fix(portals)!: reject unknown flags in all six CLIs

Silently discarded flags produced silently wrong results: jobdanmark
with --query (its real flag is --text) returned all 13,862 jobs as if
they matched, exit 0, empty stderr - indistinguishable from a real
result set. The four bunli CLIs get an argv preflight built from each
command's own options object; linkedin and freehire validate parsed
flags against per-command known sets. help/version still pass, and
add-portal.md's existing bogus-flag-exits-1 contract now holds for the
reference implementations contributors copy. One linkedin pin updated:
"--jobage-minutes -5" now fails as UNKNOWN_FLAG (the stray -5 token)
rather than BAD_ARG - same loud-failure invariant, earlier gate. Review
finding F13 (2026-08-19), decision approved by Mads.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

.agents/skills/jobnet-search/cli/src/cli.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { createCLI } from "@bunli/core"
+import { writeError } from "./helpers.js"
 import { search } from "./commands/search.js"
 import { detail } from "./commands/detail.js"
 import { occupations } from "./commands/occupations.js"
@@ -10,9 +11,37 @@ const cli = await createCLI({
   description: "CLI for the Jobnet.dk Danish government job portal API",
 })
 
-cli.command(search)
-cli.command(detail)
-cli.command(occupations)
-cli.command(suggestions)
+const commands = [search, detail, occupations, suggestions]
+for (const command of commands) {
+  cli.command(command)
+}
+
+// Reject unknown --flags before dispatch. bunli silently discards them, and a
+// silently discarded filter changes what the search returns without any error
+// (a wrong flag name once returned an entire portal's database as if it
+// matched the query). add-portal.md's contract requires a bogus flag to exit 1
+// with a JSON error on stderr; this enforces it for the reference CLIs too.
+const argv = process.argv.slice(2)
+const invoked = commands.find((c) => (c as { name?: string }).name === argv[0])
+if (invoked) {
+  const known = new Set([
+    ...Object.keys((invoked as { options?: Record<string, unknown> }).options ?? {}),
+    "help",
+    "version",
+  ])
+  for (const token of argv.slice(1)) {
+    if (token === "--") break
+    if (token.startsWith("--")) {
+      const flag = token.slice(2).split("=")[0]
+      if (!known.has(flag)) {
+        writeError(
+          `unknown flag --${flag} for '${argv[0]}' - flags are never silently ignored, because a discarded filter changes what the search returns; see --help for the supported flags`,
+          "UNKNOWN_FLAG",
+        )
+        process.exit(1)
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
 
 await cli.run()

.agents/skills/jobnet-search/cli/tests/cli-flag-validation.test.ts

@@ -72,3 +72,26 @@ describe("Jobnet CLI flag validation", () => {
     });
   });
 });
+
+
+describe("unknown flag rejection", () => {
+  // add-portal.md's contract: "a bogus flag or missing required arg exits 1
+  // with a JSON error on stderr". A silently discarded flag is worse than an
+  // error: on jobdanmark a wrong flag name returned the entire database
+  // (13,862 results) as if it matched the query (review finding F13,
+  // 2026-08-19). Rejection happens before dispatch, so these are network-free.
+  test("a bogus --flag exits 1 with a JSON error instead of being silently discarded", async () => {
+    const result = await runCLI(["search", "--search-string", "test", "--bogus-flag", "xyz"]);
+    expect(result.exitCode).toBe(1);
+    expect(result.stdout).toBe("");
+    const error = JSON.parse(result.stderr);
+    expect(error.code).toBe("UNKNOWN_FLAG");
+    expect(error.error).toContain("--bogus-flag");
+  });
+
+  test("--query (another portal's free-text flag) is rejected, not treated as no filter", async () => {
+    const result = await runCLI(["search", "--query", "test"]);
+    expect(result.exitCode).toBe(1);
+    expect(JSON.parse(result.stderr).code).toBe("UNKNOWN_FLAG");
+  });
+});