ghidra-cli/docs/adr/0003-default-to-json-everywhere.md

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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.