[Scvairy]

Problem

A provider launcher that wraps the Codex app server prints the actionable failure first — a DNS error for the model gateway, an OAuth refresh failure — and then a generic summary such as Ошибка: ошибка запуска плагина: exit status 1. stderrExcerpt preferred the last Error: line (or the last line), so the error T3 Code surfaced was the summary alone:

Codex App Server process exited with code 1: Ошибка: ошибка запуска плагина: exit status 1

The cause was only in the discarded tail, so it was gone by the time anyone read the message. Same for Error: provider launcher exited with code 1., which replaced an oauth2: "invalid_request" "RefreshTokenInvalid" line right above it.

Fix

stderrExcerpt now recognises an exit-summary line (exit status N, exit code N, exited with code N) and joins up to two preceding lines with |, so the surfaced message carries both the cause and the summary:

Codex App Server process exited with code 1: проверить токен LLM: Get "https://llm-gateway.example/api/models": dial tcp: lookup llm-gateway.example: no such host | не удалось отправить метрики на сервер: no such host | Ошибка: ошибка запуска плагина: exit status 1

A final exit-summary line takes precedence over an earlier error-labelled line, retaining intervening diagnostics even when the summary uses a localized prefix.

The excerpt stays capped at 512 characters, so an oversized diagnostic still truncates. A summary with nothing before it is unchanged.

Verification

Rows added to the existing Codex App Server stderr excerpt table, using the launcher output observed in the failure:

• launcher exit summary after a DNS failure
• labelled launcher exit summary after an authentication failure
• launcher summary alone — a bare summary line is unchanged
• launcher diagnostics remain bounded — the joined excerpt still truncates

Against the pre-fix implementation three of the new rows fail (the two summary rows and the bounded one); with the change all pass:

$ ../../node_modules/.bin/vp test run --config ../../vite.config.ts --dir .   # pre-fix stdio.ts
 Test Files  5 passed (5)
      Tests  3 failed | 49 passed (52)

$ ../../node_modules/.bin/vp test run --config ../../vite.config.ts --dir .   # with the fix
 Test Files  5 passed (5)
      Tests  52 passed (52)

Also on the changed files: vp fmt --check clean, vp lint clean, and effect-tsgo tsrs --noEmit for packages/effect-codex-app-server reports no diagnostics in either file (only pre-existing schemaClassMissingBrand suggestions elsewhere in the package).

Not checked here: vp run check:changed and the repo-wide knip pre-commit step. This worktree has a partial dependency install — the mobile, web and marketing workspaces are absent, so knip cannot load their configs (expo/tsconfig.base.json, @vitejs/plugin-react) and check:changed cannot resolve @effect/platform-node from the repo root. None of that is touched by this change; CI runs the full suite.

The additional precedence regression (Error: starting provider, then lookup failed: no such host, then Ошибка: exit status 1) failed before the selection fix and passes afterward. The current package suite passes all 53 tests across five files. Formatting, focused lint, and package typecheck pass (typecheck reports only existing brand suggestions elsewhere). vp run check:changed was retried and cannot start because the root install cannot resolve @effect/platform-node.

Scope

One function and its existing test table, one defect: the error message drops its own cause when a wrapper appends an exit summary. Per CONTRIBUTING this is a small focused fix for an obvious bug, so it is submitted without a prior issue. No user-facing flow changes — an existing error message just stops hiding the reason.

Reviewed and updated by gpt-6.1-sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 27ff909

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Launcher exit errors now retain up to two preceding diagnostic lines instead of showing only a generic exit summary. The existing output limits remain intact, and process behavior is unchanged.

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Walkthrough

stderrExcerpt recognizes exit summaries and includes up to two preceding nonempty lines in applicable cases. It applies a 512-character limit and uses different truncation directions for exit-summary excerpts and single-line excerpts.

Changes: Stderr excerpt handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Select and test exit-summary excerpts packages/effect-codex-app-server/src/_internal/stdio.ts, packages/effect-codex-app-server/src/_internal/stdio.test.ts	The selection logic recognizes exit-status, exit-code, and “exited with code” summaries. It selects the final summary when it follows the last matching error or when no error matches, and includes up to two preceding nonempty lines. Tests cover DNS and authentication diagnostics, standalone summaries, and truncation at 512 characters.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#16160 — The issue reports that the UI shows an exit summary without a preceding child message. This change includes preceding lines for matching exit summaries.
• pingdotgg/t3code#21435 — The reported exit-code error matches the summary pattern handled here, but the issue does not establish whether preceding stderr is available.
• pingdotgg/t3code#30993 — This change updates the stderr excerpt carried by the exit error, but does not address the transport-error race.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#23938 — That PR introduced stderrExcerpt; this change extends the selection behavior in the same function and its tests.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: mkantautas

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 65bc2

The change makes launcher exit errors show more useful diagnostics, and the output stays capped at 512 characters. No merge-blocking issue remains. Stderr text was already included in these error messages before this change.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Title check		The title "fix(codex): keep the launcher error that precedes an exit summary" matches the main change: stderrExcerpt now keeps up to two diagnostic lines before a final exit-status summary instead of …
Description check		The description follows the repository template closely. It has Problem, Fix (the Change section), Verification, and Scope sections. The Problem section gives the expected behavior, the observed outpu…
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The title "fix(codex): keep the launcher error that precedes an exit summary" matches the main change: stderrExcerpt now keeps up to two diagnostic lines before a final exit-status summary instead of replacing them with the summary alone. It is a conventional commit title in plain language, and the 65-character length is within normal limits. The title does not describe the bounded-excerpt or precedence details, which is expected for a title.

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The description follows the repository template closely. It has Problem, Fix (the Change section), Verification, and Scope sections. The Problem section gives the expected behavior, the observed output, and the cause. The Fix section explains the change. The Verification section lists focused test rows, pre-fix and post-fix results, lint and format checks, and states what was not checked. The Scope section explains why no prior issue was linked, citing the CONTRIBUTING small-fix exemption. The template asks for a link to a triaged issue or maintainer-approved discussion, or an explanation of why the fix qualifies without one. The author gives that explanation. The author also ends with the model and harness used, as the template requests. The description is mostly complete, so it passes. The reviewer may still want to confirm the small-fix exemption applies.

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Select a final exit summary before an earlier error line.

If stderr contains Error: starting provider, then lookup failed: no such host, then Ошибка: exit status 1, errorIndex selects the first line. The excerpt omits the DNS failure because the exit-summary branch never runs. Prefer a final line that matches EXIT_SUMMARY_PATTERN before falling back to the last error-like line. Add this sequence to the existing test table.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/effect-codex-app-server/src/_internal/stdio.ts:
- Around line 72-73: Update the line selection logic around `errorIndex` to
prefer the final nonempty line when it is an exit summary, and otherwise retain
the existing error-line fallback. Add a case to the existing test table covering
an earlier error, a later authentication diagnostic, and a final launcher exit
summary.
- Around line 82-84: Update the excerpt-building logic around
STDERR_EXCERPT_MAX_CHARS to allocate the bounded output from the newest selected
lines backward, trimming or omitting older content as needed so newer
diagnostics remain visible within the limit. Update the bounded-output test to
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Note

Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

verified as-is at 65bc2580b7a709a1f8b14b18d4d8cb2d639fb355, compared with github/main at 61cb845d9699d0ecce5a9b660d3b32907914df8b.

ran separate development checkouts sequentially on linux, installed with vp i, and drove the web app using the repository playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome. created a real git project through the app and completed actual codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the local proxy. no mock providers or fixtures.

configured a real shell launcher in settings. it runs the installed codex with an invalid -c =broken override and reports its actual nonzero exit status. codex emits its configuration error before the launcher summary.

• main showed only Error: provider launcher exited with code 1.
• the pr showed Error: error parsing -c overrides: Empty key in override: =broken | Error: provider launcher exited with code 1. in provider settings, the chat provider warning, and the server error chain.
• a cold server restart and new thread exercised actual provider-session startup failure.
• a plain codex error without an appended exit summary remained intact.
• restoring the normal binary path cleared the warning and completed a new gpt-6.1-sol turn without restarting the server.

blacksmith passed the 19 focused stderr tests and vp run check:changed 402d0623d5f4160859607e9b7c11fc829fbe3e18: format, lint, both knip checks, typechecks for four packages, and 21 tests across two files. existing ci has 29 successful checks, none failing or pending. no source changes or pushes were needed.

main:

pr:

command and runtime transcript

Not verified

native desktop, ios/android, macos/windows, relay/tunnel connections, and actual gateway dns or oauth outages were not exercised on this linux vm. localized summaries and bounded truncation passed the existing automated tests; the real provider failure used an english configuration diagnostic.

the launcher waits one second before starting codex to exercise the stderr exit path consistently. without that delay, an immediate exit reproduced an existing initialize-write race on main, showing transport operation 'write-output-stream' failed instead. this pr does not fix that race. the thread session-failure message itself also remains generic; the detailed cause appears in the provider warning and server error chain.