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The preAction hook in src/index.ts resolves telemetry auth before every command's action, with no try/catch. When the credentials file can't be read, the raw fs error ends the process before the command runs. That happens with EPERM/EACCES, for example on files locked by an earlier CLI version through the Windows ACL bug, which doctor is written to diagnose. The result:

  • testsprite doctor crashes with Error: EACCES … (exit 1) and never shows its own Credentials diagnosis.
  • Offline commands that never need the key (agent list, test lint, …) fail the same way.

Telemetry is on by default, and telemetry.ts's own contract says telemetry never changes a command's behavior, output or exit code.

Following the scope in the triage comment on #465:

  • New tryResolveTelemetryAuth() in telemetry.ts: the same lookup as resolveTelemetryAuth, but it never throws. On any error it returns undefined and hands the error to an optional onError. A throwing onError is swallowed too.
  • The hook uses it. On failure it clears telemetryEmit, so the command runs as if telemetry were off. No beacon is sent, and recordOutcome makes no fallback credentials read at exit. Without that, doctor, which can repair the file during its run, could still send one.
  • Under --debug, the swallowed reason is logged as [debug] telemetry skipped: <message>, like the skill-nudge path (fix(skill-nudge): log swallowed errors in debug mode #317).
  • Commands that need the key still fail through their own error path when they read the credentials themselves. Opt-out, --dry-run, completion and --plan-template behave exactly as before.

No new dependency.

Related issue

Closes #465

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Type of change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that changes existing behavior)
  • Documentation only
  • Build / CI / chore

Checklist

  • PR targets the main branch.
  • Commits follow Conventional Commits
    (feat(...), fix(...), docs(...), …).
  • npm run lint and npm run format:check pass.
  • npm run typecheck passes.
  • npm test passes and coverage stays at or above the 80% gate.
  • New behavior is covered by unit tests (mock-based; no network or
    credentials required).
  • No secrets, API keys, internal endpoints, or personal data are included.
  • User-facing changes are reflected in README.md / DOCUMENTATION.md where
    relevant. (No doc change: this makes the existing telemetry contract hold.)

Notes for reviewers

Before / after with the built CLI. The temp HOME has a .testsprite/credentials set to chmod 000. TESTSPRITE_API_KEY is set, and telemetry is on (the default).

# before (main @ a18d37c)
$ testsprite doctor
Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '…/.testsprite/credentials'
$ echo $?
1
$ testsprite agent list
Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '…/.testsprite/credentials'
$ echo $?
1

# after
$ testsprite doctor
TestSprite doctor
  [OK]   CLI version   0.15.0
  …
  [WARN] Credentials   credentials file exists but cannot be read (EACCES); its ACL may be locked out by an earlier CLI version — delete the file and re-run `testsprite setup` (TESTSPRITE_API_KEY is set, so commands still work)
  …
$ testsprite agent list
AGENT                SKILL                PATH
claude               testsprite-verify    .claude/skills/testsprite-verify/SKILL.md
…
$ echo $?
0
$ testsprite --debug agent list
[debug] telemetry skipped: EACCES: permission denied, open '…/.testsprite/credentials'
…

Tests

  • test/e2e/telemetry-unreadable-credentials.e2e.test.ts (new): runs the built CLI against a local server that records every request.
    • doctor runs and reports the Credentials problem itself.
    • agent list exits 0.
    • completion bash prints its script.
    • --debug prints the skip reason.
    • All four send no telemetry POST.
    • A control case with readable credentials does send one, so its absence above is meaningful.
    • doctor, agent list and --debug fail on main. completion and the control pass both before and after. completion is already excluded from telemetry, so it's a guard, as asked in the triage.
    • The read is denied with chmod 000, so the unreadable cases are skipped on Windows and as root. Root reads through mode bits.
  • src/lib/telemetry.spec.ts: unit tests for tryResolveTelemetryAuth, which run on every OS (the credentials path is a directory):
    • same result as resolveTelemetryAuth when the read works
    • undefined instead of a throw when it fails
    • onError receives the error
    • a throwing onError is swallowed

Results: 4802 passed / 2 skipped (unit), 115 passed / 1 skipped (e2e). Typecheck, lint and format all pass.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Commands continue to run when telemetry credentials cannot be read. Telemetry is skipped if authentication cannot be resolved.
    • With --debug, credential errors can be reported to stderr. doctor, agent list, and shell completion remain usable when credentials are unreadable.
    • When credentials are readable, telemetry authentication continues to work as before.

…y hook

The preAction hook resolves telemetry auth before every command's action,
with no try/catch. When the credentials file could not be read (EPERM /
EACCES — e.g. the Windows ACL lock-out `doctor` is written to diagnose), the
raw fs error ended the process: `doctor` never got to report it and offline
commands such as `agent list` failed, while telemetry is on by default.

