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bun run lint now runs oxlint in type-aware mode via the oxlint-tsgolint companion binary, so it can catch unawaited promises and unhandled rejections. no-floating-promises and no-misused-promises are the point; await-thenable, return-await, prefer-promise-reject-errors, and promise-function-async come along behind them. Type-aware mode is switched on by options.typeAware in .oxlintrc.json rather than a flag on each lint script, because there are four invocation sites and a site that loses the flag runs zero type-aware rules while still exiting 0. The root tsconfig.json is now "files": [], since a base config with no include defaults to the whole repository and becomes the fallback project for every unclaimed file. The lint scripts also fail on suppressions that have outlived their violation.

The gate surfaced one real defect. CLI_SIGINT_HANDLER was async and registered straight onto process.on, which discards a listener's return value, so a rejection in the interrupt sequence became an unhandled rejection during shutdown: a stack trace instead of the user's shell back, and no signal death for a wrapping script to read. It is now a synchronous wrapper around runInterruptSequence that catches, and whose fallback plain-exits rather than rejecting if the re-raise itself throws. The rest is mechanical: void on fire-and-forget calls, await on top-level runProgram, dropped redundant return await, added async.

Two rules are off for test files, since Bun types expect(p).rejects.toThrow() as returning void when at runtime it returns a promise. require-await is omitted entirely because it and promise-function-async are mutually unsatisfiable for a function that must return a promise with nothing to await. Full rationale in .claude/rules/promises.md.

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  • format:check, lint, typecheck clean; 2656 unit tests pass
  • Gate verified by planting a floating promise under each linted root and confirming all four invocation shapes report it
  • Each commit green independently, so the branch stays bisectable
  • E2E not run locally; CI covers it
  • Changeset: clerk patch

…omises

Prepares the tree for the type-aware promise lint rules added in the next
commit, and fixes one real defect along the way.

`CLI_SIGINT_HANDLER` was async and registered straight onto `process.on`,
which discards a listener's return value. A rejection anywhere in the
interrupt sequence — the lazy telemetry import, the flush itself — became an
unhandled rejection during shutdown, printing a stack trace instead of
returning the user's shell, and the process never reached the signal death a
wrapping script reads. The sequence is now `runInterruptSequence`, with
`CLI_SIGINT_HANDLER` a synchronous wrapper that catches and still exits by the
route the interrupt calls for.

`generateCodeChallenge` was async but does no async work, so it is now
synchronous across its call sites.

The rest is mechanical: `void` on fire-and-forget `Bun.Server.stop()` calls in
`auth-server`, `await` on the top-level `runProgram` and two spawn writes,
dropped redundant `return await`, and `async` on functions that return a
promise without declaring it. Memoized promise getters in `doctor/context.ts`
and `fetch.ts` are deliberately left alone — wrapping a cached promise in a
fresh one per call breaks the identity their callers and tests rely on.
…aware oxlint

Turns on oxlint's `--type-aware` mode, which needs type information and so
needs the `oxlint-tsgolint` companion binary (version-matched to typescript@7).
The whole repo lints in well under a second, so the pass runs everywhere the
plain lint did: the workspace lint scripts, the nano-staged pre-commit hook,
and CI's existing lint job.

Six rules are enabled. `no-floating-promises` and `no-misused-promises` are the
point — a promise nobody awaits, and a promise handed to something expecting a
void return, which is how an async event listener silently drops its
rejections. `await-thenable`, `return-await`, `prefer-promise-reject-errors`,
and `promise-function-async` come along behind them.

`--type-aware` also switches on several type-aware correctness rules unrelated
to promises (`no-base-to-string`, `restrict-template-expressions`,
`unbound-method`, and others). Those have a real backlog and are set explicitly
off; adopting them is a separate decision, not a side effect of wanting promise
safety.

Two rules are off for test files because Bun's own type definitions make them
fire on correct code. `bun-types` declares `expect(p).rejects.toThrow()` as
returning void when at runtime it returns a promise, so `await-thenable` flags
248 load-bearing awaits whose removal would turn every rejection test into a
silent false pass. `promise-function-async` flags async test stubs that exist
to match the shape of the API they replace. `no-floating-promises` stays on in
tests, with `bun:test`'s fire-and-forget `mock.module()` allowlisted.

`require-await` is not enabled anywhere: it and `promise-function-async` are
mutually unsatisfiable for a function that must return a promise but has
nothing to await, and such functions are common here because callback contracts
demand one. Rationale and escape hatches are in .claude/rules/promises.md.
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The pull request enables type-aware Oxlint promise checks and documents repository-specific promise patterns. It updates CLI command callbacks, entrypoints, MCP handlers, library helpers, tests, and scripts to use explicit asynchronous control flow. It makes PKCE challenge generation synchronous. It separates runInterruptSequence from the synchronous CLI_SIGINT_HANDLER and adds rejection handling that falls back to exitInterrupted.

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The PR strengthens promise-safety linting, but one lint entry point may still accept stale suppressions that other paths reject, weakening enforcement consistency. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up.

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In @.claude/rules/promises.md:
- Around line 37-44: Update the no-floating-promises guidance to list return as
an accepted promise ending, and revise the setTimeout example to attach a
rejection handler alongside void so ignored server.stop() rejections are
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Comment thread .claude/rules/promises.md Outdated
Type-aware linting maps each file to the nearest tsconfig and silently
skips any file no project claims, so the shape of the root config decides
how much of the repo actually gets checked. The root tsconfig declared no
`include`, which meant it defaulted to the whole repository and became the
fallback project for every unclaimed file — a 1299-file program against
the ~950 the scoped ones build. It is a base config that every real
project extends, so it now says `files: []` and claims nothing.

