💥 Make <Output> fail fast and rename failure capture to CaptureErrors #309

Description

@taras

Motivation

<Output> currently makes failures visible by collecting them as rendered error
segments and continuing. That is a dangerous default for operational documents:
a failed preview can still reach a later <Elicit> or destructive publish step.

PR #308 exposed the consequence. The npm-bootstrap workflow had to build a
fail-closed protocol from sentinel files, cat, and production uses of testing
assertions merely to express:

Show the operator what this stage produced, but stop the document if it
failed.

The language already has an explicit collection boundary. Continuing after an
error should be requested there, not silently selected by every <Output>.

Product decision

<Output> is fail-fast by default.

  • It renders the output produced before a failure.
  • The document completes with a failure.
  • Later siblings, later output regions, elicitations, and other effects do not
    run.
  • Successful output selection, documentation suppression, ordering, and
    capture behavior remain unchanged.

Continuing after ordinary failures is explicit and scope-local:

<Output>
<CaptureErrors>
... work whose errors should render without aborting ...
</CaptureErrors>
</Output>

Rename the paired public vocabulary as part of the same breaking change:

  • <CollectFailures> becomes <CaptureErrors>.
  • collectFailures(fn) becomes captureErrors(fn).
  • The old tag and export are removed rather than retained as aliases.

<CaptureErrors> otherwise preserves the existing collection contract: it
accepts no props, converts ordinary function-component failures into one
structured error segment, renders/observes each error once, and permits later
work to continue. Fatal durability, replay, schema, and already-selected
documentation failures remain outside that recovery contract exactly as they
are today.

This is a breaking language and API change; its PR title uses the 💥 gitmoji.

Dependency

#307 lands first. A non-zero command must be recognized as a failure even when
it wrote stdout. This issue then governs what <Output> does with that failure
and ensures the stdout remains observable.

Required behavior

<Output>

  • A failure after visible text or command stdout preserves everything produced
    before the failure and then fails the execution.
  • The failure is reported only after the failing invocation has completed
    teardown.
  • Error identity, type, cause, aggregation, and one-observation behavior are
    preserved.
  • No later sibling or region begins after the failure.
  • A successful root <Output> retains its existing single buffered emission.
  • A failing root <Output> emits the partial selected output before its
    completion Result reports failure.
  • Component-owned <Output> follows the same policy as root <Output>.
  • Documentation remains hidden and fail-fast.
  • A root or component with no <Output> retains its separately documented
    behavior; do not broaden this issue into a redesign of text roots.

<CaptureErrors> / captureErrors(fn)

  • Both install the same explicit, scope-local recovery policy as their current
    CollectFailures counterparts.
  • Nested capture boundaries do not duplicate diagnostics.
  • Failures outside the boundary remain fail-fast.
  • A captured failure inside <Output> renders once and allows later content to
    run.
  • The structural name is reserved and receives the existing placement, prop,
    source-position, projection, and observation guarantees.

Acceptance coverage

  • Root <Output>: output before failure is emitted, completion is failed, and a
    later sibling with an observable side effect does not run.
  • Component <Output>: the same three assertions through a real invocation.
  • Non-zero exec with stdout: stdout is visible, execution fails, and a later
    <Elicit>/process probe does not run. This is the integration pin with A non-zero code block that printed to stdout raises no failure #307.
  • Multiple output regions: failure in an earlier region prevents later regions
    and documentation from running while preserving earlier selected output.
  • Explicit <CaptureErrors> inside <Output> renders the diagnostic once and
    permits a following marker to render.
  • Without <CaptureErrors>, the same fixture fails and the marker does not
    render; demonstrate this discriminating mutation before keeping the test.
  • Nested <CaptureErrors> and captureErrors(fn) preserve existing collection,
    teardown, identity/cause, and one-observation behavior.
  • Successful <Output> selection, <Content> projection, as capture, empty
    regions, and root/component parity remain covered.
  • Durable replay produces the same visible partial output and failure without
    replaying suppressed later effects.

Migration and documentation

  • Rename the structural dispatch, reservation entry, diagnostics, conformance
    rows, tests, smoke documents, README examples, and current specifications.
  • Rename every production and test import/call of collectFailures to
    captureErrors.
  • Audit every remaining CollectFailures / collectFailures occurrence into
    removed or explicitly historical text; current authoring and API references
    use only the new vocabulary.
  • Update specs/executable-mdx-spec.md in the same PR, including the current
    statements that <Output> selects the collecting policy and that buffered
    output is discarded on later failure.
  • Update PR ✨ Bootstrap an npm package as a real xmd run #308's plan after this lands: the verdict files and production
    assertions disappear, and ordinary npm stages rely on fail-fast <Output>.

Verification

Before commit, run the repository's complete required gates with the CI-pinned
runtimes, including deno task fmt, lint, check, test, check:jsr, Node
typecheck/tests, Bun tests, compiled-binary smoke, git diff --check, and the
packages/cli/src/node.ts mode check. No red gate is waived as baseline.

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      💥 Make <Output> fail fast and rename failure capture to CaptureErrors #309

      Description

      @taras

      Motivation

      <Output> currently makes failures visible by collecting them as rendered error
      segments and continuing. That is a dangerous default for operational documents:
      a failed preview can still reach a later <Elicit> or destructive publish step.

      PR #308 exposed the consequence. The npm-bootstrap workflow had to build a
      fail-closed protocol from sentinel files, cat, and production uses of testing
      assertions merely to express:

      Show the operator what this stage produced, but stop the document if it
      failed.

      The language already has an explicit collection boundary. Continuing after an
      error should be requested there, not silently selected by every <Output>.

      Product decision

      <Output> is fail-fast by default.

      • It renders the output produced before a failure.
      • The document completes with a failure.
      • Later siblings, later output regions, elicitations, and other effects do not
        run.
      • Successful output selection, documentation suppression, ordering, and
        capture behavior remain unchanged.

