fix(models): stop drawing download progress into a redirected stderr - #1866
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`MeshDownloadProgress::draw` writes a carriage-return frame with ANSI escapes to stderr every 150 ms. It skips that only when an interactive TUI is active, so a supervised runtime -- which redirects stderr to a log file while using pretty logs -- appends every frame instead of overwriting one line. A single 5.7 GB model download left a 58 MB log file that is almost entirely progress bars, with no way to read it. Every other progress writer in the tree already declines in JSON mode (`terminal_progress.rs:22,54,102`); this one checked neither JSON mode nor whether stderr is a terminal. It now requires both a terminal and pretty logs, which is the only case where overwriting a line in place does anything. Found while a tray app supervised a serving runtime with `--log-format json`. Co-authored-by: Michael Neale <14976+michaelneale@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Neale <14976+michaelneale@users.noreply.github.com>
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Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The fix correctly stops the single-file download progress indicator from polluting redirected logs or JSON output, but multipart downloads still write raw terminal control sequences to stderr in those same non-interactive scenarios, so log files and JSON-mode captures for multipart downloads can still be corrupted with escape sequences. This should be addressed before merge to fully deliver the intended behavior. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/models/catalog.rs`:
- Around line 385-388: The multipart progress call sites using
emit_multipart_progress must apply
download_progress_is_visible(json_mode_enabled(),
std::io::stderr().is_terminal()) while preserving the interactive_tui_active()
path. Set multipart_controls_terminal only when multipart terminal frames are
actually emitted; otherwise suppress neither normal ensuring output nor terminal
progress.
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Gate multipart terminal progress by the visibility rule.
MeshDownloadProgress::draw uses download_progress_is_visible(...), but both multipart call sites still invoke emit_multipart_progress when the TUI is inactive. emit_multipart_progress then writes \r and ANSI frames to stderr without checking JSON mode or terminal state. Redirected logs, including JSON-mode runs, therefore receive raw progress frames. The frames do not corrupt JSON written to stdout.
Apply the same visibility condition, while preserving the interactive TUI path, before emitting multipart progress. Set multipart_controls_terminal only when those terminal frames are actually visible. Otherwise, it suppresses normal ensuring output even though no multipart frame was emitted.
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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/models/catalog.rs` around lines 385 - 388,
The multipart progress call sites using emit_multipart_progress must apply
download_progress_is_visible(json_mode_enabled(),
std::io::stderr().is_terminal()) while preserving the interactive_tui_active()
path. Set multipart_controls_terminal only when multipart terminal frames are
actually emitted; otherwise suppress neither normal ensuring output nor terminal
progress.
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@michaelneale writing to STDERR was deliberate so we weren't polluting stdout for formatted logs (JSON) or the TUI... I haven't dove into this fix yet, but IIUC, we are now using stdout with this again, so stderr can exclusively be used for errors? |
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Looks like this clashes with #1858 @coderabbitai which is the most canonical approach for CLI tools that have TUI elements? |
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Problem
MeshDownloadProgress::draw(crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/models/catalog.rs) writes a carriage-return progress frame with ANSI escapes to stderr every 150 ms. It declines only when an interactive TUI is active.A supervised runtime — a tray app, launchd, a container — redirects stderr to a log file while still using pretty logs. Nothing overwrites a line in a file, so every frame is appended.
Observed: one 5.7 GB model download produced a 58 MB
mesh.logthat is almost entirely progress-bar frames, and unreadable as a log.Fix
Require both a terminal and non-JSON logs before drawing — the only case where
\rdoes what it is meant to do. Every other progress writer in the tree already declines in JSON mode (mesh-llm-events/src/terminal_progress.rs:22,54,102); this one checked neither JSON mode nor terminal-ness.The predicate is a named function so the four cases are unit-tested rather than depending on a global sink and an inherited fd.
Scope of evidence
cargo test -p mesh-llm-host-runtimepasses at0c289ff33(branched offorigin/mainc573119ca), including the new case.cargo clippy -p mesh-llm-host-runtime --all-targets -- -D warningsclean;cargo fmt --allclean.interactive_tui_active()still takes its existing branch, and the terminal case still satisfies the new predicate.Found while a tray app supervised a serving runtime with
--log-format json.Summary by CodeRabbit