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Fixes #11414
Fixes #9800

Supersedes #12550 by @pujitha24 (credited as co-author) and #9839; both predate #12625, which already keeps an ACP stderr tail.

Problem

When Google's runtime died before answering initialize, each Antigravity surface showed one fixed line:

  • install: The downloaded Antigravity runtime could not start in this environment.
  • sign-in: Google sign-in failed. Start sign-in again.

On a CPU without AVX2 (SIGILL) or a WSL kernel with ipv6.disable=1 (SIGABRT after an AF_INET6 check) users re-downloaded 650+ MB over and over with no hint. The runtime prints the reason to stderr, and #12625 keeps a redacted stderr tail, but only for exit codes: a signal death came back from the spawner as AcpTransportError: ACP transport operation read-process-exit-status failed. with no stderr and no signal name.

Fix

  • effect-acp: a signal death becomes AcpProcessExitedError with signal set (ACP process was killed by SIGILL), so the runtime attaches the stderr tail to it like it does for exit codes. This helps every ACP provider.
  • Redaction: the stderr excerpt now also masks accounts.google.com URLs, since Antigravity prints its sign-in URL (with OAuth state) to stderr.
  • Antigravity: one describeAntigravityStartupFailure turns the known signatures into actionable text and keeps the exit code or signal plus the stderr tail for anything else. Install, sign-in, session start and model refresh all use it. Session start also passes a setup error's own detail through (for example "Antigravity sign-in requires Node.js…") instead of "Check the provider setup status."
Signature Message
SIGILL, or Windows exit 0xC000001D Antigravity crashed with an illegal CPU instruction. Google's runtime needs a CPU with AVX2, which this machine does not have.
stderr mentions AF_INET6 / enforce_kernel_ipv6_support Antigravity needs IPv6 sockets, which this kernel has disabled. On WSL, remove ipv6.disable=1 from .wslconfig and run wsl --shutdown.
PyInstaller Failed to extract … failed to open target file Antigravity could not unpack its runtime into its temp directory. Check that the disk has a few GB free.
anything else Antigravity stopped while starting. ACP process exited with code N / was killed by SIG… + redacted stderr

Evidence

Managed install, with the default validator spawning a real runtime script that writes the runtime's real stderr line and kills itself with the signal:

Host main this PR
CPU without AVX (SIGILL) The downloaded Antigravity runtime could not start in this environment. Antigravity crashed with an illegal CPU instruction. Google's runtime needs a CPU with AVX2, which this machine does not have.
Kernel without IPv6 (SIGABRT) The downloaded Antigravity runtime could not start in this environment. Antigravity needs IPv6 sockets, which this kernel has disabled. On WSL, remove ipv6.disable=1 from .wslconfig and run wsl --shutdown.

A new AcpSessionRuntime test spawns a real process that writes the IPv6 line and raises SIGABRT. On main it gets AcpTransportError: ACP transport operation read-process-exit-status failed.; here AcpProcessExitedError { signal: "SIGABRT" } with the stderr line attached.

Verification

  • New tests: stdio.test.ts (signal mapping), AcpJsonRpcConnection.test.ts (real signal death), AntigravityInstallation.test.ts (both host cases, real process), AntigravityAuth.test.ts (sign-in), AcpStderr.test.ts (sign-in URL redaction). All red on main where applicable.
  • Antigravity, Cursor, Grok and ACP suites plus effect-acp pass: 425 + 48. The two failures (AntigravityAdapter "serves client file reads…", AntigravityInstallation "honors explicit paths…") also fail on main on macOS because of /var → /private/var; CI runs on Linux.
  • Server and effect-acp typecheck; lint on changed files.

Not verified on a real no-AVX or IPv6-disabled machine. The strings come from the issue reports and the PyInstaller bootloader source; the processes in the tests die the same way.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved startup error messages for runtime failures, including illegal CPU instructions and IPv6-related issues, with clearer guidance when AVX2 is required.
    • Process failures now retain signal details and available diagnostic output, making unexpected shutdowns easier to identify.
    • Sign-in URLs are hidden in error details to prevent OAuth state information from being exposed.
    • Failed runtime validation now reports recognized startup issues while keeping the previously selected release active.

When Google's runtime died before answering initialize, T3 showed one
generic line per surface: "The downloaded Antigravity runtime could not
start in this environment." on install, "Google sign-in failed. Start
sign-in again." on sign-in. Users on a CPU without AVX2 (#11414) or a
kernel with IPv6 disabled (#9800) re-downloaded 650+ MB repeatedly with
no hint. The runtime's stderr already said why, but a signal death came
back from the spawner as a transport error with no stderr attached.

- effect-acp reports a signal death as AcpProcessExitedError with the
  signal named, so the runtime attaches the redacted stderr tail to it
  like it does for exit codes.
- The stderr redaction also masks Google sign-in URLs, since Antigravity
  prints them to stderr.
- One Antigravity classifier turns SIGILL (or Windows' illegal-instruction
  exit), the IPv6 check and a PyInstaller extraction failure into
  actionable text, and keeps the exit code or signal plus stderr for the
  rest. Install, sign-in, session start and model refresh all use it.
  Session start also passes a setup error's own detail through instead of
  "Check the provider setup status."

