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fix(cli): reject checker spawn errors even with status zero - #748

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Problem and value

Fixes #745. Node can return ENOBUFS together with status 0 when checker output exceeds its buffer. Four CLI callers treated that as successful validation. A spawn error now takes precedence over status, so incomplete checker output cannot authorize publication or validation.

Stability impact

  • Shared CLI behavior: validate, deliver, migrate, and compare reject transport failures even when their recorded child status is zero. The check command already handles this case and is covered as a control.
  • Failure receipts and process exits remain nonzero while diagnostic evidence retains the child's actual status 0. Successful checker receipts and nonzero child statuses are unchanged. Deliver and compare preserve the previous artifact.

Tests run

  • Comparison base: dev 61425f56287b8a07c1ca94aa7a1ff717214d175e; source candidate 0451e12b, package candidate 626e721d.
  • node --test --test-name-pattern='checker ENOBUFS|output-limit failure' test/cli.test.mjs: 11 passed. Includes deterministic status-0 ENOBUFS tests for all five commands, prior-artifact preservation, and existing delivery failure-recording order.
  • Full bun run test completed with local Windows failures, including unavailable symlink permissions and WSL. Freshness/golden checks passed. This is not reported as a full-suite pass; final-head GitHub CI remains required. The candidate is synchronized to dev 70a6dfa1 at c27be8b5.
  • The repository has no check script. Its maintained freshness checks run as part of npm test (also invoked by bun run test).

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archify.zip rebuilt from combined tracked source with official Node 22 and the deterministic ZIP writer. No renderer or Viewer inputs changed, so existing diagram artifacts are unaffected.

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Reviewed base 61425f56287b8a07c1ca94aa7a1ff717214d175e and head 626e721d67ac394251fa53a37d36c19c852ccdee.

Checker spawn errors now take precedence over child status zero in validate, deliver, migrate, and compare. These errors produce a nonzero exit and output-limit diagnostic. Tests cover all five commands, including check, and verify artifact preservation for deliver and compare. Successful checker results remain unchanged.

The author reports 11 targeted tests passed, but does not identify the tested revision. No reused evidence at its original revision or observed CI at the checked head was supplied. The author reported full-suite Windows failures and said final-head CI remained required. This is an evidence snapshot, not live CI status.

Walkthrough

Compare, delivery, migration, and validation now treat checker process errors as failures, including when the checker reports status 0. Failure reports use status 1 when the checker status is falsy. A parameterized test covers validate, deliver, migrate, compare, and check with an ENOBUFS error and status 0. The test also checks artifact preservation for deliver and compare.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to ee135

Checker spawn errors no longer authorize a successful result, and the previously identified diagnostic-status issue is resolved. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Validation Evidence ❓ Inconclusive The code and test design cover the affected behavior, but the reported results are not pinned to the evaluated head. The reviewed range is base 603bbb41ce69015797c2d4045a143c3fabc39230 to head `ee13… Run the focused CLI regression selection at ee1358ccfc520a8cfe9ff45a58c7806e55e59427, including the five status-zero ENOBUFS cases and the existing output-limit and delivery-preservation cases. Then run the required final-head ZIP fresh…
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Check name Status Explanation
Contribution Scope ✅ Passed The PR meets the contribution-scope requirements. Its description states the user problem and intended outcome, identifies the focused checker-error behavior across the affected CLI callers, records p…
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Explanation

The code and test design cover the affected behavior, but the reported results are not pinned to the evaluated head. The reviewed range is base 603bbb41ce69015797c2d4045a143c3fabc39230 to head ee1358ccfc520a8cfe9ff45a58c7806e55e59427. The diff updates all four affected checker callers, leaves the existing check caller covered, and adds deterministic status-zero ENOBUFS tests for validate, deliver, migrate, compare, and check. The tests also check nonzero exits and preservation of existing artifacts where applicable. CONTRIBUTING.md requires focused evidence for this local CLI behavior and ZIP freshness for the changed runtime and archive. The PR body identifies focused and full-suite evidence at earlier revisions (0451e12b, 626e721d, and c27be8b5), while the final head adds ee1358cc, which removes runNode's status mutation and changes the archive. At c27be8b5, that mutation would change the diagnostic status from 0 to 1, so the new assertions for preserved status 0 cannot represent final-head results. The author correctly discloses local full-suite failures and that final-head CI remains required. Static inspection confirms that the committed archive contains the current archify/bin/archify.mjs, but it does not replace a final-head deterministic ZIP freshness check.

Resolution

Run the focused CLI regression selection at ee1358ccfc520a8cfe9ff45a58c7806e55e59427, including the five status-zero ENOBUFS cases and the existing output-limit and delivery-preservation cases. Then run the required final-head ZIP freshness check with the canonical Node 22 toolchain and record the result against this head. The PR author should update the evidence revisions and claims; maintainers should retain the final-head CI receipts.

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🟠 Major · Preserve the child status in checker diagnostics. · archify.mjs:2258

archify/bin/archify.mjs:2258
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the child status in checker diagnostics.

When a checker returns an error with status 0, runNode() changes the status to 1 before the new failure paths call checkerOutputLimitDiagnostics(). The diagnostic therefore reports evidence.status: 1, not the child's status 0. This also fails the supplied ENOBUFS regression assertion. Preserve the raw status for diagnostic evidence while keeping the CLI exit status nonzero.

The supplied test/cli.test.mjs regression asserts that the diagnostic retains status 0. As per path instructions: “For each actionable finding, identify the trigger or material evidence gap, its consequence, and the smallest useful correction.”

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Review comment at @archify/bin/archify.mjs at line 2258:
Update runNode so checkerOutputLimitDiagnostics receives the child’s original
status, preserving status 0 in diagnostic evidence; keep the CLI exit status
nonzero through a separate failure-status value or equivalent.

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- Line 2258: Update runNode so checkerOutputLimitDiagnostics receives the
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