      Continuing after ordinary failures is explicit and scope-local:

      <Output>
      <CaptureErrors>
      ... work whose errors should render without aborting ...
      </CaptureErrors>
      </Output>

      Rename the paired public vocabulary as part of the same breaking change:

      • <CollectFailures> becomes <CaptureErrors>.
      • collectFailures(fn) becomes captureErrors(fn).
      • The old tag and export are removed rather than retained as aliases.

      <CaptureErrors> otherwise preserves the existing collection contract: it
      accepts no props, converts ordinary function-component failures into one
      structured error segment, renders/observes each error once, and permits later
      work to continue. Fatal durability, replay, schema, and already-selected
      documentation failures remain outside that recovery contract exactly as they
      are today.

      This is a breaking language and API change; its PR title uses the 💥 gitmoji.

      Dependency

      #307 lands first. A non-zero command must be recognized as a failure even when
      it wrote stdout. This issue then governs what <Output> does with that failure
      and ensures the stdout remains observable.

      Required behavior

      <Output>

      • A failure after visible text or command stdout preserves everything produced
        before the failure and then fails the execution.
      • The failure is reported only after the failing invocation has completed
        teardown.
      • Error identity, type, cause, aggregation, and one-observation behavior are
        preserved.
      • No later sibling or region begins after the failure.
      • A successful root <Output> retains its existing single buffered emission.
      • A failing root <Output> emits the partial selected output before its
        completion Result reports failure.
      • Component-owned <Output> follows the same policy as root <Output>.
      • Documentation remains hidden and fail-fast.
      • A root or component with no <Output> retains its separately documented
        behavior; do not broaden this issue into a redesign of text roots.

      <CaptureErrors> / captureErrors(fn)

      • Both install the same explicit, scope-local recovery policy as their current
        CollectFailures counterparts.
      • Nested capture boundaries do not duplicate diagnostics.
      • Failures outside the boundary remain fail-fast.
      • A captured failure inside <Output> renders once and allows later content to
        run.
      • The structural name is reserved and receives the existing placement, prop,
        source-position, projection, and observation guarantees.

      Acceptance coverage

      • Root <Output>: output before failure is emitted, completion is failed, and a
        later sibling with an observable side effect does not run.
      • Component <Output>: the same three assertions through a real invocation.
      • Non-zero exec with stdout: stdout is visible, execution fails, and a later
        <Elicit>/process probe does not run. This is the integration pin with A non-zero code block that printed to stdout raises no failure #307.
      • Multiple output regions: failure in an earlier region prevents later regions
        and documentation from running while preserving earlier selected output.
      • Explicit <CaptureErrors> inside <Output> renders the diagnostic once and
        permits a following marker to render.
      • Without <CaptureErrors>, the same fixture fails and the marker does not
        render; demonstrate this discriminating mutation before keeping the test.
      • Nested <CaptureErrors> and captureErrors(fn) preserve existing collection,
        teardown, identity/cause, and one-observation behavior.
      • Successful <Output> selection, <Content> projection, as capture, empty
        regions, and root/component parity remain covered.
      • Durable replay produces the same visible partial output and failure without
        replaying suppressed later effects.

      Migration and documentation

      • Rename the structural dispatch, reservation entry, diagnostics, conformance
        rows, tests, smoke documents, README examples, and current specifications.
      • Rename every production and test import/call of collectFailures to
        captureErrors.
      • Audit every remaining CollectFailures / collectFailures occurrence into
        removed or explicitly historical text; current authoring and API references
        use only the new vocabulary.
      • Update specs/executable-mdx-spec.md in the same PR, including the current
        statements that <Output> selects the collecting policy and that buffered
        output is discarded on later failure.
      • Update PR ✨ Bootstrap an npm package as a real xmd run #308's plan after this lands: the verdict files and production
        assertions disappear, and ordinary npm stages rely on fail-fast <Output>.

      Verification

      Before commit, run the repository's complete required gates with the CI-pinned
      runtimes, including deno task fmt, lint, check, test, check:jsr, Node
      typecheck/tests, Bun tests, compiled-binary smoke, git diff --check, and the
      packages/cli/src/node.ts mode check. No red gate is waived as baseline.

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          💥 Make <Output> fail fast and rename failure capture to CaptureErrors #309

          Description

          @taras

          Motivation

          <Output> currently makes failures visible by collecting them as rendered error
          segments and continuing. That is a dangerous default for operational documents:
          a failed preview can still reach a later <Elicit> or destructive publish step.

          PR #308 exposed the consequence. The npm-bootstrap workflow had to build a
          fail-closed protocol from sentinel files, cat, and production uses of testing
          assertions merely to express:

          Show the operator what this stage produced, but stop the document if it
          failed.

          The language already has an explicit collection boundary. Continuing after an
          error should be requested there, not silently selected by every <Output>.

          Product decision

          <Output> is fail-fast by default.

          • It renders the output produced before a failure.
          • The document completes with a failure.
          • Later siblings, later output regions, elicitations, and other effects do not
            run.
          • Successful output selection, documentation suppression, ordering, and
            capture behavior remain unchanged.

          Continuing after ordinary failures is explicit and scope-local:

          <Output>
          <CaptureErrors>
          ... work whose errors should render without aborting ...
          </CaptureErrors>
          </Output>

          Rename the paired public vocabulary as part of the same breaking change:

          • <CollectFailures> becomes <CaptureErrors>.
          • collectFailures(fn) becomes captureErrors(fn).
          • The old tag and export are removed rather than retained as aliases.

          <CaptureErrors> otherwise preserves the existing collection contract: it
          accepts no props, converts ordinary function-component failures into one
          structured error segment, renders/observes each error once, and permits later
          work to continue. Fatal durability, replay, schema, and already-selected
          documentation failures remain outside that recovery contract exactly as they
          are today.

