@mjasnikovs/pi-task 0.13.9 → 0.13.10

package/dist/task/child-runner.js

@@ -91,7 +91,15 @@ export async function runPhaseChild(deps, name, tools, prompt) {
             throw new Error(`${name} child failed: ${r.stderr || '(no stderr)'}`);
         }
         if (r.text.trim().length === 0) {
-            throw new Error(`${name} child produced no output${r.stderr ? ' — stderr: ' + r.stderr : ''}`);
+            // An empty completion (exit 0, no assistant text, no stderr) is almost
+            // always transient — a model/API error swallowed inside --mode json,
+            // not a repeatable mistake — so re-spawn rather than fail the phase.
+            // There's nothing to correct, so we carry no hint. Reuses the leak
+            // retry budget: MAX_LEAK_RETRIES+1 attempts, then surface the error.
+            if (attempt === MAX_LEAK_RETRIES) {
+                throw new Error(`${name} child produced no output${r.stderr ? ' — stderr: ' + r.stderr : ''}`);
+            }
+            continue;
         }
         if (r.leakedToolCall) {
             if (attempt === MAX_LEAK_RETRIES) {
@@ -154,7 +162,15 @@ export async function runPhaseWithLoopGuard(deps, name, tools, buildPrompt) {
             throw new Error(`${name} child failed: ${r.stderr || '(no stderr)'}`);
         }
         if (r.text.trim().length === 0) {
-            throw new Error(`${name} child produced no output${r.stderr ? ' — stderr: ' + r.stderr : ''}`);
+            // An empty completion (exit 0, no assistant text, no stderr) is almost
+            // always transient — a model/API error swallowed inside --mode json,
+            // not a repeatable mistake — so re-spawn rather than fail the phase.
+            // Nothing to correct, so leave nextHint as-is. Reuses the strike
+            // budget shared with loop/leak restarts: MAX_LOOP_RESTARTS+1 attempts.
+            if (strike === MAX_LOOP_RESTARTS) {
+                throw new Error(`${name} child produced no output${r.stderr ? ' — stderr: ' + r.stderr : ''}`);
+            }
+            continue;
         }
         if (r.leakedToolCall) {
             if (strike === MAX_LOOP_RESTARTS) {

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
     "name": "@mjasnikovs/pi-task",
-    "version": "0.13.9",
+    "version": "0.13.10",
     "description": "Deterministic spec-orchestration for local models, with a bundled real-time remote web view and web/docs/fetch/worker subagent tools.",
     "type": "module",
     "main": "./dist/index.js",