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Problem

• bun run --filter runs a script after the scripts of its workspace dependencies. If two selected packages depend on each other, or one lists itself, all of them lose that order, silently.
• Cause: the has_cycle branch of run_scripts_with_filter (src/runtime/cli/filter_run.rs:1096) clears every edge. Since install: pnpm parity — dedupe, prune, pm licenses, audit fix, add --filter/--catalog, nested overrides, transitive update, and workspace fixes #38333 (1.4.0) a devDependency can close a cycle that 1.3.14 ran in order.
• bun publish -r (unreleased) can put a package before a dependency outside its cycle.

Fix

• One rule for both commands, cycle_groups: inside a cycle, devDependencies and optionalDependencies edges give way first, then peerDependencies. What is still a cycle is a group.
• run --filter: a script waits for all scripts of the groups its group depends on, and for none of its own. publish -r: a group stays together, after what it depends on.
• Verified: test/cli/run/filter-workspace.test.ts (16 new cases, 13 fail on main), test/cli/install/bun-publish.test.ts (8 fail on main). Also multi-run.test.ts, bun check.
• Self-reviewed: 34 concerns raised, 30 addressed (see Notes).

Background

• A handle is one script of one package. It counts the handles it waits for.
• A group is a strongly connected component. strongly_connected_components moves unchanged from bun_sema to bun_collections.
• Considered: cutting one edge per cycle (members then run one by one), a warning, an error.

Downsides

• A package outside a dependencies cycle now waits for it. A dev script that never exits blocks it ([pm] --filter indefinitely waits for other package #18011). --parallel starts all at once.
• No cycle: allocator calls unchanged. Release .text +10,240 bytes.
• Cycle of 4 packages: 56 allocator calls before the first spawn, was 14.

Notes

Repro. Root {"workspaces":["packages/*"]}, packages a, b (depends on a), x and y (depend on each other), each with a script that takes a moment. bun run --filter '*' script starts b before a ends on 1.3.14, 1.4.3 and main. Without x and y it runs a, then b. With core (devDependencies: plugin) and plugin (dependencies: core), 1.3.14 runs core first and 1.4.3 starts both at once. No issue reports this.

Rule for run --filter. The groups are the strongly connected components of the handle graph: the dependency edges plus the link from each script to the previous script of its pre/main/post chain. The chain links count because the chain tells packages apart by name (#10386), so with two packages of one name a cycle can go through it. Waits are rebuilt for whole groups. In d -> x <-> y -> a, x waits for a although only y lists it, and d waits for y although it only lists x.

Kinds of dependency. In 1.3.14 the resolver read devDependencies and optionalDependencies under wrong keys, so only dependencies ordered scripts. #38333 fixed the keys. Inside a cycle these edges now give way, and the groups are computed again. Outside a cycle they order scripts as before. peerDependencies are edges only for publish -r. They give way after dev and optional edges: in a host that depends on its plugin, the plugin goes first. A name that dependencies lists counts as one of those when another group lists it too. For run --filter that is the order of the groups in the IncludeDependencies::Main parse (src/resolver/package_json.rs), which only --filter uses.

Publish. dependency_order keeps its walk (a cycle is broken at one member) and is in no tagged release. New: the rule runs first when the sort is stuck, and the part of the order after the first stall is sorted by group, so a group is not split and comes after the groups it depends on. With p <-> q, x <-> y and p -> x, main publishes rec-p rec-q rec-x rec-y and this PR rec-x rec-y rec-p rec-q. With a-plugin (dependencies: core) and core (devDependencies: a-plugin), main packs a-plugin first.

No warning. pnpm 10.34.6 run -r groups a cycle and prints nothing. pnpm 11.28.2 and 12.14.0 fail with ERR_PNPM_TASK_CYCLE unless ignoreWorkspaceCycles is set. This PR prints nothing, as --filter does today. A warning for a cycle that is left after the rule is a separate decision.

