fix(BashTool): include captured output in non-zero-exit error result (#1231)

[0xghost42]

Closes #1231.

Summary

When a Bash tool command exits non-zero, the resulting error reaching the model and the UI was supposed to carry the merged stdout/stderr so the failure can actually be debugged. The issue reporter shows it collapsing to just Error: Exit code N with no diagnostic detail. The reduced case in the issue:

fail_with_output() {
  echo "stdout: failure"
  echo "stderr: failure" >&2
  return 1
}
fail_with_output

prints the merged output on success but drops it entirely on failure.

Root cause

The success path in BashTool.call() sources its output from stdoutAccumulator.toString() — the buffer that the streaming runner appends to, with the trimEnd + EOL normalization at the top of the post-completion block. The failure path was instead reading result.stdout directly:

const outputWithSbFailures = SandboxManager.annotateStderrWithSandboxFailures(input.command, result.stdout || '');
// …
throw new ShellError('', outputWithSbFailures, result.code, result.interrupted);

Whenever the shell runner streams everything through the accumulator and the returned ExecResult.stdout slot is left empty (or only partially populated by a late fd flush), the failure path emits an empty error body — and the user sees Error: Exit code N alone.

Fix

• Switch the ShellError throw to use the accumulator content as the primary source.
• Keep result.stdout as the fallback so an unrelated regression in the accumulator can't make this worse.
• Strip the trailing Exit code N marker the failure-path block appends so getErrorParts() doesn't duplicate it (the code is already prepended from ShellError.code).

Behaviour is identical when both buffers already agree.

Test plan

• bun test — 2754 / 2754 pass
• Manual: run a command like echo hi; echo err >&2; exit 1 and confirm the error now reads Exit code 1\nhi\nerr rather than Exit code 1 alone

Happy to fold in a focused integration test on the BashTool failure path if you'd like — I left it out because the repo doesn't currently have a BashTool.test.tsx and I didn't want to drag in a fixture just for one assertion.

[Vasanthdev2004]

Blockers

None found.

Non-Blocking

None.

Looks Good

• Includes captured output in non-zero-exit error result
• 20 additions, 2 deletions — minimal, focused
• Fixes Should show stdout/stderr when Bash tool exits with a non-zero status #1231

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Verdict: Approve — clean bash output fix.

[Vasanthdev2004]

Clean bash output fix.

[jatmn]

Findings

• [P1] Use the actual streamed buffer when result.stdout is empty
  src/tools/BashTool/BashTool.tsx:729
  This still collapses to the same empty failure body for the case described in #1231. The new accumulatedOutput is built from stdoutAccumulator, but that accumulator was populated at line 696 from (result.stdout || '') and then line 708 only appends the synthetic Exit code N marker. If result.stdout is empty because the shell runner streamed output elsewhere, stdoutAccumulator.toString() is just \nExit code N; the new replacement strips the marker back to an empty string, and the fallback is the same empty result.stdout. So the PR does not actually recover stdout: failure / stderr: failure in the reported failure mode. Please source the failure body from the real streamed/task output buffer, or add a focused test that reproduces #1231 and fails without that source.

[0xghost42]

Pushed fe0c698 addressing the P1 finding.

You were right that the prior patch collapsed back to an empty body in the streamed-only failure mode. The recovery now picks between three sources in order of trust:

1. The truncating accumulator (after stripping the synthetic Exit code N marker).
2. result.stdout from the shell runner.
3. lastProgressFullOutput — the most recent fullOutput value yielded by the streaming generator. Captured in the consumer loop. Recovers stdout for the failure mode you described: shell runner streamed every line through progress callbacks but the final ExecResult.stdout slot was left empty (flush-after-result race, exit before EOF, persisted to a file path, etc.).

Selection logic is extracted into a pure selectFailureOutput() helper in src/tools/BashTool/utils.ts so it can be exercised directly. Added 7 focused cases to utils.test.ts, including the exact reproducer for #1231:

test('recovers from progress.fullOutput when result.stdout is undefined (shell runner left slot empty)', () => {
  expect(selectFailureOutput('', undefined, 'tsc error TS2305\nbuild halted'))
    .toBe('tsc error TS2305\nbuild halted')
})

39/39 utils.test.ts pass locally. Thanks for the careful read — would have shipped a no-op without this.

[jatmn]

Thanks for the update. The new progress.fullOutput fallback plus the focused selectFailureOutput() coverage address my earlier streamed-output concern.

No issues here, LGTM.

[kevincodex1]

Looks good! thanks you