feat(SLAC-6): Make a alias for featurerequest command, "fr"

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Implementation Specification: SLAC-6 — Add "fr" Alias for featurerequest Command

Summary

This ticket adds fr as a shorthand alias for the existing featurerequest command in the SlackONOS bot. Users will be able to type fr in Slack or Discord to invoke the same feature request functionality currently available via the full featurerequest command. This is a low-risk, additive change that follows the established pattern for command registration in add-handlers.js.

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Acceptance Criteria

• Typing fr in a Slack channel triggers the same behavior as typing featurerequest
• Typing fr in a Discord channel triggers the same behavior as typing featurerequest
• The fr alias accepts the same arguments/parameters as featurerequest and produces identical output
• The existing featurerequest command continues to work unchanged
• Help text is updated to indicate that fr is an alias for featurerequest (or vice versa)
• Any existing tests for featurerequest pass without modification
• A new test confirms that fr resolves to the same handler as featurerequest

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Technical Approach

Pattern to Follow

The codebase registers commands by mapping command strings to handler functions in lib/add-handlers.js. Adding an alias means registering an additional command string that points to the same existing handler function — no new logic is required.

Step-by-Step Implementation

1. Locate the existing featurerequest registration in lib/add-handlers.js

Find the line(s) where featurerequest is registered. It will look something like:

// Current (example)
addHandler('featurerequest', handleFeatureRequest);

2. Register the alias immediately adjacent to the existing registration

// Updated
addHandler('featurerequest', handleFeatureRequest);
addHandler('fr', handleFeatureRequest);  // alias for featurerequest

Placing the alias directly below the primary command makes the relationship self-documenting.

3. Update help text in templates/help/helpText.txt

Amend the existing featurerequest entry to surface the alias. Preferred format (match existing style in the file):

featurerequest (alias: fr) - <existing description here>

Do not add a separate standalone entry for fr — this avoids cluttering the help output.

4. No changes needed in lib/command-handlers.js

The handler function itself (handleFeatureRequest or equivalent) requires zero modification. The alias is purely a routing concern.

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Files Likely Affected

File	Change Required
lib/add-handlers.js	Add one line: addHandler('fr', handleFeatureRequest) adjacent to the existing featurerequest registration
templates/help/helpText.txt	Append (alias: fr) to the featurerequest help entry
test/add-handlers.test.mjs (or equivalent)	Add a test asserting that the fr command resolves to the same handler as featurerequest

Note: If no test file exists for add-handlers.js, add the test to whichever test file covers command routing or integration behavior (e.g., test/command-handlers.test.mjs).

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Edge Cases & Risks

• Collision with an existing fr command: Before adding the alias, confirm that fr is not already registered as a command or alias for something else in add-handlers.js. A grep for 'fr' in that file is sufficient.
• Case sensitivity: Verify how the platform handlers in slack.js and discord.js normalize command strings before dispatch (e.g., .toLowerCase()). If normalization is already applied uniformly, fr and FR will both work. If not, document the expected casing.
• Help text duplication: Avoid adding fr as a fully independent help entry — it should reference featurerequest to prevent user confusion about which is canonical.
• Telemetry: If telemetry.js tracks command names as string literals, both featurerequest and fr will be tracked separately. This is acceptable behavior but worth noting — no code change needed unless unified tracking is desired (out of scope here).

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Out of Scope

• Changing any behavior of the featurerequest command itself
• Renaming featurerequest to fr (the full name must remain the primary, canonical command)
• Adding aliases for any other commands
• Updating external documentation (README, wikis) beyond the in-bot help text
• Any UI changes to the web setup wizard (public/setup/)

Implementation Summary

Implemented SLAC-6: wrote 1 file(s)

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Pull request overview

Adds documentation for an fr alias intended to act as shorthand for the existing featurerequest command.

Changes:

• Updates the user help text to display fr as an alias for featurerequest.

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This help entry now advertises fr as an alias, but the command registry does not appear to register fr anywhere (e.g., index.js registers featurerequest with aliases ['feuturerequest'] only). As-is, users will see fr in help but the bot won’t recognize it. Either add fr to the featurerequest aliases/registry (and add/update a test to cover the alias), or revert this help-text change until the alias is implemented. Also consider updating the admin help text for consistency if it’s user-facing.