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fix: tool commands no longer lose a big answer on a pipe - #1687
tool run --json printed its answer with console.log, and the CLI then called process.exit(). What the pipe couldn't take yet sat in a buffer that exit threw away, so a reader that fell behind got cut-off JSON and exit 0. tool list --json is 67 KB and could be cut the same way, as could a workspace tool's text output, which has no cap.
tool run, tool list --json, tool context and tool schema now write the whole answer with writeSync, retrying on EAGAIN, before the command returns. The bytes don't change. The docs now say to read stdout while the command runs, because a reader that never drains now blocks the CLI, as it would cat.
A reader that closes early, like | head, still exits 0 with nothing on stderr. A write that really fails, like a full disk, now exits 1, where it used to exit 0 with the answer lost.
How did you verify your code works?
New tests with a delayed reader. The reader waits for the CLI to exit, up to 20 s, before reading. Without the fix, tool run delivered 65,536 bytes and tool list 65,464. With it, both arrive whole.
New tests for exit codes. A reader that leaves early exits 0, and the test fails without the EPIPE branch. A write that fails exits 1 with the error on stderr. An errored result still exits 1 with the reader gone.
Text mode with a 300 KB output (runner patched temporarily to add it), reader 20 s late: 65,536 bytes before, all 300,009 now.
Compiled binary, 354,156-byte answer piped to wc -c. 0.12.9 delivered 229,376 bytes; this branch delivered all of it.
Claude Code's plugin, /lineage on an 11 MB manifest. 120 tries across answers of 49 KB to 495 KB: 0 failed. On 0.12.9, answers of 354 KB and 495 KB failed 7 of 27 tries.
Real edits on the 354 KB model. All 9 got the plugin's impact note. On 0.12.9, 3 of 10 lost it.
Gates.test/altimate/tool-cli/cli.test.ts: 17 pass. Typecheck and Marker Guard pass.
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Large tool command outputs, including JSON output, are now delivered completely to readers of the output stream.
A reader closing the output stream early no longer causes an otherwise successful command to fail. Genuine output write failures still result in a nonzero exit status.
Documentation
Clarified that commands may block if output exceeds pipe capacity before it is read. Documented how early closures and write failures affect exit status.
`console.log` left what the pipe couldn't take in a buffer that `process.exit()` threw away: a slow reader got 64 KiB of a 354 KB answer. The answer is now written whole before the command returns.
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…rly isn't an error
`tool list --json` is over 64 KiB and could be cut the same way. Stopping at EPIPE keeps `| head` exiting 0, as it did before the whole-answer write.
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Tool commands now write stdout through a synchronous writer that retries EAGAIN, returns on EPIPE, and rethrows other errors. POSIX tests cover large output and pipe-reader behavior. Documentation describes how pipe reads and write failures affect command completion and exit status.
tool list, tool context, tool schema, and successful tool run output use writeAll with a trailing newline. The writer retries EAGAIN, returns on EPIPE, and rethrows other errors.
Validate and document pipe behavior packages/opencode/test/altimate/tool-cli/cli.test.ts, docs/docs/usage/tool.md
POSIX tests check large output with delayed readers, early reader closure, command errors, and a closed stdout descriptor. Documentation describes how pipe reads and write failures affect command completion and exit status.
This change makes the tool commands write their full output when a pipe reader is slow, and an early-closing reader no longer causes an error. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after review.
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[#1686] tool run --json writes the complete output before returning and retries EAGAIN. A delayed-reader regression test checks that large lineage JSON arrives intact. Tests also cover early pipe …
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[#1686] The write helper, regression tests, and documentation address pipe truncation. The other tool commands use the same output handling to prevent the same failure.
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C1.tool run (with or without --json), tool list --json, tool context and tool schema put the whole answer on stdout before the command returns, however slowly the reader drains the pipe. Every such result, in-process or through the daemon, goes through the one write in src/cli/cmd/tool.ts. An error result without --json goes to stderr as before.
