@blockrun/franklin 3.15.76 → 3.15.77

package/dist/agent/llm.d.ts

@@ -52,6 +52,23 @@ export interface LLMClientOptions {
     chain: Chain;
     debug?: boolean;
 }
+/**
+ * Replace Unicode box-drawing characters with their ASCII equivalents.
+ *
+ * Models occasionally emit U+2502 (`│`) and U+2500 (`─`) in markdown tables
+ * — sometimes mixed with ASCII `|` / `-` in the same table. No markdown
+ * renderer parses the mix, and the "table" displays as run-on text. Verified
+ * 2026-05-06 in a real session: opus-4.7 emitted a CRCL fundamentals table
+ * with `│` data rows and `|` separator, ignoring the system-prompt nudge
+ * added in 3.15.76. The unconditional swap fixes the rendering at the
+ * streaming boundary so every downstream surface (user terminal, conversation
+ * history, audit log) gets the corrected version.
+ *
+ * Trade: the rare case where a user genuinely wants box-drawing in output
+ * (e.g. asking what U+2502 looks like) loses fidelity. Acceptable — that
+ * case has no real-world frequency, the broken-tables case has weekly.
+ */
+export declare function sanitizeTableUnicode(s: string): string;
 /**
  * Extract the most human-readable message from an error body.
  * Some gateways wrap provider errors multiple times, e.g.

package/dist/agent/llm.js

@@ -28,6 +28,27 @@ function parseTimeoutEnv(name) {
     const parsed = raw ? Number.parseInt(raw, 10) : NaN;
     return Number.isFinite(parsed) && parsed >= 0 ? parsed : null;
 }
+/**
+ * Replace Unicode box-drawing characters with their ASCII equivalents.
+ *
+ * Models occasionally emit U+2502 (`│`) and U+2500 (`─`) in markdown tables
+ * — sometimes mixed with ASCII `|` / `-` in the same table. No markdown
+ * renderer parses the mix, and the "table" displays as run-on text. Verified
+ * 2026-05-06 in a real session: opus-4.7 emitted a CRCL fundamentals table
+ * with `│` data rows and `|` separator, ignoring the system-prompt nudge
+ * added in 3.15.76. The unconditional swap fixes the rendering at the
+ * streaming boundary so every downstream surface (user terminal, conversation
+ * history, audit log) gets the corrected version.
+ *
+ * Trade: the rare case where a user genuinely wants box-drawing in output
+ * (e.g. asking what U+2502 looks like) loses fidelity. Acceptable — that
+ * case has no real-world frequency, the broken-tables case has weekly.
+ */
+export function sanitizeTableUnicode(s) {
+    if (!s)
+        return s;
+    return s.replace(/│/g, '|').replace(/─/g, '-');
+}
 function getModelRequestTimeoutMs() {
     // 180s budget for *time-to-headers* (the gateway flushes SSE headers only
     // once the upstream model emits its first token). Reasoning-class models
@@ -545,6 +566,15 @@ export class ModelClient {
         const appendText = (text) => {
             if (!text)
                 return;
+            // Sanitize Unicode box-drawing chars to ASCII pipe/dash. 3.15.76's
+            // system-prompt nudge asked models not to emit U+2502 / U+2500 in
+            // tables — opus-4.7 ignored it 2026-05-06, shipped a CRCL analysis
+            // table where data rows used `│` and the separator used `|`. No
+            // markdown renderer parses that mix; the table displayed as run-on
+            // text. Normalize at the streaming boundary so the user, the model
+            // history (next turn the model sees its own corrected output), and
+            // the audit log all match.
+            text = sanitizeTableUnicode(text);
             currentText += text;
             if (textEmission.mode === 'undecided') {
                 const trimmed = currentText.trimStart();

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@blockrun/franklin",
-  "version": "3.15.76",
+  "version": "3.15.77",
   "description": "Franklin — The AI agent with a wallet. Spends USDC autonomously to get real work done. Pay per action, no subscriptions.",
   "type": "module",
   "exports": {