{
  "slug": "cf-cli-redirects-prompts-and-workflow-messages-to-stderr-2108126346ec",
  "title": "cf CLI redirects prompts and workflow messages to stderr",
  "tools": [
    "cf"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "agent"
  ],
  "introduced_at": "2026-10-23T11:50:15.000Z",
  "announced_at": "2026-10-23T11:50:15.000Z",
  "effective_at": null,
  "date_basis": "source-publication",
  "status": "unknown",
  "how": {
    "incantation": "When creating a KV namespace with stdout redirected, read prompts and workflow messages from stderr. Run the create command with a title; add `--quiet` to hide notices and the success line while keeping warnings and prompts visible.",
    "examples": [
      "cf kv namespaces create --title <NAMESPACE_NAME> > ns.json",
      "cf kv namespaces create --title <NAMESPACE_NAME> --quiet > ns.json"
    ],
    "gotchas": [
      "Version: 1.0.0-beta.21",
      "--title <NAMESPACE_NAME> (required): Namespace title.",
      "--quiet: Suppress notices and success markers; warnings and prompts remain visible.",
      "Prerequisite: Install with `npm install -g cf`.",
      "Prerequisite: Authenticate with Cloudflare; `cf auth login` is the documented sign-in command. The CLI also accepts `CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN`.",
      "Prerequisite: For prompts while stdout is redirected outside CI, stdin and stderr must be terminals.",
      "Some confirmations in `cf deploy` and `cf workers triggers deploy` still ask only when stdout is a terminal, and proceed without asking otherwise.",
      "Prompts and the spinner need stdin and stderr to be terminals outside CI.",
      "`cf dev` still gives the dev server the whole terminal."
    ]
  },
  "why_it_matters": "Run `cf kv namespaces create` with JSON redirected to a file, or script commands whose output includes workflow messages.",
  "before": "Prompts, confirmations, progress, and workflow messages were rendered on stdout, so a confirmation could fail when stdout was redirected; the spinner could swallow piped input, and Ctrl+C or Esc during the spinner exited with status 0.",
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/cloudflare/cf/releases/tag/cf%401.0.0-beta.21",
    "https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/product/kv/",
    "https://github.com/cloudflare/cf/blob/cf%401.0.0-beta.21/packages/cli/README.md"
  ],
  "rank": 0.93047,
  "judge": {
    "publish": true,
    "judge_model": "codex-cli/gpt-6-luna+typesafe/jev-1.13.0",
    "prompt_version": "extract-v7+enrich-v2+judge-v2x3+jev-publish-v1"
  },
  "review_state": "approved",
  "provenance": {
    "run_id": "daily-20261026-04",
    "verdict_id": "daily-20261026-04:daily-20261026-04-58fff7362f9ee08d-0:gate",
    "evidence_hash": "6a55db903ac1a6178d0157e52b619ca9fe2e55d737a0934bdfb018630b2979e6"
  },
  "review": {
    "draft_hash": "b7eecf705e150dfc9298c093756002baac1c90dc397658653e692ac2cc5ed322",
    "reviewer": "publication-gate",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-10-23T11:50:15.000Z",
    "decision": "daily-20261026-04:gate",
    "reason": "2 of 3 judge runs approved with p_yes >= 0.9 (mean 0.93 >= 0.9; 2 needed) and Jev gave 0.69 (>= 0.6 needed)."
  }
}