feat(cli): mark meta and upgrade commands experimental

apps/cli/README.i18n.yaml

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 # side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
 # after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
 #   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write apps/cli/README.md
-README.md: 43524950ae7d3379406a0c859b6449f0697d204b
-README.zh.md: 01954f1229a6f4d076155d42566ed29d568631ca
+README.md: db2ba4cb617bd85b0ca6bab8ceef93b11ea8f78e
+README.zh.md: 8f897be2b67c77af5ba77110ebce3d5651eed69a

apps/cli/README.md

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 English | [中文](README.zh.md)
 
 
-Argv is parsed once through a [Commander](https://github.com/tj/commander.js) adapter ([`src/args.ts`](src/args.ts)): one program whose default (no subcommand) is the TUI/headless surface (`--config`, `-p`/`--prompt`, `--resume`, `--dump-config`, `--dump-default-config`), whose `meta` subcommand is the same TUI over this checkout, whose `upgrade` subcommand is an option-less guided-session entry, and whose `web` subcommand is the browser UI. `src/bin.ts` switches on the resolved mode and dynamic-imports only that mode's module. `dsh --help` lists every mode and `dsh web --help` renders the web usage, `dsh --version` prints this app's version, and an unknown option or a mistyped `--resume` fails loud (stderr, exit 1) instead of misrouting. Every subcommand that shares no option with the default surface — `upgrade`, `web`, `meta` — rejects a leaked `--config`/`-p`/`--resume`/dump flag rather than running and dropping it. `dsh web`'s `--host`/`--port` are unvalidated pass-through overrides: the `dsh-host-webserver` schema is the single source of both the default (the shipped Web overlay value when a flag is absent) and validity, and rejects a bad value at boot. `--trusted-host` appends named authorities for the /api browser-trust fence; an all-interfaces bind additionally derives the machine's LAN IP literals itself ([`src/app-cli-entry.ts`](src/app-cli-entry.ts)), so the printed LAN URL works without flags.
+Argv is parsed once through a [Commander](https://github.com/tj/commander.js) adapter ([`src/args.ts`](src/args.ts)): one program whose default (no subcommand) is the TUI/headless surface (`--config`, `-p`/`--prompt`, `--resume`, `--dump-config`, `--dump-default-config`), whose `experimental-meta` subcommand is the same TUI over this checkout, whose `experimental-upgrade` subcommand is an option-less guided-session entry, and whose `web` subcommand is the browser UI. `src/bin.ts` switches on the resolved mode and dynamic-imports only that mode's module. `dsh --help` lists every mode and `dsh web --help` renders the web usage, `dsh --version` prints this app's version, and an unknown option or a mistyped `--resume` fails loud (stderr, exit 1) instead of misrouting. Every subcommand that shares no option with the default surface — `experimental-upgrade`, `web`, `experimental-meta` — rejects a leaked `--config`/`-p`/`--resume`/dump flag rather than running and dropping it. `dsh web`'s `--host`/`--port` are unvalidated pass-through overrides: the `dsh-host-webserver` schema is the single source of both the default (the shipped Web overlay value when a flag is absent) and validity, and rejects a bad value at boot. `--trusted-host` appends named authorities for the /api browser-trust fence; an all-interfaces bind additionally derives the machine's LAN IP literals itself ([`src/app-cli-entry.ts`](src/app-cli-entry.ts)), so the printed LAN URL works without flags.
 
 The TUI surface:
 
