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Problem

• A process.emitWarning(text) warning has at emitWarning (unknown) as its first frame, and ctor does nothing. Node cuts the stack at ctor.
• Cause: Process::emitWarning assigns ctor and never reads it (src/jsc/bindings/BunProcess.cpp:2509).

Fix

• A call from JavaScript makes the Error with no frames, then captures through the body of Error.captureStackTrace with ctor. Where the stack cannot be cut at ctor, it keeps every frame (a parameter of JSCStackTrace::getFramesForCaller).
• A function as second argument is the ctor. process.binding, errname and a MessagePort posted to itself also start at their caller.
• Verified: test/js/node/process/process.test.js (11 cases on bun and node, 10 fail on main). Also capture-stack-trace.test.js, an AOT program, 48 vendored Node tests.
• Self-reviewed: 21 concerns raised, 18 addressed. Rejected (Notes): an empty stack where ctor is behind async frames, two separate changes.

Background

• The other 8 native producers (for example setTimeout(f, NaN)) and Error.captureStackTrace do not change.
• getFramesForCaller finds a resumed async function by its name. For a warning no other frame is found by name.
• A strict-mode tail call removes its caller's frame, so a ctor that ran can be on no frame.
• Considered: a cut in the walk that makes the Error (a second rule), a JS port (one more frame).

Downsides

• Each call: 12,706 to 13,314 instructions (no ctor), 13,145 to 14,048 (ctor found). A ctor on no frame: 13,907 to 117,789 at 300 frames. Release text: +768 B.
• Not as Node: a never-called ctor cuts nothing, and a function installed as process.emitWarning keeps its frame.

Notes

Origin. A differential run against Node found this. There is no issue and no user report for warnings. The change shows where a program reads the stack of a warning: --trace-warnings, --trace-deprecation, a 'warning' listener, console.log(warning), an uncaughtException listener under throwDeprecation. The default output on stderr does not change. Two earlier commits left this line of Node as a comment at this place and did not finish it: e1cfea4 (#16026) and c44515e (#19874, "getStackTrace does not get any stack frames"). #36970 removed the comment as dead code.

Two questions for a maintainer. The code takes the first answer of each.

1. Where the stack cannot be cut at the function (it is on no frame): keep every frame, remove every frame as V8 does, or keep them only for a function that a tail call can have removed (Error.captureStackTrace: keep frames when the callee frame was elided by a tail call #32136)? JavaScriptCore cannot tell a function that ran and returned from one whose frame a tail call removed. With "remove every frame", const warn = m => process.emitWarning(m, type, code, warn) in a module loses every frame: main prints emitWarning, then the caller, and Node prints the caller. The same question is open for Error.captureStackTrace, which removes every frame today: Error.captureStackTrace constructorOpt not working correctly #47845 is a user report of it, and Error.captureStackTrace: keep frames when the callee frame was elided by a tail call #32136 has the third answer. src/js/internal/assert/assertion_error.ts:396-406 already captures again when its first capture has no frames. The answer for warnings is one enumerator at the call in Process::emitWarning. Error.captureStackTrace does not change here.
2. The default cut: the frame of process.emitWarning itself, or the value of the property process.emitWarning at the call, as Node has it? With the property, a function that a program installs as process.emitWarning is cut too. It costs one property read for each warning, and it needs an answer to question 1 for a wrapper that ends with a tail call.

Contract. Node documents ctor for both signatures: "an optional function used to limit the generated stack trace. Default: process.emitWarning" (process.md#L1283-L1285, #L1356-L1358). createWarningObject makes the Error under a limit of 0 and then calls ErrorCaptureStackTrace(warning, ctor || process.emitWarning) (warning.js#L187-L201).

Repro.

process.on("warning", w => console.log(w.name + ":", w.stack.split("\n")[1].trim()));
function caller() { process.emitWarning("from caller"); }
caller();
const deprecated = require("node:util").deprecate(function target() {}, "old", "DEP_X");
function user() { deprecated(); }
user();
// node v26.3.0, this PR:  Warning: at caller (...)            DeprecationWarning: at user (...)
// main:                   Warning: at emitWarning (unknown)   DeprecationWarning: at emitWarning (unknown)

On main the stack of the util.deprecate warning is emitWarning, two frames of internal:util/deprecate, then user. Under Error.stackTraceLimit = 1 the one frame of a warning is emitWarning.

