@vzn/vx 0.0.544 → 0.0.546

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@vzn/vx",
-  "version": "0.0.544",
+  "version": "0.0.546",
   "description": "The fastest task runner and build cache for JavaScript monorepos.",
   "type": "module",
   "exports": {
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@
     "node": ">=18"
   },
   "optionalDependencies": {
-    "@vzn/vx-linux-x64": "0.0.544",
-    "@vzn/vx-linux-arm64": "0.0.544",
-    "@vzn/vx-darwin-x64": "0.0.544",
-    "@vzn/vx-darwin-arm64": "0.0.544"
+    "@vzn/vx-linux-x64": "0.0.546",
+    "@vzn/vx-linux-arm64": "0.0.546",
+    "@vzn/vx-darwin-x64": "0.0.546",
+    "@vzn/vx-darwin-arm64": "0.0.546"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@anthropic-ai/sandbox-runtime": "^0.0.76"

package/src/orchestrator/plugin.ts

@@ -445,7 +445,17 @@ function pluginPackageName(dir: string): string {
       /* not here; look one level up */
     }
     if (text !== undefined) {
-      const name = (JSON.parse(text) as { name?: unknown }).name
+      // A bare JSON.parse reached the user as a SyntaxError and a stack,
+      // naming no file (X-20).
+      let pkg: { name?: unknown } | null
+      try {
+        pkg = JSON.parse(text) as { name?: unknown } | null
+      } catch (err) {
+        throw new UserError(
+          `definePlugin: failed to parse ${path.join(d, 'package.json')}: ${(err as Error).message}`,
+        )
+      }
+      const name = pkg?.name
       if (typeof name !== 'string' || name.length === 0) {
         throw new UserError(
           `definePlugin: ${path.join(d, 'package.json')} has no name — a plugin is a package, and its name is the package's`,

package/src/workspace/config-schema.ts

@@ -219,6 +219,13 @@ export function validateWorkspace(config: WorkspaceConfig, configPath: string):
           // plugin-verb lookup — refuses it the same way. The owner is the
           // package: two plugins one package exports (`bun()` and `pnpm()`
           // both carry `prune`) are one owner, and the first declared runs.
+          // `vx --version` and `vx ''` never reach a plugin: a flag is
+          // core's, and an empty word is no verb (X-21).
+          if (verb.trim() === '' || verb.startsWith('-')) {
+            throw new UserError(
+              `${configPath}: plugin '${plug.name}' declares command '${verb}', which no command line reaches — a verb is a word, not a flag or empty`,
+            )
+          }
           if ((CORE_VERBS as readonly string[]).includes(verb)) {
             throw new UserError(
               `${configPath}: plugin '${plug.name}' declares command '${verb}', a core verb — core verbs cannot be shadowed`,