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#2977 workflow approve/resume hint lines wrap + quote names, breaking copy-paste

Opened by albertchae · 10/2/2026· Shipped 10/5/2026

Description

The hint lines printed after swamp workflow approve (and in the suspend/approval blocks) wrap to the terminal width and wrap the workflow name and run id in double quotes. Both hurt copy-paste: the quotes are unnecessary (workflow names and run UUIDs contain no spaces) and the line-wrap splits the command across lines, so selecting it yields a broken command.

Observed

2026-10-02T18🔞40.459Z   info    workflow·approve     After approval: swamp workflow resume "wipe-drive"
                                                        --run "8603d973-24ca-4f36-9c04-7b7c39a4a41a"

Copying this yields: swamp workflow resume "wipe-drive"\n --run "8603d973-..." — wrapped, indented, and quoted.

The same pattern appears in the 'Suspended workflow … To approve: / After approval:' block printed by swamp workflow run/resume.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Create a workflow with a manual_approval step.
  2. swamp workflow run <wf> → it suspends at the approval.
  3. swamp workflow approve <wf> <step> --run <id> and observe the 'After approval:' hint.

Expected

Print the suggested command as a single, unwrapped, unquoted line that can be copied verbatim, e.g.: swamp workflow resume <wf> --run <uuid> (No surrounding double quotes; don't hard-wrap command hints to terminal width — or emit them outside the timestamped/indented log gutter so a copy grabs just the command.)

Impact

Minor but constant friction when driving any approval-gated workflow by hand.

Environment

swamp 20261002.000056.0-sha.a1e4cae5; macOS (darwin 25.6.0); zsh.

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Shipped

10/5/2026, 3:48:03 PM

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stack72 assigned stack7210/2/2026, 7:34:27 PM
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stack72 commented 10/5/2026, 3:48:10 PM

Thanks @albertchae for reporting this! We shipped: Print the copy-paste command hints from workflow approve and workflow approvals with writeOutput instead of LogTape, so they come out unquoted and are never hard-wrapped by the pretty sink, following the existing workflow recover pattern. The hints stay suppressed under --quiet. The approve server-path hint prints the real server URL (via formatCommandTarget) instead of a placeholder. Status lines stay on the logger and JSON output is unchanged.. The fix has been merged and a release is on its way. We appreciate your contribution to swamp.

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