feat(rtk): exclude informationally critical commands from RTK output filtering

[paolomainardi]

🤖 This was written by an AI agent on behalf of @paolomainardi.

Summary

• Adds exclude_commands patterns for 7 informationally critical commands where RTK's output filtering silently loses or rewrites data that AI agents rely on
• Upstream fixes filed for the 3 git bugs we found — patterns can be removed as fixes are released

Excluded Commands

Command	Bug	Upstream
git diff	Drops context lines before first change	rtk-ai/rtk#1852, PR #1855
git log	Injects --no-merges, hides merge commits	rtk-ai/rtk#1853, PR #1856
git status	Loses detached HEAD commit SHA	rtk-ai/rtk#1854, PR #1857
tsc	Fabricates "No errors found"	rtk-ai/rtk#1772
helm template	Drops K8s manifests at ~40 lines	rtk-ai/rtk#1626
ls	Hides .env, node_modules, etc.	—
pip list	Groups + truncates package list	—

Follow-up

Tracking issue to remove patterns once upstream fixes land: #464

Refs: #460

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR updates Sparkdock’s RTK hook configuration to prevent RTK output filtering from altering/truncating the output of “informationally critical” commands (where inaccurate output is worse than verbose output), aligning with the rationale in issue #460.

Changes:

• Expanded config/rtk/exclude-commands.toml with additional exclude patterns for critical read/inspection commands (git diff/log/status, tsc, helm template, ls, pip list) and organized the list into two commented sections.
• Added a CHANGELOG entry documenting the expanded exclusion set and rationale.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

File	Description
config/rtk/exclude-commands.toml	Adds and documents new exclude patterns for informationally critical commands, while keeping destructive-operation exclusions intact.
CHANGELOG.md	Records the RTK exclude expansion as a “Changed” item.

[paolomainardi]

🤖 This was written by an AI agent on behalf of @paolomainardi.

Validation: all 7 exclusions confirmed on RTK v0.39.0

Tested each command on this machine (rtk 0.39.0, Linux x86_64). Every issue reproduced.

1. git diff — CONFIRMED: truncates output

Metric	Raw	RTK
Line count	1005	110
Content	Full diff	720 lines silently truncated

RTK appends [full diff: rtk git diff --no-compact] but an agent doesn't know to use that flag.

2. git log — CONFIRMED: caps at 10 commits, truncates lines

Metric	Raw	RTK
Commits shown	25	10
Line length	Full	Truncated at ~80 chars with ...

3. git status — CONFIRMED: rewrites detached HEAD, truncates file lists

Detached HEAD:

• Raw: HEAD detached at 2eff3e3
• RTK: * HEAD (no branch) — SHA lost, "detached" warning gone

File lists: 30 untracked files → RTK shows 10, hides 20 with ... +20 more

4. tsc --pretty — CONFIRMED: fabricates success message

$ rtk npx tsc --noEmit --pretty
TypeScript: No errors found    ← LIE
exit: 2                        ← actual exit code says errors exist

Without --pretty, RTK correctly shows errors. The bug is specifically in ANSI-colored output parsing.

5. helm template — CONFIRMED: caps at 40 lines

Metric	Raw	RTK
Line count	220	41
Templates visible	10 of 10	2 of 10

8 Kubernetes resources silently dropped.

6. ls — CONFIRMED: hides 13 directories via NOISE_DIRS

Hidden: .env/, .git/, node_modules/, __pycache__/, .venv/, dist/, build/, .cache/, .idea/, .vscode/, coverage/, target/. Only vendor/ survived from 14 directories.

Files (.env.production, .env_file) are shown — the filter targets directory names.

7. pip list — CONFIRMED: truncates per letter group

210 packages total, but groups capped at 10 entries each:

• [P] group: shows 10, hides 42 (including most py* packages)
• [A] group: shows 10, hides 6
• [S] group: shows 10, hides 10

The Reddit post's claim of "2 packages" was wrong for v0.39.0, but truncation is still significant.