          This is a breaking language and API change; its PR title uses the 💥 gitmoji.

          Dependency

          #307 lands first. A non-zero command must be recognized as a failure even when
          it wrote stdout. This issue then governs what <Output> does with that failure
          and ensures the stdout remains observable.

          Required behavior

          <Output>

          • A failure after visible text or command stdout preserves everything produced
            before the failure and then fails the execution.
          • The failure is reported only after the failing invocation has completed
            teardown.
          • Error identity, type, cause, aggregation, and one-observation behavior are
            preserved.
          • No later sibling or region begins after the failure.
          • A successful root <Output> retains its existing single buffered emission.
          • A failing root <Output> emits the partial selected output before its
            completion Result reports failure.
          • Component-owned <Output> follows the same policy as root <Output>.
          • Documentation remains hidden and fail-fast.
          • A root or component with no <Output> retains its separately documented
            behavior; do not broaden this issue into a redesign of text roots.

          <CaptureErrors> / captureErrors(fn)

          • Both install the same explicit, scope-local recovery policy as their current
            CollectFailures counterparts.
          • Nested capture boundaries do not duplicate diagnostics.
          • Failures outside the boundary remain fail-fast.
          • A captured failure inside <Output> renders once and allows later content to
            run.
          • The structural name is reserved and receives the existing placement, prop,
            source-position, projection, and observation guarantees.

          Acceptance coverage

          • Root <Output>: output before failure is emitted, completion is failed, and a
            later sibling with an observable side effect does not run.
          • Component <Output>: the same three assertions through a real invocation.
          • Non-zero exec with stdout: stdout is visible, execution fails, and a later
            <Elicit>/process probe does not run. This is the integration pin with A non-zero code block that printed to stdout raises no failure #307.
          • Multiple output regions: failure in an earlier region prevents later regions
            and documentation from running while preserving earlier selected output.
          • Explicit <CaptureErrors> inside <Output> renders the diagnostic once and
            permits a following marker to render.
          • Without <CaptureErrors>, the same fixture fails and the marker does not
            render; demonstrate this discriminating mutation before keeping the test.
          • Nested <CaptureErrors> and captureErrors(fn) preserve existing collection,
            teardown, identity/cause, and one-observation behavior.
          • Successful <Output> selection, <Content> projection, as capture, empty
            regions, and root/component parity remain covered.
          • Durable replay produces the same visible partial output and failure without
            replaying suppressed later effects.

          Migration and documentation

          • Rename the structural dispatch, reservation entry, diagnostics, conformance
            rows, tests, smoke documents, README examples, and current specifications.
          • Rename every production and test import/call of collectFailures to
            captureErrors.
          • Audit every remaining CollectFailures / collectFailures occurrence into
            removed or explicitly historical text; current authoring and API references
            use only the new vocabulary.
          • Update specs/executable-mdx-spec.md in the same PR, including the current
            statements that <Output> selects the collecting policy and that buffered
            output is discarded on later failure.
          • Update PR ✨ Bootstrap an npm package as a real xmd run #308's plan after this lands: the verdict files and production
            assertions disappear, and ordinary npm stages rely on fail-fast <Output>.

          Verification

          Before commit, run the repository's complete required gates with the CI-pinned
          runtimes, including deno task fmt, lint, check, test, check:jsr, Node
          typecheck/tests, Bun tests, compiled-binary smoke, git diff --check, and the
          packages/cli/src/node.ts mode check. No red gate is waived as baseline.

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              💥 Make <Output> fail fast and rename failure capture to CaptureErrors #309

              Description

              @taras

              Motivation

              <Output> currently makes failures visible by collecting them as rendered error
              segments and continuing. That is a dangerous default for operational documents:
              a failed preview can still reach a later <Elicit> or destructive publish step.

              PR #308 exposed the consequence. The npm-bootstrap workflow had to build a
              fail-closed protocol from sentinel files, cat, and production uses of testing
              assertions merely to express:

              Show the operator what this stage produced, but stop the document if it
              failed.

              The language already has an explicit collection boundary. Continuing after an
              error should be requested there, not silently selected by every <Output>.

              Product decision

              <Output> is fail-fast by default.

              • It renders the output produced before a failure.
              • The document completes with a failure.
              • Later siblings, later output regions, elicitations, and other effects do not
                run.
              • Successful output selection, documentation suppression, ordering, and
                capture behavior remain unchanged.

              Continuing after ordinary failures is explicit and scope-local:

              <Output>
              <CaptureErrors>
              ... work whose errors should render without aborting ...
              </CaptureErrors>
              </Output>

              Rename the paired public vocabulary as part of the same breaking change:

              • <CollectFailures> becomes <CaptureErrors>.
              • collectFailures(fn) becomes captureErrors(fn).
              • The old tag and export are removed rather than retained as aliases.

              <CaptureErrors> otherwise preserves the existing collection contract: it
              accepts no props, converts ordinary function-component failures into one
              structured error segment, renders/observes each error once, and permits later
              work to continue. Fatal durability, replay, schema, and already-selected
              documentation failures remain outside that recovery contract exactly as they
              are today.

              This is a breaking language and API change; its PR title uses the 💥 gitmoji.

              Dependency

              #307 lands first. A non-zero command must be recognized as a failure even when
              it wrote stdout. This issue then governs what <Output> does with that failure
              and ensures the stdout remains observable.

              Required behavior

              <Output>

              • A failure after visible text or command stdout preserves everything produced
                before the failure and then fails the execution.
              • The failure is reported only after the failing invocation has completed
                teardown.
              • Error identity, type, cause, aggregation, and one-observation behavior are
                preserved.
              • No later sibling or region begins after the failure.
              • A successful root <Output> retains its existing single buffered emission.
              • A failing root <Output> emits the partial selected output before its
                completion Result reports failure.
              • Component-owned <Output> follows the same policy as root <Output>.
              • Documentation remains hidden and fail-fast.
              • A root or component with no <Output> retains its separately documented
                behavior; do not broaden this issue into a redesign of text roots.