Measurements (release builds of main ea6a2c7 and of this PR, linux x64, gdb):

• acyclic bun run --filter './packages/*' build, allocator calls from the name map to the first spawn: main 10 / PR 10 (3 packages), main 1,176 / PR 1,176 (200 packages with 20 dependencies each). Counted with breakpoints on mi_malloc, mi_zalloc, mi_calloc, mi_realloc and their aligned and heap variants.
• acyclic graph step: 1,950 instructions on main, 1,949 on PR (3 packages), 831,027 on main, 834,673 on PR (200 packages), by stepi from the first name map insert to ProcessHandle::start. ScriptConfig.deps now holds the kind beside each name: 8 more bytes per entry and about one instruction per entry in the edge loop. wait_around_cycles is entered 0 times. The disassembly of has_cycle has 0 differing lines.
• release .text: +10,240 bytes (size -A, 81,695,461 to 81,705,701). The stripped binary grows by 8,192 bytes. wait_around_cycles 2,588 B, cycle_groups 1,671 B with its closure, order_or_stall 1,733 B (it was inlined), strongly_connected_components 1,743 B (it was inlined into its caller in bun_sema), selected_in_dependency_order 2,690 to 3,041 B, run_scripts_with_filter 7,105 to 6,806 B.
• cyclic run, allocator calls to the first spawn: main 14 / PR 56 (4 packages). Two 50-package cycles where the second depends on the first: main 312 / PR 962 calls, 2,500 wait entries on PR, 0 on main.
• acyclic bun publish -r --dry-run, allocator calls in selected_in_dependency_order: main 316 / PR 316, strongly_connected_components entered 0 times. Two chained cycles: main 401 / PR 462.
• acyclic wait graph: 0 differing lines main vs PR on 5 fixtures (chain, fan-in, pre/post with a dependency, duplicate name, unnamed packages), from a gdb dump of each handle's counter and dependents on debug builds. The cyclic test fixtures: 53 of 53 scripts ran on PR, exit 0 in 16 of 16 runs.

Other checks. 600 random workspaces for run --filter (463 with a cycle: pre/post scripts, dev and optional entries, names listed twice, self-listed and duplicate names) and 350 for publish -r (132 with a cycle) ran end to end against a model of the rule. Every script ran, every wait held, and every publish order matched. The helper has no #[cold]: with it the compiler stopped inlining the name lookup of the edge loop, which cost acyclic runs 3% to 16% more instructions in the graph step.

Self-review, not taken.

• Split the publish change out. The rule is shared, and with the walk restored publish no longer changes inside a group.
• Put cycle_groups in bun_collections. It names dependency kinds, so it is beside WorkspaceGraph.
• One table of fixtures for both commands. They see different edges (publish -r follows peerDependencies and resolved versions). Each test file pins the shapes they share.
• Store indices in the name map of filter_run.rs to drop the offset_from_unsigned. That rewrites the loop every acyclic run executes.

Not changed by this PR.

• A selected package without the script has no handle, so a -> b -> c with no build in b runs a before c ends. That is a separate bug.
• A package that the filter does not select is not an edge. pnpm does the same.
• bun run --filter does not follow peerDependencies, and it matches dependencies by name only.
• Two packages with the same name run one after the other (bun --filter '**' dev only starts first server #10386). On a run with a cycle such a neighbour can join a group.
• --parallel and --sequential do not use dependency order.
• The isolated installer (Installer::is_task_blocked, Store::is_cycle) orders lifecycle scripts with its own rule.
• src/install/isolated_install.rs and src/lint/graph/lib.rs keep their own Tarjan passes.
• Overlap: test(filter-workspace): run the cases concurrently and assert the exact output #41033 rewrites the two older cycle tests, cli: remove unsafe from bun run / bun test / --filter and the other CLI commands #40242, run --filter: compact append-only renderer, stable per-package colors #41325 and CLI: fixes for bun run, flags, bunfig.toml, .env, --filter, bun init and completions #46007 change filter_run.rs, auto-install: find dependencies in the rows that every package.json parse records #43984 changes the dependency map that the kinds are read from. The moved strongly_connected_components is the text of main after bun check: fix errors lost since #45800, and 9 to 37% faster #46001, with pub added.

