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What

A claude turn that only retries is now named stuck and killed inside the first-output window, instead of holding its delivery until the 45-minute run timeout.

Why

The watchdog counted any stdout or stderr byte, or any transcript growth, as life. A provider that only retries writes system events (init, api_retry) plus spawn-time warnings on stderr, so a hung turn looked alive for the whole run.

Change

• runClaude now uses stream-json (--output-format stream-json --verbose --include-partial-messages).
• In stream mode (default for claude), only non-system stream-json lines count as life. Stderr and transcript growth do not.
• A stall reads stuck: no model output after the first transcript row, or console locked when the console is locked.
• The reply is the result event's text (claudeResultText); output with no result event is returned as it arrived.

Verification

• Unit: first-output-watchdog.test.mjs and adapters.claude.test.mjs pass (46/46). New tests cover system-only streams, stderr at spawn, split chunks, locked console, missing transcript, and claudeResultText.
• Live walk, claude 2.1.314, stub provider that only retries, window 8 s: 3 of 3 runs rejected spawn_stalled at about 8.4 s, and the process tree was gone.
• Positive control, stub provider that streams a model event at once then holds 12 s, window 8 s: not killed, resolves the answer at 13.1 s.
• Mutant with the stream-mode default flipped to false: no stall named within 25 s.
• Full cli suite: 2,160 pass. Three failures (adapters.claude.environment bwrap case, mention-event-types.contract two cases) also fail on HEAD without this change.

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Walkthrough

Claude invocations now request stream-json output. The adapter extracts response text from result events or assistant text and filters error output. The first-output watchdog counts parsed, non-system stdout events as progress in stream mode.

Changes: Claude stream-json handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stream-mode watchdog progress rules cli/src/lib/first-output-watchdog.js, cli/__tests__/first-output-watchdog.test.mjs	The watchdog counts parsed, non-system stdout events as progress in stream mode. Tests cover event parsing, split output, transcript growth, stderr, and lock-probe outcomes.
Claude stream invocation and result parsing cli/src/lib/adapters/claude.js, cli/__tests__/adapters.claude.test.mjs, cli/__tests__/first-output-watchdog.test.mjs	Initial and recovery invocations request stream-json output. The adapter passes stream mode to the watchdog, extracts result-event or assistant text, and filters failure output. Tests cover result errors on initial and recovery turns.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ClaudeAdapter
  participant ClaudeCLI
  participant FirstOutputWatchdog
  ClaudeAdapter->>ClaudeCLI: Spawn with stream-json output flags
  ClaudeCLI-->>FirstOutputWatchdog: Send stdout event lines
  FirstOutputWatchdog->>FirstOutputWatchdog: Count non-system events as progress
  ClaudeCLI-->>ClaudeAdapter: Return stdout containing result event
  ClaudeAdapter->>ClaudeAdapter: Extract result text

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Possibly related issues

• Every failure degrades to silence, and silence is indistinguishable from a decision (8 instances, one defect) #1012: The watchdog reports a Claude turn with no model output as stalled.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 8f7d3

Claude turns that end in an error result are now treated as failures, and retry-only streams are stopped early. Two edge cases remain. An error result with no text may lose its diagnostic and get the wrong retry policy. A stream that ends before a complete message may lose partial text. Both are narrow and can be handled as follow-ups or fixed before merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: classify retry-only Claude turns as stuck during the first-output window.
Description check		The description directly explains the watchdog, stream-json, stall detection, result handling, and verification changes.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Head 034df3d (task-710-claude-stuck, PR #3108)

Verdict: PASS for the TASK-710 done-when. Scope is cli/ only.

Evidence, at this head:

• Live stall walk (claude 2.1.314, stub provider that only retries, window 8 s): 3 of 3 runs rejected spawn_stalled, named "stuck: no model output inside the window", killed at about 8.4 s, no child left.
• Positive control (stub streams a model event at once, then holds 12 s, window 8 s): not killed, resolves "the answer" at 13.1 s.
• Mutant with the stream-mode default flipped to false: no stall named within 25 s.
• Unit: watchdog and claude adapter suites 50/50 with the new tests. Full cli suite: 2164 pass, and the 3 failures (adapters.claude.environment bwrap case, mention-event-types contract x2) also fail on HEAD without this change.