              <CaptureErrors> / captureErrors(fn)

              • Both install the same explicit, scope-local recovery policy as their current
                CollectFailures counterparts.
              • Nested capture boundaries do not duplicate diagnostics.
              • Failures outside the boundary remain fail-fast.
              • A captured failure inside <Output> renders once and allows later content to
                run.
              • The structural name is reserved and receives the existing placement, prop,
                source-position, projection, and observation guarantees.

              Acceptance coverage

              • Root <Output>: output before failure is emitted, completion is failed, and a
                later sibling with an observable side effect does not run.
              • Component <Output>: the same three assertions through a real invocation.
              • Non-zero exec with stdout: stdout is visible, execution fails, and a later
                <Elicit>/process probe does not run. This is the integration pin with A non-zero code block that printed to stdout raises no failure #307.
              • Multiple output regions: failure in an earlier region prevents later regions
                and documentation from running while preserving earlier selected output.
              • Explicit <CaptureErrors> inside <Output> renders the diagnostic once and
                permits a following marker to render.
              • Without <CaptureErrors>, the same fixture fails and the marker does not
                render; demonstrate this discriminating mutation before keeping the test.
              • Nested <CaptureErrors> and captureErrors(fn) preserve existing collection,
                teardown, identity/cause, and one-observation behavior.
              • Successful <Output> selection, <Content> projection, as capture, empty
                regions, and root/component parity remain covered.
              • Durable replay produces the same visible partial output and failure without
                replaying suppressed later effects.

              Migration and documentation

              • Rename the structural dispatch, reservation entry, diagnostics, conformance
                rows, tests, smoke documents, README examples, and current specifications.
              • Rename every production and test import/call of collectFailures to
                captureErrors.
              • Audit every remaining CollectFailures / collectFailures occurrence into
                removed or explicitly historical text; current authoring and API references
                use only the new vocabulary.
              • Update specs/executable-mdx-spec.md in the same PR, including the current
                statements that <Output> selects the collecting policy and that buffered
                output is discarded on later failure.
              • Update PR ✨ Bootstrap an npm package as a real xmd run #308's plan after this lands: the verdict files and production
                assertions disappear, and ordinary npm stages rely on fail-fast <Output>.

              Verification

              Before commit, run the repository's complete required gates with the CI-pinned
              runtimes, including deno task fmt, lint, check, test, check:jsr, Node
              typecheck/tests, Bun tests, compiled-binary smoke, git diff --check, and the
              packages/cli/src/node.ts mode check. No red gate is waived as baseline.

              Activity

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                  , 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Strip utm_, fbclid, gclid, etc. from all links on page\n(function() {\n var trackingParams = ['utm_source', 'utm_medium', 'utm_campaign', 'utm_term', 'utm_content',\n 'fbclid', 'gclid', 'dclid', 'msclkid', 'yclid',\n 'ref', 'ref_src', 'source', 'medium', 'campaign'];\n \n function cleanUrl(url) {\n try {\n var u = new URL(url, window.location.origin);\n var changed = false;\n trackingParams.forEach(function(p) {\n if (u.searchParams.has(p)) {\n u.searchParams.delete(p);\n changed = true;\n }\n });\n return changed ? u.toString() : url;\n } catch (e) {\n return url;\n }\n }\n \n function cleanLinks() {\n document.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach(function(a) {\n var clean = cleanUrl(a.href);\n if (clean !== a.href) a.href = clean;\n });\n }\n \n cleanLinks();\n \n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n mutations.forEach(function(m) {\n m.addedNodes.forEach(function(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 1) {\n if (node.tagName === 'A') cleanLinks();\n node.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach(function(a) {\n var clean = cleanUrl(a.href);\n if (clean !== a.href) a.href = clean;\n });\n }\n });\n });\n });\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Remove Tracking Parameters from Links"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Remove Tracking Parameters from Links]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "youtube.com"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + "youtube\\.com" + '
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                  💥 Make <Output> fail fast and rename failure capture to CaptureErrors #309

                  Description

                  @taras

                  Motivation

                  <Output> currently makes failures visible by collecting them as rendered error
                  segments and continuing. That is a dangerous default for operational documents:
                  a failed preview can still reach a later <Elicit> or destructive publish step.

                  PR #308 exposed the consequence. The npm-bootstrap workflow had to build a
                  fail-closed protocol from sentinel files, cat, and production uses of testing
                  assertions merely to express:

                  Show the operator what this stage produced, but stop the document if it
                  failed.

                  The language already has an explicit collection boundary. Continuing after an
                  error should be requested there, not silently selected by every <Output>.

                  Product decision

                  <Output> is fail-fast by default.

                  • It renders the output produced before a failure.
                  • The document completes with a failure.
                  • Later siblings, later output regions, elicitations, and other effects do not
                    run.
                  • Successful output selection, documentation suppression, ordering, and
                    capture behavior remain unchanged.

                  Continuing after ordinary failures is explicit and scope-local:

                  <Output>
                  <CaptureErrors>
                  ... work whose errors should render without aborting ...
                  </CaptureErrors>
                  </Output>

                  Rename the paired public vocabulary as part of the same breaking change:

                  • <CollectFailures> becomes <CaptureErrors>.
                  • collectFailures(fn) becomes captureErrors(fn).
                  • The old tag and export are removed rather than retained as aliases.

                  <CaptureErrors> otherwise preserves the existing collection contract: it
                  accepts no props, converts ordinary function-component failures into one
                  structured error segment, renders/observes each error once, and permits later
                  work to continue. Fatal durability, replay, schema, and already-selected
                  documentation failures remain outside that recovery contract exactly as they
                  are today.

                  This is a breaking language and API change; its PR title uses the 💥 gitmoji.

