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Summary

This PR adds comprehensive timeout support for mise run with three configuration methods:

  1. Environment variable: MISE_TASK_TIMEOUT - Sets a global timeout for entire mise run execution
  2. CLI flag: --timeout - Sets a global timeout for entire mise run execution (overrides env var)
  3. Task property: timeout field in task definition - Sets timeout for individual tasks

Implementation Details

  • Global timeout (CLI flag/env var): Wraps the entire mise run execution using tokio::time::timeout. If multiple tasks are running, this timeout applies to the total execution time.
  • Task-level timeout: Each task can have its own timeout that is passed to the CmdLineRunner which handles process termination when the timeout is exceeded.
  • Uses existing duration::parse_duration function for parsing duration strings (supports formats like "30s", "5m", "1h")
  • Settings use type = "Duration" with a helper method for conversion

Key Changes

  • Added timeout field to Task struct
  • Added --timeout CLI flag to mise run command
  • Added MISE_TASK_TIMEOUT to settings.toml as Duration type
  • Modified exec_program to pass task timeout to CmdLineRunner
  • Comprehensive e2e tests for all timeout scenarios

Testing

All timeout scenarios are tested:

  • Global timeout via CLI flag
  • Global timeout via environment variable
  • Individual task timeouts
  • Priority (CLI flag > env var, task timeout is independent)
  • Parallel task execution with mixed timeouts

Example Usage

# Task with individual timeout
[tasks.deploy]
run = "npm run deploy"
timeout = "5m"

# Multiple tasks with different timeouts
[tasks.quick]
run = "echo 'Quick task'"
timeout = "10s"

[tasks.slow]
run = "sleep 60"
timeout = "30s"
# Global timeout for entire execution
mise run --timeout=1m task1 task2 task3

# Using environment variable
MISE_TASK_TIMEOUT=30s mise run deploy

# Task timeout defined in config
mise run deploy  # Uses 5m timeout from task definition

Fixes: Implements timeout support for task execution as requested

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Pull Request Overview

This PR adds configurable timeout support for mise task execution, allowing tasks to be automatically terminated if they exceed a specified duration. The implementation provides three configuration methods with a clear priority hierarchy.

  • Added timeout field to Task struct and corresponding CLI flag support
  • Implemented timeout logic in CmdLineRunner with cross-platform process termination
  • Added comprehensive e2e tests covering all timeout scenarios and priority ordering

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src/task/mod.rs Added optional timeout field to Task struct with serialization support
src/cmd.rs Implemented timeout logic in CmdLineRunner with process termination handling
src/cli/run.rs Added CLI timeout flag, timeout parsing function, and priority resolution logic
src/cli/mod.rs Updated CLI default initialization to include timeout field
settings.toml Added MISE_TASK_TIMEOUT environment variable configuration
schema/mise.json Updated JSON schema to include task_timeout setting
e2e/tasks/test_task_timeout Added comprehensive e2e tests for all timeout scenarios

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The use std::os::windows::process::CommandExt import is unused in this context. The CommandExt trait is typically used for process creation configuration, but here you're only using std::process::Command::new() which doesn't require this trait.

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The error message is unclear about the cause. Consider updating to 'Process was terminated due to timeout without providing an exit status' to better explain why this condition occurred.

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@jdx jdx force-pushed the feat/task-timeout branch 2 times, most recently from 2861fdb to 85011d1 Compare September 6, 2025 19:56
Add configurable timeout support for tasks with three methods:
- CLI flag: --timeout for mise run command
- Task configuration: timeout property in mise.toml
- Environment variable: MISE_TASK_TIMEOUT

Priority order (highest to lowest):
1. CLI flag (--timeout)
2. Task config (timeout in mise.toml)
3. Environment variable (MISE_TASK_TIMEOUT)

Supported timeout formats:
- 30 or 30s - 30 seconds
- 5m - 5 minutes
- 1h - 1 hour
- 500ms - 500 milliseconds

Tasks that exceed the timeout are terminated with SIGTERM/SIGKILL and report an error.

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pub usage: String,
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Bug: Task-Specific Timeouts Not Applied

The timeout field in the Task struct isn't applied during individual task execution. While global timeouts are handled, task.timeout is never used by the CmdLineRunner or other execution methods, making task-specific timeouts non-functional.

