Selectors

Several commands let you choose facts by fact selector.

A fact selector can be:

• a label
• a fact ID

This applies to commands such as:

• ic show
• ic edit
• ic rename
• ic remove

Include and exclude sets

ic resolve works slightly differently.

It supports:

• positional include labels
• --exclude labels

That lets you answer questions such as:

• “resolve only the homepage fact”
• “resolve everything except the chatty HTTP fact”

Missing selectors

If a fact selector does not resolve to a known indexed label or an existing fact file, Ironclad fails explicitly.

That is intentional. Ignoring a misspelled selector would make command results ambiguous and harder to trust.