 - boots `base.cordis.yml` plus `tui.cordis.yml` through [`dsh-app-boot`](../../packages/ui/app-boot/README.md); `--config <path>` applies a patch-list overlay instead of the personal overlay, while `--config-replace <path>` boots that file as the complete tree;
 - resumes a persisted session with `dsh --resume <session-id>` and, when the Node host exposes `process.execve`, supplies the TUI's in-place handoff host: after selector preflight and current-session flush, the host disposes the app and replaces the process with a normalized resume invocation; runtimes without process replacement leave the session running and say so. This CLI owns session identity and the exit line rather than the config: it mints or selects the `main` session id and provides it, plus the exact command that reproduces this invocation, on the boot context ([`MAIN_SESSION_ID_KEY`](../../packages/ui/tui/README.md) and `TUI_GOODBYE_MESSAGE_KEY`). No `cordis.yml` key can drop resume, and a missing or unreadable id fails loud instead of creating a fresh session;
-- treats the **invoking directory** as the workspace — sessions, relative paths, and workspace instructions resolve from the cwd (`dsh meta` is the sole exception, below);
+- treats the **invoking directory** as the workspace — sessions, relative paths, and workspace instructions resolve from the cwd (`dsh experimental-meta` is the sole exception, below);
 - tells the agent where its own source lives: after boot it adds a prompt section naming this harness checkout, resolved from the launcher's real path so it holds under a PATH symlink and an arbitrary cwd, so the self-referential `cordis` toolset can read and modify it;
 - applies the personal overlay from `~/.dsh` (see [app-boot's Personal config](../../packages/ui/app-boot/README.md#personal-config)): `config.yaml` patches the booted tree, while `.env` there is the credential provider's own store (never hoisted into the environment, so keys stay rotatable). Environment precedence is ambient > project `.env`.
 - registers bare `/compact`: while the agent is idle, it summarizes useful older history even below automatic pressure, rejects arguments, and reports success only after the standalone replacement bracket is durable. A prompt submitted during compaction keeps its queue identity and starts after that checkpoint; injected context remains visible.
 
-`dsh meta` is that same TUI with this harness checkout as the workspace, so working on dsh itself needs no `cd`. It chdirs to the checkout root — resolved from the launcher's real path, the same root the source-path prompt section names — after the environment is settled, so precedence is unchanged while the session cwd and HMR watch root move together. Meta always starts a fresh session and accepts no default-surface options; use ordinary `dsh --resume <id>` to resume a persisted session.
+`dsh experimental-meta` is that same TUI with this harness checkout as the workspace, so working on dsh itself needs no `cd`. It chdirs to the checkout root — resolved from the launcher's real path, the same root the source-path prompt section names — after the environment is settled, so precedence is unchanged while the session cwd and HMR watch root move together. Experimental meta always starts a fresh session and accepts no default-surface options; use ordinary `dsh --resume <id>` to resume a persisted session.
 
-`dsh upgrade` is a guided fresh-session entry over the default TUI surface: it mints a fresh session in the invoking directory and seeds its first turn with the bundled `dsh-upgrade` skill, exactly as if the user typed `/skill:<name>`. The launcher passes the skill name on the boot context ([`INITIAL_SKILL_KEY`](../../packages/ui/tui/README.md)), which the TUI auto-invokes once the chat is live. Both take no options — `--config`, `-p`, and `--resume` fail loud — and seed only on this first launch, so a later `dsh --resume <id>` of the session is an ordinary TUI session with no re-injection.
+`dsh experimental-upgrade` is a guided fresh-session entry over the default TUI surface: it mints a fresh session in the invoking directory and seeds its first turn with the bundled `dsh-upgrade` skill, exactly as if the user typed `/skill:<name>`. The launcher passes the skill name on the boot context ([`INITIAL_SKILL_KEY`](../../packages/ui/tui/README.md)), which the TUI auto-invokes once the chat is live. The command takes no options — `--config`, `-p`, and `--resume` fail loud — and seeds only on this first launch, so a later `dsh --resume <id>` of the session is an ordinary TUI session with no re-injection.
 
 `dsh --dump-config` and `dsh web --dump-config` print the composed config tree — the shipped base, the surface overlay, and the `--config` or personal overlay, exactly the layers that surface would boot — as YAML on stdout and exit without booting; `--dump-default-config` stops at the surface overlay, so diffing the two shows precisely what the user layer changes. Each run of rows is preceded by a `# ==` comment naming the file it comes from and the layers that patched it (e.g. `# == base.cordis.yml, patched by tui.cordis.yml`), so the output shows provenance while staying one loadable document. Composition runs through the include's own patch algorithm and YAML dialect (`applyEntryPatches`/`entryListSchema` from `@cordisjs/plugin-include`), so the dump cannot drift from what boots; `!!js` expressions print verbatim and unevaluated, and a patch whose target row is absent is reported on stderr with its layer, mirroring the Loader's boot-time warning. Launcher-owned boot-context values (session identity, CLI-flag patches) are per-invocation facts outside the config tree and do not appear. The dump flags reject boot-only flags (`-p`, `--resume`, `--config-replace`) rather than silently ignoring them, and `--dump-default-config` takes no `--config`.
 