Review round (independent, sonnet) found 6 items. Fixed in 034df3d: failure detail on non-zero exit now keeps the terminal error (claudeFailureTail); no-result turns return assistant text, never raw NDJSON; started is rechecked after the lock probe; missing transcript no longer suppresses the stream-mode stall.

Residual, not fixed here:

• If claude falls back to non-streaming, or a pre-model phase (hooks, MCP connect, a very large resumed context) runs past the window, no model line appears and the turn is killed. The 180 s default is the only margin.
• No end-to-end runClaude test with stream-json stall; the live walk is the evidence for that path.

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cli/__tests__/adapters.claude.test.mjs: 1

123-123: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Cover result-event extraction during recovery.

The existing assertion would fail if recovery returned the literal recovered\n, but it does not test result-event selection. An implementation that returns trimmed stdout instead of selecting a distinct result event would pass.

Emit assistant and result events with different text in the recovery stub, then assert that res.text equals the result event’s text.

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Review comment at @cli/__tests__/adapters.claude.test.mjs at line 123:
Update the Claude recovery test’s recovery stub to emit assistant and result
events with different text, then assert that res.text matches the result event’s
text to verify result-event selection rather than trimmed stdout.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @cli/src/lib/adapters/claude.js:
- Line 510: Update claudeResultText to inspect parsed result events and reject
those with is_error set before returning their reply text; keep this check
outside the JSON.parse catch so the error is not swallowed. Add regression
coverage for zero-exit runClaude failures on both initial and recovery turns.

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Review comments at @cli/__tests__/adapters.claude.test.mjs:
- Line 123: Update the Claude recovery test’s recovery stub to emit assistant
and result events with different text, then assert that res.text matches the
result event’s text to verify result-event selection rather than trimmed stdout.

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Head 8f7d340 (task-710-claude-stuck, PR #3108)

Verdict: PASS. The change since 034df3d is the is_error fix only.

• claudeResultText now raises adapterFailure when a result event has is_error: true, outside the parse guard. Both the first turn and the session-recovery retry pass their spawn credentials, so the text is scrubbed like the exit-path tail.
• Tests: first turn (exit 0, is_error) rejects with one call; recovery turn (already-in-use, then is_error) rejects with two calls; unit test on claudeResultText. Watchdog and claude adapter suites: 53/53.
• Not re-run: the live stall walk and positive control. The watchdog and stall path are unchanged since 034df3d, where both passed.

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Follow-up Comments

Keep stream text when a turn ends without a result event.

523-529: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Keep stream text when a turn ends without a result event.

When Claude exits with code 0 and emits no result event, claudeResultText returns an empty string unless a complete assistant message exists. Its fallback reads only assistant blocks, so stream_event text_delta content is dropped. Partial-message streaming sends those deltas before the complete message, so a turn that ends after deltas but before the complete message loses all of its text.

Use the stream_event text deltas as a fallback only when the assistant text is empty. This avoids duplicating text from completed messages. Add a regression test for stream-json output that contains only stream_event text deltas, with no result or assistant event. Assert that the helper returns the concatenated delta text.

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Review comment at @cli/src/lib/adapters/claude.js around lines 523 - 529:
Update claudeResultText to concatenate text from stream_event text_delta blocks
only when the existing assistant-text result is empty, avoiding duplication when
assistant text is present. Add a regression test for stream-json containing only
text_delta events and assert the helper returns their concatenated text.

Source: Coding guidelines

Retain text deltas in nonzero-exit failure details.

532-546: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Retain text deltas in nonzero-exit failure details.

Claude stream-json output can contain text in stream_event.event.delta.text. When the process exits nonzero before a result event, claudeFailureTail filters out that event. If stderr is empty, runClaude loses the failure detail. The classifier then can treat a quota failure as RUNTIME instead of opening the quota circuit. This requires a failure-tail fix, not the successful-turn claudeResultText fallback.