Co-Authored-By: pujitha24 <10557236+pujitha24@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This is a focused startup-diagnostics fix, but it changes authentication failure handling, OAuth URL sanitization, and shared ACP process-error classification. Those sensitive cross-cutting paths warrant human review despite the limited scope and added tests.

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✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider Metric Main baseline This PR Impact PR ceiling
Codex Total thread wire 13.5 KiB 13.5 KiB +37 B (+0.3%) 15.1 KiB ✅
Codex Thread snapshot wire 7.1 KiB 7.1 KiB +6 B (+0.1%) 7.3 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket wire 6.4 KiB 6.5 KiB +31 B (+0.5%) 7.8 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket decoded 56.2 KiB 56.3 KiB +44 B (+0.1%) 66.4 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn messages 9 10 +1 (+11.1%) 21 ✅
Claude Total thread wire 13.5 KiB 13.5 KiB +13 B (+0.1%) 15.1 KiB ✅
Claude Thread snapshot wire 7.1 KiB 7.1 KiB −2 B (−0.0%) 7.3 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket wire 6.4 KiB 6.5 KiB +15 B (+0.2%) 7.8 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket decoded 57.0 KiB 57.0 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 66.4 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn messages 9 9 0 (0.0%) 21 ✅

Baseline: e67abcf · PR result: 2115f98 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

  • Codex decoded thread snapshot: 114.0 KiB
  • Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.6 KiB

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ACP process errors now retain termination signals, and stderr excerpts redact Google sign-in URLs. Antigravity startup failure descriptions are used in authentication, installation, model-refresh, and session-startup error paths.

Changes

Antigravity startup diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Preserve ACP process and stderr details
packages/effect-acp/src/errors.ts, packages/effect-acp/src/_internal/stdio.ts, packages/effect-acp/src/_internal/stdio.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpSessionRuntime.ts, apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpStderr.ts, apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpStderr.test.ts
ACP process-exit errors can include a termination signal. Runtime error enrichment retains that signal. Stderr sanitization replaces Google account URLs with [sign-in-url].
Classify and report startup failures
apps/server/src/provider/acp/AntigravityAcpSupport.ts, apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpJsonRpcConnection.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/AntigravityInstallation.ts, apps/server/src/provider/AntigravityInstallation.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/AntigravityAuth.ts, apps/server/src/provider/AntigravityAuth.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/AntigravityDriver.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/AntigravityAdapter.ts
Authentication, installation, model-refresh, and session-startup paths use recognized startup-failure descriptions. The illegal-instruction message states that AVX2 is needed. Tests cover signal and startup diagnostic reporting.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2115f

Long sign-in URLs may leave sensitive query text in displayed startup errors. Fix the stderr-tail redaction boundary before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: replacing generic Antigravity runtime crash messages with specific diagnostics.
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the problem, solution, affected surfaces, known failure signatures, evidence, and verification results. It does not use the template headings or include the checklist,…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR meets the coding requirements for [#11414] and [#9800]. describeAntigravityStartupFailure classifies SIGILL and Windows illegal-instruction exits, and reports the AVX2 requirement. It class…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within the linked issues' Antigravity startup-failure diagnostics scope. Signal preservation, stderr-tail propagation, stderr URL redaction, failure classification, and routing to ins…
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🟡 Minor · Drop the first token when the stderr tail is truncated. · AcpSessionRuntime.ts:388-390

apps/server/src/provider/acp/AcpSessionRuntime.ts:388-390
🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Drop the first token when the stderr tail is truncated.

appendAcpStderrTail can retain the middle of a long Google URL. OAUTH_URL_PATTERN then cannot match it because the https://accounts.google.com/ prefix was discarded. Track truncation with the tail and remove its first whitespace- or quote-delimited token before sanitization. The URL contains no internal whitespace or quotes, and the flag persists across decoded chunks.

Suggested fix
-export function appendAcpStderrTail(current: string, chunk: string): string {
-  const next = `${current}${chunk}`;
-  return next.length <= ACP_STDERR_TAIL_MAX_CHARS ? next : next.slice(-ACP_STDERR_TAIL_MAX_CHARS);
+export interface AcpStderrTail {
+  readonly text: string;
+  readonly truncated: boolean;
+}
+
+export function appendAcpStderrTail(
+  current: AcpStderrTail,
+  chunk: string,
+): AcpStderrTail {
+  const next = `${current.text}${chunk}`;
+  return next.length <= ACP_STDERR_TAIL_MAX_CHARS
+    ? { text: next, truncated: current.truncated }
+    : { text: next.slice(-ACP_STDERR_TAIL_MAX_CHARS), truncated: true };
 }
 
 /** Bounded, redacted excerpt safe to put on user-facing adapter errors. */
+export function sanitizeAcpStderrTail(tail: AcpStderrTail): string {
+  const text = tail.truncated ? tail.text.replace(/^[^\s"]*(?:[\s"]|$)/, "") : tail.text;
+  return sanitizeAcpStderrExcerpt(text);
+}
+
 export function sanitizeAcpStderrExcerpt(

Update stderrTailRef to hold { text: "", truncated: false }, pass that value to appendAcpStderrTail, and call sanitizeAcpStderrTail at the exit-enrichment boundary.

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Track whether the stderr tail has been truncated in appendAcpStderrTail and
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