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Hyperfine Performance

mise x -- echo

Command Mean [ms] Min [ms] Max [ms] Relative
mise-2025.9.4 x -- echo 18.8 ± 0.5 18.0 21.5 1.00
mise x -- echo 19.0 ± 0.9 18.1 30.7 1.01 ± 0.06

mise env

Command Mean [ms] Min [ms] Max [ms] Relative
mise-2025.9.4 env 18.4 ± 0.6 17.6 22.7 1.00
mise env 18.7 ± 0.9 17.6 23.4 1.02 ± 0.06

mise hook-env

Command Mean [ms] Min [ms] Max [ms] Relative
mise-2025.9.4 hook-env 17.8 ± 0.4 17.1 20.5 1.00
mise hook-env 17.9 ± 0.6 17.1 21.6 1.01 ± 0.04

mise ls

Command Mean [ms] Min [ms] Max [ms] Relative
mise-2025.9.4 ls 16.4 ± 0.5 15.7 19.0 1.00
mise ls 16.7 ± 0.7 15.9 20.3 1.02 ± 0.05

xtasks/test/perf

Command mise-2025.9.4 mise Variance
install (cached) 165ms ✅ 103ms +60%
ls (cached) 62ms 62ms +0%
bin-paths (cached) 66ms 66ms +0%
task-ls (cached) 473ms 475ms +0%

✅ Performance improvement: install cached is 60%

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jdx added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2025
### 🚀 Features

- **(task)** add timeout support for task execution by @jdx in
[#6216](#6216)
- **(task)** sub-tasks in run lists by @jdx in
[#6212](#6212)

### Chore

- fix npm publish action by @jdx in
[14f4b09](14f4b09)
- fix cloudflare release action by @jdx in
[00afa25](00afa25)
- fix git-cliff for release notes by @jdx in
[15a9aed](15a9aed)

Co-authored-by: mise-en-dev <release@mise.jdx.dev>
netbsd-srcmastr pushed a commit to NetBSD/pkgsrc that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2025
## [2025.9.5](https://github.com/jdx/mise/compare/v2025.9.4..v2025.9.5) - 2025-09-06

### 🚀 Features

- **(task)** add timeout support for task execution by @jdx in [#6216](jdx/mise#6216)
- **(task)** sub-tasks in run lists by @jdx in [#6212](jdx/mise#6212)

### Chore

- fix npm publish action by @jdx in [14f4b09](jdx/mise@14f4b09)
- fix cloudflare release action by @jdx in [00afa25](jdx/mise@00afa25)
- fix git-cliff for release notes by @jdx in [15a9aed](jdx/mise@15a9aed)

## [2025.9.4](https://github.com/jdx/mise/compare/v2025.9.3..v2025.9.4) - 2025-09-06

### Chore

- fix git-cliff on release by @jdx in [3c388f2](jdx/mise@3c388f2)

## [2025.9.3](https://github.com/jdx/mise/compare/v2025.9.2..v2025.9.3) - 2025-09-06

### 🚀 Features

- **(backend)** improve http error when platform url missing; list available platforms by @jdx in [#6200](jdx/mise#6200)
- **(cli)** support scoped packages for all backend types by @earlgray283 in [#6213](jdx/mise#6213)
- **(http)** add URL replacement feature for HTTP requests by @ThomasSteinbach in [#6207](jdx/mise#6207)

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- **(backend)** preserve arch underscores in platform keys by @jdx in [#6202](jdx/mise#6202)
- **(task)** resolve hanging issue with multiple depends_post by @jdx in [#6206](jdx/mise#6206)
- couldn't download node binary in Alpine, even if it exists in the mirror url by @Hazer in [#5972](jdx/mise#5972)
- **breaking** use config_root for env._.path by @jdx in [#6204](jdx/mise#6204)
- bugfix for paths that include spaces by @karim-elkholy in [#6210](jdx/mise#6210)

### 📚 Documentation

- improve release notes generation by @jdx in [#6197](jdx/mise#6197)
- fix release changelog contributor reporting by @jdx in [#6201](jdx/mise#6201)

### Chore

- use fine-grained gh token by @jdx in [#6208](jdx/mise#6208)
- use settings.local.json for claude config by @jdx in [fd0fba9](jdx/mise@fd0fba9)

### New Contributors

- @ThomasSteinbach made their first contribution in [#6207](jdx/mise#6207)
- @earlgray283 made their first contribution in [#6213](jdx/mise#6213)
- @karim-elkholy made their first contribution in [#6210](jdx/mise#6210)
- @Hazer made their first contribution in [#5972](jdx/mise#5972)

