[robobun]

Problem

• With GITHUB_ACTIONS=true, bun test prints no ::error annotation for a syntax error or an import that does not resolve. A thrown Error gets one. No issue reports this.
• The arms for BuildMessage and ResolveMessage in print_error_from_maybe_private_data (src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:6788, :6807) print and return before the annotation code (:7489).

Fix

• Under bun test, both arms write ::error file=F,line=L,col=C,title=BuildMessage::<text> after each printed message of kind error.
• The text is the data: GitHub makes no annotation from a command without data.
• Verified: test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts (4 new cases, 3 fail on main). Also junit.test.js, test-reporter.test.ts, build-error.test.ts, stack.test.ts, --aot mirrors.
• Self-reviewed: 16 concerns raised, 13 addressed. Not taken: data for existing lines without data (a separate defect), tracking issues, one unchecked citation.

Background

• GitHub Actions shows a log line ::error file=F,line=L,col=C,title=T::M on that line of the pull request, 10 per step.
• A failed module load rejects with a BuildMessage or ResolveMessage: a wrapper of a bun_ast::Msg (text, kind, location).
• Considered a one-frame ZigException through the existing writer: 14 write(2) calls per message, no data without a position.

Downsides

• On every command, the annotation of a thrown value no longer has col=0 (an invalid regex, atob("*")). file= and line= stay.
• No cap: 12 build errors take the step's 10 annotations, as 12 Errors do. An import that the module loader does not resolve has no position, so its annotation has no file=.
• Release .text: +512 bytes. Per reported build message: +32 instructions, +1,696 when annotated, +99 per annotated Error. No added write(2) or allocation.

Notes

Why this is a defect

• docs/test/index.mdx says bun test "emits GitHub Actions annotations to the console directly".
• Fix some errors not showing up in GitHub annotations #8799 ("Fix some errors not showing up in GitHub annotations") sent the error of a test file that fails to load to the annotation code.
• bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 made the JUnit reporter record these two classes, with the class as type and the text as message.
• Nothing says that a build or resolve error must have no annotation. The two arms return before the code that Small improvements to bun test  #3071 added for an Error.

Repro (main 2596ac5, linux x64)

a.test.ts is const half = ;. Run GITHUB_ACTIONS=true bun test.

# Unhandled error between tests
-------------------------------
1 | const half = ;
                 ^
error: Unexpected ;
    at /tmp/x/a.test.ts:1:14
-------------------------------

With this change, an empty line and this line follow the at line:

::error file=a.test.ts,line=1,col=14,title=BuildMessage::Unexpected ;

case	line
const x;\nconst half = ;	one line per error, at 1:7 and at 2:14
import "./does-not-exist";	::error title=ResolveMessage::Cannot find module './does-not-exist' from '/tmp/x/a.test.ts'
await Bun.build() of a file with that import	::error file=entry.ts,line=1,col=8,title=ResolveMessage::Could not resolve: "./does-not-exist"
a plugin whose onLoad throws for data.txt	::error file=data.txt,title=BuildMessage::<text>
await import("./bad.ts") in a test	::error file=bad.ts,line=1,col=14,..., before the (fail) line of that test
a broken --preload, a --parallel worker	the same line
console.error() or Bun.inspect() of the error	no line, as for an Error
GITHUB_ACTIONS unset or false, or AGENT=1	no line