apps/cli/README.zh.md

@@ -3,20 +3,20 @@
 [English](README.md) | 中文
 
 
-Argv 只会通过 [Commander](https://github.com/tj/commander.js) 适配器（[`src/args.ts`](src/args.ts)）解析一次：同一个程序的默认形式（无子命令）是 TUI／无头界面（`--config`、`-p`/`--prompt`、`--resume`、`--dump-config`、`--dump-default-config`），`meta` 子命令是以本 checkout 为 workspace 的同一个 TUI，`upgrade` 子命令是无选项的引导会话入口，`web` 子命令则是浏览器 UI。`src/bin.ts` 按解析后的 mode 分支，仅动态导入该 mode 的模块。`dsh --help` 列出所有 mode，`dsh web --help` 渲染 Web 用法，`dsh --version` 打印此应用的版本；未知选项或拼错的 `--resume` 会明确报错（stderr，退出码 1），而不会被错路由。凡与默认界面不共享任何选项的子命令（`upgrade`、`web`、`meta`）都会拒绝泄漏进来的 `--config`/`-p`/`--resume`/dump 标志，而不会照常运行并丢弃它。`dsh web` 的 `--host`/`--port` 是未验证的直通覆盖：`dsh-host-webserver` schema 是默认值（标志缺失时使用已交付的 Web 覆盖层值）和有效性的唯一真源，并在启动时拒绝错误值。`--trusted-host` 为 /api 浏览器信任栅栏追加具名权威；全接口绑定还会自行推导本机的 LAN IP 字面量（[`src/app-cli-entry.ts`](src/app-cli-entry.ts)），因此打印出的 LAN URL 无需任何标志即可使用。
+Argv 只会通过 [Commander](https://github.com/tj/commander.js) 适配器（[`src/args.ts`](src/args.ts)）解析一次：同一个程序的默认形式（无子命令）是 TUI／无头界面（`--config`、`-p`/`--prompt`、`--resume`、`--dump-config`、`--dump-default-config`），`experimental-meta` 子命令是以本 checkout 为 workspace 的同一个 TUI，`experimental-upgrade` 子命令是无选项的引导会话入口，`web` 子命令则是浏览器 UI。`src/bin.ts` 按解析后的 mode 分支，仅动态导入该 mode 的模块。`dsh --help` 列出所有 mode，`dsh web --help` 渲染 Web 用法，`dsh --version` 打印此应用的版本；未知选项或拼错的 `--resume` 会明确报错（stderr，退出码 1），而不会被错路由。凡与默认界面不共享任何选项的子命令（`experimental-upgrade`、`web`、`experimental-meta`）都会拒绝泄漏进来的 `--config`/`-p`/`--resume`/dump 标志，而不会照常运行并丢弃它。`dsh web` 的 `--host`/`--port` 是未验证的直通覆盖：`dsh-host-webserver` schema 是默认值（标志缺失时使用已交付的 Web 覆盖层值）和有效性的唯一真源，并在启动时拒绝错误值。`--trusted-host` 为 /api 浏览器信任栅栏追加具名权威；全接口绑定还会自行推导本机的 LAN IP 字面量（[`src/app-cli-entry.ts`](src/app-cli-entry.ts)），因此打印出的 LAN URL 无需任何标志即可使用。
 