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^{Updated 8:26 AM PT - Oct 22nd, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 73fdfe5 has 2 failures in Build #130926 (All Failures):

• test/js/bun/shell/commands/rm.test.ts - code 1 on 🪟 2019 x64
• test/cli/lint/js-plugins.test.ts - code 1 on 🪟 2019 x64

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Status: ready for review. #46205

How I reproduced it

Workspace: root {"name":"root","private":true,"workspaces":["packages/*"]}, and in packages/:

• a: script build = sleep 0.5 && echo a is built > built.txt
• b: "dependencies": {"a": "workspace:*"}, script build = cat ../a/built.txt
• x: "dependencies": {"y": "workspace:*"}, script build = echo x
• y: "dependencies": {"x": "workspace:*"}, script build = echo y

bun run --filter '*' build on 1.4.3 and on main: b build: cat: ../a/built.txt: No such file or directory, exit 1. Nothing on stderr names the cycle. Without x and y the same command runs a, then b, and exits 0.

The same happens with --workspaces, with one --filter per package, with a cycle through devDependencies or optionalDependencies, and with a package that lists itself. On 1.3.14 a cycle that only a devDependency closes (core devDepends on plugin, plugin depends on core) ran core first.

For bun publish -r: p depends on q and x, q depends on p, x and y depend on each other. Main publishes p q x y. p goes out before x, which it depends on.

With this branch the first command prints b build: a is built and exits 0, and publish sends x y p q.

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Walkthrough

Workspace dependency ordering now accounts for dependency behavior when grouping cycles. The changes apply to workspace publishing and script execution. A shared strongly connected components implementation supports cycle grouping and replaces the local implementation in sema.

Changes

Workspace dependency cycle ordering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared cycle grouping src/collections/*, src/install/PackageManager/workspace_selection.rs, src/sema/components.rs	Adds a reusable strongly connected components function. Workspace ordering uses it to group cycles after topological ordering stalls.
Workspace publish ordering src/install/PackageManager/workspace_manifests.rs, src/resolver/package_json.rs, test/cli/install/bun-publish.test.ts, docs/pm/cli/publish.mdx	Workspace edges retain dependency behavior for ordering. Dependency-group precedence changes. Tests and documentation cover ordering across cycles.
Workspace script cycle waits src/runtime/cli/filter_run.rs, test/cli/run/filter-workspace.test.ts, docs/pm/filter.mdx	Script dependency metadata retains behavior. Cycle handling rebuilds waits using cycle groups and preserves script-chain links. Tests and documentation cover cycle execution and dependent waits.

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The change preserves dependency ordering for run --filter and publish -r when workspace cycles exist. No concrete production-facing defect was found. A short fixed deadline in the new concurrent tests could cause occasional flaky failures on slow builds, which is minor.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked: the Tarjan move from src/sema/components.rs to src/collections/strongly_connected_components.rs is byte-identical; the replaced WorkspaceGraph::dependency_order has no stale callers (relation_graph keeps its one caller in add_remove_with_filter.rs); and the offset_from_unsigned in wait_around_cycles only sees pointers pushed from state.handles elements at filter_run.rs:1082, with the pre/post chain links added only after the call, so the SAFETY invariant holds. Given the finding on never-exiting scripts in a cycle, a human look at the intended dev-server behavior is still worthwhile.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewires cycle handling for bun run --filter (src/runtime/cli/filter_run.rs) and bun publish -r (src/install/PackageManager/workspace_selection.rs, workspace_manifests.rs), moves an SCC helper into bun_collections, reorders the dependency-group parse in src/resolver/package_json.rs, and adds tests in both CLI test files; it touches no security-sensitive surface. One confirmed behavioral regression (dependents now wait on a cycle of never-exiting scripts) is posted inline, so approval is not appropriate and the note only records what else was ruled out.

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