                  Dependency

                  #307 lands first. A non-zero command must be recognized as a failure even when
                  it wrote stdout. This issue then governs what <Output> does with that failure
                  and ensures the stdout remains observable.

                  Required behavior

                  <Output>

                  • A failure after visible text or command stdout preserves everything produced
                    before the failure and then fails the execution.
                  • The failure is reported only after the failing invocation has completed
                    teardown.
                  • Error identity, type, cause, aggregation, and one-observation behavior are
                    preserved.
                  • No later sibling or region begins after the failure.
                  • A successful root <Output> retains its existing single buffered emission.
                  • A failing root <Output> emits the partial selected output before its
                    completion Result reports failure.
                  • Component-owned <Output> follows the same policy as root <Output>.
                  • Documentation remains hidden and fail-fast.
                  • A root or component with no <Output> retains its separately documented
                    behavior; do not broaden this issue into a redesign of text roots.

                  <CaptureErrors> / captureErrors(fn)

                  • Both install the same explicit, scope-local recovery policy as their current
                    CollectFailures counterparts.
                  • Nested capture boundaries do not duplicate diagnostics.
                  • Failures outside the boundary remain fail-fast.
                  • A captured failure inside <Output> renders once and allows later content to
                    run.
                  • The structural name is reserved and receives the existing placement, prop,
                    source-position, projection, and observation guarantees.

                  Acceptance coverage

                  • Root <Output>: output before failure is emitted, completion is failed, and a
                    later sibling with an observable side effect does not run.
                  • Component <Output>: the same three assertions through a real invocation.
                  • Non-zero exec with stdout: stdout is visible, execution fails, and a later
                    <Elicit>/process probe does not run. This is the integration pin with A non-zero code block that printed to stdout raises no failure #307.
                  • Multiple output regions: failure in an earlier region prevents later regions
                    and documentation from running while preserving earlier selected output.
                  • Explicit <CaptureErrors> inside <Output> renders the diagnostic once and
                    permits a following marker to render.
                  • Without <CaptureErrors>, the same fixture fails and the marker does not
                    render; demonstrate this discriminating mutation before keeping the test.
                  • Nested <CaptureErrors> and captureErrors(fn) preserve existing collection,
                    teardown, identity/cause, and one-observation behavior.
                  • Successful <Output> selection, <Content> projection, as capture, empty
                    regions, and root/component parity remain covered.
                  • Durable replay produces the same visible partial output and failure without
                    replaying suppressed later effects.

                  Migration and documentation

                  • Rename the structural dispatch, reservation entry, diagnostics, conformance
                    rows, tests, smoke documents, README examples, and current specifications.
                  • Rename every production and test import/call of collectFailures to
                    captureErrors.
                  • Audit every remaining CollectFailures / collectFailures occurrence into
                    removed or explicitly historical text; current authoring and API references
                    use only the new vocabulary.
                  • Update specs/executable-mdx-spec.md in the same PR, including the current
                    statements that <Output> selects the collecting policy and that buffered
                    output is discarded on later failure.
                  • Update PR ✨ Bootstrap an npm package as a real xmd run #308's plan after this lands: the verdict files and production
                    assertions disappear, and ordinary npm stages rely on fail-fast <Output>.

                  Verification

                  Before commit, run the repository's complete required gates with the CI-pinned
                  runtimes, including deno task fmt, lint, check, test, check:jsr, Node
                  typecheck/tests, Bun tests, compiled-binary smoke, git diff --check, and the
                  packages/cli/src/node.ts mode check. No red gate is waived as baseline.

                  Activity

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                      , 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Auto-enable theater mode on YouTube\n(function() {\n function tryTheater() {\n var btn = document.querySelector('button[aria-label=\"Theater mode\"], ytd-player #player button[title=\"Theater mode\"]');\n if (btn && !btn.classList.contains('activated')) {\n btn.click();\n }\n }\n \n // Try immediately\n tryTheater();\n \n // Try after navigation (SPA)\n var lastUrl = location.href;\n setInterval(function() {\n if (location.href !== lastUrl) {\n lastUrl = location.href;\n setTimeout(tryTheater, 500);\n }\n }, 1000);\n \n // Also try on player load\n var observer = new MutationObserver(tryTheater);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "YouTube Theater Mode Default"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:YouTube Theater Mode Default]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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                      💥 Make <Output> fail fast and rename failure capture to CaptureErrors #309

                      Description

                      @taras

                      Motivation

                      <Output> currently makes failures visible by collecting them as rendered error
                      segments and continuing. That is a dangerous default for operational documents:
                      a failed preview can still reach a later <Elicit> or destructive publish step.

                      PR #308 exposed the consequence. The npm-bootstrap workflow had to build a
                      fail-closed protocol from sentinel files, cat, and production uses of testing
                      assertions merely to express:

                      Show the operator what this stage produced, but stop the document if it
                      failed.

                      The language already has an explicit collection boundary. Continuing after an
                      error should be requested there, not silently selected by every <Output>.

                      Product decision

                      <Output> is fail-fast by default.

                      • It renders the output produced before a failure.
                      • The document completes with a failure.
                      • Later siblings, later output regions, elicitations, and other effects do not
                        run.
                      • Successful output selection, documentation suppression, ordering, and
                        capture behavior remain unchanged.

                      Continuing after ordinary failures is explicit and scope-local:

                      <Output>
                      <CaptureErrors>
                      ... work whose errors should render without aborting ...
                      </CaptureErrors>
                      </Output>

                      Rename the paired public vocabulary as part of the same breaking change:

                      • <CollectFailures> becomes <CaptureErrors>.
                      • collectFailures(fn) becomes captureErrors(fn).
                      • The old tag and export are removed rather than retained as aliases.

                      <CaptureErrors> otherwise preserves the existing collection contract: it
                      accepts no props, converts ordinary function-component failures into one
                      structured error segment, renders/observes each error once, and permits later
                      work to continue. Fatal durability, replay, schema, and already-selected
                      documentation failures remain outside that recovery contract exactly as they
                      are today.

                      This is a breaking language and API change; its PR title uses the 💥 gitmoji.

                      Dependency

                      #307 lands first. A non-zero command must be recognized as a failure even when
                      it wrote stdout. This issue then governs what <Output> does with that failure
                      and ensures the stdout remains observable.

                      Required behavior

                      <Output>

                      • A failure after visible text or command stdout preserves everything produced
                        before the failure and then fails the execution.
                      • The failure is reported only after the failing invocation has completed
                        teardown.
                      • Error identity, type, cause, aggregation, and one-observation behavior are
                        preserved.
                      • No later sibling or region begins after the failure.
                      • A successful root <Output> retains its existing single buffered emission.
                      • A failing root <Output> emits the partial selected output before its
                        completion Result reports failure.
                      • Component-owned <Output> follows the same policy as root <Output>.
                      • Documentation remains hidden and fail-fast.
                      • A root or component with no <Output> retains its separately documented
                        behavior; do not broaden this issue into a redesign of text roots.

                      <CaptureErrors> / captureErrors(fn)

                      • Both install the same explicit, scope-local recovery policy as their current
                        CollectFailures counterparts.
                      • Nested capture boundaries do not duplicate diagnostics.
                      • Failures outside the boundary remain fail-fast.
                      • A captured failure inside <Output> renders once and allows later content to
                        run.
                      • The structural name is reserved and receives the existing placement, prop,
                        source-position, projection, and observation guarantees.

                      Acceptance coverage

                      • Root <Output>: output before failure is emitted, completion is failed, and a
                        later sibling with an observable side effect does not run.
                      • Component <Output>: the same three assertions through a real invocation.
                      • Non-zero exec with stdout: stdout is visible, execution fails, and a later
                        <Elicit>/process probe does not run. This is the integration pin with A non-zero code block that printed to stdout raises no failure #307.
                      • Multiple output regions: failure in an earlier region prevents later regions
                        and documentation from running while preserving earlier selected output.
                      • Explicit <CaptureErrors> inside <Output> renders the diagnostic once and
                        permits a following marker to render.
                      • Without <CaptureErrors>, the same fixture fails and the marker does not
                        render; demonstrate this discriminating mutation before keeping the test.
                      • Nested <CaptureErrors> and captureErrors(fn) preserve existing collection,
                        teardown, identity/cause, and one-observation behavior.
                      • Successful <Output> selection, <Content> projection, as capture, empty
                        regions, and root/component parity remain covered.
                      • Durable replay produces the same visible partial output and failure without
                        replaying suppressed later effects.

                      Migration and documentation

                      • Rename the structural dispatch, reservation entry, diagnostics, conformance
                        rows, tests, smoke documents, README examples, and current specifications.
                      • Rename every production and test import/call of collectFailures to
                        captureErrors.
                      • Audit every remaining CollectFailures / collectFailures occurrence into
                        removed or explicitly historical text; current authoring and API references
                        use only the new vocabulary.
                      • Update specs/executable-mdx-spec.md in the same PR, including the current
                        statements that <Output> selects the collecting policy and that buffered
                        output is discarded on later failure.
                      • Update PR ✨ Bootstrap an npm package as a real xmd run #308's plan after this lands: the verdict files and production
                        assertions disappear, and ordinary npm stages rely on fail-fast <Output>.

                      Verification

                      Before commit, run the repository's complete required gates with the CI-pinned
                      runtimes, including deno task fmt, lint, check, test, check:jsr, Node
                      typecheck/tests, Bun tests, compiled-binary smoke, git diff --check, and the
                      packages/cli/src/node.ts mode check. No red gate is waived as baseline.

                      Activity

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                          , 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Remove or un-stick sticky/fixed headers that block content\n(function() {\n function unstick() {\n document.querySelectorAll('header, nav, [role=\"banner\"], .header, .navbar, .sticky, .fixed-top, [style*=\"position: fixed\"], [style*=\"position:sticky\"]').forEach(function(el) {\n if (el.style.position === 'fixed' || el.style.position === 'sticky' || \n getComputedStyle(el).position === 'fixed' || getComputedStyle(el).position === 'sticky') {\n el.style.position = 'static';\n el.style.top = 'auto';\n el.style.zIndex = 'auto';\n }\n });\n }\n \n unstick();\n \n var observer = new MutationObserver(unstick);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true, attributes: true, attributeFilter: ['style', 'class'] });\n})();", "Kill Sticky Headers"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Kill Sticky Headers]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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                          💥 Make <Output> fail fast and rename failure capture to CaptureErrors #309

                          Description

                          @taras

                          Motivation

                          <Output> currently makes failures visible by collecting them as rendered error
                          segments and continuing. That is a dangerous default for operational documents:
                          a failed preview can still reach a later <Elicit> or destructive publish step.

                          PR #308 exposed the consequence. The npm-bootstrap workflow had to build a
                          fail-closed protocol from sentinel files, cat, and production uses of testing
                          assertions merely to express:

                          Show the operator what this stage produced, but stop the document if it
                          failed.

                          The language already has an explicit collection boundary. Continuing after an
                          error should be requested there, not silently selected by every <Output>.

                          Product decision

                          <Output> is fail-fast by default.

                          • It renders the output produced before a failure.
                          • The document completes with a failure.
                          • Later siblings, later output regions, elicitations, and other effects do not
                            run.
                          • Successful output selection, documentation suppression, ordering, and
                            capture behavior remain unchanged.

                          Continuing after ordinary failures is explicit and scope-local:

                          <Output>
                          <CaptureErrors>
                          ... work whose errors should render without aborting ...
                          </CaptureErrors>
                          </Output>

                          Rename the paired public vocabulary as part of the same breaking change:

                          • <CollectFailures> becomes <CaptureErrors>.
                          • collectFailures(fn) becomes captureErrors(fn).
                          • The old tag and export are removed rather than retained as aliases.

                          <CaptureErrors> otherwise preserves the existing collection contract: it
                          accepts no props, converts ordinary function-component failures into one
                          structured error segment, renders/observes each error once, and permits later
                          work to continue. Fatal durability, replay, schema, and already-selected
                          documentation failures remain outside that recovery contract exactly as they
                          are today.

                          This is a breaking language and API change; its PR title uses the 💥 gitmoji.

                          Dependency

                          #307 lands first. A non-zero command must be recognized as a failure even when
                          it wrote stdout. This issue then governs what <Output> does with that failure
                          and ensures the stdout remains observable.

                          Required behavior

                          <Output>

                          • A failure after visible text or command stdout preserves everything produced
                            before the failure and then fails the execution.
                          • The failure is reported only after the failing invocation has completed
                            teardown.
                          • Error identity, type, cause, aggregation, and one-observation behavior are
                            preserved.
                          • No later sibling or region begins after the failure.
                          • A successful root <Output> retains its existing single buffered emission.
                          • A failing root <Output> emits the partial selected output before its
                            completion Result reports failure.
                          • Component-owned <Output> follows the same policy as root <Output>.
                          • Documentation remains hidden and fail-fast.
                          • A root or component with no <Output> retains its separately documented
                            behavior; do not broaden this issue into a redesign of text roots.

                          <CaptureErrors> / captureErrors(fn)

                          • Both install the same explicit, scope-local recovery policy as their current
                            CollectFailures counterparts.
                          • Nested capture boundaries do not duplicate diagnostics.
                          • Failures outside the boundary remain fail-fast.
                          • A captured failure inside <Output> renders once and allows later content to
                            run.
                          • The structural name is reserved and receives the existing placement, prop,
                            source-position, projection, and observation guarantees.

                          Acceptance coverage

                          • Root <Output>: output before failure is emitted, completion is failed, and a
                            later sibling with an observable side effect does not run.
                          • Component <Output>: the same three assertions through a real invocation.
                          • Non-zero exec with stdout: stdout is visible, execution fails, and a later
                            <Elicit>/process probe does not run. This is the integration pin with A non-zero code block that printed to stdout raises no failure #307.
                          • Multiple output regions: failure in an earlier region prevents later regions
                            and documentation from running while preserving earlier selected output.
                          • Explicit <CaptureErrors> inside <Output> renders the diagnostic once and
                            permits a following marker to render.
                          • Without <CaptureErrors>, the same fixture fails and the marker does not
                            render; demonstrate this discriminating mutation before keeping the test.
                          • Nested <CaptureErrors> and captureErrors(fn) preserve existing collection,
                            teardown, identity/cause, and one-observation behavior.
                          • Successful <Output> selection, <Content> projection, as capture, empty
                            regions, and root/component parity remain covered.
                          • Durable replay produces the same visible partial output and failure without
                            replaying suppressed later effects.

                          Migration and documentation

                          • Rename the structural dispatch, reservation entry, diagnostics, conformance
                            rows, tests, smoke documents, README examples, and current specifications.
                          • Rename every production and test import/call of collectFailures to
                            captureErrors.
                          • Audit every remaining CollectFailures / collectFailures occurrence into
                            removed or explicitly historical text; current authoring and API references
                            use only the new vocabulary.
                          • Update specs/executable-mdx-spec.md in the same PR, including the current
                            statements that <Output> selects the collecting policy and that buffered
                            output is discarded on later failure.
                          • Update PR ✨ Bootstrap an npm package as a real xmd run #308's plan after this lands: the verdict files and production
                            assertions disappear, and ordinary npm stages rely on fail-fast <Output>.

                          Verification

                          Before commit, run the repository's complete required gates with the CI-pinned
                          runtimes, including deno task fmt, lint, check, test, check:jsr, Node
                          typecheck/tests, Bun tests, compiled-binary smoke, git diff --check, and the
                          packages/cli/src/node.ts mode check. No red gate is waived as baseline.

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                              , 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Universal Dark Mode - works on any site\n(function() {\n var enabled = true;\n \n function applyDarkMode() {\n if (!enabled) return;\n \n // Create style element if it doesn't exist\n var style = document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style');\n if (!style) {\n style = document.createElement('style');\n style.id = 'universal-dark-mode-style';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n }\n \n // Dark mode CSS - inverts colors but preserves images/video\n style.textContent = '\n /* Invert everything except media */\n html {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n background: #1a1a2e !important;\n }\n \n /* Restore images, videos, iframes, canvas */\n img, video, iframe, canvas, svg, picture, [style*=\"background-image\"] {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n }\n \n /* Preserve specific elements that should not be inverted */\n .no-dark-mode, .no-dark-mode *,\n [data-theme=\"light\"], [data-theme=\"light\"],\n .ace_editor, .ace_editor *,\n .CodeMirror, .CodeMirror *,\n .monaco-editor, .monaco-editor *,\n .markdown-body pre, .markdown-body pre *,\n .highlight, .highlight *,\n pre code, pre code * {\n filter: none !important;\n }\n \n /* Fix common UI elements */\n .modal, .popup, .dropdown-menu, .tooltip, .popover {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n background: #2d2d44 !important;\n border-color: #444 !important;\n }\n \n /* Scrollbars */\n ::-webkit-scrollbar { background: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { background: #444 !important; }\n ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover { background: #555 !important; }\n \n /* Selection */\n ::selection { background: #4ecdc4 !important; color: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ::-moz-selection { background: #4ecdc4 !important; color: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ';\n }\n \n function removeDarkMode() {\n var style = document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style');\n if (style) style.remove();\n }\n \n // Toggle with Alt+Shift+D\n document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {\n if (e.altKey && e.shiftKey && e.key === 'D') {\n e.preventDefault();\n enabled = !enabled;\n if (enabled) {\n applyDarkMode();\n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Enabled');\n } else {\n removeDarkMode();\n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Disabled');\n }\n }\n });\n \n // Apply on load\n applyDarkMode();\n \n // Re-apply on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n if (enabled && !document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style')) {\n applyDarkMode();\n }\n });\n observer.observe(document.head, { childList: true });\n \n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Loaded - Press Alt+Shift+D to toggle');\n})();", "Universal Dark Mode"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Universal Dark Mode]', __e); } })(); })();
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                              💥 Make <Output> fail fast and rename failure capture to CaptureErrors #309

                              Description

                              @taras

                              Motivation

                              <Output> currently makes failures visible by collecting them as rendered error
                              segments and continuing. That is a dangerous default for operational documents:
                              a failed preview can still reach a later <Elicit> or destructive publish step.

