feat: enhance install command with directory option and update prompt logic

[thecontstruct]

Added a new CLI option for specifying the target project directory, allowing users to skip the interactive prompt. Updated the installation prompt method to accept options and handle directory validation accordingly.

This might be premature since I know it was goign to come back eventually but it's been driving me crazy having to constantly copy paste the full path of all the repo's I want to install the latest from main into every day or two during the install.

[coderabbitai]

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The changes add a --directory CLI option to the install command, allowing users to specify a target project directory programmatically. The UI layer was updated to accept and handle this option, bypassing the interactive directory prompt when provided while retaining the existing prompt behavior when omitted.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
CLI Directory Option tools/cli/commands/install.js	Added -D, --directory <path> option to the install command options array; updated promptInstall call to pass options object for option handling.
UI Method Updates tools/cli/lib/ui.js	Updated promptInstall() and getConfirmedDirectory() method signatures to accept optional options parameter; added conditional logic in getConfirmedDirectory() to use provided directory path (with expansion and validation) or fallback to interactive prompt.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
    participant User as User/CLI
    participant Cmd as install.js
    participant UI as promptInstall()
    participant Dir as getConfirmedDirectory()
    participant FS as File System

    User->>Cmd: Invoke with --directory option
    Cmd->>UI: promptInstall(options)
    
    alt Directory Option Provided
        UI->>Dir: getConfirmedDirectory(options)
        Dir->>FS: Expand & Validate Path
        FS-->>Dir: Path Valid
        Dir-->>UI: Return Confirmed Directory
    else No Directory Option
        UI->>Dir: getConfirmedDirectory(options)
        Dir->>User: Show Interactive Prompt
        User-->>Dir: User Selects Directory
        Dir-->>UI: Return Selected Directory
    end
    
    UI-->>Cmd: Return Installation Directory

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Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~12 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• fix(cli): replace inquirer with @clack/prompts for Windows compatibility #1316: Modifies the same CLI UI prompt flow in tools/cli/lib/ui.js to integrate a new prompts wrapper, creating a direct code-level dependency with these option-handling changes.

Suggested reviewers

• bmadcode

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately describes the main changes: adding a directory option to the install command and updating the prompt logic to handle it.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is related to the changeset, explaining the new directory option feature and providing context for why it was added.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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[bmadcode]

Thanks for this one. I have a lot of in progress installer updates, once I merge them I will get this in. Sorry for the delays also on the command line install options - I will try to focus on that tomorrow or in the next week. But this is a good quick addition.

[bmadcode]

merged in another PR that had options for all install questions - thanks @thecontstruct