Decisions

• Scope. The line is written under bun test only. The gate is Output::IS_GITHUB_ACTION, the flag that TestCommand::exec sets. Until now nothing read it. bun run prints an annotation for a thrown Error since 1.4.0: there the annotation code reads the environment. 1.3.13 and 1.3.14 print none, and the review of Small improvements to bun test  #3071 asked for the flag to be set in the test command only. This PR does not add two more classes to that. If a maintainer wants the lines under bun run too, the gate is one expression. One change does reach every command: the col=0 rule for a thrown value, below.
• Title and data. title= is the class and the data is the text, as for bun check (title=TS2322::<text>) and the JUnit reporter. A line ::error title=<class>: <text>:: has no data. Issue.ToAnnotation() in actions/runner (src/Sdk/RSWebApi/Contracts/IssueExtensions.cs) returns null for an empty message. This is from a read of that source, not from a run on GitHub.
• One line per printed message. A BuildMessage or ResolveMessage prints once per object (the logged flag). The line is written with that print. Print a module's build or resolve error every time it is reported, not only the first time #39292 removes the flag. The line then follows each print. A first version wrote the line on each report: one failing macro call then printed the same line twice.
• A thrown message keeps its shape. A BuildMessage that require() throws in a test arrives inside a JSC::Exception, and main prints it as an Error: ::error file=<test file>,line=..,col=..,title=BuildMessage: <text>::<stack>, at the place of the throw. That does not change. The new test has a case for it.
• Warnings. Only a message of kind error gets a line. No annotation of the runtime is a ::warning today, and scripts/runner.node.ts reads ::error only.
• Count. One line per error member of an AggregateError: at most 256 for one failed import, no bound for a Bun.build() rejection. The line goes into the buffer that holds the message, so it adds no write(2) call.
• Position. A line or a column below 1 is left out. The parser reports column 0 for the end of a file with CRLF line endings: that line has no col=. The error of a plugin names a file and line 0: that line has file= alone.
• The same rule for a thrown value, on every command. The annotation of an Error shares this code, under bun <file> and bun run too. Main writes col=0 for a thrown value whose top frame has a line and no column. const r = /(/; in a.test.js gives ::error file=a.test.js,line=1,col=0,title=SyntaxError: ... on main and ::error file=a.test.js,line=1,title=SyntaxError: ... here. atob("*") in an async test does the same. The line is the same, so the annotation stays at its place. A thrown value with a column keeps every byte. No test in the repository asks for a line with col=0. If a thrown value must keep col=0, the rule moves from the shared code to the new caller, as in the first commit of this PR.
• The notes of a message ("x" was originally declared here) are not in the annotation.

More downsides

• A test that fails with a build error and passes on a retry keeps the line of its failed attempt, as for a thrown Error today.
• The annotation of an import that the module loader does not resolve shows in the run summary, not on the diff.

Other design weighed

• An annotation in the test runner, beside TestFailure::record_log_message. It sees only the value that fails a test file or a test, so it misses the members of an AggregateError.

Not in this PR

• Commands other than bun test (see Scope).
• The position of an import that the module loader does not resolve. resolve_without_on_resolve makes that message with no location. ResolveMessage.referrer is not used as file=: it is not always a file (a directory for Bun.resolveSync(x, import.meta.dir)). A position set where the message is made reaches this line with no further change.
• Lines without data that exist today: a thrown string (::error title=error: Oops::), an import of a name that a module does not export (::error title=SyntaxError: Export named 'nope' not found in module '...'.::) and the timeout of a test. By the same rule of actions/runner they make no annotation. bun test: keep every message line after the title in the GitHub Actions annotation body #38256 and bun test: emit one anchored GitHub Actions annotation per failed test #41876 change those writers.
• The inspector event LifecycleReporter.error is not sent for these messages. It takes a ZigException.
• JUnit capture of the members of an AggregateError of build errors: bun test --reporter=junit: capture build and resolve errors as they print, and record an unhandled error where it is counted #48280. It adds a report hook at the top of the same two arms. The two changes touch different lines of the arms.
• Log::print callers (bun build, bun install), a preload or a test file that the resolver does not find, and a bunfig.toml that does not parse: they do not pass the error printer.
• Module loader: reject with one SyntaxError when Bun's parser refuses a file #48069 (draft, part of BuildMessage/ResolveMessage should extend Error #7531) makes the loader reject with a SyntaxError. Its new print path for the other diagnostics must call print_github_annotation_for_msg.
• % in the data is not encoded, as in the annotation of an Error: GitHub Actions annotations: percent-encode % and a lone CR in the body #38268.
• The column after a CR. The annotation prints the line and the column of the message, as the console does. logger: locate a diagnostic at the first byte of its CR LF pair or UTF-8 sequence, and count columns from 1 after a CR #45554 makes the parser count columns from 1 after a CR, and changes where it puts an error at a CR LF pair. The annotation follows with no change here. The row for CRLF in the new test then needs its new line.
• bun check and bun lint already annotate type and lint errors. This PR is for a plain bun test and for load failures that those do not see.

