Migrated from dynamous-community/remote-coding-agent#628 — Archon active development has moved to coleam00/Archon. Original issue retained as historical reference.
Context
Identified in backend architecture review.
Problem
When the codebases.commands JSON column contains corrupt data, it is silently returned as {}. The error is logged but never surfaced to the client, violating fail-fast principles.
A client receiving {} has no way to distinguish "no commands configured" from "commands exist but are unreadable."
Location
packages/core/src/db/codebases.ts — JSON parse fallbackpackages/server/src/routes/api.ts — returns the silently-coerced result
Suggested approach
Surface the corruption to the caller — either throw an error or include a warning field in the API response indicating the stored commands could not be parsed.
Context
Identified in backend architecture review.
Problem
When the
codebases.commandsJSON column contains corrupt data, it is silently returned as{}. The error is logged but never surfaced to the client, violating fail-fast principles.A client receiving
{}has no way to distinguish "no commands configured" from "commands exist but are unreadable."Location
packages/core/src/db/codebases.ts— JSON parse fallbackpackages/server/src/routes/api.ts— returns the silently-coerced resultSuggested approach
Surface the corruption to the caller — either throw an error or include a warning field in the API response indicating the stored commands could not be parsed.