From 51bef48cf484bbc93790f6719b615e8263dab74e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: B <6723574+louisgv@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:52:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(cli): allow --headless and --dry-run to be used together
 (#3114)
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Remove the mutual-exclusion check that rejected combining --headless
and --dry-run flags. Both flags serve independent purposes and are
safe to combine — useful for CI pipelines wanting structured preview
output.

Agent: ux-engineer
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 packages/cli/package.json |  2 +-
 packages/cli/src/index.ts | 17 -----------------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/cli/package.json b/packages/cli/package.json
index b8617964a..0442c1ebc 100644
--- a/packages/cli/package.json
+++ b/packages/cli/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@openrouter/spawn",
-  "version": "0.29.2",
+  "version": "0.29.3",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {
     "spawn": "cli.js"
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/index.ts b/packages/cli/src/index.ts
index 1fc897ddd..c4c2f63a9 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/index.ts
@@ -1070,23 +1070,6 @@ async function main(): Promise<void> {
     process.exit(3);
   }
 
-  // Validate headless-incompatible flags
-  if (effectiveHeadless && dryRun) {
-    if (outputFormat === "json") {
-      console.log(
-        JSON.stringify({
-          status: "error",
-          error_code: "VALIDATION_ERROR",
-          error_message: "--headless and --dry-run cannot be used together",
-        }),
-      );
-    } else {
-      console.error(pc.red("Error: --headless and --dry-run cannot be used together"));
-      console.error(`\nUse ${pc.cyan("--dry-run")} for previewing, or ${pc.cyan("--headless")} for execution.`);
-    }
-    process.exit(3);
-  }
-
   checkUnknownFlags(filteredArgs);
 
   const cmd = filteredArgs[0];