kronk-cli 0.6.0 → 0.6.1

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "kronk-cli",
-  "version": "0.6.0",
+  "version": "0.6.1",
   "description": "A Claude-Code-style terminal agent for local models served by Kronk.",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "type": "module",

package/src/tools.js

@@ -561,13 +561,31 @@ export async function runTool(name, args, opts = {}) {
         // Went straight to ripgrep unchecked, so `search` with an absolute path
         // read anything on the machine while read_file was busy refusing to.
         const where = safe(args.path ?? '.');
+        // Both tools exit 1 to mean "nothing matched", which is an answer and
+        // not a failure. Reported as an error the model stops believing the
+        // tool, and spends its step budget re-phrasing and re-reading rather
+        // than using the fact it was just handed.
+        const NOTHING = '(no matches)';
         try {
           const { stdout } = await exec('rg', ['-n', '--no-heading', '-m', '200', args.pattern, where]);
-          return clip(stdout) || '(no matches)';
+          return clip(stdout) || NOTHING;
         } catch (e) {
-          if (e.code === 1) return '(no matches)';
-          const { stdout } = await exec('grep', ['-rn', '-m', '200', args.pattern, where]);
-          return clip(stdout) || '(no matches)';
+          if (e.code === 1) return NOTHING;
+          // No ripgrep on this machine, or it refused the pattern. grep is the
+          // floor, and it needs the same exit-1 reading the call above has —
+          // this is the branch CI never reaches, because its images ship rg.
+          try {
+            // -E because this tool advertises ripgrep-style patterns, and basic
+            // grep reads `a|b` as the three literal characters. -H because GNU
+            // grep drops the filename when it is given exactly one file, and
+            // this tool promises `file:line` prefixes — BSD grep prints them
+            // either way, which is why a macOS-only check would not see it.
+            const { stdout } = await exec('grep', ['-rn', '-H', '-E', '-m', '200', args.pattern, where]);
+            return clip(stdout) || NOTHING;
+          } catch (err) {
+            if (err.code === 1) return NOTHING;
+            throw err;
+          }
         }
       }