Self-review

16 concerns raised, 13 addressed. The scope gate, the line per printed message, the position parts and six of the test cases come from it. After the review on this PR, the new tests run concurrently, the rule for a line or column below 1 covers the annotation of an Error too, and the rows for CRLF and for a data: URL assert exact lines. Not taken:

• To give data to the existing lines that have none (see above). It changes the bytes of annotations that two open PRs rewrite, and it is a defect of its own.
• To open tracking issues for the items above. They are listed here.
• To cite public check runs for the empty-data rule. Their annotations are readable through the API, their logs are not, so the source of the runner stays the reference.

Measurements

Release builds of main 2596ac5 and of this branch, linux x64.

• Size: .text 137,930,427 to 137,930,939 bytes (size). New: print_github_annotation_for_msg 418 bytes, write_github_annotation_head 295. print_github_annotation 3,282 to 3,162, print_error_from_maybe_private_data 2,806 to 2,883 (nm -S).
• write(2) calls (syscw of /proc/<pid>/io, GITHUB_ACTIONS=true): bun test of a syntax error 11 to 11, of two errors 12 to 12, of a missing import 11 to 11, of a thrown TypeError 25 to 25. bun run of the same files: 3, 4, 3 and 17, not changed.
• Instructions (instructions:u through perf_event_open, bun test, 20,000 reports, median of 10 interleaved runs). Per reported Error: +7 without GitHub Actions (noise 10), +99 with it (noise 12). Per reported build message: +32 without (noise 8), +1,696 with (noise 13). One report of a build message takes 46,650.
• Allocations (gdb hit counts on the 16 mimalloc entry points, bun test, 2,000 reported build messages, two runs each): 66,079 and 66,015 on main, 66,033 and 66,184 on this branch. One allocation per message adds 2,000.
• Output (13 cases): with GITHUB_ACTIONS unset, false, or true beside AGENT=1, 0 bytes differ in 39 runs (cmp). With GITHUB_ACTIONS=true, 8 new ::error lines in the 7 bun test cases with a build or resolve error, each after one empty line. The bun run cases and the lines of a thrown TypeError have the same bytes. A thrown value with column 0 is not among these cases: see Decisions.
• scripts/runner.node.ts: its ::error parser reads 9 of 9 new lines with the expected file, line, column and title. A line without file= falls back to the test path. The runner does not decide pass or fail from these lines.

perf, valgrind and strace are not installed on the build machine. The counters above replace them.

Suites run

• Debug build: test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts, test/js/bun/resolve/build-error.test.ts, test/js/junit-reporter/junit.test.js, test/cli/inspect/test-reporter.test.ts, test/js/bun/test/stack.test.ts. One case of bun-test.test.ts that this PR does not touch ("instances of a class nested too deeply to print are a RangeError") takes more than its 5 s there.
• Release build: test/aot/runner-suites/bun-test-1.test.ts, -2 and -3, which run bun-test.test.ts with each child run under --aot.

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no test proof · iteration 1 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts

[robobun]

^{Updated 5:35 AM PT - Nov 9th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 5163e23 has some failures in Build #139240 (All Failures)

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[robobun]

Status: ready for review. CI is green on every job that ran.

How I reproduced it: a.test.ts is const half = ;. Run GITHUB_ACTIONS=true bun test.