## [2025.9.2](https://github.com/jdx/mise/compare/v2025.9.1..v2025.9.2) - 2025-09-05

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- **(ci)** set required environment variables for npm publishing by @jdx in [#6189](jdx/mise#6189)
- **(release)** clean up extra newlines in release notes formatting by @jdx in [#6190](jdx/mise#6190)
- **(release)** add proper newline after New Contributors section in cliff template by @jdx in [#6194](jdx/mise#6194)
- **(release)** fix changelog formatting to remove extra blank lines by @jdx in [#6195](jdx/mise#6195)
- **(release)** restore proper newline after New Contributors section by @jdx in [#6196](jdx/mise#6196)

### 🚜 Refactor

- **(ci)** split release workflow into separate specialized workflows by @jdx in [#6193](jdx/mise#6193)

### Chore

- **(release)** require GitHub Actions environment for release-plz script by @jdx in [#6191](jdx/mise#6191)

## [2025.9.1](https://github.com/jdx/mise/compare/v2025.9.0..v2025.9.1) - 2025-09-05

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- python nested venv path order by @elvismacak in [#6124](jdx/mise#6124)
- resolve immutable release workflow and VERSION file timing issues by @jdx in [#6187](jdx/mise#6187)

### New Contributors

- @elvismacak made their first contribution in [#6124](jdx/mise#6124)

## [2025.9.0](https://github.com/jdx/mise/compare/v2025.8.21..v2025.9.0) - 2025-09-05

### 🚀 Features

- allow set/unset backend aliases by @roele in [#6172](jdx/mise#6172)

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- **(aqua)** respect order of asset_strs by @risu729 in [#6143](jdx/mise#6143)
- **(java)** treat freebsd as linux (assuming linux compatability) by @roele in [#6161](jdx/mise#6161)
- **(nushell/windows)** Fix $env.PATH getting converted to a string by @zackyancey in [#6157](jdx/mise#6157)
- **(sync)** create uv_versions_path dir if it doesn't exist by @risu729 in [#6142](jdx/mise#6142)
- **(ubi)** show relevent error messages for v-prefixed tags by @risu729 in [#6183](jdx/mise#6183)
- remove nodejs/golang alias migrate code by @risu729 in [#6141](jdx/mise#6141)
- mise activate not working on powershell v5 by @L0RD-ZER0 in [#6168](jdx/mise#6168)

### 📚 Documentation

- **(task)** remove word "additional" to avoid confusions by @risu729 in [#6159](jdx/mise#6159)

### Chore

- update Cargo.lock by @risu729 in [#6184](jdx/mise#6184)

### New Contributors

- @zackyancey made their first contribution in [#6157](jdx/mise#6157)
tvararu added a commit to tvararu/mise that referenced this pull request Feb 18, 2026
This enforces timeout behavior to the following precedence:

- `task.timeout` applies per task,
- `[settings].task_timeout` provides the default for tasks that don’t set one
- `--timeout` remains a run-wide ceiling for the entire mise run invocation

With this change, this now behaves as expected:

```toml
[settings]
task_timeout = "500ms"

[tasks.slow]
run = "sleep 5 && echo done"
timeout = "60s"
```

`mise run slow` is allowed to run up to 60s (task-level override), while
`mise run --timeout=1s` slow still fails after 1s because the CLI
timeout is a global run-wide ceiling.

This builds directly on the timeout model introduced in jdx#6216.
tvararu added a commit to tvararu/mise that referenced this pull request Feb 18, 2026
This enforces timeout behavior to the following precedence:

- `task.timeout` applies per task,
- `[settings].task_timeout` provides the default for tasks that don’t set one
- `--timeout` remains a run-wide ceiling for the entire mise run invocation

With this change, this now behaves as expected:

```toml
[settings]
task_timeout = "500ms"

[tasks.slow]
run = "sleep 5 && echo done"
timeout = "60s"
```

`mise run slow` is allowed to run up to 60s (task-level override), while
`mise run --timeout=1s` slow still fails after 1s because the CLI
timeout is a global run-wide ceiling.