Native producers. 11 places in native code make a warning without a call of process.emitWarning.

• 3 have their own host function on top of the stack where Node starts at the caller: process.binding (DEP0111), process.binding('uv').errname (DEP0119) and MessagePort#postMessage for a port that is posted to itself. They now start at the caller. MessagePort.cpp calls Process::emitWarning and no longer declares Bun__Process__emitWarning by hand.
• 8 do not change. Node has frames of its own JavaScript where Bun has the host function (setTimeout, process.execve, KeyObject.from, createHmac), or no host function is on the stack (a write to process.env, the two warnings of a rejected promise, the IPC channel).

Rows against Node v26.3.0. One fixture of 54 calls, run as a CommonJS file, a strict CommonJS file and an ES module (162 cells). A cell is the first line of the stack and the names of the frames.

	cells equal to Node
main	7 of 162
this PR	109 of 162

The 53 cells that still differ, for each file:

• 6: V8 cuts nothing (a bound function, a Proxy, { ctor: 1 }, { ctor: {} }, a deleted or non-function process.emitWarning) and Node then lists its own createWarningObject and process.emitWarning. Bun has no frames of its own there. For a bound function it has the same frames of the program as Node. For a Proxy it starts at the caller of the Proxy.
• 4: how the engine names a frame (forEach and Array.forEach, a getter, eval, new Function).
• 4: Error.stackTraceLimit is 0, negative or NaN. stack is undefined, as on main and as for new Error() under that limit. Node has the first line alone. Error.captureStackTrace takes such a limit for 10, so these warnings are made as before. Error.captureStackTrace: read Error.stackTraceLimit as V8 does #47632 changes how it reads the limit. After it, the test of the limit in Process::emitWarning can go.
• 1 each: a ctor that was never called. A function installed as process.emitWarning. The saved original, called while the property holds another function (Node: no frames).
• 1 in the two strict files: the stack of a passed Error, which process.emitWarning does not make.

More differences from Node. The case differs from node of the test has a row for the second.

• JSCStackTrace::getFramesForCaller takes a frame for the caller when the two have one name. That finds a resumed async function or generator, whose frame has another cell as its callee. For a warning only such a frame is found by name. So a ctor that is on no frame, with a resumed async function of its name on the stack, is cut at that function. Error.captureStackTrace compares the name of every frame (Error.captureStackTrace constructorOpt not working correctly #47845 reports that).
• A ctor that is on the stack below a synchronous drain of microtasks (node:vm with microtaskMode: "afterEvaluate"), with an awaited function that warns: the stack is whole. Node starts at the caller of ctor. Error.captureStackTrace has no frames there. Install Bun's Error.captureStackTrace in every realm #42605 changes that rule.
• A ctor that is an async function with no declared name (an arrow, a class field) and has been resumed is not found by the interpreter: its own frame stays on top of the functions that await it. Compiled code (bun build --compile --aot) finds it. Error.captureStackTrace has the same difference on main. Name the stack frames of async functions and generators after the inferred name (WebKit bump for oven-sh/WebKit#820) #45976 names these frames.
• A ctor that waits at an await for the function that warns is not found, and the frames between stay.

Not changed.

• The report of an uncaught --throw-deprecation warning on the main thread prints no frame, before and after. The error printer makes that report from the throw in a private tick and not from the stack of the warning. error printer: print the thrown Error, not the JSC::Exception cell, for errors escaping native callbacks #38278 changes the printer.
• The errors that built-in JavaScript makes with $ERR_* have a host function as their first frame. That is another host function and another fix.
• Http2Stream#priority (DEP0194) calls process.emitWarning with no ctor, so its own frame is on top. Node wraps it in deprecate.
• Native code makes its warnings without a call of the function that a program installs as process.emitWarning. process.emitWarning: make name, code and detail enumerable, and write nothing to a passed Error #47388 lists that.
• The hint under a deprecation names --trace-warnings. Node names --trace-deprecation (src/js/builtins/ProcessObjectInternals.ts:766). process: print Node-style warning report and hide internal frames in emitWarning #34608 has that change. This PR replaces the part of process: print Node-style warning report and hide internal frames in emitWarning #34608 that is about the stack. The rest of process: print Node-style warning report and hide internal frames in emitWarning #34608 is in process: port Node.js v26.3.0 process compatibility tests and fix the gaps they surface (env exotic-object/TZ semantics, warnings pipeline + CLI flags, uncaught origin/exit codes, execve throw, threadCpuUsage/finalization/loadEnvFile, native-module identity; +26 tests) #31831 and in process.emitWarning: make name, code and detail enumerable, and write nothing to a passed Error #47388.

Other open PRs. Each of these changes the same lines, and the second to land needs a merge by hand.

• process.emitWarning: make name, code and detail enumerable, and write nothing to a passed Error #47388: two hunks in BunProcess.cpp. It has the same test for a function as the second argument, and it makes the Error of a string with ErrorInstance::create where this PR keeps createError for native producers.
• Error.captureStackTrace: read Error.stackTraceLimit as V8 does #47632 and Install Bun's Error.captureStackTrace in every realm #42605: FormatStackTraceForJS.cpp. Their changes to the body of Error.captureStackTrace belong in Bun::captureStackTrace. With Install Bun's Error.captureStackTrace in every realm #42605 that function takes a JSC::JSGlobalObject*, and the second use of withoutCut goes.
• Error.captureStackTrace: keep frames when the callee frame was elided by a tail call #32136: if it lands, StackWithoutCut can take its answer for both callers.

Measurements. Linux x64, release builds of main (2596ac5) and of this PR. Instructions are single steps between two marks around one call (ptrace), JIT off. Two runs give the same numbers.

call, at a depth of 2 frames	whole call	inside Process::emitWarning
("m")	12,706 to 13,314	143 to 189
("m", "T", "C")	11,269 to 11,871	171 to 212
("m", "T", "C", ctor), ctor three frames up	13,145 to 14,048	171 to 212
("m", "T", "C", ctor), ctor on no frame	13,208 to 14,897	171 to 212
(err)	10,581 to 10,584	96 to 96
the setTimeout(f, NaN) that warns	42,652 to 42,676 and 42,614 to 42,740 (three runs each)	149 to 146
Error.captureStackTrace({})	20,925 to 20,933

call, at a depth of 300 frames	whole call
("m")	13,839 to 15,168
("m", "T", "C", ctor), ctor on no frame	13,907 to 117,789
Error.captureStackTrace(e, f), f on no frame	107,811 to 107,803
Error.captureStackTrace(e, f), f on top	11,966 to 11,946

• Stack walks for 100 warnings (hits of JSC::Interpreter::getStackTrace under gdb): 100 to 100 with no ctor, with a ctor on the stack, for util.deprecate, for a resumed async ctor and for a function installed as process.emitWarning. 100 to 200 for a ctor on no frame: the first walk looks at every frame and keeps none, the second stops at the limit. 0 to 0 for a passed Error.
• mi_malloc calls for 2,000 warnings: 7,060 (no ctor), 5,114 (ctor on the stack), 5,058 (ctor on no frame), the same on both builds.
• GC cells for each queued warning (heapStats of bun:jsc, 40,000 warnings): 1 Error, 1 Function, 1 Object and 2 strings, before and after.
• Release .text: 137,931,057 B to 137,931,825 B. Process::emitWarning: 1,833 B to 2,109 B. Process_emitWarning: 67 B to 100 B. The host function of Error.captureStackTrace with getFramesForCaller: 3,228 B, and 3,717 B with the body in captureStackTrace.
• Native producers: w.stack of 10 warnings from 9 producers. The three host frames named above are gone. Every other line is equal.
• The own properties of a warning and their attributes are the same on both builds.

AOT. Compiled code passes a host function the operands that its row of the table declares. With the table of main, the executable of the new program prints 3 of its 19 lines with the frames of ctor (a fourth argument is not passed). The program has a stored output, because test/aot/run-parallel.ts does not hold the names of frames to plain Bun. It fails on main and with the table of main, and passes here. No check compares the width of a row with what its host function reads.

The first shape of this change. It cut inside the walk that makes the Error, with JavaScriptCore's own filter, and had a second walk and a rule of its own for a function that was not found. A review found that it lost every frame for a ctor in tail position and for a ctor that waits at an await, and that compiled and interpreted code disagreed for a resumed async ctor. This shape has one rule, in JSCStackTrace::getFramesForCaller.

Review after the first push. Two reviews found that a frame with the name of a ctor on no frame was taken for it, so that a warning lost frames that main prints. The second commit leaves out that guess for warnings. The row of the test that had no frames now has the frames of Node. Not taken from those reviews: the value of process.emitWarning as the default cut (question 2), and the cut at a ctor below a drain of microtasks (#42605).

Self-review. Of the 21 concerns of the last review, 3 are not taken. One asked for no second use of withoutCut, because ctor is found there: without it a warning loses the seven frames that main prints. One asked for a rebased #32136 on top of this branch, and one for a compiler warning for a JSValue that is assigned and never read: both are changes of their own.

Tests.

• The 11 cases run on bun and on node (nodeExeAtLeast("26.3.0")), so their expected values are Node's. Node v26.3.0 and v26.12.1 pass all 11. On main 10 of the 11 fail on bun. The one that passes (a timer and a write to process.env) says what must not change. The case differs from node has the values of both runtimes.
• test/js/node/process/process.test.js: 219 pass, 5 skip, 1 fail (should be the node version on the host that we expect, which this change does not touch).
• test/js/node/v8/capture-stack-trace.test.js: 76 pass. 48 vendored Node tests pass: the 44 of test/js/node/test/parallel whose name has warning, deprecat or emitwarning, and test-deprecation-flags.js, test-process-warnings.js, test-promises-unhandled-rejections.js, test-error-prepare-stack-trace.js. Also test-err-name-deprecation.js, test-worker-message-port-transfer-target.js and test-process-binding.js.
• AOT, on a release build: the new program and 92 other programs of test/aot/parallel that warn, capture a stack or post to a port pass, as on main. test/aot/builtins/: 7,118 pass and the same 11 fail on main and here (rows of Bun.FFI in a local build). test/internal/builtins-table: 126 pass.
• With BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1: the 11 cases pass.

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no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/process/process.test.js

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^{Updated 8:45 AM PT - Nov 8th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 8201d1d has 3 failures in Build #138703 (All Failures):

• test/js/third_party/grpc-js/test-tonic.test.ts - code 1: error: FILE_ENDED on 🐧 13 x64-asan
• test/js/bun/test/parallel/test-docker-build-debian-slim.ts - timeout on 🐧 13 x64
• test/js/bun/test/parallel/test-docker-build-debian-slim.ts - timeout on 🐧 25.04 x64
• test/js/bun/test/parallel/test-docker-build-alpine.ts - code 1 on 🐧 25.04 x64

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🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 48213

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-48213 executable, so you can run:

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Status: the fix is pushed in #48213 and the diff is green. CI is red on tests that this diff does not touch.

How to reproduce. Run this file with bun (main 2596ac5) and with node v26.3.0:

process.on("warning", w => console.log(w.name + ":", w.stack.split("\n")[1].trim()));
function caller() { process.emitWarning("from caller"); }
caller();
const deprecated = require("node:util").deprecate(function target() {}, "old", "DEP_X");
function user() { deprecated(); }
user();

• main prints Warning: at emitWarning (unknown) and DeprecationWarning: at emitWarning (unknown).
• Node and this PR print Warning: at caller (...) and DeprecationWarning: at user (...).

CI.

