@homespunapps/cli 1.6.55 → 1.6.57

package/dist/commands/work.js

@@ -273,6 +273,30 @@ function runChild(exec, stdin) {
             resolve({ code: 127, stdout, stderr: stderr + String(err) });
         });
         child.on("close", (code) => resolve({ code, stdout, stderr }));
+        // The envelope write races the child's exit, and losing that race used to
+        // kill the WORKER, not the task.
+        //
+        // A broken pipe surfaces on the STREAM, and an unhandled stream "error"
+        // event is fatal to the process. `child.on("error")` above does not cover
+        // it: that fires for a failed SPAWN, which with `shell: true` almost never
+        // happens because the shell itself starts fine. So a child that exits
+        // before reading stdin (a typo in `--exec`, where the shell prints
+        // "not found" and exits 127; or any script that simply does not read)
+        // raised an uncaught EPIPE and took down every other task the worker held.
+        //
+        // Measured 2026-08-09: it is the race, not the payload. A 500-byte write to
+        // a child running `exit 0` crashed a Node 24 process every time, and an
+        // agent-task envelope is comfortably larger than that. It reached CI as an
+        // intermittent "write EPIPE" in this file's own tests (issue #1616) while
+        // every assertion passed, which is why it read as flake rather than as the
+        // bug it is.
+        //
+        // Swallowed rather than reported, because it is a SYMPTOM and the real
+        // outcome is already on its way: the child's exit code and stderr arrive on
+        // "close" and decide ack versus nack. Reporting here as well would nack
+        // twice for one failure. This mirrors `report`'s own rule a few lines
+        // below, that one task's trouble must never cost the worker the others.
+        child.stdin.on("error", () => { });
         child.stdin.write(stdin);
         child.stdin.end();
     });

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@homespunapps/cli",
-  "version": "1.6.55",
+  "version": "1.6.57",
   "description": "Command-line client for the Homespun relay: deploy a real multi-user web app from your agent, then keep reading and writing its data.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "type": "module",
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
     "test:unit": "vitest run"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@homespunapps/core": "^1.6.55",
+    "@homespunapps/core": "^1.6.57",
     "qrcode-terminal": "^0.12.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {