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Problem

• --no-macros reaches only bun <file> and bun build. Under it a macro still runs in bun test, a Worker, Bun.build() and Bun.Transpiler, with no error: Macros are disabled. No issue exists.
• Three call sites copy the flag into their transpiler. BundleOptions::from_api sets no_macros: false for the rest.

Fix

• The flag is one raise-only static, bun_core::js_macros, read at the parser's two macro call sites (src/js_parser/visit/visit_expr.rs).
• process_switches::flags_for_child() passes it to a bun that a command starts for a part of itself (4 sites, Notes).
• Verified: test/bundler/transpiler/macro-test.test.ts (46 new tests, 32 fail on main), test/cli/test/test-changed.test.ts (4 new, all fail on main). Also: multi-run, repl, compile-argv, bun-pm-scan.
• Self-reviewed: 10 concerns raised, 8 addressed (Notes).

Background

• A macro is a function that the transpiler calls while it parses. Each VM, the bundler and Bun.Transpiler have their own transpiler.
• Add --disallow-code-generation-from-strings, with a strict level for every way a string becomes code #44171 made --disallow-code-generation-from-strings a bun_core process switch the same way. flags_for_child() forwards both. This PR replaces the --no-macros part of bunfig: keep CLI flags ahead of bunfig.toml when it is loaded after argv (bun run) #38599.
• Considered a copy of the bit in each transpiler constructor: 13 sites, and a new one forgets it.

Downsides

• Behaviour change: those commands now fail under the flag. With a [macros] table in bunfig.toml, bun run --no-macros <file> now runs an ordinary import.
• Without the flag: 3 instructions at each of 4 macro gates, per macro call, 0 reads elsewhere (gdb watchpoint). Release .text +2,336 B.
• Not covered: the bun install and dev server that bun create and bun init start, and node:test run() children. BUN_OPTIONS=--no-macros reaches them.

Notes

This was found by running bun test --no-macros and a Worker under bun --no-macros with a macro that writes a marker file. No issue is filed for it.

Where the switch is raised

• Arguments::parse, for the commands that use it.
• create_context_data, for the 22 command tags that read their own flags (USES_GLOBAL_OPTIONS is false: install, add, create, lint, fmt, check, x, pm and the rest of the package manager). It looks for --no-macros in argv up to --. The tokens of BUN_OPTIONS are in argv.
• macros = false in a bunfig.toml that the command reads.

The [macros] table of bunfig.toml, and #38599

• MacroOptions::Disable and the three hand copies of the flag are gone. What is left of MacroOptions is an Option, so ctx.debug.macros is now Option<MacroMap>. The three places that re-keyed the table into the bundler's map call one function, BundleOptions::set_macro_remap.
• DebugOptions::macro_remap() drops the table while the switch is raised. On main bun run --no-macros <file> read bunfig.toml after the flag, and the table turned macros back on: a remapped import ran as a macro, and so did an explicit macro import.
• This supersedes the --no-macros part of bunfig: keep CLI flags ahead of bunfig.toml when it is loaded after argv (bun run) #38599 (CliOverrides::macros, its two guards in bunfig.rs and its line in Arguments.rs). This PR lands first. bunfig: keep CLI flags ahead of bunfig.toml when it is loaded after argv (bun run) #38599 drops that part when it rebases. The rest of bunfig: keep CLI flags ahead of bunfig.toml when it is loaded after argv (bun run) #38599 is not affected.
• Where the flag takes a table away, the process does not use the runtime transpiler cache (runtime_transpiler_cache::IS_DISABLED, as under the debugger). Without the table an import it names is transpiled as an ordinary import, and a later run without the flag read that from the cache. On main bun --no-macros <file> does that already. A process without both a table and the flag is not affected.
• The table keeps its reach: bun <file> and bun run <file>, bun build, and the configuration VM of bun build --app. bun test, a Worker, Bun.build() and Bun.Transpiler still ignore it. To widen it would run macros in more places, inside a change that exists to refuse them, and the runtime transpiler cache has no table in its key.