Add tryResolveTelemetryAuth, which never throws, and use it in the hook. On
failure the command runs as if telemetry were off: telemetryEmit is cleared,
so no beacon is sent and recordOutcome makes no fallback read at exit.
Under --debug the swallowed error is logged as `[debug] telemetry skipped`.

Closes TestSprite#465
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Walkthrough

Telemetry authentication is now best-effort. If auth resolution fails, the CLI disables telemetry and continues running the command. Unit and end-to-end tests cover resolver failures and command behavior with unreadable credentials.

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Telemetry authentication

Layer / File(s) Summary
Best-effort auth resolution and CLI handling
src/lib/telemetry.ts, src/index.ts, src/lib/telemetry.spec.ts
The new tryResolveTelemetryAuth returns undefined if auth resolution fails and suppresses errors from its optional callback. The CLI logs resolution errors with --debug and disables telemetry when auth is unavailable. Unit tests cover successful resolution and error handling.
Command behavior coverage
test/e2e/telemetry-unreadable-credentials.e2e.test.ts
End-to-end tests check that unreadable credentials do not send telemetry beacons or prevent doctor, agent list, and shell completion from running. A readable-credentials test checks that agent list sends one beacon.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as CLI preAction
  participant TryAuth as tryResolveTelemetryAuth
  participant ResolveAuth as resolveTelemetryAuth
  participant Credentials as Credentials reader
  participant Command as CLI command
  CLI->>TryAuth: Resolve telemetry auth
  TryAuth->>ResolveAuth: Resolve auth
  ResolveAuth->>Credentials: Read credentials
  Credentials-->>ResolveAuth: Read error
  ResolveAuth-->>TryAuth: Throw resolution error
  TryAuth-->>CLI: Return undefined
  CLI->>Command: Continue with telemetry disabled
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f40b8

The telemetry fix behaves as intended and no production defect remains. The new e2e test does not follow the repository's offline-test guideline, though it matches an existing e2e pattern. This is worth owner awareness but should not block merge.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

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Description Check Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing an unreadable credentials file from crashing the telemetry hook.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #465 requires best-effort auth lookup, command execution after lookup failure, debug logging, no telemetry event, and tests. src/index.ts calls tryResolveTelemetryAuth; a failed lookup disab…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The supplied change summary shows changes in the telemetry hook, the telemetry helper, and focused unit and end-to-end regression tests. These changes directly support issue #465. No unrelated feature…
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Issue #465 requires best-effort auth lookup, command execution after lookup failure, debug logging, no telemetry event, and tests. src/index.ts calls tryResolveTelemetryAuth; a failed lookup disables telemetryEmit and reports the error under --debug. src/lib/telemetry.ts provides the non-throwing lookup and swallows callback errors. The reported unit and end-to-end tests cover lookup success and failure, doctor, an offline command, debug output, and telemetry suppression. The implementation preserves command-owned credential errors because it changes only the telemetry hook lookup.

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The supplied change summary shows changes in the telemetry hook, the telemetry helper, and focused unit and end-to-end regression tests. These changes directly support issue #465. No unrelated feature, dependency, or documentation change is shown.

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test/e2e/telemetry-unreadable-credentials.e2e.test.ts: 1

139-139: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the doctor failure exit code.

The unreadable credentials path produces a failed Credentials check, and doctor exits with status 1 when any check fails. Add expect(result.status).toBe(1) so this test covers that exit-code path.

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Add an assertion in the unreadable-credentials test after the
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Scope a security/detect-non-literal-fs-filename suppression to the
mkdtemp-derived fixture path in telemetry.spec.ts (same wording as
bundle.test.ts), and assert that doctor exits 0 with a [WARN] Credentials
line when the file is unreadable but TESTSPRITE_API_KEY is set.
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@coderabbitai re the nitpick on the doctor e2e exit code: I added the assertion in f40b836, but it's 0, not 1. In this test TESTSPRITE_API_KEY is set and the local /me answers, so the unreadable credentials file is reported as [WARN] Credentials … (TESTSPRITE_API_KEY is set, so commands still work), not a FAIL, and doctor completes with exit 0. I verified that against the built CLI. The test now pins both the exit code and the [WARN] level.

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Keep this e2e coverage deterministic and offline.

The test/** guidance includes local-e2e tests and forbids real network and timers. The loopback HTTP server uses real sockets, and spawn uses a wall-clock 20_000 ms timeout. Existing e2e tests use the same pattern, but the repository defines no e2e exception.

Because runCli spawns dist/index.js as a separate process, parent-process fetch and sleep test dependencies cannot be injected directly. Move this behavior coverage to an in-process harness with injected dependencies, or add a supported subprocess fixture that provides those dependencies.

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Update the runCli-based telemetry credentials coverage to avoid real loopback
sockets and the wall-clock spawn timeout. Move the behavior test to an
in-process harness with injected dependencies, or use a supported subprocess
fixture that provides them, while preserving the expected successful exit
status.

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