health scores a crashing tsc as CLEAN because EXIT_CODE reads tail's status
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Description
\`health/SKILL.md.tmpl\` line 125 runs \`tsc --noEmit 2>&1 | tail -50\` and line 126 sets \`EXIT_CODE=$?\`. Without \`pipefail\`, \`$?\` is tail's status, which is 0 whenever tail ran.
Input that passes while broken: tsc that fails before emitting diagnostics (missing \`typescript\`, a broken \`tsconfig.json\`, an out-of-memory crash, a non-zero exit with a bare stack trace). No \`error TS\` lines survive, \`EXIT_CODE\` is 0, and the scoring rule (count \`error TS\` lines) awards 10/10 CLEAN to a typecheck that never ran.
Fix: prefix the block with \`set -o pipefail\`, or capture \`EXIT_CODE=${PIPESTATUS[0]}\` immediately after the pipeline.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start in health/SKILL.md.tmpl at lines 125-126 and review how the tsc pipeline determines EXIT_CODE. Run the health check with a failing TypeScript setup such as a missing compiler or broken tsconfig.json, then confirm that the result is no longer scored CLEAN and that successful checks still pass.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell, typescript
- Domain
- testing-qa
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 88/100