C2. A reader that closes the pipe early causes no error: nothing on stderr, and the exit code is what it would have been had the reader read everything.
C3. A write error other than EAGAIN and EPIPE is not swallowed: the command exits non-zero.
C4. The bytes those commands write don't change, and other commands don't change at all.
Accepted residuals
R1. The CLI now waits as long as its reader does. A reader that holds the pipe open without reading holds the CLI until the caller's timeout. Before, it exited and lost data.
R2. Other commands that print before the exit in src/index.ts, such as db --format json and trajectory, keep the same exposure, and so does tool list without --json. They are for a later change.
R3.EAGAIN is retried every 2 ms, blocking the event loop. Nothing else runs at that point.
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99-114: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Test a non-EPIPE write failure.
The early-reader test checks only the successful EPIPE outcome. It would also pass if writeAll swallowed every write error. Add a test that induces a different stdout write error and checks for exit code 1.
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Review comment at @packages/opencode/test/altimate/tool-cli/cli.test.ts around
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Add a test alongside “a reader that leaves early is not an error” that causes a
stdout write failure other than EPIPE and verifies the CLI exits with code 1.
Ensure the failure reaches the writeAll error-handling path rather than being
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- Around line 99-114: Add a test alongside “a reader that leaves early is not an
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Minor · Start draining before waiting for CLI exit. · cli.test.ts:44-60
packages/opencode/test/altimate/tool-cli/cli.test.ts:44-60 Minor · Performance & Scalability · Quick win
Start draining before waiting for CLI exit.
On a 64 KiB pipe, both passing tests wait through all 200 sleeps because writeAll cannot finish until the reader drains the pipe. This adds about 40 seconds to the sequential test suite. Use synchronization that exercises backpressure without waiting for CLI exit.
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Review comment at @packages/opencode/test/altimate/tool-cli/cli.test.ts around
lines 44 - 60:
Update `lateReader` so it begins draining `out.json` before the CLI exits, while
still exercising pipe backpressure. Replace the exit-gated wait that causes the
reader to sleep through the timeout with synchronization that allows the CLI’s
write to complete without waiting for process exit.
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- Around line 44-60: Update `lateReader` so it begins draining `out.json` before
the CLI exits, while still exercising pipe backpressure. Replace the exit-gated
wait that causes the reader to sleep through the timeout with synchronization
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On CodeRabbit's note about testing a write failure other than EPIPE: checked by hand on the built binary, > /dev/full exits 1 with the error on stderr. Not adding a test here: it would rely on a Linux-only file to cover one throw.
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Approved. The PR does what it claims, and I confirmed it on macOS, which the author had not run. There are no critical or major findings.
What I ran (macOS, source run unless noted):
Slow reader: a 228,691-byte tool run --json answer with a reader 25 s late delivered 65,536 bytes at base and all of it at head.
Tests: in cli.test.ts, the 3 new tests pass at head. The two late-reader tests fail on base source, and the early-close test fails without the EPIPE branch. Removing the EAGAIN retry fails both late-reader tests, so that branch is reached in the real CLI.
Existing failures: 2 tests in that file fail at both base and head (the DuckDB daemon test and the sql_execute parity test). My install used --ignore-scripts, and duckdb did not load there. These tests are unrelated to this change.
Full disk: on a real full volume, head exits 1 with ENOSPC on stderr; base exits 0 with 1 byte written.
Other stdout types: the real CLI delivered the whole answer on a pty, a Node spawn socket and the daemon path. A small compiled binary containing this exact helper took 419 forced EAGAIN retries and delivered everything, including through the npm wrapper.
Early close: a reader that leaves exits 0 with empty stderr; an errored result with the reader gone still exits 1.
Unchanged output:tool list --json is byte-identical to base, and tool run --json parses to equal JSON.
Windows was not run. Bun's error map on its main branch sends the broken-pipe errors to EPIPE, but I only read that.