 TUI 界面：
 
 - 通过 [`dsh-app-boot`](../../packages/ui/app-boot/README.md) 启动 `base.cordis.yml` 与 `tui.cordis.yml`；`--config <path>` 应用一个补丁列表覆盖并替代个人覆盖，而 `--config-replace <path>` 将指定文件作为完整配置树启动；
 - 使用 `dsh --resume <session-id>` 恢复已持久化会话。当 Node 宿主公开 `process.execve` 时，还会提供 TUI 的原地移交宿主：选择器预检并刷新当前会话后，宿主会释放应用，并以规范化的恢复调用替换进程；不支持进程替换的运行时会让会话继续运行并给出提示。会话身份与退出行由本 CLI 拥有，而非由配置指定：它创建或选定 `main` 会话 id，并把该 id 以及可复现本次调用的确切命令一起提供到启动上下文（[`MAIN_SESSION_ID_KEY`](../../packages/ui/tui/README.md) 与 `TUI_GOODBYE_MESSAGE_KEY`）。任何 `cordis.yml` 键都无法移除恢复能力；缺失或无法读取的 id 会明确报错，而不会创建新会话；
-- 将 **调用目录** 视为 workspace：会话、相对路径和 workspace 指令都从 cwd 解析（`dsh meta` 是唯一例外，见下文）；
+- 将 **调用目录** 视为 workspace：会话、相对路径和 workspace 指令都从 cwd 解析（`dsh experimental-meta` 是唯一例外，见下文）；
 - 告知 agent 自身源码所在位置：启动后添加一个命名此 harness checkout 的提示词段。该路径从启动器的真实路径解析，因此在 PATH 符号链接和任意 cwd 下仍然有效，使自指的 `cordis` 工具集可以读取并修改它；
 - 应用 `~/.dsh` 中的个人覆盖（参见 [app-boot 的个人配置](../../packages/ui/app-boot/README.md#personal-config)）：`config.yaml` 修补已启动的树，而那里的 `.env` 是凭据 provider 自己的存储（绝不会被提升进环境，因此密钥始终可轮换）。环境优先级为环境中已有的值 > 项目 `.env`。
 - 注册裸 `/compact`：agent 空闲时，即使未达到自动压力，也会摘要有效的较早历史；该命令拒绝参数，并只在独立替换标记对持久化后报告成功。压缩（compaction）期间提交的提示词保留其队列身份，并在该检查点之后启动；注入的上下文仍保持可见。
 
-`dsh meta` 是以本 harness checkout 为 workspace 的同一个 TUI，因此开发 dsh 自身无需 `cd`。它在环境确定之后才 chdir 到 checkout 根目录（从启动器的真实路径解析，与源码路径提示词段所指的根目录相同），因此环境优先级不变，而会话 cwd 与 HMR 监视根目录会一并移动。Meta 始终创建新会话，不接受默认界面的任何选项；恢复已持久化会话应使用普通的 `dsh --resume <id>`。
+`dsh experimental-meta` 是以本 harness checkout 为 workspace 的同一个 TUI，因此开发 dsh 自身无需 `cd`。它在环境确定之后才 chdir 到 checkout 根目录（从启动器的真实路径解析，与源码路径提示词段所指的根目录相同），因此环境优先级不变，而会话 cwd 与 HMR 监视根目录会一并移动。Experimental meta 始终创建新会话，不接受默认界面的任何选项；恢复已持久化会话应使用普通的 `dsh --resume <id>`。
 
-`dsh upgrade` 是默认 TUI 界面之上的引导式全新会话入口：它在调用目录中创建一个全新会话，并以内置 `dsh-upgrade` skill 播种其首轮，效果等同于用户手动键入 `/skill:<name>`。启动器将 skill 名称提供到启动上下文（[`INITIAL_SKILL_KEY`](../../packages/ui/tui/README.md)），TUI 在聊天就绪后自动调用它。两者都不接受任何选项——`--config`、`-p`、`--resume` 都会明确报错——且仅在首次启动时播种，因此之后 `dsh --resume <id>` 恢复该会话时是普通 TUI 会话，不会重复注入。
+`dsh experimental-upgrade` 是默认 TUI 界面之上的引导式全新会话入口：它在调用目录中创建一个全新会话，并以内置 `dsh-upgrade` skill 播种其首轮，效果等同于用户手动键入 `/skill:<name>`。启动器将 skill 名称提供到启动上下文（[`INITIAL_SKILL_KEY`](../../packages/ui/tui/README.md)），TUI 在聊天就绪后自动调用它。该命令不接受任何选项——`--config`、`-p`、`--resume` 都会明确报错——且仅在首次启动时播种，因此之后 `dsh --resume <id>` 恢复该会话时是普通 TUI 会话，不会重复注入。
 
