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feat(cli): warn of non-existent stacks in cdk destroy - #984

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Fixes aws/aws-cdk#32836, aws/aws-cdk#32545, aws/aws-cdk#27179, aws/aws-cdk#22240

Reason for this change

This PR implements the feature that warns users when non-existent stacks are specified in cdk destroy.

  • It does not display the message Are you sure you want to delete: if there is no matching stack.
  • Even if the stack does not exist, cdk destroy will not fail, it will just print a warning.

For examples (that have Stacka, StackA, StackX):

destroy2
destroy3
destroy4

Difference from previous PR

The previous PR was reverted in aws/aws-cdk#32839 due to a regression with only nested stage stacks. So this version addresses that regression with comprehensive tests.

Description of changes

The original implementation added warnings for non-existent stacks in cdk destroy, but it failed when applications had only nested stage stacks (no top-level stacks). This happened because the code used allTopLevel: true, which only searched for stacks directly under the App, ignoring stacks within nested Stages.

Fixed the regression by changing suggestStacks method to use DefaultSelection.AllStacks instead of allTopLevel: true, ensuring the warning feature works for all stack configurations (top-level only, nested only, or both). Added regression tests to verify the fix for the nested stage scenario.

  private async suggestStacks(props: {
    selector: StackSelector;
    stacks: StackCollection;
    exclusively?: boolean;
  }) {
    const assembly = await this.assembly();
    const selectorWithoutPatterns: StackSelector = {
-      ...props.selector,
-      allTopLevel: true,
      patterns: [],
    };
    const stacksWithoutPatterns = await assembly.selectStacks(selectorWithoutPatterns, {
      extend: props.exclusively ? ExtendedStackSelection.None : ExtendedStackSelection.Downstream,
-      defaultBehavior: DefaultSelection.OnlySingle,
+      defaultBehavior: DefaultSelection.AllStacks,
    });

Additional Information

When running cdk destroy --all or cdk deploy --all against a configuration with no top-level stacks (nested stages only), the following error occurs.

However, this behavior existed before this PR and is unrelated to the changes made here. Since it is outside the scope of this PR, no fix has been implemented for this behavior.

FYI: I have submitted an issue and a PR about this behavior.

const app = new cdk.App();

new MyStage(app, 'MyStage'); // This has CdkSampleStack
> cdk deploy
Since this app includes more than a single stack, specify which stacks to use (wildcards are supported) or specify `--all`
Stacks: MyStage/CdkSampleStack

> cdk deploy --all
...
No stack found in the main cloud assembly. Use "list" to print manifest

> cdk destroy --all
...
No stack found in the main cloud assembly. Use "list" to print manifest

By submitting this pull request, I confirm that my contribution is made under the terms of the Apache-2.0 license

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The `refactor` command only operates on the stacks that are relevant for
the target CDK application. However, it gets all the templates of the
deployed stacks before filtering them, which is wasteful.

Invert the order, so that the filtering happens before getting the
templates.

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mrgrain commented Jun 23, 2026

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@go-to-k I am looking to get this in soon (hence the rebase), but first want to change destroy to use toolkit-lib code internally, so we can avoid duplicate and complicated code.

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mrgrain commented Aug 24, 2026

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:shipit:

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