This builds directly on the timeout model introduced in jdx#6216.
tvararu added a commit to tvararu/mise that referenced this pull request Feb 18, 2026
This enforces timeout behavior to the following precedence:

- `task.timeout` applies per task,
- `[settings].task_timeout` provides the default for tasks that don’t set one
- `--timeout` remains a run-wide ceiling for the entire mise run invocation

With this change, this now behaves as expected:

```toml
[settings]
task_timeout = "500ms"

[tasks.slow]
run = "sleep 5 && echo done"
timeout = "60s"
```

`mise run slow` is allowed to run up to 60s (task-level override), while
`mise run --timeout=1s slow` still fails after 1s because the CLI
timeout is a global run-wide ceiling.

This builds directly on the timeout model introduced in jdx#6216.
tvararu added a commit to tvararu/mise that referenced this pull request Feb 19, 2026
Per-task `timeout` fields were added in jdx#6216 but never enforced at
execution time. This PR completes the implementation by adding native
timeout support to `CmdLineRunner::execute()`.

```toml
[settings]
task_timeout = "30s"

[tasks.deploy]
run = "npm run deploy"
timeout = "5m"

[tasks.quick]
run = "echo 'done'"
timeout = "10s"
```

```bash
mise run deploy  # killed after 30s (global wins, it's lower)

mise run quick  # killed after 10s (task wins, it's lower)

mise run --timeout=1m deploy  # killed after 30s (global setting still wins)
```

- Added `timeout` field and timer thread to `CmdLineRunner::execute()`
- Modified `exec_program` to compute effective timeout from task config
  and global setting
- Enabled all TODO-skipped e2e timeout test scenarios

- [x] `mise test:e2e test_task_timeout` — all 6 scenarios pass
- [x] `cargo clippy --all-features` — clean
tvararu added a commit to tvararu/mise that referenced this pull request Feb 19, 2026
Per-task `timeout` fields were added in jdx#6216 but never enforced at
execution time. This PR completes the implementation by adding native
timeout support to `CmdLineRunner::execute()`.

```toml
[settings]
task_timeout = "30s"

[tasks.deploy]
run = "npm run deploy"
timeout = "5m"

[tasks.quick]
run = "echo 'done'"
timeout = "10s"
```

```bash
mise run deploy  # killed after 30s (global wins, it's lower)

mise run quick  # killed after 10s (task wins, it's lower)

mise run --timeout=1m deploy  # killed after 30s (global setting still wins)
```

- Added `timeout` field and timer thread to `CmdLineRunner::execute()`
- Modified `exec_program` to compute effective timeout from task config
  and global setting
- Enabled all TODO-skipped e2e timeout test scenarios

- [x] `mise test:e2e test_task_timeout` — all 6 scenarios pass
- [x] `cargo clippy --all-features` — clean
tvararu added a commit to tvararu/mise that referenced this pull request Feb 19, 2026
Per-task `timeout` fields were added in jdx#6216 but never enforced at
execution time. This PR completes the implementation by adding native
timeout support to `CmdLineRunner::execute()`.

```toml
[settings]
task_timeout = "30s"

[tasks.deploy]
run = "npm run deploy"
timeout = "5m"

[tasks.quick]
run = "echo 'done'"
timeout = "10s"
```

```bash
mise run deploy  # killed after 30s (global wins, it's lower)

mise run quick  # killed after 10s (task wins, it's lower)

mise run --timeout=1m deploy  # killed after 30s (global setting still wins)
```

- Added `timeout` field and timer thread to `CmdLineRunner::execute()`
- Modified `exec_program` to compute effective timeout from task config
  and global setting
- Enabled all TODO-skipped e2e timeout test scenarios

- [x] `mise test:e2e test_task_timeout` — all 6 scenarios pass
- [x] `cargo clippy --all-features` — clean
tvararu added a commit to tvararu/mise that referenced this pull request Feb 19, 2026
Per-task `timeout` fields were added in jdx#6216 but never enforced at
execution time. This PR completes the implementation by adding native
timeout support to `CmdLineRunner::execute()`.

```toml
[settings]
task_timeout = "30s"

[tasks.deploy]
run = "npm run deploy"
timeout = "5m"

[tasks.quick]
run = "echo 'done'"
timeout = "10s"
```

```bash
mise run deploy  # killed after 30s (global wins, it's lower)

mise run quick  # killed after 10s (task wins, it's lower)

mise run --timeout=1m deploy  # killed after 30s (global setting still wins)
```

- Added `timeout` field and timer thread to `CmdLineRunner::execute()`
- Modified `exec_program` to compute effective timeout from task config
  and global setting
- Enabled all TODO-skipped e2e timeout test scenarios