 `dsh --dump-config` 和 `dsh web --dump-config` 把合成后的配置树——已交付的基础配置、界面覆盖层，以及 `--config` 或个人覆盖层，恰好是该界面启动时组装的那些层——以 YAML 打印到 stdout 后退出，不启动任何东西；`--dump-default-config` 止步于界面覆盖层，因此对两份输出做 diff 就能精确看出用户层改了什么。每段连续的行之前都有一条 `# ==` 注释，标明该段来自哪个文件以及被哪些层修补过（例如 `# == base.cordis.yml, patched by tui.cordis.yml`），因此输出既展示来源，又仍是一份可加载的文档。合成通过 include 自己的补丁算法和 YAML 方言（`@cordisjs/plugin-include` 的 `applyEntryPatches`/`entryListSchema`）完成，因此 dump 不可能与实际启动漂移；`!!js` 表达式原样打印、不求值，目标行不存在的补丁会连同其所在层报到 stderr，与 Loader 启动时的警告一致。由启动器持有的启动上下文值（会话身份、CLI 标志补丁）是每次调用的事实，位于配置树之外，不会出现。dump 标志会拒绝仅用于启动的标志（`-p`、`--resume`、`--config-replace`）而不是静默忽略它们，`--dump-default-config` 不接受 `--config`。
 

apps/cli/src/args.ts

@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
  * Commander adapter for the `dsh` command-line entry: the one place argv is
  * parsed and routed to a mode. `bin.ts` switches on the returned discriminant
  * and dynamic-imports that mode's module. One program: the default (no
- * subcommand) is the TUI/headless surface with option-only flags; `meta` and
- * `web` are real subcommands. Commander owns `--help`/`--version` and parse
+ * subcommand) is the TUI/headless surface with option-only flags;
+ * `experimental-meta` and `web` are real subcommands. Commander owns
+ * `--help`/`--version` and parse
  * errors — it prints and exits at the point of failure (a domain failure routes through
  * `command.error`), so this returns only a resolved mode.
  * @module @deepseek-ai/dsh/args
@@ -51,8 +52,8 @@ interface MetaInvocation {
 }
 
 /**
- * Guided fresh-session entry: `dsh upgrade` seeds the first turn with the
- * `dsh-upgrade` skill. It always mints a
+ * Guided fresh-session entry: `dsh experimental-upgrade` seeds the first turn
+ * with the `dsh-upgrade` skill. It always mints a
  * fresh session in the invoking directory and takes no options — `--resume`,
  * `--config`, and `-p` are rejected as mistyped, so there is nothing to carry.
  */
@@ -248,14 +249,15 @@ Examples:
   }
 
   // Registration order is the rendered help order, so daily use comes first
-  // and the harness-development surfaces (`web --dev`, `meta`) come last.
-  // `upgrade` is a guided fresh-session entry: it takes no options and always
-  // mints a fresh session, so nothing is left to carry.
+  // and the harness-development surfaces (`web --dev`, `experimental-meta`)
+  // come last. `experimental-upgrade` is a guided fresh-session entry: it
+  // takes no options and always mints a fresh session, so nothing is left to
+  // carry.
   program
-    .command('upgrade')
+    .command('experimental-upgrade')
     .description('update this dsh installation to the latest version')
     .action(() => {
-      rejectParentOptions('upgrade')
+      rejectParentOptions('experimental-upgrade')
       resolved = { mode: 'upgrade' }
     })
 
@@ -283,10 +285,10 @@ Examples:
     })
 
   program
-    .command('meta')
+    .command('experimental-meta')
     .description('work on the dsh source that runs this command, from any directory')
     .action(() => {
-      rejectParentOptions('meta')
+      rejectParentOptions('experimental-meta')
       resolved = { mode: 'meta' }
     })
 

apps/cli/src/tui.ts

@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@
  * from it, so `dsh` acts on whatever project it is launched in. Session storage
  * is the exception — it lives under the Harness home so `/resume` reaches every
  * workspace, and an in-place resume enters the selected session's own directory.
- * `dsh meta` is the one exception — it makes this harness checkout the
- * workspace. `dsh upgrade` is a fresh session whose first turn auto-invokes a
- * bundled skill. After boot, the agent's system prompt is told the path to this
- * harness checkout so it can find its own source.
+ * `dsh experimental-meta` is the one exception — it makes this harness
+ * checkout the workspace. `dsh experimental-upgrade` is a fresh session whose
+ * first turn auto-invokes a bundled skill. After boot, the agent's system
+ * prompt is told the path to this harness checkout so it can find its own
+ * source.
  * @module @deepseek-ai/dsh/tui
  */
 