• Build 138703 ran after one retrigger and is complete: 185 jobs pass and 4 fail. Three tests fail there on every retry:
  • test/js/bun/test/parallel/test-docker-build-alpine.ts and test/js/bun/test/parallel/test-docker-build-debian-slim.ts. They run docker build, and the build ends with a timeout while it installs packages.
  • test/js/third_party/grpc-js/test-tonic.test.ts. It ends with error: FILE_ENDED from unzipper, on an archive that it downloads.
• The other failures of that build passed on a retry.
• Build 138665 has the same source. Two build lanes failed there because the download of the prebuilt WebKit from GitHub answered HTTP 504.
• The new cases of test/js/node/process/process.test.js and the new AOT program pass on every lane. The one failure of that file was the existing test process.hrtime(), which passed on a retry.

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Warning emission now supports constructor-based stack trimming and a configurable stack start. Stack capture handles cases where the caller frame is unavailable. Tests cover warning stack frames across JavaScript and native warning paths.

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Warning stack behavior

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Caller-based stack capture src/jsc/bindings/ErrorStackTrace.h, src/jsc/bindings/ErrorStackTrace.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/FormatStackTraceForJS.h, src/jsc/bindings/FormatStackTraceForJS.cpp	Stack capture accepts a mode for cases where the caller frame cannot be used. Error.captureStackTrace delegates to a helper that passes this mode.
Warning stack selection src/codegen/builtins/host/process.builtins.ts, src/codegen/builtins/host/runtime-dependencies.builtins.ts, src/jsc/bindings/BunProcess.h, src/jsc/bindings/BunProcess.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/ProcessBindingUV.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/webcore/MessagePort.cpp	Process::emitWarning accepts a stack-start policy and treats callable constructor values separately from warning options. Selected process and native warning callers request stacks below their top frame.
Warning stack coverage test/aot/parallel/process/the-stack-of-a-warning-starts-below-its-ctor.cjs, test/js/node/process/process.test.js	Tests check constructor-based trimming, stack limits, async calls, native warning sources, and printed traces.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#47388: Both PRs change argument classification and warning stack creation in Process::emitWarning.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii, dylan-conway

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 818e2

Warning stacks can lose caller frames in a narrow constructor-name collision case. The remaining impact is diagnostic rather than operational; merging is reasonable with owner awareness and follow-up.

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Review comments at @src/jsc/bindings/BunProcess.cpp:
- Line 2553: Update the stack-boundary argument to Bun::captureStackTrace so
warnings without a callable ctor use the current process.emitWarning function
when its frame is present, rather than defaulting to undefined and retaining an
instrumentation wrapper as the first frame. Preserve the existing callable-ctor
behavior and fall back safely when the current emitWarning frame is absent.
- Line 2553: Update the stack-cutting logic used by Bun::captureStackTrace so it
matches the constructor frame rather than an unrelated synchronous frame with
the same name. Preserve async and AOT matching, and ensure tail-call-eliminated
Task.run frames still retain step and run in the captured stack.
- Line 2553: Update the captureStackTrace path so a callable ctor still marks
the stack boundary when async frames precede it, excluding the constructor and
frames above it as Node does. Preserve the existing tail-call workaround
associated with StackWithoutCut::IsWhole; establish how to retain both behaviors
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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 withoutCut re-collect in getFramesForCaller is bounded to one level (it passes caller = undefined, so neither withoutCut site is reachable on the second pass); the other Process::emitWarning callers (unhandled-rejection warnings, process.env writes, KeyObject, and the Rust-facing Bun__Process__emitWarning) keep the default StartsAtTopFrame, so their stacks are unchanged; and a callable second argument becoming ctor matches Node's own typeof type === 'function' branch, with name written before the lazy stack materializes so the first line keeps the warning type.
Not run here: the new process.test.js cases and BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 over the new captureStackTrace path.

Extended reasoning...

The change routes string warnings from process.emitWarning, process.binding, errname and a self-posted MessagePort through a factored-out Bun::captureStackTrace with a new StackWithoutCut::IsWhole mode in getFramesForCaller, plus a large differential test against Node. It touches no security-sensitive surface; it is stack-trace shaping in JSC bindings. One confirmed inline finding about name-matched cuts dropping frames already signals human review; this note only records the adjacent paths I read and ruled out.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🟡 src/jsc/bindings/ErrorStackTrace.cpp — Users of --trace-warnings or a 'warning' listener can get a warning whose stack has lost every user frame, where the base branch printed them all. In src/jsc/bindings/ErrorStackTrace.cpp:188 a frame that is not ctor by identity still counts as the cut when its name equals the ctor's name. When the ctor's own frame is gone (a strict-mode tail call, which every ES module is, or a ctor never called) the cut lands on an unrelated same-named frame and the frames above it are dropped. Fix: under StackWithoutCut::IsWhole, fall back to name matching only for async frames (the resumed-generator case the comment at :160-163 describes), or re-walk whole when the identity match fails on a sync frame.

  Why this was flagged

  Trigger: process.emitWarning(msg, type, code, ctor) where ctor's frame is absent, reached through Process_emitWarning (src/jsc/bindings/BunProcess.cpp:2577) which now calls Bun::captureStackTrace with the ctor (BunProcess.cpp:2553). Absent frames are routine in ES modules: const warn = m => process.emitWarning(m, 'T', 'C', warn) is a strict tail call and JavaScriptCore drops its frame. isFrameOfCaller (ErrorStackTrace.cpp:164-192) then matches by name at :188 against every frame; a wrapper, router or test runner frame named run or warn is taken for the ctor and the walk's hasFoundCaller becomes true there, so removeAt(0) at :262 and the filter at :205-211 discard every frame above it. The PR's own test row 'ctor is on no frame and a frame has its name' records the result as [] on bun versus ['step','run'] on node. On the base branch createError kept the full stack starting at emitWarning, so this is a regression in diagnostic output for the population that reads warning stacks (--trace-warnings, --trace-deprecation, 'warning' listeners, throwDeprecation).

  Verification: nit — acknowledged in diff: the new test in test/js/node/process/process.test.js pins bun's row as ["T: ctor is on no frame and a frame has its name", []] while node's is ["step", "run"]. isFrameOfCaller (src/jsc/bindings/ErrorStackTrace.cpp:164-192) otherwise matches by name (:188), so the IsWhole fallback (:214-218) never runs; on the base branch every warning kept the whole stack.

[robobun]

The second commit (26cf3ff) takes the finding that both reviews have. Here is what I did with each finding.

A frame that has the name of ctor (the second CodeRabbit finding, and the finding of the review above). Fixed. For a warning, getFramesForCaller now takes a frame for ctor by its name only if that frame runs the body of an async function or a generator. That is the one case where the frame of the function has another cell as its callee. The Task.run program now prints step, run, as Node does. Its test row moved from the differs from node case to the tail-call case. A bound function as ctor now cuts nothing, as in V8. Error.captureStackTrace does not change: there the match by name is what gives the frames of Node for a caller that ends with return super.m(), and #32136 and #47845 are about that rule.

The value of process.emitWarning as the default cut (the first CodeRabbit finding). Not in this PR. The difference is one frame: the wrapper is the first frame, then the caller. The rule of Node needs a read of the property process.emitWarning by native code for each warning, and the AOT builtins table must then declare that native code reads a property that a program can replace. It is question 2 in the notes of the PR body. The test has the frames of today and the frames of Node for it.

A ctor below a drain of microtasks (the third CodeRabbit finding). Not in this PR. The rule that finds no cut there is the rule of Error.captureStackTrace, and #42605 changes it for both callers. Until then a warning keeps the whole stack there, which is what main prints without the emitWarning frame. The test has a row with both values.

[robobun]

@coderabbitai No issue is needed. The difference is recorded in the tree: the comment at the capture in Process::emitWarning names it, and the differs from node case of the test has the frames of both runtimes. Question 2 in the notes of the PR body asks the maintainers which default they want.

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@robobun Understood. I won’t open an issue. The default-cut difference is documented, and the choice remains with the maintainers.

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[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.