Minors, none blocking:
writeAll comment wrong for workspace tools, whose text output can still be cut: pre-existing path, and --json is fixed.
A reader that never drains hangs the CLI, undocumented: safe to do in a follow-up.
lateReader asserts cat's exit status and never kills a hung CLI: test-only.
tool list --json size assertion has 2.2 KB of margin: test-only.
No test for exit 1 on a failed write, or for an errored result with the reader gone: test-only.
tool context --json and tool schema still use console.log (details in the PR comment): edge input.
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Minor: this comment is wrong for workspace tools, and their text output can still be cut.
Built-in tools are capped (51 KB measured), but runner.ts:75-79 joins workspace tool content with no cap, and that includes workspace_skill. Without --json, console.log(result.output) followed by process.exit() still loses the tail, with exit 0.
I patched the runner to add 300 KB to output, then ran on macOS:
text mode to a file: 300,009 bytes
text mode to a pipe with a reader 22 s late: 65,536 bytes
--json on the same pipe: 300,121 bytes
Fix: correct the comment, and send the text paths of tool run through writeAll.
Not a blocker: the text path is pre-existing, and the --json claim holds.
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Fixed in 3e54dbab08. The comment is corrected, and text-mode tool run now goes through writeAll. Checked with your patch (300 KB added to output) on Linux, reader 20 s late: 65,536 bytes on the previous head, all 300,009 now. An error result without --json still goes to stderr through console.error.
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Minor: a reader that never drains now hangs the CLI, and the docs don't say so.
A caller that waits for exit before reading (Popen.wait(), then read) used to get cut-off JSON. On an answer larger than the pipe holds, it now deadlocks.
Blocking is the right behaviour, so please keep the loop. cat does the same, and a write deadline would bring the cut-off back. On a stalled reader SIGINT and SIGTERM each stopped the CLI in under 0.05 s, and the runner and connections are already closed by then.
Fix: add a line to docs/docs/usage/tool.md: read stdout while the command runs.
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Minor: this is the exit status of cat, not of the CLI, and a hung CLI is never killed.
A pipeline's status is its last command, so expect(await lateReader(...)).toBe(0) at lines 87 and 95 says nothing about the CLI. If the CLI hangs, the 60 s test timeout fails the test but leaves proc running.
Fix: record the CLI's $? in a file, as the early-close test does, and kill proc in a finally.
The 20 s wait is fine. It adds about 40 s to this file (26 s to 69 s here), and you've already explained why a fixed delay gives false passes.
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Fixed in 3e54dbab08. The test now reads the CLI's own $? from a file, and inShell kills the process in a finally, with a 50 s spawn timeout for a run that never ends. The temp folders these tests make are removed too. 17 pass.
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Minor: this assertion has only 2.2 KB of margin.
The output is 67,755 bytes today, against a bound of 65,536. An unrelated PR that trims tool descriptions fails this test even though the write is fine.
Fix: compare with the same output sent to a file, or assert the parsed tool count and that the output ends in ]\n.
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Minor: two claimed exit codes have no test.
Nothing pins "a write that really fails exits 1", or that process.exitCode = 1 survives the EPIPE return when the tool result is an error. Both work today: I got exit 1 from each on macOS, including a real ENOSPC on a full ramdisk.
Cheap tests that work on Linux and macOS:
tool run ... --json 1</dev/null: exit 1, and stderr has EBADF
tool run nope --args '{}' --json | true: CLI status 1, captured with this test's code.txt pattern
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Added in 3e54dbab08, using your two cases. tool list --json 1</dev/null exits 1 with EBADF on stderr, and fails on main's tool.ts. tool run nope --args '{}' --json | true exits 1. It passes on main too, so it's a guard.
Findings from the review of 01b3b8d that can't be tagged to a diff line, plus the nits. None of them block.