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ const SESSION_QUERY_DB = `session-query-${String(process.pid)}-${randomUUID()}.d
 // The harness checkout root: three hops up from apps/cli/{src,lib}, resolved
 // from this bin's location so it holds however `dsh` is launched (a PATH
 // symlink, an arbitrary cwd). The agent is told where its own source lives.
-/** The harness checkout used as the `dsh meta` workspace and source prompt path. */
+/** The harness checkout used as the `dsh experimental-meta` workspace and source prompt path. */
 export const SOURCE_ROOT = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../..', import.meta.url))
 
 /* v8 ignore start -- composition over the unit-tested dsh-app-boot helpers;
@@ -76,10 +77,11 @@ export const SOURCE_ROOT = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../..', import.meta.url))
  * {@link CONFIGURED_AGENT_IDENTITIES_KEY}, so no config key selects the session
  * and an overlay replacing the agent row cannot drop it.
  * @param workspace - a directory to make the workspace instead of the invoking
- * one, or `undefined` to keep the cwd. Only `dsh meta` passes it.
+ * one, or `undefined` to keep the cwd. Only `dsh experimental-meta` passes it.
  * @param initialSkill - a bundled skill to auto-invoke as a fresh session's
- * first turn, or `undefined`. Set only by `dsh upgrade` and ignored on a resume,
- * so it never re-fires; reaches the app through {@link INITIAL_SKILL_KEY}.
+ * first turn, or `undefined`. Set only by `dsh experimental-upgrade` and
+ * ignored on a resume, so it never re-fires; reaches the app through
+ * {@link INITIAL_SKILL_KEY}.
  * @param configReplace - a config path to boot as the ENTIRE tree, bypassing the
  * shared base, the TUI overlay, and the personal overlay alike, or `undefined`
  * to compose them; already parsed from `--config-replace`.
@@ -122,8 +124,9 @@ export async function runTui(
   const entry = process.argv[1]
   const execve = process.execve?.bind(process)
   const app: { current?: Context } = {}
-  // Resume always enters the default surface because meta rejects parent
-  // options, including `--resume`. The resumed session already persists its cwd.
+  // Resume always enters the default surface because experimental-meta rejects
+  // parent options, including `--resume`. The resumed session already persists
+  // its cwd.
   const resumeArgs = (sessionId: string): string[] => [
     `--resume=${sessionId}`,
     // Both config flags must survive the handoff: resuming into a different

apps/cli/tests/args.spec.ts

@@ -24,13 +24,13 @@ function exitCode(argv: string[]): number {
 afterEach(() => { vi.restoreAllMocks() })
 
