Discovering command help

Every noorm command exposes its own help via the standard --help (or -h) flag. There is no noorm help <subcommand> form — noorm's CLI framework (citty) renders help natively per command, and that's the canonical surface.

Canonical form

Append --help (or the short -h) to any command — including multi-segment commands like db create or change ff:

noorm --help
noorm db --help
noorm db create --help
noorm change ff --help
noorm sql query --help

The help output includes the usage line, every flag with its description, and a curated EXAMPLES block where the command author added one.

Why not noorm help <sub>?

citty (the CLI framework noorm is built on) doesn't ship a re-dispatching help subcommand. Adding one would mean a parallel copy of every command's help text — easy to let drift. The --help flag is uniform, always current, and matches the convention used by git, kubectl, docker, and most other modern CLIs.

If you arrive from a tool like npm, yarn, or older commander-based CLIs that DO support npm help <sub>, just swap to the flag form:

# this errors with "Unknown command help"
noorm help db create

# this is the equivalent that works
noorm db create --help

Related

• Flag conventions — where --help and other flags must be placed relative to the subcommand.