fix(ai-sandbox-blaxel): preserve concurrent process streams

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Concurrent stdout and stderr can corrupt Blaxel process output when log delivery splits long records. This change sends labeled records through one transport stream and waits for log attachment before starting the command.

🎯 Changes

Preserve both process streams across split records and keepalives. The provider guide describes the framing and its existing bounded output limits.

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Root cause

Issue. A command writing long stdout and stderr concurrently can fail with invalid encoded output.
Cause. Blaxel interleaves chunks from separate process streams. A record can lose its stream tag or be interrupted by a keepalive.
Fix. Serialize labeled base64 records onto supervisor stdout, reconstruct records through onLog, and open the command gate after log attachment.

Possible alternatives

• Poll output after completion. This loses live tool progress. The existing capture pipeline already bounds output, so the change keeps that pipeline.

Testing

Commands run. Provider unit tests, type checks, lint, docs links, and a live concurrent-output test passed. The combined integration candidate also passed 109 provider tests with real Blaxel credentials. pnpm test:pr passed after running the native isolate lane with Node 22; the initial Node 26 run lacked an isolated-vm native build. Other checks used the local Nx cache where applicable. GitHub checks remain authoritative for this isolated PR revision.

The same agent-written external reproduction ran against clean upstream 53e2ec08 and this fix:

Baseline:
Error: blaxel: received invalid encoded process output.
cleanup: destroyed test sandbox

Fixed:
PASS: exact 256 KiB stdout and stderr concurrently
cleanup: destroyed test sandbox

Manual test.

1. On the base revision, create a Blaxel handle and spawn simultaneous 256 KiB stdout and stderr writes; consume both streams and compare exact bytes.
2. Repeat on this branch; both streams must match.
3. Destroy the test sandbox in finally.

Easy test path. packages/ai-sandbox-blaxel/tests/concurrent-output.test.ts performs that live check when BL_API_KEY and BL_WORKSPACE are set; BL_REGION selects the region. Run pnpm --filter @tanstack/ai-sandbox-blaxel exec vitest run tests/concurrent-output.test.ts. Existing unit tests cover split records, keepalives, output bounds, and cleanup.

Risk / rollback

The wire format is internal to each spawned process. The main risk is framing or attachment failure; those failures reap the process. Revert this PR to restore the previous transport.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved Blaxel process logging to reliably preserve concurrent standard output and error streams.
  • Prevented output from being lost or mixed when logs are split into records or interrupted by keepalive messages.
  • Ensured log capture is ready before commands begin, improving reliability for early command output.

• Documentation

  • Updated Blaxel provider documentation to explain labeled concurrent output and stream size limits.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for large, concurrent output and fragmented log delivery scenarios.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Blaxel now sends stdout and stderr as labeled framed records over one log stream. The host reassembles records across keepalives, opens a gate before command output starts, and validates concurrent output with unit and integration tests.

Changes

Blaxel stream integrity

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record framing and gated supervisor packages/ai-sandbox-blaxel/src/handle.ts	The supervisor labels, serializes, and frames stdout and stderr records. It waits for the host gate before starting the command.
Host log reassembly and stream routing packages/ai-sandbox-blaxel/src/handle.ts	streamLogs uses onLog to remove keepalives, reassemble fragmented records, open the gate, and route records by stream label.
Stream behavior validation and release documentation packages/ai-sandbox-blaxel/tests/*, docs/sandbox/providers.md, .changeset/tidy-blaxel-streams.md	Tests cover framing, fragmentation, keepalives, gate synchronization, and concurrent output. Documentation and the changeset describe the updated behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 86475

The new framing can spuriously terminate healthy Blaxel processes if lock-release diagnostics enter the shared log stream, and its live concurrency test currently fails before exercising output integrity. Both issues should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SpawnedProcess
  participant Supervisor
  participant Blaxel
  participant Host
  SpawnedProcess->>Supervisor: produce stdout and stderr
  Supervisor->>Supervisor: label and frame records
  Supervisor->>Blaxel: emit one log stream
  Blaxel->>Host: deliver chunks and keepalives
  Host->>Host: reassemble records and route streams
  Host->>Supervisor: create gate file after ready marker
  Supervisor->>SpawnedProcess: allow command execution

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 3 files. (2 skipped: 2 …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving concurrent stdout and stderr streams in the Blaxel sandbox.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the required Changes, Checklist, Release Impact, root cause, alternatives, testing, and risk or rollback details. It also identifies the documentation and changeset updates.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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In `@packages/ai-sandbox-blaxel/src/handle.ts`:
- Around line 464-465: Suppress stderr for the lock release by updating the
unlock command associated with lock acquisition in the surrounding handle logic.
Do not modify transport parsing or handling of unrecognized lines; keep the
change limited to silencing rmdir diagnostics.

In `@packages/ai-sandbox-blaxel/tests/concurrent-output.test.ts`:
- Line 14: Rename the local process binding created by sandbox.process.spawn to
avoid shadowing the global process object used for process.env.BL_REGION earlier
in the test callback; update all references to the spawned process accordingly.

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