Where the switch is passed on, and where it is not

• Passed on by flags_for_child(), 4 call sites: the workers of bun test --parallel (main did this), the configuration process of bun lint and bun fmt (main passed only the other switch), the file of bun run --parallel and --sequential (new), the security scanner of bun install (new). Its return type is written out (Chain<option::IntoIter<&'static CStr>, ...>): an impl Iterator compiles with the pinned nightly, but stable 1.98 rejects a Vec<&CStr> that is extended with it and then takes a shorter borrow (E0597).
• These 4 are placed by hand. Nothing fails when a fifth place forgets the call. The other places that start this executable are left out on purpose: they run another command, a line the user wrote, or no JavaScript (see below). self_exe_path() now has a line that points at flags_for_child().
• A name that bun run --parallel takes for a file can start with a command of bun ("run ./a.ts", "test ./a.test.ts", "x tool a.js"). No place on that command line takes a flag for every command: bun x and the install commands refuse one. The process of such a name gets the switches in BUN_OPTIONS (bun_options_for_child()), which every command reads, and so does everything that process starts. A name whose first word is the file gets them on its command line, as bun --no-macros <file> has them, and what it starts does not inherit them.
• In a build with --disallow-code-generation-from-strings=strict as a constant, flags_for_child() gives no flag for it: the child is the same build. No CI lane builds that configuration, so this is not tested.
• Not passed on: a bun whose command line the user wrote (a package.json script, a lifecycle script, Bun.spawn()).
• Not passed on: another bun command that a command runs as a step. bun create and bun init run bun install, bun add, bun x and bun dev. bunx runs bun add. run() of node:test runs bun test. bun init does not read the flag at all. An argument cannot reach the dev server of bun create, because bun dev is a package.json script. BUN_OPTIONS in the environment of the child could.
• child_process.fork() and cluster.fork() pass process.execArgv, so they carry the flag when it stands before the file name.
• This is 2 of 5 switches of one kind. --no-addons, --no-ffi-cc and --no-env-file still stop at the parent, as on main.

bun test --changed

• The scan is a bundle of every test file. In it a macro import is not an import record that the graph follows, and each macro call runs the macro.
• Where the process refuses macros, each call is an error of the scan instead, and a file with an error has no import records. A test behind such a file was skipped with exit code 0. --disallow-code-generation-from-strings=strict does this on main already.
• A new parser feature, macro_imports_are_plain, reads a macro import as an ordinary import. The scan sets it when the process refuses macros (--no-macros, or =strict). The scan then runs no macro and selects by the change. A selected test that calls a macro fails at the call, as it does without --changed.
• Under either flag the file of a macro is in the graph, so a change to it selects the tests that call it. Without a flag it is not (as on main), and the scan still runs macros. To set the feature always would fix both, and changes what --changed selects without a flag. That is left for a maintainer to decide.
• The feature is copied to the parser on the bundler path only (ParseTask). The runtime transpiler does not read it: its output is not what the program means, and the transpiler cache key does not have it.

Limits that stay

• A flag after the file name belongs to the program: bun ./index.html --no-macros runs macros. The docs now say to put the flag first.
• macros = false in bunfig.toml holds only where a command reads that file. bun create does not read bunfig.toml. bun install --analyze reads it after the bundle. bun run <file> goes on after an error in bunfig.toml and then has read no macros key.
• new Worker(file, { execArgv: ["--no-macros"] }) in a process without the flag is accepted and does nothing, as on main.
• At the bun repl prompt a typed macro call is refused, but the text is a SyntaxError, not Macros are disabled.

Numbers

Release builds with --lto=off of 6f58f6b and of this branch (d212db9), same machine. The branch is now rebased on 9634520 (e568acf). The rebase had one conflict, in a comment of lint_command.rs. The numbers were not measured again. The LTO link was not tried on this 16 GB machine. bloaty, strace, perf and valgrind are not installed here, so the tools are size -A, nm -S, objdump -d and gdb.

	main	this branch
.text	77,411,728	77,414,064 (+2,336)
.rodata	21,634,319	21,634,383 (+64)
.data, .bss, .init_array		+0
stripped file	102,496,056	102,500,152 (+4,096, one page)

• By symbol (nm -S, 46 symbols change, +2,324 B): BuildCommand::exec -1,399, BundleOptions::set_macro_remap +798 (new), multi_run::add_script_configs +717 and +655 (two instances), wire_transpiler_from_ctx -580, process_switches::bun_options_for_child +555 (new), ProcessHandle::start +227 and its closure +531, security_scanner::attempt_security_scan +339, arguments::parse -288, create_context_data +217, process_import_statement +50 to +101 (four instances), lint_command::run_script +72, e_template -63 twice. The other functions are inlined.
• Macro gate: at each of the 4 emitted sites (e_call and e_template, two parser instances each), 3 instructions and 15 B follow the existing features.no_macros test: movzbl DISABLED(%rip), test, jne.
• The static has 18 references in the binary: 15 reads (4 gates, 3 for the [macros] table, 7 for the switches of a child, 1 in the --changed scan) and 3 writes.
• Reads of the static at run time (gdb hardware watchpoint, no flag): bun -e 0, 10,000 transformSync without a macro 0, bun test of an empty file 0, 20 Workers 0, a file with 200 macro calls 200.
• macro_imports_are_plain is read behind the two tests that exist: for an import that is a macro import, and for an import that the [macros] table names. An ordinary import does not reach either read.
• Entries into MacroContext::call for the 14 ways below (gdb breakpoint): main without the flag 14, main with --no-macros 12, this branch without the flag 14, this branch with --no-macros 0.
• Syscalls of bun -e '0' (gdb catch syscall, groups file, descriptor, process, network): 115 and 115, the same count for each call.
• macro-test.test.ts: 0.9 s to 2.7 s on a release build, 9 s to 44 s on a debug build (28 to 74 tests).

Tests

• macro-test.test.ts, group --no-macros > holds for the whole process, 46 tests. One process goes through 14 ways to reach a macro: import(), require(), a Worker, a node:worker_threads Worker with and without execArgv: [], Bun.build() with and without macros: true, Bun.Transpiler (transformSync with no option, macro: true and a macro map, transform, scan), and an HTML import served by Bun.serve() with development false and true. It runs without the flag (all 14 run the macro), with --no-macros, with BUN_OPTIONS=--no-macros and with macros = false in bunfig.toml (all 14 refuse).
• The other tests are one command each: bun test (an import(), a call in the test file, --preload, bunfig, --parallel), bun repl, bun install --analyze, bun run --parallel and --sequential (a file, "run <file>", "test <file>", and how each gets the flag), the security scanner, bun lint (a plugin in this process, a configuration file in the other), bun fmt, bun create <component> (also with -- before the flag), the [macros] table, and the transpiler cache after bun run --no-macros.
• 32 of the 46 fail on main. The 14 that pass on main are 6 controls without the flag, the -- case of bun create, and 7 that pin what main did already or where the gate is: bun --no-macros <file>, a package script under BUN_OPTIONS, a macro that is imported and never called, a call in dead code, a template tag, and two [macros] table cases.
• test-changed.test.ts, 4 tests: two flags (--no-macros, =strict) times two changes (a file that one of two macro-calling tests imports, the file of the macro). All 4 fail on main.
• The cases for bun create, bun lint, bun fmt and the other switch are in macro-test.test.ts and not in create-jsx.test.ts, js-plugins.test.ts, format.test.ts and disallow-code-generation-from-strings.test.ts. Three of those four files do not pass as whole files under bun bd test with the default 5 s limit on a debug build, with or without this change.
• The cases that are several VMs or more than one process have a 60 s limit on debug and ASAN builds only. A debug build takes 3 to 5 s for the 14 ways in one process (a node:worker_threads Worker is 1.2 s each) and 0.3 s on a release build.
• Both files passed on a local release-asan build under scripts/runner.node.ts (leak check and exception checks on) at c49c553, and on the ASAN lane of CI for that commit. One child runs with detect_leaks=0: the control that runs a macro in three Workers. A Worker that ran a macro does not free its macro tables when it ends (register_macro, load_macro_entry_point; event loop: run the immediates left on the macro loop from the regular loop's turn #45439 has the fix). For the same reason there is no case for bun lint without the flag: its plugin VM leaks the same tables.
• On the debug build of e568acf, after the rebase: macro-test.test.ts 78 pass (main added 4 tests), test-changed.test.ts 24 pass, multi-run.test.ts 132 pass, bun-pm-scan.test.ts 19 pass, repl.test.ts 129 pass, compile-argv.test.ts 15 pass. On the debug build of c49c553: disallow-code-generation-from-strings.test.ts 34 pass with a 120 s limit, js-plugins.test.ts 145 pass and 1 fail at the 5 s limit, parallel.test.ts 44 pass and 1 fail (each worker has a unique JEST_WORKER_ID): that case depends on how fast a worker starts, and it passes on release builds of main and of this branch.

