# `chock compile`

Ask the user before running chock compile: what it takes and prints, from the engine at the pinned commit.

Low-level single-policy compile

> Ask the user before running any command on this page: each one changes how their agent or repository behaves.

## Syntax

This is the usage line argparse builds from this command's parser. Ask the user before running the commands below:

```text
chock compile [-h] [--targets [TARGETS ...]] [--agents [AGENTS ...]] [--repo REPO]
              [--policy-dir POLICY_DIR] [--output-root OUTPUT_ROOT]
              policy_id
```

## Arguments and options

The table lists every argument the parser declares, except `-h, --help`, written as argparse prints it. Default is the value the parser uses when you leave the option out. It is empty for a flag or when the parser sets none. Help for each argument is in the table on this page's HTML version and in Help as printed, as the engine words it.

| Argument | Default |
| --- | --- |
| `policy_id` (required) |  |
| `--targets [TARGETS ...]` | `['ambient-rule', 'git-hook', 'ci-gate', 'pre-tool-use', 'stop', 'managed-setting', 'gateway', 'mcp-gateway', 'agent-hooks']` |
| `--agents [AGENTS ...]` |  |
| `--repo REPO` | `.` |
| `--policy-dir POLICY_DIR` |  |
| `--output-root OUTPUT_ROOT` |  |

## Exit codes

- 2: argparse rejected the arguments, for example an option this command does not have. The site's tests run every command with an unknown option and check that it exits 2.
- Chock documents no other exit codes, and this page has no recorded run.

## Help as printed

This is what `--help` prints, from the same parser. The usage line names the program as the engine's parser does. Ask the user before running the commands below:

```text
usage: chock [-h] [--targets [TARGETS ...]] [--agents [AGENTS ...]] [--repo REPO]
             [--policy-dir POLICY_DIR] [--output-root OUTPUT_ROOT]
             policy_id
```

The full options are on this page's HTML version, as the engine prints them.


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