diff --git a/hate_crack/main.py b/hate_crack/main.py
index 2a14025..0dda836 100755
--- a/hate_crack/main.py
+++ b/hate_crack/main.py
@@ -4964,7 +4964,9 @@ def main():
         else:
             argv = argv_temp  # Fallback if subcommand not found
 
-    has_attack_subcommand = bool(argv) and argv[0] in _noninteractive.ATTACK_COMMANDS
+    has_attack_subcommand = any(
+        arg in _noninteractive.ATTACK_COMMANDS for arg in argv
+    )
     use_subcommand_parser = "hashview" in argv or has_attack_subcommand
     parser, hashview_parser = _build_parser(
         include_positional=not use_subcommand_parser,
@@ -5370,12 +5372,10 @@ def main():
                     f"Detected {duplicates} duplicate account(s) out of"
                     f" {total} total NetNTLM hashes."
                 )
-                dedup_choice = (
-                    input(
-                        "Would you like to ignore duplicate accounts"
-                        " (keep first occurrence only)? (Y) "
-                    )
-                    or "Y"
+                dedup_choice = _auto_input(
+                    "Would you like to ignore duplicate accounts"
+                    " (keep first occurrence only)? (Y) ",
+                    "Y",
                 )
                 if dedup_choice.upper() == "Y":
                     hcatHashFileOrig = hcatHashFile
diff --git a/hate_crack/noninteractive.py b/hate_crack/noninteractive.py
index 4c732e4..18a23bb 100644
--- a/hate_crack/noninteractive.py
+++ b/hate_crack/noninteractive.py
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ the same pattern ``attacks.py`` uses). See
 import os
 from typing import Any
 
+ATTACK_COMMANDS = ("quick", "dict", "brute", "topmask")
+
 
 def build_rule_chains(ctx: Any, rule_tokens: list[str] | None) -> list[str]:
     """Convert CLI ``--rules`` tokens into hashcat ``-r`` chain strings.
@@ -56,7 +58,7 @@ def run_noninteractive(ctx: Any, args: Any) -> int:
             print(f"Error: wordlist not found: {args.wordlist}")
             return 1
         try:
-            chains = build_rule_chains(ctx, args.rules)
+            chains = build_rule_chains(ctx, args.rule_files)
         except (FileNotFoundError, ValueError) as exc:
             print(f"Error: invalid --rules value: {exc}")
             return 1
@@ -88,9 +90,6 @@ def run_noninteractive(ctx: Any, args: Any) -> int:
     return 2
 
 
-ATTACK_COMMANDS = ("quick", "dict", "brute", "topmask")
-
-
 def add_attack_subparsers(subparsers) -> None:
     """Register the non-interactive attack subcommands on an argparse
     subparsers object (the same one used for ``hashview``).
@@ -112,6 +111,7 @@ def add_attack_subparsers(subparsers) -> None:
         "--rules",
         nargs="*",
         default=[],
+        dest="rule_files",
         metavar="RULE",
         help="Rule filename(s) from the rules directory. Chain with '+' "
         "(e.g. best64.rule+d3ad0ne.rule). Omit to run without rules.",
diff --git a/tests/test_noninteractive.py b/tests/test_noninteractive.py
index b25d5bf..9386df3 100644
--- a/tests/test_noninteractive.py
+++ b/tests/test_noninteractive.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ def test_dispatch_quick_calls_quick_dictionary(tmp_path):
     wl = tmp_path / "rockyou.txt"
     wl.write_text("password\n")
     ctx = _spy_ctx(tmp_path)
-    args = SimpleNamespace(command="quick", wordlist=str(wl), rules=["best64.rule"])
+    args = SimpleNamespace(command="quick", wordlist=str(wl), rule_files=["best64.rule"])
     code = ni.run_noninteractive(ctx, args)
     assert code == 0
     assert [c[0] for c in ctx.calls] == ["hcatQuickDictionary"]
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ def test_dispatch_quick_calls_quick_dictionary(tmp_path):
 def test_dispatch_quick_missing_wordlist_returns_1(tmp_path):
     (tmp_path / "rules").mkdir()
     ctx = _spy_ctx(tmp_path)
-    args = SimpleNamespace(command="quick", wordlist=str(tmp_path / "nope.txt"), rules=[])
+    args = SimpleNamespace(command="quick", wordlist=str(tmp_path / "nope.txt"), rule_files=[])
     assert ni.run_noninteractive(ctx, args) == 1
     assert ctx.calls == []
 
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def test_dispatch_quick_unknown_rule_returns_1(tmp_path):
     wl = tmp_path / "rockyou.txt"
     wl.write_text("password\n")
     ctx = _spy_ctx(tmp_path)
-    args = SimpleNamespace(command="quick", wordlist=str(wl), rules=["ghost.rule"])
+    args = SimpleNamespace(command="quick", wordlist=str(wl), rule_files=["ghost.rule"])
     assert ni.run_noninteractive(ctx, args) == 1
     assert ctx.calls == []
 
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ def test_dispatch_quick_multiple_rules_runs_each_as_separate_pass(tmp_path):
     wl.write_text("password\n")
     ctx = _spy_ctx(tmp_path)
     args = SimpleNamespace(
-        command="quick", wordlist=str(wl), rules=["best64.rule", "d3ad0ne.rule"]
+        command="quick", wordlist=str(wl), rule_files=["best64.rule", "d3ad0ne.rule"]
     )
     assert ni.run_noninteractive(ctx, args) == 0
     assert len(ctx.calls) == 2
@@ -215,3 +215,41 @@ def test_main_quick_bad_hashtype_errors(monkeypatch, tmp_path):
         monkeypatch, ["quick", str(hf), "notanumber", "--wordlist", str(wl)]
     )
     assert code != 0
+
+
+def test_main_quick_with_rules_dispatches(monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    hf = _make_ntlm_hashfile(tmp_path)
+    wl = tmp_path / "rockyou.txt"
+    wl.write_text("password\n")
+    rules_dir = tmp_path / "rules"
+    rules_dir.mkdir()
+    (rules_dir / "best64.rule").write_text(":\n")
+    monkeypatch.setattr(hc_main, "rulesDirectory", str(rules_dir))
+    calls = []
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        hc_main, "hcatQuickDictionary", lambda *a, **k: calls.append(a)
+    )
+    code = _run_main(
+        monkeypatch,
+        ["quick", str(hf), "1000", "--wordlist", str(wl), "--rules", "best64.rule"],
+    )
+    assert code == 0
+    assert len(calls) == 1
+    # the rule chain (4th positional arg) must reference best64.rule
+    assert "best64.rule" in calls[0][2]
+
+
+def test_main_debug_flag_before_subcommand(monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    hf = _make_ntlm_hashfile(tmp_path)
+    wl = tmp_path / "w.txt"
+    wl.write_text("x\n")
+    calls = []
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        hc_main, "hcatQuickDictionary", lambda *a, **k: calls.append(a)
+    )
+    code = _run_main(
+        monkeypatch,
+        ["--debug", "quick", str(hf), "1000", "--wordlist", str(wl)],
+    )
+    assert code == 0
+    assert len(calls) == 1