Self-review

10 concerns. Done: the --changed rule (it counted every file with a scan error as changed, and is replaced by the scan feature above), this text about #38599 and the [macros] table, the leak check (measured on an ASAN build, one opt-out left), the bun create cases (exit code, no opt-out, no Windows todo for the refused ones), the strict-by-build guard, the install comment, a -- case, and the comments and the three copies of the re-keying loop. Not done: the --changed scan does not free its log when a file has a parse error (older than this change, and no case here reaches it), and a case for the rule that no longer exists.

Public review

Fixed after the two review bots: a name of bun run --parallel that starts with a command word now gets the switches (in BUN_OPTIONS), the transpiler cache is off where the flag takes a [macros] table away, flags_for_child() has a concrete return type, and the two --changed fixtures have names that are not part of each other. Kept, with a reply in each thread: the 60 s limit for debug and ASAN builds, test.each, the cache key without the table, a Worker's execArgv, and the macro: spelling in the --changed scan.

Found on the way, older than this change, not in this PR

• bun test --isolate and --parallel: a macro call is undefined, with no error, from the second test file of a process on. The canary of 2026-09-18 (367d939) gives the value. The shipped 1.4.3 does not. bun test --isolate: a macro call is undefined from the second test file on #46405 fixed it on main.
• bun test --changed keeps one source per path, so a test that imports a changed file can be skipped when an HTML import reaches the same file.
• BUN_OPTIONS='--flag "quoted"' becomes one argument with the quotes in it, so --no-macros "x" in BUN_OPTIONS is lost.
• A compiled executable whose --compile-exec-argv holds a bare word reads no flag of BUN_OPTIONS.
• The runtime transpiler cache has no [macros] table in its key. A file that bun test or a Worker transpiles keeps its import ordinary for bun run later.
• run() of node:test does not pass process.execArgv to the bun test it starts. Node passes its options on.
• --disallow-code-generation-from-strings=strict followed by the bare flag runs at the bare level. bun build accepts =strict and still runs macros.
• BUN_OPTIONS=<flag> bun init makes the project in ./init/. bun -c=<file> does not read the file. bun run <file> goes on after an error in bunfig.toml.

