diff --git a/src/auto_archiver/core/config.py b/src/auto_archiver/core/config.py
index f98d64d..245fdaf 100644
--- a/src/auto_archiver/core/config.py
+++ b/src/auto_archiver/core/config.py
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ flexible setup in various environments.
 import argparse
 from ruamel.yaml import YAML, CommentedMap, add_representer
 
+from loguru import logger
+
 from copy import deepcopy
 from .module import MODULE_TYPES
 
@@ -30,8 +32,22 @@ logging:
 """)
 # note: 'logging' is explicitly added above in order to better format the config file
 
+class DefaultValidatingParser(argparse.ArgumentParser):
+    def parse_known_args(self, args=None, namespace=None):
+        for action in self._actions:
+            if not namespace or action.dest not in namespace:
+                if action.default is not None:
+                    try:
+                        self._check_value(action, action.default)
+                    except argparse.ArgumentError as e:
+                        logger.error(f"You have an invalid setting in your configuration file ({action.dest}):")
+                        logger.error(e)
+                        exit()
 
-def to_dot_notation(yaml_conf: CommentedMap | dict) -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
+        return super().parse_known_args(args, namespace)
+
+
+def to_dot_notation(yaml_conf: CommentedMap | dict) -> dict:
     dotdict = {}
 
     def process_subdict(subdict, prefix=""):
diff --git a/src/auto_archiver/core/orchestrator.py b/src/auto_archiver/core/orchestrator.py
index bc897ef..16cf9c4 100644
--- a/src/auto_archiver/core/orchestrator.py
+++ b/src/auto_archiver/core/orchestrator.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from .context import ArchivingContext
 
 from .metadata import Metadata
 from ..version import __version__
-from .config import read_yaml, store_yaml, to_dot_notation, merge_dicts, EMPTY_CONFIG
+from .config import read_yaml, store_yaml, to_dot_notation, merge_dicts, EMPTY_CONFIG, DefaultValidatingParser
 from .module import available_modules, LazyBaseModule, MODULE_TYPES, get_module
 from . import validators
 from .module import BaseModule
@@ -56,12 +56,12 @@ class ArchivingOrchestrator:
         parser.add_argument('--mode', action='store', dest='mode', type=str, choices=['simple', 'full'], help='the mode to run the archiver in', default='simple')
         # override the default 'help' so we can inject all the configs and show those
         parser.add_argument('-h', '--help', action='store_true', dest='help', help='show this help message and exit')
-        parser.add_argument('-s', '--store', dest='store', default=True, help='Store the created config in the config file', action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction)
+        parser.add_argument('-s', '--store', dest='store', default=False, help='Store the created config in the config file', action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction)
 
         self.basic_parser = parser
 
     def setup_complete_parser(self, basic_config: dict, yaml_config: dict, unused_args: list[str]) -> None:
-        parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        parser = DefaultValidatingParser(
             add_help=False,
         )
         self.add_additional_args(parser)
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ class ArchivingOrchestrator:
                 # this module has no configs, don't show anything in the help
                 # (TODO: do we want to show something about this module though, like a description?)
                 continue
+
             group = parser.add_argument_group(module.display_name or module.name, f"{module.description[:100]}...")
 
             for name, kwargs in module.configs.items():
@@ -157,6 +158,10 @@ class ArchivingOrchestrator:
                 do_not_store = kwargs.pop('do_not_store', False)
                 if do_not_store:
                     self._do_not_store_keys.append((module.name, name))
+                
+                if not kwargs.get('metavar', None):
+                    # make a nicer metavar, metavar is what's used in the help, e.g. --cli_feeder.urls [METAVAR]
+                    kwargs['metavar'] = name.upper()
 
                 kwargs.pop('cli_set', None)
                 should_store = kwargs.pop('should_store', False)
@@ -248,8 +253,6 @@ class ArchivingOrchestrator:
         if basic_config.help:
             self.show_help()
 
-        logger.info(f"======== Welcome to the AUTO ARCHIVER ({__version__}) ==========")
-
         # load the config file
         yaml_config = {}
 
@@ -257,8 +260,11 @@ class ArchivingOrchestrator:
             logger.error(f"The configuration file {basic_config.config_file} was  not found. Make sure the file exists and try again, or run without the --config file to use the default settings.")
             exit()
 
+
         yaml_config = read_yaml(basic_config.config_file)
         self.setup_complete_parser(basic_config, yaml_config, unused_args)
+
+        logger.info(f"======== Welcome to the AUTO ARCHIVER ({__version__}) ==========")
         self.install_modules()
 
         # log out the modules that were loaded
diff --git a/src/auto_archiver/modules/cli_feeder/__manifest__.py b/src/auto_archiver/modules/cli_feeder/__manifest__.py
index 01ef2e7..fe784c3 100644
--- a/src/auto_archiver/modules/cli_feeder/__manifest__.py
+++ b/src/auto_archiver/modules/cli_feeder/__manifest__.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
             "nargs": "+",
             "required": True,
             "do_not_store": True,
+            "metavar": "INPUT URLS",
         },
     },
     "description": """
diff --git a/src/auto_archiver/modules/wayback_enricher/__manifest__.py b/src/auto_archiver/modules/wayback_enricher/__manifest__.py
index b3af284..bff10af 100644
--- a/src/auto_archiver/modules/wayback_enricher/__manifest__.py
+++ b/src/auto_archiver/modules/wayback_enricher/__manifest__.py
@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@
     "external_dependencies": {
         "python": ["loguru", "requests"],
     },
+    "entry_point": "wayback_enricher::WaybackExtractorEnricher",
     "configs": {
         "timeout": {"default": 15, "help": "seconds to wait for successful archive confirmation from wayback, if more than this passes the result contains the job_id so the status can later be checked manually."},
         "if_not_archived_within": {"default": None, "help": "only tell wayback to archive if no archive is available before the number of seconds specified, use None to ignore this option. For more information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nsv52MvSjbLb2PCpHlat0gkzw0EvtSgpKHu4mk0MnrA"},
-        "key": {"default": None, "help": "wayback API key. to get credentials visit https://archive.org/account/s3.php"},
-        "secret": {"default": None, "help": "wayback API secret. to get credentials visit https://archive.org/account/s3.php"},
+        "key": {"default": None, "required": True, "help": "wayback API key. to get credentials visit https://archive.org/account/s3.php"},
+        "secret": {"default": None, "required": True, "help": "wayback API secret. to get credentials visit https://archive.org/account/s3.php"},
         "proxy_http": {"default": None, "help": "http proxy to use for wayback requests, eg http://proxy-user:password@proxy-ip:port"},
         "proxy_https": {"default": None, "help": "https proxy to use for wayback requests, eg https://proxy-user:password@proxy-ip:port"},
     },