feat: add --agent flag to print detected package manager name#329
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Closes #326
Problem
There's no way to get just the detected package manager name from
niwithout parsing the fullni -vtable output. This makes it awkward to use in CI pipelines and shell scripts where you need the bare agent name for conditional logic.Solution
Adds a
--agentflag that prints only the detected package manager name to stdout — no colors, no version info, just the agent name followed by a newline.Works with any
nicommand since it's handled in the runner before agent-specific logic runs. Printsunknownif no lock file is found and no default is configured.Also updated the help output (
ni -h) to document the new flag.Use case