Open PRs that touch the same lines

• bunfig: keep CLI flags ahead of bunfig.toml when it is loaded after argv (bun run) #38599 (see above), bun test --parallel: forward runtime flags and --config to worker processes #41935 (flags for --parallel workers), macros: run every macro on one dedicated VM thread #40059 (one macro VM thread), test: run the serial macro-test spawn cases concurrently and assert exact output #40623 and event loop: run the immediates left on the macro loop from the regular loop's turn #45439 (macro-test.test.ts).
• bundler: run no macro in a bundle made only for its import graph (test --changed, --analyze, bun create <component>) #46281 sets macro_imports_are_plain without a flag, for each bundle that is made only for its import graph. If it lands first, this PR drops its BundleOptions field, its line in ChangedFilesFilter.rs and its test in p.rs, and six cases here get another expected result (bun install --analyze, bun create <component>). If this PR lands first, bundler: run no macro in a bundle made only for its import graph (test --changed, --analyze, bun create <component>) #46281 drops the same parts from its side.

Questions for a maintainer

• Should the --changed scan always read a macro import as an ordinary import? It would stop the scan from running macros and select the tests of a changed macro, also without a flag. bundler: run no macro in a bundle made only for its import graph (test --changed, --analyze, bun create <component>) #46281 is that change.
• Should bun create and bun init give the switches to the bun commands they start?
• Should execArgv: ["--no-macros"] of a Worker in a process without the flag throw, as an execArgv with --disallow-code-generation-from-strings does?

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Reproduced on main with a macro that writes a marker file:

// macro.ts
import { writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
export function f() {
  writeFileSync("MACRO_RAN", "");
  return "INLINED_RESULT";
}

// entry.ts
import { f } from "./macro.ts" with { type: "macro" };
console.log(f());

// entry.test.ts
import { test } from "bun:test";
test("imports a module that calls a macro", async () => {
  await import("./entry.ts");
});

• bun test --no-macros ./entry.test.ts on main: the test passes and MACRO_RAN exists. On this branch: error: Macros are disabled, exit code 1, no MACRO_RAN.
• The same holds for a Worker, Bun.build(), Bun.Transpiler, an HTML import, bun repl, bun create, bun lint and bun fmt. The cases are in test/bundler/transpiler/macro-test.test.ts: 32 of the 46 new tests fail on main, and all pass on this branch.

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The changes add process-wide JavaScript macro disabling, update macro import and remapping behavior, and propagate macro and code-generation settings to child processes. Documentation and tests cover CLI commands, APIs, workers, and runtime entry points.

Changes

JavaScript macro controls

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Global macro-disable state and entry points src/bun_core/js_macros.rs, src/bun_core/lib.rs, src/bunfig/bunfig.rs, src/options_types/context.rs, src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs, src/runtime/cli/mod.rs, src/js_parser/visit/visit_expr.rs, docs/bundler/macros.mdx, test/bundler/transpiler/macro-test.test.ts	A process-wide flag disables macros through CLI arguments or bunfig. Macro calls check the flag. Documentation and tests cover the changed entry points.
Macro import and remapping behavior src/options_types/context.rs, src/bundler/options.rs, src/bundler/ParseTask.rs, src/js_parser/parser.rs, src/js_parser/p.rs, src/js_parser/parse/parse_entry.rs, src/runtime/bake/production/mod.rs, src/runtime/cli/build_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/test/ChangedFilesFilter.rs, test/bundler/transpiler/macro-test.test.ts, test/cli/test/test-changed.test.ts	Bundler and parser options carry the plain-import setting and macro remaps. Macro paths can use ordinary import processing. Changed-file scanning treats macro imports as plain under the specified restrictions.
Child-process switch propagation src/bun_core/process_switches.rs, src/bun_core/util.rs, src/install/PackageManager/security_scanner.rs, src/runtime/cli/lint_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/multi_run.rs, src/runtime/cli/test/parallel/runner.rs, test/bundler/transpiler/macro-test.test.ts	A shared function derives child-process flags from macro and code-generation settings. Subprocess launch paths append or export those flags. Tests cover spawned Bun processes.

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Multi-run can start a Bun child that does not inherit --no-macros, allowing macros the parent was meant to disable. Fix that propagation gap and the prohibited test timeouts before merging.

