Verbose

As you debug and build your AI agent, you'll probably want to dump a lot more context into the console... but at the same time, we don't want to make the user experience of our CLI tool too noisy...

Let's add an optional command line flag, --verbose, that will allow us to toggle "verbose" output on and off. When we want to see more info, we'll just turn that bad boy on.

Assignment

Add a new command line argument, --verbose. It should be supplied after the prompt if included. For example:

uv run main.py "What is the meaning of life?" --verbose

If the --verbose flag is included, the console output should include:
1. The user's prompt: "User prompt: {user_prompt}"
2. The number of prompt tokens on each iteration: "Prompt tokens: {prompt_tokens}"
3. The number of response tokens on each iteration: "Response tokens: {response_tokens}"

Otherwise, it should not print those things.

Run and submit the CLI tests.

The Boot.dev CLI requires you to be signed in to submit your solution!

Copy/paste one of the following commands into your terminal:

Run

bootdev run 7a603e06-4517-4842-9a19-4f4b65adb410

Submit

bootdev run 7a603e06-4517-4842-9a19-4f4b65adb410 -s

Run the CLI commands to test your solution.

uv run main.py "Why is the Holy Grail the best Monty Python movie? Use one paragraph." --verbose
- Expecting stdout to contain all of:
  - User prompt:
  - Prompt tokens:
  - Response tokens:
uv run main.py "Why is the Holy Grail the best Monty Python movie? Use one paragraph."
- Expecting stdout to contain none of:
  - User prompt:
  - Prompt tokens:
  - Response tokens:

Using the Bootdev CLI

The Bootdev CLI is the only way to submit your solution for this type of lesson. We need to be able to run commands in your environment to verify your solution.

You can install it here. It's a Go program hosted on GitHub, so you'll need Go installed as well. Instructions are on the GitHub page.