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# Default to JSON everywhere

Automation agents are the primary consumers, so the shortest invocation must
produce the stable machine interface. The CLI defaults to JSON regardless of
whether stdout is a terminal or pipe; human-readable presentation requires
`--format human`. Avoiding TTY-dependent format selection ensures that the same
command has the same framing and semantics in every execution environment.
JSON mode never emits interactive prompts; required confirmation is represented
as a structured error and satisfied by an explicit flag.