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Review comments at @src/options_types/context.rs:
- Around line 410-416: Update hash_for_runtime_transpiler to include the
effective macro mode, including macro_imports_are_plain and process-wide macro
state, plus the applicable remap state from DebugOptions::macro_remap;
alternatively, disable caching for files affected by macro imports or remaps
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the Relaxed ordering in src/bun_core/js_macros.rs: on the CLI paths the store happens during argv/bunfig parsing on the main thread before any VM or bundler worker thread is spawned, so thread creation already orders it, and no other state is published through the flag. I also compared BundleOptions::set_macro_remap against the four replaced per-site conversion blocks and the disable_macros_if_in_argv scan (slice equality, not a byte search, so the clippy byte-search deny does not apply) — no behavior change found there.

Extended reasoning...

The change makes --no-macros / macros = false a process-wide raise-only AtomicBool read at the parser's two macro gates, consolidates four macro-map conversion sites into BundleOptions::set_macro_remap, and adds flags_for_child() forwarding of the two process switches to child bun processes. Four inline findings are already posted (a likely compile error in security_scanner.rs, a vacuous test assertion, the Worker execArgv gap, and the multi_run command-word forwarding gap), so a human look is warranted regardless; this note only records the ordering and refactor-equivalence checks that were examined and found clean.

Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.

[claude]

🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: pre-existing: a Worker created with execArgv: ["--no-macros"] in a process without the flag still runs macros, with no error. --no-macros is now a process switch like --disallow-code-generation-from-strings, but parse_worker_exec_argv_flags in src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs:1563 only rejects the code-generation flag as invalid execArgv and lets --no-macros through unread. Fix: treat both process switches the same in Worker execArgv, either rejecting --no-macros the way the code-generation flag is rejected at jsc_hooks.rs:1588, or raising disable_js_macros() for it; the doors test in macro-test.test.ts already spawns workers and can carry the case.
A small fix can ride a push you are already making; otherwise a short reply is enough.

Why this was flagged

A program started as bun main.ts (no flag) does new Worker("./w.ts", { execArgv: ["--no-macros"] }) where w.ts imports and calls a macro. src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs:1563-1596 scans the worker's execArgv and only knows --no-addons, --no-ffi-cc and --disallow-code-generation-from-strings (the last is reported as invalid because it is a process switch that cannot be set per worker); --no-macros matches nothing and is dropped. The worker's parser then reaches src/js_parser/visit/visit_expr.rs:2296 with features.no_macros false and js_macros_disabled() false, so the macro runs. The base branch behaves the same way, so this is pre-existing; the PR text lists it as a limit that stays. The change makes the asymmetry with the sibling switch concrete: #44171 added the execArgv rejection when it made code generation a process switch, and this PR makes macros a process switch without the matching handling, so a user who passes the flag per worker gets neither an error nor the refusal.

Verification: pre-existing. Trigger: a process started without --no-macros creates new Worker(file, { execArgv: ["--no-macros"] }) whose script calls a macro. Mechanism: src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs:1584-1593 only recognizes --no-addons, --no-ffi-cc, and --disallow-code-generation-from-strings; --no-macros falls through every arm and is dropped. So the macro runs with no Macros are disabled error.

[robobun]

Left as on main in this PR. To throw would break a program that passes the flag to a Worker today, and to raise the switch from a Worker option would turn macros off for the whole process. It is one of the questions for a maintainer at the end of the PR notes.

[claude]

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

• Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

[claude]

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 re-checked the two blocking items from the last round against this push and both are addressed: flags_for_child() now returns a concrete Chain<IntoIter<&'static CStr>, ...> (covariant), so the Vec<&CStr> in security_scanner.rs can take the local CString after it; and wire_transpiler_from_ctx sets runtime_transpiler_cache::IS_DISABLED when a [macros] table is dropped under the switch, while files that actually ran a macro were already excluded from the cache (macro_call_count != 0 in parse_entry.rs), so the stale-remap poisoning path is closed. Given the scope (process-global switch, changed semantics for bun test/Worker/Bun.build/Bun.Transpiler), a human look is still worthwhile.

