# Technical References

Industry standards and best practices that inform the CLI description standards.

## Standards

- [Cobra Documentation](https://cobra.dev/) - CLI framework used by Kubebuilder and kubectl
- [POSIX Utility Conventions](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html) - Option syntax and argument handling
- [GNU Coding Standards - Command-Line Interfaces](https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLine-Interfaces.html) - Long options and help text
- [Command Line Interface Guidelines](https://clig.dev/) - Modern CLI design patterns
- [Kubernetes kubectl Usage Conventions](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/conventions/) - Kubernetes CLI patterns
