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What

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  • Add common::gh_api_get to tools/install/_common.sh: it reads the HTTP status alongside the body and fails fast instead of feeding error payloads into the release-page loop — HTTP 429, and HTTP 403 whose body confirms rate limiting, get a rate-limit error that points at GITHUB_TOKEN; any other HTTP 403 is reported as a generic access denied failure; remaining non-200 responses and curl failures become explicit HTTP/transport errors.
  • Make the pagination empty-page guard match GitHub's pretty-printed [\n\n] — the byte-exact [] check never fired, so every lookup burned the full 20 pages.
  • Replace the ${var//[[:space:]]/} full-body whitespace strip (which stalls on multi-MB release pages) with an anchored empty-page regex.
  • Fixes Pinned --tool-version fails with a misleading "could not find release asset" error when the GitHub API is rate limited #1023.

Why

Rate-limited 403 responses were treated as release data: curl lacked -f,
so the paginated lookup burned up to 20 API calls and reported a misleading
not-found error. This change handles the GitHub Rate-limited error scenario: fail fast with an error pointing at GITHUB_TOKEN instead of burning the remaining quota and throwing a misleading not-found error.

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  • export GITHUB_TOKEN="$(gh auth token)" && uvx tox run -e pytest → 68 passed
  • Repository pre-commit hooks(shfmt / shellcheck etc)on tools/install/_common.sh → Passed
  • Local harness for common::gh_api_get (5/5 passed): 403 + rate-limit body → rate-limit diagnostic; 403 + permission body → generic HTTP 403 (access denied) with no rate-limit wording; 429 → rate-limit diagnostic; 200 → body passthrough; 404 → generic HTTP error.
  • Live GitHub API checks of the new code path: normal release-asset lookup; pretty-printed empty page stops pagination; rate-limited 403 aborts immediately with the GITHUB_TOKEN hint (previously: up to 20 wasted requests + misleading "could not find release asset"); asset download succeeds.
  • Fork CI ∞ run on this head (35851278710) → all jobs green: build, zizmor, pre-commit lint, metadata-validation, 20-job pytest matrix, aggregate check.

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Rate-limited 403 responses were treated as release data: curl lacked -f,
so the paginated lookup burned up to 20 API calls and reported a misleading
not-found error. GitHub empty pages are pretty-printed "[\n\n]", which the
byte-exact "[]" check never matched; pagination now stops on any blank
array. Multi-MB bodies no longer use ${var//[[:space:]]/} (bash pattern
substitution), which hung on real responses; an anchored regex checks for
an empty page instead.

Fixes antonbabenko#1023

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Release installation continues to find matching assets across paginated results and reports when no matching asset is available.
    • Errors encountered while retrieving release information or downloading assets are now shown as plain text in the terminal.
    • Failed requests and connection problems continue to be reported, helping explain why release installation could not be completed.

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The installer removes common::colorify. The GitHub API helper now receives the curl command and options as arguments. API and release-asset errors use plain stderr output. Asset matching suppresses grep failures outside command substitutions. Existing failure conditions and missing-asset checks remain unchanged.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
API and asset error reporting
tools/install/_common.sh
Removes common::colorify, passes curl arguments to common::gh_api_get, and writes API and asset errors directly to stderr. Moves grep failure suppression outside command substitutions in latest and paginated asset matching. Existing failure conditions and missing-asset checks remain unchanged.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f86bc

The installer continues to fail when a release asset is missing, and the updated lookup avoids proceeding with an empty asset URL. No material new runtime risk is established.

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Architecture risk: 🟡 Medium · up to f86bc

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: tools

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  • observed — tools (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in tools/install/_common.sh: Removes common::colorify, which emitted colorized stderr output and honored PRE_COMMIT_COLOR=never. common::gh_api_get now receives the curl command and options as arguments rather than reading dynamically scoped CURL_CMD; it reports transport, rate-limit, and HTTP errors with plain stderr output instead of colored messages. Its failure conditions and response handling are unchanged.
  • observed — Modified behavior in tools/install/_common.sh: Latest and paginated asset matching now pass the curl command and options to common::gh_api_get; grep failures remain suppressed outside command substitutions, and missing-asset checks are unchanged. Asset-download errors use plain stderr output instead of common::colorify; download failure handling is unchanged.