• main: the code frame and error: Unexpected ; print. No line starts with ::error.
• this PR (bun test: annotate build and resolve errors for GitHub Actions #48326): ::error file=a.test.ts,line=1,col=14,title=BuildMessage::Unexpected ; follows the message.

CI: build 139240 is complete. Each of the 187 jobs that ran passed: Linux (glibc, musl, ASAN), macOS aarch64 and x64, Windows x64 and aarch64. One job did not run: shard 4 of 4 of darwin x64 - test-bun. It expired four times in a queue that was more than 4 hours behind, and that is why the check is red. The test file of this PR, test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts, is in shard 3 of 4 on that lane and passed there (232 pass, 0 fail). A retry of the expired job in Buildkite makes the shard run. No failure is in this diff.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

When GitHub Actions mode is enabled, error-severity build and resolve messages can emit ::error annotations when side effects are allowed. Exception annotations use the shared location-header helper. Tests cover annotation locations, formatting, and conditions that enable or suppress annotations.

Changes

GitHub Actions error annotations

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Annotation output and validation src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts	The VM formats annotations for build and resolve errors and uses the shared location-header helper for exceptions. CLI tests cover load failures, printed versus test-failing errors, parallel workers, and disabled annotations.

Possibly related issues

• Issue 43484 concerns workflow annotation commands being logged as literal text when bun run --filter adds a package prefix. This change adds ::error annotations but does not alter prefix handling.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#39292: Both changes affect build and resolve error printing. Removing the logged gate could change when the annotation logic runs for repeated reports.

Suggested reviewers: dylan-conway, jarred-sumner

Merge Risk: Low · up to 5163e

The change is mergeable with awareness that annotations for files using lone carriage returns can point one column early or omit the column. A targeted correction can follow without blocking ordinary test workflows.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "bun test: annotate build and resolve errors for GitHub Actions" names the main change: under bun test, BuildMessage and ResolveMessage errors now emit GitHub Actions ::error annotations. It…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description follows the template with both required sections, "What does this PR do?" (as Problem, Fix, Background, Downsides, Decisions, and Not in this PR) and "How did you verify your code work…

Full details: Title check

Explanation

The title "bun test: annotate build and resolve errors for GitHub Actions" names the main change: under bun test, BuildMessage and ResolveMessage errors now emit GitHub Actions ::error annotations. It matches the raw summary and the PR objectives, and it is specific enough for a teammate scanning history. It does not mention the shared thrown-Error column change, which is a secondary effect and does not need to appear in the title.

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Explanation

The description follows the template with both required sections, "What does this PR do?" (as Problem, Fix, Background, Downsides, Decisions, and Not in this PR) and "How did you verify your code works?" (as Verified, Suites run, Measurements, and Self-review). It states the defect, the fix, the affected files, the reproduction steps, the test cases, the measured performance impact, and the known downsides. The description is detailed and specific. It does not mention the GITHUB_ACTIONS gate, unlike the decision section, so it is complete. The evidence note says the main test file (test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts) did not run on the author's machine and is deferred to CI, so the verification of the primary test suite is not confirmed locally. The description also says that the change affects col=0 output for thrown values on every command, which is a behavioral change the author flags for maintainer review. The raw summary and objectives match the description.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:
- Around line 8105-8122: Update the exception-frame annotation coordinate
handling to omit nonpositive values before writing them: only emit line and
column fields when each coordinate is greater than zero, preserving the existing
behavior for valid coordinates.

