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I believe that is true, and I don't like it

I think it's useful for Pants-built-in tools, but not plugin author tools.

Maybe we should dilenate between the two?

We could just handle it not being specified gracefully, and elide that part of the help message.

Rather than deciding to have two classes of tools

Same for the default resource please :sweat_smile:

Or how would we provide a default lockfile?

I don't. I'm in my own repo there is no default because I have a lockfile :sweat_smile: