fix(claude-code): report Claude's structured error instead of empty stderr - #5794
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughClaude Code now preserves structured provider errors across process outcomes. Terminal semantic failures remain failures even with clean exits. Blank structured messages fall back to trimmed stderr, while exit codes remain in failure messages. ChangesClaude Code error handling
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This PR improves Claude failure reporting by surfacing structured provider errors instead of empty stderr, making authentication and provider failures more actionable. A bounded edge case can still produce an unhelpful message when both error sources are empty, and generated session state should be removed; the change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ClaudeCodeCLI
participant StreamParser
participant EventMapper
participant Driver
ClaudeCodeCLI->>StreamParser: emit result or error event
StreamParser->>EventMapper: provide parsed error data
EventMapper->>Driver: provide terminal_error and structured error
Driver->>Driver: evaluate exit status and select failure message
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In `@src/openhuman/inference/provider/claude_code/driver.rs`:
- Around line 505-512: Update failure_message so blank structured error text is
treated as absent before matching, allowing the stderr-based message when the
structured error is empty or whitespace-only. Add a focused test covering an
empty structured error and verifying stderr is included in the fallback output.
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Valid, and it's the same failure mode this PR exists to fix, one level in. An error event carrying no text is Reverting the guard shows it plainly: That leading space is the whole bug. Fixed: Two tests, both red before and green after: one covering
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Confirmed and fixed in The parser builds the message like this: "error" => ClaudeCodeEvent::Error {
message: v.get("error").and_then(Value::as_str)
.unwrap_or("claude-code error").to_string(),
},
Fixed at the driver rather than in the parser, deliberately. Substituting match structured.map(str::trim).filter(|err| !err.is_empty()) {Four cases, all red against the previous commitI reverted only that one line and re-ran: The third one is there so the fallback stays honest when there is nothing to fall back to — it must still report the exit code rather than an empty string. The fourth guards the other direction: trimming must not turn a real message into an absent one, and it also means a padded message now renders without the stray whitespace it used to carry.
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513-517: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReturn a diagnostic when both error sources are empty.
When a blank structured error and empty stderr accompany a clean exit, this returns
exit Some(0) stderr=. Exit code0does not explain why the provider reported an error, so the user still receives no actionable diagnosis. Return a generic non-empty Claude Code error message when stderr is empty, and update the test to cover that fallback.Also applies to: 593-598
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516-517: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winBound and redact structured provider errors
run_turncapsstderrat 16,384 bytes, butmapper.erroris copied from the JSONerrorfield and formatted without a bound or redaction. A large or secret-bearing provider error can reach the returnedanyhowerror unchanged. Enforce explicit size and redaction limits before formatting it.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/openhuman/inference/provider/claude_code/driver.rs`:
- Around line 513-517: Update the structured-error fallback around the match on
structured, stderr, and exit_code so that empty structured error and empty
stderr produce a generic non-empty Claude Code error message instead of only
reporting exit 0. Preserve the existing structured-error and non-empty-stderr
diagnostics, and add or update the relevant test to cover the empty-input
fallback.
- Around line 516-517: Update the error formatting in run_turn so the JSON
mapper.error value is explicitly size-limited and redacted before inclusion in
the returned anyhow error. Apply the same bounded provider-error handling to the
Some(err) branch while preserving the existing exit-code context and the stderr
fallback in the None branch.
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Marking this as the vehicle we're taking for #5712 — #5713 (which bundled #5710/#5711/#5712 into 22 files) has been closed in its favour, along with #5790 for #5710 and #5816 for #5711. @ntdatt812 — two hunks from #5713 need to be carried over here before this merges, or the fix regresses relative to what that PR would have given us. Neither is in this PR today:
Credit for both is @Felyx-Fu's — please reference #5713 in the commit. If they'd prefer to bring those over themselves as a follow-up PR, that's the other acceptable path; say which you'd like and we'll sequence it. Everything else here (the |
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Maintainer review — no changes pushed, this is a read-only assessment. State: On the fix itself: it holds up. Folding the two ordered checks into one The two hunks from #5713, and where they landI traced both against current 1. Nested message: v.get("error").and_then(Value::as_str).unwrap_or("claude-code error").to_string(),The object form the CLI actually emits for an API failure — 2. One integration point that is easy to miss: if you take #5713's mapper change as written, it stops setting if success && structured.is_none() && !terminal_error {
return None;
}Without it, a run that fails with a clean exit and no captured message returns an empty success — the silent case, which is worse than the bad message #5712 reported. Two further notes: Credit for both hunks is @Felyx-Fu's; reference #5713 in the commit as the manager asked. Happy either way on who lands them — say which and it can be sequenced. Not approving; a maintainer reviews and merges. |
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A nonzero exit short-circuited straight to stderr, which threw away the parsed
`error` event on exactly the turns that carry one: Claude prints the actionable
text ("Failed to authenticate. API Error: 403 Request not allowed") on stdout
and leaves stderr empty, so the user was shown `exit Some(1) stderr=` and
nothing else. stderr stays the fallback for process-level failures that never
produced a structured error at all — a missing binary, a signal.
The failure *decision* lives in `turn_failure` alongside the message rather
than at the call site. Split across the two, reverting the wiring in `run_turn`
left every test in this file green: they exercised the formatting helper
directly and never the branch that reaches it. Measured, not assumed — that
revert was run and passed 16/16 before this was folded together.
Rebased onto main's sibling-test layout: the tests now live in driver_tests.rs.
Carries the two hunks tinyhumansai#5713 (@Felyx-Fu) held that this PR did not, as asked in review. tinyhumansai#5713 was closed in favour of this one, so without them the fix regresses against what that PR would have given us. **1. The nested `error.message`.** The CLI emits `{"error":{"message":"…"}}` for an API failure, and the parser read `error` as a string — so `as_str()` returned `None` and the actionable text was replaced by the literal `"claude-code error"`. That placeholder is not empty, so it survived this PR's own `filter(|err| !err.is_empty())` and was reported as though it were a diagnosis, suppressing the stderr fallback that did hold the cause. An absent message is now empty, which is what makes the `Some("")` handling in `failure_message` reachable in the common case rather than only on `{"error":""}`. The ladder is `error.message` → bare-string `error` → top-level `message` → empty. **2. `is_error`.** `Result` carried no such field and the mapper keyed only on `subtype == "error"`, so a failure the CLI reports through the flag was missed entirely. Taking tinyhumansai#5713's mapper change as written also removes the synthetic `"claude reported \`result.subtype=error\`"` string, which reads like a diagnosis while carrying nothing. That is the better behaviour, but it means `turn_failure`'s `success && structured.is_none()` early return no longer catches a semantic failure that exits 0 — the exact path `structured_error_is_reported_even_on_a_clean_exit` was covering. So `terminal_error` joins the decision as a third independent signal: if success && structured.is_none() && !terminal_error { Without it, a turn that fails cleanly with no captured message returns an empty success. That is silence, which is worse than the unhelpful message tinyhumansai#5712 reported. Two stale things the review flagged go with it: the `driver_tests.rs` assertion on the synthetic string, rewritten to drive `turn_failure` for both halves of the new decision, and the comment in `failure_message` citing `unwrap_or("claude-code error")`, which hunk 1 removes. Tests land in the sibling `*_tests.rs` files rather than tinyhumansai#5713's inline modules, since `main` has extracted them and the layout gate now rejects `mod tests` in place.
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Both hunks carried over in Rebased onto today's 1 — nested 2 — 3 — the integration point you flagged. Taken as written, #5713's mapper change stops setting if success && structured.is_none() && !terminal_error {
return None;
}
The two stale things you named are handled: that assertion, and the Verification
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Remove generated .omc session state.
This cache stores session-derived metadata and a generated timestamp. It adds non-reproducible repository state. Remove this file and ignore .omc/state/ unless the repository deliberately versions tool-session caches.
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Closes #5712.
The defect
The two failure checks ran in the wrong order:
Claude writes the actionable text to stdout — the
EventMapper::Errorarm parks it inmapper.error— and leaves stderr empty. So the one branch that could surface it was skipped on exactly the turns that produce it, and the user got:instead of
Failed to authenticate. API Error: 403 Request not allowed.The fix
One branch, entered when either signal fires, with the message built by a pure helper:
failure_messageprefers the structured error and keeps the exit code beside it, because the two carry different information:result.subtype=errorsetsmapper.errorwhile the process exits 0, and losing that distinction would hide whether the provider error also took the process down. stderr remains the fallback for process-level failures that never produced a structured error — a missing binary, a signal.Tests
Six cases, on a pure function so they need no child process:
structured_error_survives_a_nonzero_exit— the reported regression, asserting the message is no longerexit Some(1) stderr=;structured_error_keeps_the_exit_code;stderr_is_still_used_when_there_is_no_structured_error—exit Some(127) stderr=command not found;structured_error_wins_over_stderr_when_both_exist— stderr noise must not bury the actionable error;structured_error_is_reported_even_on_a_clean_exit— theresult.subtype=errorpath;a_signalled_process_without_a_structured_error_still_reports_stderr—exit None.Red/green, running the same assertions against the old message-building and the new:
Verification note
cargo check -p openhuman --lib→ exit 0, no diagnostic indriver.rs;cargo fmtapplied. The red/green figures come from compiling the helper and its tests standalone (rustc --edition 2021 --test), becausecargo testcannot launch its binary on this Windows box —STATUS_ENTRYPOINT_NOT_FOUNDfrom the harness, before any test runs. The sevenunused importwarnings in the check output are pre-existing Windows-only ones, none in a file this PR touches.Summary by CodeRabbit