Review comments at @test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts:
- Line 846: Update the four independent annotation tests around the test case
beginning “should annotate a test file that fails to load with a build or
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[claude]

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

LGTM, apart from the inline nit on the CRLF assertion. The exception-path refactor keeps the old file=/line=/col= emission (the is_invalid() guard and one_based() move into the located_frame filter, all three parts still appear together or not at all), and the borrowed source_url does not outlive its frame. I did not run the new tests or rust:check-all; this is from reading only.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a GitHub Actions ::error line after each printed error-kind BuildMessage/ResolveMessage in print_error_from_maybe_private_data, gated on allow_side_effects and the IS_GITHUB_ACTION flag that only test_command.rs sets (before the worker branch, so --parallel workers are covered), and factors the existing exception annotation into shared github_annotation_dir/write_github_annotation_head helpers. It touches no security-sensitive surface: output formatting only, with file names escaped through the existing github_action_property formatter. Location.line is documented 1-based with <= 0 meaning absent, so the > 0 filters match the type's contract; the printed at line keeps column 0 while the annotation drops it, a cosmetic divergence only. The bun run scope gap is a stated design decision in the PR, not an oversight. Small diff, no CODEOWNER on the changed paths, the runTest helper already spreads bunEnv, and the one surviving finding is a test-strength nit.

[robobun]

Review follow-up in dc0fcde:

• The four new tests are test.concurrent and start bun test with Bun.spawn.
• The shared start of the ::error command leaves out a line or a column below 1. This covers the annotation of an Error too, which wrote col=0 for a frame with a line and no column.
• The rows for a file with CRLF line endings and for a data: URL assert exact lines.

The Fix section of the description now names the other suites and the concerns that were not taken.

[claude]

I reviewed the updated PR and didn't find any bugs; the second commit now pins the exact CRLF line without col=, which settles the nit from my earlier pass. Because this changes CI-visible output (new ::error lines for build/resolve errors, and the existing exception path now omits line=/col= for values below 1 where it used to print them) and fixes a title/data layout maintainers will live with, a human look at those format and scope choices would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• The two new call sites in print_error_from_maybe_private_data: gated on allow_side_effects and Output::IS_GITHUB_ACTION, warn-kind messages skipped, written into the same buffered writer ahead of the existing Output::flush(), so no extra write(2).
• The print_github_annotation refactor: source_url is held in a local across the zip/map so the slice does not outlive its Utf8Bytes; github_annotation_dir() returns &'static [u8] from both arms; file goes through github_action_property, text through github_action (newlines escaped, % unescaped as before).
• Not done: I did not run the four new test cases, so the expected annotation strings (file order, the ${basename}${sep} relative path on Windows, the h,odd%name filename) are checked by reading only.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds about 70 lines to src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs: a new annotation writer for BuildMessage/ResolveMessage under bun test, two shared helpers for the annotation head and the workspace dir, and a refactor of the existing exception annotation onto those helpers; plus four new subprocess tests in test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts. It touches no security-sensitive surface; the output is CI log text escaped by the existing github_action helpers. No CODEOWNERS entry covers the changed files, the bug hunt ran dry with no findings, and the later commit addressed my earlier inline nit. Deferral rather than approval rests on this being a user-visible output format change (title=class, text as data, omitted line/col) scoped to bun test only, which is a design call a maintainer should confirm, and on the tests not having been run in this review.

[robobun]

Three choices in this PR need a maintainer's decision. Each is a small edit.

• Scope. The new line is written under bun test only. bun run prints an annotation for a thrown Error since 1.4.0, and 1.3.14 prints none. The gate is one expression in print_github_annotation_for_msg.
• Format. title= is the class and the message text is the data: ::error file=a.test.ts,line=1,col=14,title=BuildMessage::Unexpected ;. bun check uses the same layout. A line with the text in the title has no data, and GitHub makes no annotation from it.
• Existing output, on every command. The annotation of a thrown value no longer writes col=0. Main writes it when the top frame has a line and no column: const r = /(/; gives file=a.test.js,line=1,col=0 on main and file=a.test.js,line=1 here, under bun test and under bun a.test.js. atob("*") in an async test does the same. file= and line= stay. If a thrown value must keep col=0, the rule moves from the shared code to the new caller, as in the first commit.

Edited: the third item first said that only a rare frame is affected, and did not say that it applies outside bun test.

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