                              PR #308 exposed the consequence. The npm-bootstrap workflow had to build a
                              fail-closed protocol from sentinel files, cat, and production uses of testing
                              assertions merely to express:

                              Show the operator what this stage produced, but stop the document if it
                              failed.

                              The language already has an explicit collection boundary. Continuing after an
                              error should be requested there, not silently selected by every <Output>.

                              Product decision

                              <Output> is fail-fast by default.

                              • It renders the output produced before a failure.
                              • The document completes with a failure.
                              • Later siblings, later output regions, elicitations, and other effects do not
                                run.
                              • Successful output selection, documentation suppression, ordering, and
                                capture behavior remain unchanged.

                              Continuing after ordinary failures is explicit and scope-local:

                              <Output>
                              <CaptureErrors>
                              ... work whose errors should render without aborting ...
                              </CaptureErrors>
                              </Output>

                              Rename the paired public vocabulary as part of the same breaking change:

                              • <CollectFailures> becomes <CaptureErrors>.
                              • collectFailures(fn) becomes captureErrors(fn).
                              • The old tag and export are removed rather than retained as aliases.

                              <CaptureErrors> otherwise preserves the existing collection contract: it
                              accepts no props, converts ordinary function-component failures into one
                              structured error segment, renders/observes each error once, and permits later
                              work to continue. Fatal durability, replay, schema, and already-selected
                              documentation failures remain outside that recovery contract exactly as they
                              are today.

                              This is a breaking language and API change; its PR title uses the 💥 gitmoji.

                              Dependency

                              #307 lands first. A non-zero command must be recognized as a failure even when
                              it wrote stdout. This issue then governs what <Output> does with that failure
                              and ensures the stdout remains observable.

                              Required behavior

                              <Output>

                              • A failure after visible text or command stdout preserves everything produced
                                before the failure and then fails the execution.
                              • The failure is reported only after the failing invocation has completed
                                teardown.
                              • Error identity, type, cause, aggregation, and one-observation behavior are
                                preserved.
                              • No later sibling or region begins after the failure.
                              • A successful root <Output> retains its existing single buffered emission.
                              • A failing root <Output> emits the partial selected output before its
                                completion Result reports failure.
                              • Component-owned <Output> follows the same policy as root <Output>.
                              • Documentation remains hidden and fail-fast.
                              • A root or component with no <Output> retains its separately documented
                                behavior; do not broaden this issue into a redesign of text roots.

                              <CaptureErrors> / captureErrors(fn)

                              • Both install the same explicit, scope-local recovery policy as their current
                                CollectFailures counterparts.
                              • Nested capture boundaries do not duplicate diagnostics.
                              • Failures outside the boundary remain fail-fast.
                              • A captured failure inside <Output> renders once and allows later content to
                                run.
                              • The structural name is reserved and receives the existing placement, prop,
                                source-position, projection, and observation guarantees.

                              Acceptance coverage

                              • Root <Output>: output before failure is emitted, completion is failed, and a
                                later sibling with an observable side effect does not run.
                              • Component <Output>: the same three assertions through a real invocation.
                              • Non-zero exec with stdout: stdout is visible, execution fails, and a later
                                <Elicit>/process probe does not run. This is the integration pin with A non-zero code block that printed to stdout raises no failure #307.
                              • Multiple output regions: failure in an earlier region prevents later regions
                                and documentation from running while preserving earlier selected output.
                              • Explicit <CaptureErrors> inside <Output> renders the diagnostic once and
                                permits a following marker to render.
                              • Without <CaptureErrors>, the same fixture fails and the marker does not
                                render; demonstrate this discriminating mutation before keeping the test.
                              • Nested <CaptureErrors> and captureErrors(fn) preserve existing collection,
                                teardown, identity/cause, and one-observation behavior.
                              • Successful <Output> selection, <Content> projection, as capture, empty
                                regions, and root/component parity remain covered.
                              • Durable replay produces the same visible partial output and failure without
                                replaying suppressed later effects.

                              Migration and documentation

                              • Rename the structural dispatch, reservation entry, diagnostics, conformance
                                rows, tests, smoke documents, README examples, and current specifications.
                              • Rename every production and test import/call of collectFailures to
                                captureErrors.
                              • Audit every remaining CollectFailures / collectFailures occurrence into
                                removed or explicitly historical text; current authoring and API references
                                use only the new vocabulary.
                              • Update specs/executable-mdx-spec.md in the same PR, including the current
                                statements that <Output> selects the collecting policy and that buffered
                                output is discarded on later failure.
                              • Update PR ✨ Bootstrap an npm package as a real xmd run #308's plan after this lands: the verdict files and production
                                assertions disappear, and ordinary npm stages rely on fail-fast <Output>.

                              Verification

                              Before commit, run the repository's complete required gates with the CI-pinned
                              runtimes, including deno task fmt, lint, check, test, check:jsr, Node
                              typecheck/tests, Bun tests, compiled-binary smoke, git diff --check, and the
                              packages/cli/src/node.ts mode check. No red gate is waived as baseline.

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