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Problem

When a tool returns JSON as a text block, the work log pretty-prints it by running JSON.parse and then JSON.stringify(…, null, 2). JSON.parse rounds integers outside the safe range (±2^53), so the inspector shows values the tool never returned. An int64 id such as a Discord snowflake or a database bigint comes back as a different id:

{"guild_id":1234567890123456789}  →  "guild_id": 1234567890123456800
{"order_id":9007199254740993}     →  "order_id": 9007199254740992

The text arrives intact as a string in { content: [{ type: "text", text }] }. This display step is the only place the value changes. Users who copy an id from the tool output, or check a result by eye, get the wrong number. Web (V2ItemInspector) and mobile (thread-work-log) both read turnItemOutputText, so both show it.

Change

After the text parses, prettyJsonText checks it for a number that JSON.parse would round. If it finds one, it returns the text as the tool sent it.

  • Detection. The check tokenizes complete JSON numbers (sign, fraction, exponent) and skips everything inside strings, which are matched whole, escapes included. A number counts only when its value is an integer outside the safe range, or when it overflows to Infinity (which JSON.stringify would write as null). That covers 1234567890123456789, 9.007199254740993e15 and 1e309, while fractions such as 0.1234567890123456789 still format.
  • Speed. The scan runs only on text that JSON.parse has already accepted, either as a whole or line by line for NDJSON. Every string closes in parsed JSON, so the scan is linear, and malformed or truncated text returns before any scan.
  • What still formats. JSON without such numbers formats exactly as before. isJsonToolText is unchanged, so the returned text is still syntax-highlighted as JSON.

Keeping the formatting would need JSON.rawJSON / reviver context.source. Those are recent additions that I can't rely on in every client's JS engine, mobile included. Showing the original text is correct everywhere.

Scope and approval

This is a very small, focused fix for an obvious bug, so it uses CONTRIBUTING's exception for those. The UI displays a number that differs from the tool's actual output. The change is confined to one display helper.

I found no existing issue or PR. I searched open and closed PRs and issues for precision, bigint, large integer, snowflake, MAX_SAFE_INTEGER, prettyJsonText, and JSON number tool output. The only precision PR, #29733, is about semver prerelease identifiers.

structuredContent objects are already parsed numbers when they reach the client, so their precision is decided upstream. That would be a separate problem, and this PR doesn't touch it.

Verification

Windows 11, Node 26.12.1, base 8b44f42b14.

  • Regression tests. Added cases to itemDetail.test.ts that keep a single document, an NDJSON pair, an exponent-form integer, and an overflowing 1e309 exactly as returned. Each fails on main, which shows 1234567890123456800, 9007199254740992 or null. Control cases check that a long digit run inside a string and a long fraction are still pretty-printed. All 24 tests in the file pass.
  • Truncated input. 80 KB of {"s":" followed by escaped quotes and no closing quote returns unchanged in under 1 ms.
  • Runtime comparison. I passed a dynamic_tool item's text block through turnItemOutputText, once with main's file and once with this branch:
input                                            main                                   this branch
{"guild_id":1234567890123456789,"name":"general"} "guild_id": 1234567890123456800 (pretty) unchanged text
{"order_id":9007199254740993,"total":12.5}       "order_id": 9007199254740992 (pretty)  unchanged text
{"id":42,"note":"12345678901234567890"}          pretty-printed                         pretty-printed (same as main)
  • Fast checks. vp run check:changed origin/main passed format, lint, both Knip checks, typechecks for 7 affected packages, and the tests beside the change.

Not checked: I did not capture the inspector in a running web or mobile client with a real tool returning an int64. The change is in the shared helper both clients call, and the tests drive it directly.

Implemented and verified with Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5) in the Claude Code harness.

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…ol returned them

The work log pretty-prints JSON text from tool results by parsing and
re-serializing it. JSON.parse rounds integers outside the safe range, so an id
such as 1234567890123456789 was shown as 1234567890123456800.

Leave the text as returned when it contains an integer that would lose
precision; strings are skipped, so long digit runs inside them still format.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The change preserves large integers in displayed tool output. The unresolved finding that malformed outputs can freeze the inspector requires resolution before this existing UI path is exposed to the new scan.

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prettyJsonText now preserves JSON text when parsing would change a number’s value. It scans number tokens outside quoted strings and applies this check to single and newline-separated documents. Tests cover lossy numbers and safely representable numbers.

Changes: Tool text formatting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lossy number detection and formatting
packages/client-runtime/src/work-log/itemDetail.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/work-log/itemDetail.test.ts
The formatter detects non-finite numbers and integers outside JavaScript’s safe-integer range. It preserves the original text when either occurs. Tests cover lossy numbers and JSON that can still be pretty-printed.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: yash-singh1, only21mil

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 44353

The formatter preserves unsafe numeric output while retaining existing formatting behavior, so the change is ready to merge.

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- Line 70: Update the LONG_JSON_NUMBER pattern to match complete JSON number
tokens, including fractional and exponent forms, and assess their numeric safety
without treating safe fractional values as unsafe integers. Add regression cases
for the exponent-form value that rounds beyond safe integer precision and for
safe fractional values.
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Review found three gaps in the unsafe-integer guard:
- Unclosed strings in truncated text made the string alternative rescan the
  rest of the input from every escaped quote (80 KB took ~3.5 s). The scan
  now runs only on text that parsed, where every string closes.
- 9.007199254740993e15 is an unsafe integer without a 16-digit run.
- Fraction digits were read as integers, so 0.1234567890123456789 was not
  pretty-printed.

Tokenize whole JSON numbers and reject only integer values outside the safe
range.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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{"id":1e309} parses to Infinity, which JSON.stringify writes as null, so the
inspector showed null for a value the tool returned. Treat non-finite parsed
numbers as lossy as well, and name the guard for what it checks.

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