Extended reasoning...

The push replaces the opaque impl Iterator with a concrete iterator type in src/bun_core/process_switches.rs and adds a cache-disable branch in src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs, which resolves the compile-error and cache-poisoning concerns raised on the previous version; one pre-existing finding remains posted inline. The change is a cross-cutting behavior change with a new process-global static, so it is not a candidate for approval without a human review.

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

• Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

[claude]

🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: pre-existing: under bun test --changed --no-macros (or =strict), a test that imports its macro as import { f } from "macro:./m" is still not selected when m.ts changes; it exits 0 and runs nothing, as on the base branch. With macro_imports_are_plain the import becomes a plain record whose path keeps the macro: prefix (p.rs:4144-4146, record added at p.rs:4267), so the bundler cannot resolve it and ignore_module_resolution_errors at ChangedFilesFilter.rs:152 drops it silently, leaving m.ts out of the graph. Fix: when the feature turns a macro import plain, strip Macro::NAMESPACE_WITH_COLON from path.text before adding the record, as MacroContext::call does at src/js_parser_jsc/Macro.rs:125-126, so both spellings of a macro import put the macro's file in the graph.
A small fix can ride a push you are already making; otherwise a short reply is enough.

Why this was flagged

A repo has m.ts and t.test.ts containing import { f } from "macro:./m"; test("x", () => f()), and the user edits m.ts then runs bun test --changed --no-macros. ChangedFilesFilter.rs:156 sets macro_imports_are_plain; in the scan process_import_statement at src/js_parser/p.rs:4144-4146 computes is_macro = false and falls through to p.rs:4267, which adds an ordinary import record with path.text still equal to macro:./m. Nothing strips the prefix on this path. The bundler's resolver does not know the macro: scheme, so resolution fails; bundle_v2.rs:6956 skips the error because ignore_module_resolution_errors is true (ChangedFilesFilter.rs:152), so m.ts never enters importers (ChangedFilesFilter.rs:234-246). The change to m.ts selects no test, bun test prints nothing and exits 0. The base branch under --no-macros also skipped this test, so the outcome is unchanged for this spelling, while the with { type: "macro" } spelling that the new tests cover is fixed.

Verification: pre-existing. Under bun test --changed --no-macros with a test that imports its macro as import { f } from "macro:./m" and only m.ts changed, src/js_parser/p.rs:4144-4146 sets is_macro false, so p.rs:4267 adds an import record with path.text still macro:./m. Nothing strips the prefix on this path. m.ts is never in the graph and test_command.rs:2212-2218 exits 0, as on the base.

[robobun]

Not changed in this PR. For the macro: spelling the scan now does under the flag what it does without it: the import is not an edge, so a change to the file of the macro selects no test, as on main for both spellings. What this PR needs from the feature is that the file with the macro call keeps its other import records, and it does: an import that does not resolve is no error in this scan. To put the file of a macro: import in the graph belongs with the open question in the PR notes, whether the scan should always read a macro import as an ordinary import, which changes what --changed selects without a flag too.

[robobun]

#46281 is the "always" answer to question 1 of this PR ("Should the --changed scan always read a macro import as an ordinary import?").

• It carries macro_imports_are_plain without the gate, and it removes the macro: prefix.
• BundleV2.scan_only sets the feature, so the dependency scan (--analyze, bun create <component>) follows the same rule. That reverses six rows of macro-test.test.ts here.
• Its Notes say what each PR changes when the other lands first.

[claude]

Code review completed

Nothing new to post: everything this review found is already covered by existing comments on this pull request or didn't merit a separate one.

Still open from earlier reviews (2):

• Unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.