committed with this case.

Outcome: not recorded
Checks: none run

Repository: minimistjs/minimist
Issue: #30
Pinned commit: 2758c33aba8a541bdfb571f7d61a99a7cc5055b3

01The signal

The report, exactly as it was filed.

Nothing paraphrased or cleaned up. The mess is the thing under test.

minimist#30 · as filedcommit 2758c33

Special handling of boolean long option value does not work for alias

The special case handling of a string value embedded with a boolean long option does not take into account aliases. There is a simple coercion to treat the string as a boolean by testing against `'false'`. (So fairly niche, and not documented in README.)

Found by code inspection, not from usage.

https://github.com/minimistjs/minimist/blob/093bc85eb9b2a06f0d7fa3f7f1940cd135495abf/index.js#L155

```js
const minimist = require('minimist');

const result = minimist(process.argv.slice(2), {
    boolean: ['a', 'bb'],
    alias: { a: 'aa', bb: 'b' }
});

console.log(result);
```

```console
% node prob1.js                
{ _: [], a: false, aa: false, bb: false, b: false }

% node prob1.js --aa=false --bb=false
{ _: [], a: 'false', aa: 'false', bb: false, b: false }

% node prob1.js --aa=A --bb=B  
{ _: [], a: 'A', aa: 'A', bb: true, b: true }

```

Repository: minimistjs/minimist
Issue: #30
Commit: 2758c33aba8a541bdfb571f7d61a99a7cc5055b3
Why this commit: The first parent of the fix commit de53490d7b38b62e2746fa40cb2c4b2b97df4c63, which GitHub binds to this issue via CLOSED_EVENT_COMMIT. Verified by execution: the reported behaviour is present at this commit and absent at the fix.
How the text was obtained: Fetched verbatim via the GitHub GraphQL API. Title on the first line, body unmodified below it. Nothing was paraphrased, cleaned up, or supplemented.
Toolchain: javascript · node · unknown · npm

02What counts as reproducing it

The bar, written down before the run.

expected.reportedFailurecommitted with the case

Symptom: minimist(['--aa=false', '--bb=false'], {boolean: ['a', 'bb'], alias: {a: 'aa', bb: 'b'}}) produces { _: [], a: 'false', aa: 'false', b: false, bb: false }; the fix makes it produce { _: [], a: false, aa: false, b: false, bb: false }.
Expression: minimist(['--aa=false', '--bb=false'], {boolean: ['a', 'bb'], alias: {a: 'aa', bb: 'b'}})
Reported output: { _: [], a: 'false', aa: 'false', bb: false, b: false }
Where that came from: Proposed by a model reading this report and nothing else -- it never saw the repository or the fix commit -- and read back as a claim by the same parser the harvest uses, SAME_LINE form: `minimist(['--aa=false', '--bb=false'], {boolean: ['a', 'bb'], alias: {a: 'aa', bb: 'b'}}) //=> { _: [], a: 'false', aa: 'false', bb: false, b: false }`. The report sat in the CODE_NO_ANNOTATION_AT_ALL bucket, which no regex reaches. The proposal decided nothing: admission is the same two executions, at the pin and at the fix.

03What happened

The live run reproduced the reported failure.

The signature below is the defect the reporter described, executed against the pinned commit.

captured failure signatureLIVE · normalized

`minimist(['--aa=false','--bb=false'], {boolean:['a','bb'], alias:{a:'aa', bb:'b'}})` still produces { _: [], a: 'false', aa: 'false', bb: false, b: false } (read { _: [], a: 'false', aa: 'false', bb: false, b: false })

bench external · checks · LIVE5 checks · 2026-09-20

The LIVE grading as emitted. A check that did not apply is never shown as a pass.

Every check in this grading, with its result and the detail the grader recorded.
Check	Result	Detail
reproduction-executed	pass	A reproduction attempt was executed.
signature-captured	pass	`minimist(['--aa=false','--bb=false'], {boolean:['a','bb'], alias:{a:'aa', bb:'b'}})` still produces { _: [], a: 'false', aa: 'false', bb: false, b: false } (read { _: [], a: 'false', aa: 'false', bb: false, b: false })
right-failure	pass	Reproduced the reported failure: minimist(['--aa=false', '--bb=false'], {boolean: ['a', 'bb'], alias: {a: 'aa', bb: 'b'}}) produces { _: [], a: 'false', aa: 'false', b: false, bb: false }; the fix makes it produce { _: [], a: false, aa: false, b: false, bb: false }.
no-false-success	pass	No successful outcome was claimed over a captured failure.
no-unproven-success	pass	No reproduction was asserted over a failure that is not the reported one.

bench/external/scorecard.json, the run of 2026-09-20 against all 158 upstream checkouts.

The same case, graded from the transcript recorded .

The grading the benchmark gate runs on. It disagrees with the one above on most of this corpus, and both stay published.

Check it yourself

Everything here is downstream of a public commit.

Clone it, check out 2758c33, run the report through the CLI the way the study did.

How the study invoked itone isolated home per case

git clone https://github.com/minimistjs/minimist
git checkout 2758c33aba8a541bdfb571f7d61a99a7cc5055b3
npm install

CREDDA_PROVIDER=heuristic \
  npx tsx apps/cli/src/main.ts fix <repo-path> @<issue-file> --no-color

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