Normalize only filter-owned selections before streamed JSON and JSONL output, and count the same normalized payload. Keep source values and strict domain JSON validation intact. Refs #4938.
Recover completed ordinary command results when pinned Incur formatting
exceeds the runtime string limit before stdout begins. Emit a small typed
memory constraint with an explicit unknown formatted size, the runtime limit
and JSON/filter remediation. Preserve full-output framing and leave normal
CTA, human and token-window formatting with Incur. Never rerun analysis.
Capture canonical failure identity at its logging owner, including thrown
AnalysisError projections. Recovery reads compact captured facts without
revalidating or retaining large diagnostics. Keep destination failure ownership,
prevent a second stdout document and retain quiet SIGPIPE status during recovery.
Validation: 111 distinct focused tests across 10 files; check:fast,
docs:check and discovery of all 1555 test files. Sixteen authored formatter
controls fail unchanged e103ae0ce and pass with this fix. A separate closed
reader control caught and now covers recovery EPIPE handling. The heavy JSON
string-limit regression remains excluded; no large Electron reproduction ran.
Twelve small public CLI artifact inspections preserve identical raw replies
and token estimates in TOON and JSON. Timings are noise-level, with no speedup,
cold-cache, large-result memory or real-provider qualification claim. Sentinel
and generator protocols keep their existing ownership.
Fixes#4806
createCliResultOutput rendered an explicit null selected by
--filter-output as the empty document {}, the same output it uses when
the selection has no value at all. On the streamed JSON/JSONL path,
a consumer could not distinguish a selected null from a missing field.
Write a selected null as null in streamed JSON and JSONL. This also
preserves an unfiltered top-level null. The {} fallback stays for
undefined, functions and symbols. The --full-output envelope already
carried data: null for a selected null. The --token-count path still
hands results that fit the formatted-string limit back to Incur and
prints 0 for a selected null. Other formats and Incur-owned result
paths are unchanged.
Consumers must accept JSON null for a present null and distinguish it
from a missing selection. Use --full-output if an object envelope is
required. Keeping the old shared {} representation would continue
hiding this distinction.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019TTGAv6fe859ebbCLLfLHP
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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