Minor: tool context --json and tool schema still use console.log (packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/tool.ts:162, :184)
They are small today: 6.5 KB for tool context --json in an unlinked project, and 1.9 KB for the dbt_lineage schema. A linked workspace adds a line per skill and per tool to tool context, with no cap, and a workspace tool's schema is also outside this CLI's control. Above what the pipe holds, these lose data the same way. Swapping in writeAll is a one-line change for each.
Nits
docs/docs/usage/tool.md:46 doesn't say what happens when a reader leaves (exit 0) or a write fails (exit 1).
A failed write prints Unexpected error from the fallback in src/index.ts, without saying that stdout was being written. The ENOSPC line under it is still clear.
The new tests add three mkdtemp calls with no cleanup, like the rest of the file, and two of those directories hold a manifest of a few hundred KB.
db --format json (src/cli/cmd/db.ts:34), trajectory (src/cli/cmd/trajectory.ts:56) and other commands that print before the process.exit() at src/index.ts:332 keep the same exposure. A flush at that exit, or moving writeAll to a shared helper, would cover them in a later PR.
No pipeline test runs the daemon path, because cliEnv sets ALTIMATE_TOOL_DAEMON=0. It worked when I ran it by hand.
Covers text-mode `tool run` (a workspace tool's output has no cap), `tool context` and `tool schema`. Docs say to read stdout while the command runs. Tests now check the CLI's own exit code, cover failed writes and clean up.
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fix: tool run --json and tool list --json no longer lose a big answer on a pipe
fix: tool commands no longer lose a big answer on a pipe
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Approved at b4d6cff. I checked the two commits added since my last review directly; this was not a full panel re-run. The last one only moves the docs paragraph.
All six minors from the last review are addressed: the docs now say to read stdout while the command runs, text output and tool context and tool schema go through writeAll, the comment is corrected, and the tests now check the CLI's own exit code, kill a hung CLI, drop the tight size check and cover both exit codes.
What I ran on macOS: cli.test.ts has 15 pass and 2 fail. The 2 are the same DuckDB daemon and sql_execute parity tests as before, because duckdb did not load in my install, which skips setup scripts. Marker Guard passes. A real oversized text answer through a slow pipe was not run; it uses the same writeAll as --json.
No open findings block this. Windows and the full compiled CLI remain unrun.
Release v0.12.10: workspace rules state lives outside the project (#1669), a path-linked project can gain its git remote and learn status says why rules are off (#1670), tool commands deliver a large answer whole on a pipe (#1687), and a failed session title is retried on later turns and reported (#1688). Adds the changelog entry, the release adversarial tests, a 60 s stall bound on tool output, and the requested model in title failure reports.
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tool run --jsonprinted its answer withconsole.log, and the CLI then calledprocess.exit(). What the pipe couldn't take yet sat in a buffer that exit threw away, so a reader that fell behind got cut-off JSON and exit 0.tool list --jsonis 67 KB and could be cut the same way, as could a workspace tool's text output, which has no cap.tool run,tool list --json,tool contextandtool schemanow write the whole answer withwriteSync, retrying onEAGAIN, before the command returns. The bytes don't change. The docs now say to read stdout while the command runs, because a reader that never drains now blocks the CLI, as it wouldcat.A reader that closes early, like
| head, still exits 0 with nothing on stderr. A write that really fails, like a full disk, now exits 1, where it used to exit 0 with the answer lost.How did you verify your code works?
tool rundelivered 65,536 bytes andtool list65,464. With it, both arrive whole.EPIPEbranch. A write that fails exits 1 with the error on stderr. An errored result still exits 1 with the reader gone.wc -c. 0.12.9 delivered 229,376 bytes; this branch delivered all of it./lineageon an 11 MB manifest. 120 tries across answers of 49 KB to 495 KB: 0 failed. On 0.12.9, answers of 354 KB and 495 KB failed 7 of 27 tries.test/altimate/tool-cli/cli.test.ts: 17 pass. Typecheck and Marker Guard pass.Run here on Linux. A reviewer confirmed the earlier head on macOS. Not run on Windows.
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