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  • inferred — Risk-relevant change factors for tools: blast_radius_1; direct_dependents_1
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: handling GitHub API rate limiting.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the rate-limiting fix, related error handling, pagination changes, testing, and linked issue.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #1023 requires fail-fast handling for GitHub API rate limits, a GITHUB_TOKEN diagnostic, and correct termination on empty release pages. common::gh_api_get rejects transport errors, HTTP 429…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain in tools/install/_common.sh and support the GitHub release lookup and download path covered by issue #1023. Passing curl arguments explicitly and replacing common::colorify diag…
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In `@tools/install/_common.sh`:
- Around line 58-59: Update the HTTP error handling around the `http_code` check
so HTTP 429 remains a rate-limit error, while HTTP 403 is reported as a
rate-limit error only when response headers or the GitHub error message confirm
rate limiting; report other 403 responses as access failures.

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CodeRabbit flagged that every 403 was reported as a rate limit, but
GitHub also returns 403 for permission and SSO failures, where telling
the user to set GITHUB_TOKEN is misleading (they may already have one).

Keep 429 and 403s whose body mentions "rate limit" on the rate-limit
diagnostic; report any other 403 as a generic access denied HTTP error.

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LGTM
Appreciate the contribution.
Please consider my comments below.

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Apply @yermulnik's review on the rate-limit handling: compare
HTTP codes numerically (-eq/-ne), fold the 403 rate-limit check into
the [[ ]] condition with tr instead of a grep pipeline, reword the
GITHUB_TOKEN hint, report Forbidden instead of access denied, drop
the redundant empty_page_re variable, and capitalize Failed.

Route every touched diagnostic through common::colorify (copied from
hooks/_common.sh; install scripts are standalone and cannot source
the hooks copy): errors red, the rate-limit hint yellow.

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tools/install/_common.sh (1)

40-40: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Explain each ShellCheck suppression.

The three SC2034 directives have no explanation. Add a comment to each directive stating that common::colorify reads the color variables through indirect expansion.

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-  # shellcheck disable=SC2034
+  # shellcheck disable=SC2034 # Read through indirect expansion in common::colorify
   local -r red="\x1b[0m\x1b[31m"
-  # shellcheck disable=SC2034
+  # shellcheck disable=SC2034 # Read through indirect expansion in common::colorify
   local -r green="\x1b[0m\x1b[32m"
-  # shellcheck disable=SC2034
+  # shellcheck disable=SC2034 # Read through indirect expansion in common::colorify
   local -r yellow="\x1b[0m\x1b[33m"

As per coding guidelines, **/*.sh requires “shfmt + shellcheck — no suppression without comment.”

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In `@tools/install/_common.sh` at line 40, Add an explanatory comment to each of
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that common::colorify reads them through indirect expansion. Leave the
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Hi @yermulnik, I have refactored the code according to the comments, could you review again? 🙏

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Appreciate your time @JH-lawliet and apologies for the confusion I introduced in previous round of review.
The feature LGTM though.
@MaxymVlasov Would you please join the review when you have a chance? Thanks.

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The tools/install
is not interactive human-facing output, so the colorify wrapper is
reverted to plain echo (stderr preserved). The message wording and
-eq/-ne comparisons from the earlier review round are kept.

Also applies two more review nits: move '|| true' outside the
command substitution, and use '[[ ! $asset_url ]]' instead of -z.

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JH-lawliet force-pushed the fix/1023-github-api-rate-limit branch from 2391e38 to a76da47 Compare September 25, 2026 05:17
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LGTM 👍🏻

@MaxymVlasov Please review.

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# so callers never mistake an API error payload for release data
# (issue #1023).
# Globals:
# CURL_CMD - curl command array with auth options; this function is

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This shoudn't be a global var, pass it as a parameter inside

CURL_CMD is a local of the caller\n(common::install_from_gh_release) read through dynamic scoping,\nwhich turns it into an implicit global. Pass the curl command\nexplicitly as an argument to common::gh_api_get instead, and update\nthe Globals/Arguments docs; the gh_api_get banner is also shortened.\n\nAssisted-by: opencode:mimo-v2.6-flash-free opencode
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