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Related Issue(s)
Has Unit Tests (y/n)	n (help-text/hygiene only)
Documentation Included (y/n)	n

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Change Description

• help_text.py: format help no longer claims backups are on by default (they are opt-in via --backup); documents --dirs/--exclude; new help documents --module, --rule-based-test, --phased, --from-source and drops "project" (project creation lives in fprime-bootstrap).
• Hygiene: unused imports (re, glob, VersionException), placeholder-less f-strings, stale comments, builder: "Build" annotation under TYPE_CHECKING, dead parsed.settings = None.
• build_helper.validate_tools_from_requirements: warning now prints the pre-filter candidate list (previously always []) and reports all per-candidate errors instead of only the last.
• common/utils.py replace_contents: kept, with a deprecation note in the docstring.

Rationale

--help should not contradict actual behavior (WP3 of 9, stacked on #18). No signatures change.

Testing/Review Recommendations

Suite: 160 passed; pyflakes clean on touched files; black-25.1.0 clean.

Future Work

WP4–WP9 of the series.

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Link to Devin session: https://nasa-jpl-demo.devinenterprise.com/sessions/bba39c1277854bf8a1fd63a094f20e24
Requested by: @thomas-bc-autobot

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Original prompt from thomas.boyer.chammard

I want this session to be a large effort to make fprime-tools more maintainable and cleaner code/less technical debt. Please make a plan to study that and deliver a master plan. Allocate subagent to find areas that can be improved, then more subagents to study it in detail and make a plan, then iterate on the plan with other review agents until the review agent and planner agent agree on an approved plan. Once the approved plan is done, have other implementer agents implement the plan, and review agents that build and test the result. Iterate until everyone agrees the code is correct and an improvement. Use subagents, high importance goals:

• CLI and external APIs should ideally be left unchanged, or backwards compatibility layer left in
• The less line of code changes, the easier the review. But if lots of LOC for high value simplification, it is ok.

Let’s go! Don’t stop, keep iterating until my goals are met.

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