 describe('parseDshArgs', () => {
-  it('routes each mode by its shape: default TUI, -p headless, meta and web subcommands', () => {
+  it('routes each mode by its shape: default TUI, -p headless, experimental and web subcommands', () => {
     expect(parse([])).toEqual({ mode: 'tui' })
     expect(parse(['--config', 'custom.yml'])).toEqual({ mode: 'tui', config: 'custom.yml' })
     expect(parse(['--config-replace', 'tree.yml'])).toEqual({ mode: 'tui', configReplace: 'tree.yml' })
     expect(parse(['--resume', 'sess', '--config', 'app.yml'])).toEqual({ mode: 'tui', config: 'app.yml', resume: 'sess' })
     expect(parse(['-p', 'do the thing'])).toEqual({ mode: 'headless', prompt: 'do the thing' })
-    expect(parse(['meta'])).toEqual({ mode: 'meta' })
+    expect(parse(['experimental-meta'])).toEqual({ mode: 'meta' })
     // Bare `web` carries no host/port: the shipped Web overlay owns the default.
     expect(parse(['web'])).toEqual({ mode: 'web', dev: false })
     expect(parse(['web', '--config', 'web.yml'])).toEqual({ mode: 'web', dev: false, config: 'web.yml' })
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ describe('parseDshArgs', () => {
     expect(parse(['web', '--host', '0.0.0.0', '--port', '8080', '--dev', '--workspace-root', '/w']))
       .toEqual({ mode: 'web', host: '0.0.0.0', port: 8080, dev: true, workspaceRoot: '/w' })
     // Guided fresh-session entries carry nothing: bare mode discriminant only.
-    expect(parse(['upgrade'])).toEqual({ mode: 'upgrade' })
+    expect(parse(['experimental-upgrade'])).toEqual({ mode: 'upgrade' })
     // --trusted-host is variadic and repeatable; authorities pass through unvalidated.
     expect(parse(['web', '--trusted-host', 'harness.internal:3080', 'lab.internal', '--trusted-host', '10.0.0.9']))
       .toEqual({ mode: 'web', dev: false, trustedHosts: ['harness.internal:3080', 'lab.internal', '10.0.0.9'] })
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ describe('parseDshArgs', () => {
     expect(exitCode(['web', '--dump-config', '--dump-default-config'])).toBe(1)
     expect(exitCode(['web', '--dump-default-config', '--config', 'w.yml'])).toBe(1)
     // A leaked dump flag on a subcommand that has none is a mistyped invocation.
-    expect(exitCode(['meta', '--dump-config'])).toBe(1)
-    expect(exitCode(['upgrade', '--dump-config'])).toBe(1)
+    expect(exitCode(['experimental-meta', '--dump-config'])).toBe(1)
+    expect(exitCode(['experimental-upgrade', '--dump-config'])).toBe(1)
   })
 
   it('exits nonzero instead of silently starting fresh or dropping inputs', () => {
@@ -88,17 +88,20 @@ describe('parseDshArgs', () => {
     expect(exitCode(['--config-replace', 'tree.yml', 'web'])).toBe(1)
     // Same rule for each subcommand that shares no option with the default
     // surface, so a leaked flag is a typo, not something to ignore.
-    // `meta` fixes its own config tree and always starts fresh, so every
-    // default-surface option is rejected.
-    expect(exitCode(['meta', '--resume', 's'])).toBe(1)
-    expect(exitCode(['meta', '--config', 'c.yml'])).toBe(1)
-    expect(exitCode(['meta', '--config-replace', 'tree.yml'])).toBe(1)
-    expect(exitCode(['meta', '-p', 'task'])).toBe(1)
-    // `upgrade` takes no options: any leaked default-surface flag is a
-    // mistyped invocation, not a silently-dropped input.
-    expect(exitCode(['upgrade', '--resume', 's'])).toBe(1)
-    expect(exitCode(['upgrade', '--config', 'c.yml'])).toBe(1)
-    expect(exitCode(['-p', 'task', 'upgrade'])).toBe(1)
+    // `experimental-meta` fixes its own config tree and always starts fresh,
+    // so every default-surface option is rejected.
+    expect(exitCode(['experimental-meta', '--resume', 's'])).toBe(1)
+    expect(exitCode(['experimental-meta', '--config', 'c.yml'])).toBe(1)
+    expect(exitCode(['experimental-meta', '--config-replace', 'tree.yml'])).toBe(1)
+    expect(exitCode(['experimental-meta', '-p', 'task'])).toBe(1)
+    // `experimental-upgrade` takes no options: any leaked default-surface flag
+    // is a mistyped invocation, not a silently-dropped input.
+    expect(exitCode(['experimental-upgrade', '--resume', 's'])).toBe(1)
+    expect(exitCode(['experimental-upgrade', '--config', 'c.yml'])).toBe(1)
+    expect(exitCode(['-p', 'task', 'experimental-upgrade'])).toBe(1)
+    // The pre-release command names have no compatibility aliases.
+    expect(exitCode(['meta'])).toBe(1)
+    expect(exitCode(['upgrade'])).toBe(1)
   })
 
   it('exits 0 for --help (disclosing web) and --version', () => {