Suggested fix

   const result = [...events].reverse().find((event) => event?.type === 'result');
   if (String(result?.result ?? '').trim()) return String(result.result).trim();
-  return lines
+  const streamText = events
+    .filter((event) => event?.type === 'stream_event')
+    .map((event) => {
+      const nested = event.event;
+      return nested?.type === 'content_block_delta'
+        && nested.delta?.type === 'text_delta'
+        ? nested.delta.text
+        : '';
+    })
+    .filter((value) => typeof value === 'string')
+    .join('');
+  const otherText = lines
     .filter((_, i) => !['system', 'stream_event'].includes(events[i]?.type))
     .join('\n')
     .trim();
+  return [otherText, streamText].filter(Boolean).join('\n').trim();
 };

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Review comment at @cli/src/lib/adapters/claude.js around lines 532 - 546:
Update claudeFailureTail to retain text deltas from stream_event events when no
result text is available. Extract text from content_block_delta events with
text_delta payloads and include it alongside the existing non-system, non-stream
output, preserving the current result-text preference.

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Keep errors text when an error result has no result field.

523-524: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Keep errors text when an error result has no result field.

When an is_error result has no result text, reply is empty. adapterFailure then builds an error with the message claude. It has no status and no detail. classifySpawnFailure reads only that message, so the error falls through to the RUNTIME class. RUNTIME gets two quick retries and then opens the circuit. A rate-limit diagnostic in errors can therefore be lost. This depends on stream-json error results that carry errors and no result. The inspected sources do not establish that shape for stream-json. Use the errors text, then subtype, as the fallback message.

Suggested fix

-    if (events[i].is_error === true) throw adapterFailure('claude', reply, { credentials });
+    if (events[i].is_error === true) {
+      const errors = Array.isArray(events[i].errors) ? events[i].errors.map(String).join('\n').trim() : '';
+      throw adapterFailure('claude', reply || errors || String(events[i].subtype ?? ''), { credentials });
+    }

When result text is present, the behavior does not change. The new text still passes through adapterFailure, so credentials are still redacted.

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Review comment at @cli/src/lib/adapters/claude.js around lines 523 - 524:
Update the is_error handling around reply and adapterFailure so an empty result
message falls back first to the errors text and then to subtype. Preserve the
existing result-message behavior and pass the selected message through
adapterFailure with credentials.

Cover credential redaction on the iserror result paths.

180-185: Trivial · Security & Privacy · Quick win

Cover credential redaction on the is_error result paths.

Neither new test passes runtimeToken, and neither error result echoes a credential. Removing the credential argument from the is_error path would leave both tests passing. Add a test for each turn type. Each test should echo the seat token in the error result and assert that the rejection excludes it.

The initial-turn test at lines 180-185 does not pass runtimeToken. The second is_error test, at line 194 (529 overloaded), has the same gap. Both cover the initial turn and the recovery turn, so the same assertion should apply to each.

🧪 Suggested test change

-    const errorResult = '{"type":"result","subtype":"success","is_error":true,"result":"API Error: 500 upstream down"}\n';
+    const errorResult = `{"type":"result","subtype":"success","is_error":true,"result":"API Error: 500 upstream down ${SECRET}"}\n`;
     const { impl, calls } = makeSpawnImpl({ stdout: errorResult, code: 0 });
-    await expect(
-      claude.spawn('x', { environment: { model: 'test-model' }, sessionId: 'sid-err', _spawnImpl: impl }),
-    ).rejects.toThrow(/API Error: 500 upstream down/);
+    const err = await claude.spawn('x', { environment: { model: 'test-model' }, sessionId: 'sid-err', runtimeToken: SECRET, _spawnImpl: impl }).catch((e) => e);
+    expect(err.message).toContain('API Error: 500 upstream down');
+    expect(err.message).not.toContain(SECRET);

Define SECRET as a test constant in this file. Apply the same pattern to the recovery-turn test.

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Review comment at @cli/__tests__/adapters.claude.test.mjs around lines 180 -
185:
Update both `claude.spawn` tests for initial-turn and recovery-turn `is_error`
results to include the seat token in the error text, pass it as `runtimeToken`,
and assert the rejection message excludes the token while retaining the expected
error context.

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