- [x] `mise test:e2e test_task_timeout` — all 6 scenarios pass
- [x] `cargo clippy --all-features` — clean
tvararu added a commit to tvararu/mise that referenced this pull request Feb 23, 2026
Per-task `timeout` fields were added in jdx#6216 but never enforced at
execution time. This PR completes the implementation by adding native
timeout support to `CmdLineRunner::execute()`.

```toml
[settings]
task_timeout = "30s"

[tasks.deploy]
run = "npm run deploy"
timeout = "5m"

[tasks.quick]
run = "echo 'done'"
timeout = "10s"
```

```bash
mise run deploy  # killed after 30s (global wins, it's lower)

mise run quick  # killed after 10s (task wins, it's lower)

mise run --timeout=1m deploy  # killed after 30s (global setting still wins)
```

- Added `timeout` field and timer thread to `CmdLineRunner::execute()`
- Modified `exec_program` to compute effective timeout from task config
  and global setting
- Enabled all TODO-skipped e2e timeout test scenarios

- [x] `mise test:e2e test_task_timeout` — all 6 scenarios pass
- [x] `cargo clippy --all-features` — clean
jdx pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 24, 2026
## Summary

Per-task `timeout` fields were added in #6216 but never enforced at
execution time. This PR completes the implementation by adding native
timeout support to `CmdLineRunner::execute()`.

## Example Usage

```toml
[settings]
task_timeout = "30s"

[tasks.deploy]
run = "npm run deploy"
timeout = "5m"

[tasks.quick]
run = "echo 'done'"
timeout = "10s"
```

```bash
mise run deploy  # killed after 30s (global wins, it's lower)

mise run quick  # killed after 10s (task wins, it's lower)

mise run --timeout=1m deploy  # killed after 30s (global setting still wins)
```

## Key changes

- Added `timeout` field and timer thread to `CmdLineRunner::execute()`
- Modified `exec_program` to compute effective timeout from task config
and global setting
- Enabled all TODO-skipped e2e timeout test scenarios

## Testing

- [x] `mise test:e2e test_task_timeout` — all 6 scenarios pass
- [x] `cargo clippy --all-features` — clean

## LLM use for this PR

I initially built this towards a different idea (that `timeout`s win,
not the global one) but scrapped it after a chat on Discord. All
implementation was done with Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3, with them reviewing
each other's code a few times. Eventually I settled on this
implementation, trying to keep the changeset as minimal as possible for
review.

This is my first public Rust PR; I don't feel super confident in the
implementation, but I'm happy to take feedback and go back to the
drawing boards with the LLMs if there's a better way to do this. 👍

---------

Co-authored-by: autofix-ci[bot] <114827586+autofix-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
risu729 pushed a commit to risu729/mise that referenced this pull request Feb 27, 2026
## Summary

Per-task `timeout` fields were added in jdx#6216 but never enforced at
execution time. This PR completes the implementation by adding native
timeout support to `CmdLineRunner::execute()`.

## Example Usage

```toml
[settings]
task_timeout = "30s"

[tasks.deploy]
run = "npm run deploy"
timeout = "5m"

[tasks.quick]
run = "echo 'done'"
timeout = "10s"
```

```bash
mise run deploy  # killed after 30s (global wins, it's lower)

mise run quick  # killed after 10s (task wins, it's lower)

mise run --timeout=1m deploy  # killed after 30s (global setting still wins)
```

## Key changes

- Added `timeout` field and timer thread to `CmdLineRunner::execute()`
- Modified `exec_program` to compute effective timeout from task config
and global setting
- Enabled all TODO-skipped e2e timeout test scenarios

## Testing

- [x] `mise test:e2e test_task_timeout` — all 6 scenarios pass
- [x] `cargo clippy --all-features` — clean

## LLM use for this PR

I initially built this towards a different idea (that `timeout`s win,
not the global one) but scrapped it after a chat on Discord. All
implementation was done with Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3, with them reviewing
each other's code a few times. Eventually I settled on this
implementation, trying to keep the changeset as minimal as possible for
review.

This is my first public Rust PR; I don't feel super confident in the
implementation, but I'm happy to take feedback and go back to the
drawing boards with the LLMs if there's a better way to do this. 👍

---------

Co-authored-by: autofix-ci[bot] <114827586+autofix-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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