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+{
+  "common": {
+    "flag": {
+      "verbose": "Enable verbose output"
+    }
+  },
+  "cmd": {
+    "collect": {
+      "short": "Collect data from external sources",
+      "long": "Collect and aggregate data from GitHub, BitcoinTalk, market APIs, academic papers, and other sources into a local directory for analysis.",
+      "flag": {
+        "output": "Output directory for collected data",
+        "dry_run": "Show what would be collected without writing"
+      },
+      "bitcointalk": {
+        "short": "Collect from a BitcoinTalk topic",
+        "long": "Scrape posts from a BitcoinTalk forum topic by topic ID or URL. Supports pagination for large threads.",
+        "flag": {
+          "pages": "Maximum number of pages to collect (0 for all)"
+        }
+      },
+      "dispatch": {
+        "short": "Dispatch a collection event",
+        "long": "Manually emit a collection lifecycle event (start, progress, item, error, complete) to trigger registered hooks.",
+        "hooks": {
+          "short": "Manage event hooks",
+          "list": {
+            "short": "List registered event hooks"
+          },
+          "register": {
+            "short": "Register a hook for an event type"
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "excavate": {
+        "short": "Deep-collect all sources for a project",
+        "long": "Run all configured collectors for a known project (e.g. bitcoin, ethereum). Combines GitHub, market, and paper sources into a single pass with resumable state.",
+        "flag": {
+          "scan_only": "Scan available sources without collecting data",
+          "resume": "Resume a previously interrupted excavation"
+        }
+      },
+      "github": {
+        "short": "Collect issues and PRs from GitHub",
+        "long": "Collect issues, pull requests, and metadata from a GitHub repository or organisation. Requires a valid GITHUB_TOKEN.",
+        "flag": {
+          "org": "Treat the argument as an organisation name",
+          "issues_only": "Collect issues only (skip pull requests)",
+          "prs_only": "Collect pull requests only (skip issues)"
+        }
+      },
+      "market": {
+        "short": "Collect market data for a coin",
+        "long": "Fetch price, volume, and market capitalisation data for a cryptocurrency from CoinGecko and other market APIs.",
+        "flag": {
+          "historical": "Include full historical data",
+          "from": "Start date for historical data (YYYY-MM-DD)"
+        }
+      },
+      "papers": {
+        "short": "Collect academic and research papers",
+        "long": "Search and download academic papers from arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and other sources. Requires a query term.",
+        "flag": {
+          "source": "Paper source to search (arXiv, semantic-scholar, or all)",
+          "category": "Filter by paper category",
+          "query": "Search query for finding papers"
+        }
+      },
+      "process": {
+        "short": "Process collected raw data",
+        "long": "Transform and normalise previously collected raw data into structured formats suitable for analysis or training."
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}