The `lint` scripts also pass
`--report-unused-disable-directives-severity=error`, so a suppression that
has outlived its violation fails the build. The bare
`--report-unused-disable-directives` reports at `warning` and oxlint exits
0 on warnings, so it would never have gated anything. Turning it on
immediately found a dead `eslint-disable-next-line` in `lib/help.ts` — an
ESLint-flavored directive, naming an ESLint plugin rule, in a repo with no
ESLint. Its explanatory note was the only load-bearing part and survives as
a plain comment.

The pre-commit hook deliberately keeps the plain `--type-aware`: it lints
only staged files, and a directive is not unused just because the line it
covers wasn't staged.
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`CLI_SIGINT_HANDLER` catches a failed interrupt sequence and routes it to
`exitInterrupted`, but that call can throw on its own: it re-raises through
`process.kill`, which fails with EPERM or ESRCH under an exotic enough
process setup. A throw from inside the `.catch` handler rejects the chain,
which lands as exactly the unhandled-rejection-during-shutdown the wrapper
exists to prevent — only now on the path that is supposed to be the net.

Plain-exit instead when the re-raise fails. The exit code is still right;
only `WIFSIGNALED` is lost, which is strictly better than a stack trace.

The two handler tests also stopped guessing at turn counts. They waited one
`setTimeout(0)` for a chain that runs a dynamic `import()` of the telemetry
module, so they passed on the strength of that import resolving in
microtasks. They now resolve a promise from the `process.exit` stub and
await the exit itself, which is the event they were always trying to observe.
Three sites came out of the `promise-function-async` pass as an `async`
function whose body still hands back a separately-constructed promise:

    detect: async () => Promise.resolve(findClientBinary(binary) !== null)
    detect: spec.detect ?? (async () => Promise.resolve(false))
    if (!shouldEnableV8MiddlewareFlag(ctx)) return Promise.resolve(null)

Once the function is `async` the wrapper is the thing that returns the
promise, so the inner `Promise.resolve` only allocates a second one to
immediately unwrap. It also reads as though something asynchronous happens
here, and nothing does. Return the value.
`--type-aware` was repeated across four invocation sites: the root `lint`,
the two package `lint` scripts, and the `nano-staged` pre-commit hook. A
flag that has to be spelled four times is a flag that eventually gets
spelled three times, and the failure is silent — a site that loses it runs
zero type-aware rules and still exits 0. The drift had already started:
the hook deliberately omits
`--report-unused-disable-directives-severity=error`, so the four commands
were no longer copies of each other and the odd one out was easy to miss.

`options.typeAware` in `.oxlintrc.json` says it once. Only the root config
may set it — oxlint ignores the field in nested configs — which is fine
here because that is the single config every site already resolves to: the
package scripts pass no `-c` at all and find it by walking up from their
cwd.

Verified by planting a floating promise under `packages/cli-core/src`,
`packages/extras/src`, and `scripts/`, then confirming all four invocation
shapes still report it.
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49-49: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Apply the unused-suppression failure policy to this invocation.

Line 49 does not set --report-unused-disable-directives-severity=error. This invocation can accept a stale suppression that the root and package lint commands reject. Add the same option here.

Proposed fix
-      "oxlint -c .oxlintrc.json --no-error-on-unmatched-pattern"
+      "oxlint --report-unused-disable-directives-severity=error -c .oxlintrc.json --no-error-on-unmatched-pattern"
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In `@package.json` at line 49, Update the oxlint invocation in the package scripts
to include --report-unused-disable-directives-severity=error, matching the
enforcement used by the root and package lint commands.
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packages/cli-core/src/lib/signals.test.ts (1)

254-262: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the plain-exit fallback.

This test makes telemetry reject, but process.exit returns normally. exitInterrupted does not throw, so the fallback in packages/cli-core/src/lib/signals.ts Lines 219-225 is not tested. Make the signal re-raise throw, then assert that the plain process.exit(EXIT_CODE.SIGINT) fallback runs.

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In `@packages/cli-core/src/lib/signals.test.ts` around lines 254 - 262, Update the
test around CLI_SIGINT_HANDLER so the signal’s re-raise path throws after
telemetry failure, exercising exitInterrupted’s fallback behavior. Then assert
that the plain process.exit fallback is invoked with EXIT_CODE.SIGINT, while
preserving the existing telemetry rejection setup.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@package.json`:
- Line 49: Update the oxlint invocation in the package scripts to include
--report-unused-disable-directives-severity=error, matching the enforcement used
by the root and package lint commands.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/cli-core/src/lib/signals.test.ts`:
- Around line 254-262: Update the test around CLI_SIGINT_HANDLER so the signal’s
re-raise path throws after telemetry failure, exercising exitInterrupted’s
fallback behavior. Then assert that the plain process.exit fallback is invoked
with EXIT_CODE.SIGINT, while preserving the existing telemetry rejection setup.

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The `CLI_SIGINT_HANDLER` fallback added in c563b90 had no test. The
existing failing-sequence test makes telemetry reject, but `process.exit`
returns normally, so `exitInterrupted` never throws and the inner catch
never ran. The new test makes `process.kill` throw with the re-raise
escape hatch off, so the re-raise is genuinely attempted and fails, and
asserts the plain `process.exit(130)` still happens.

`promises.md` listed `void` alongside `await` and a rejection handler as
if the three were equivalent endings. They are not: `void` silences the
diagnostic, not the rejection, so a promise that rejects after being
`void`ed is still an unhandled rejection — the exact failure this rule
set exists to prevent. It also omitted `return`, which the rule accepts.
Both corrected.
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