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Ctrl-C now reports what the CLI was doing when it arrived. Interrupting anything in progress — an in-flight request, a poll interval or retry backoff, a project generator run by clerk init, or clerk webhooks listen once it has drained — exits 130, and the interrupted run is reported to telemetry instead of going unrecorded. Only waiting on a human is a clean exit: cancelling a prompt, abandoning browser sign-in, or quitting $EDITOR all exit 0.

The 130 is emitted by dying from the signal rather than calling process.exit(130). Both make the shell print 130, but only a real signal death sets WIFSIGNALED, which is what a wrapping script inspects; with exit(130) a script keeps running after the user pressed Ctrl-C.

A timer is deliberately not a human wait. clerk deploy status --wait spends roughly 93 seconds of a 95-second run asleep between polls, so treating a sleep as idle meant Ctrl-C almost always exited 0 — which is exactly what that command's exit code means to a script, "the deploy is complete". clerk deploy and its resumable pause report 130 for the same reason: a production instance exists but DNS or OAuth does not, so clerk deploy && ./cutover.sh must stop either way. Because runProgram hands rendering to the signal handler once an interrupt is latched, both commands now print their resume hint and partial status from their own catch blocks rather than through a thrown error's message.

The bookkeeping tail is not a wait either. Interrupting the update check or the closing animation exits 130, which costs about two seconds per successful command where Ctrl-C halts a wrapping script even though the command itself finished. That is the intended trade: a Ctrl-C is a Ctrl-C, and the exit code says so.

Test plan

  • bun run format:check, bun run lint, bun run typecheck
  • bun run test — 2641 pass, 0 fail
  • Unit coverage for the human-wait counter, the latch, sleep's classification, and every exitInterrupted guard
  • Subprocess test asserting the shell-visible contract: WIFSIGNALED / WTERMSIG=2 for work, WEXITSTATUS=0 for a human wait
  • Verified a poll-loop-shaped interrupt dies from SIGINT and stops a && chain, and that a human wait still exits 0 and continues it
  • E2E (bun run test:e2e) — left to CI

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The CLI now centralizes SIGINT state, abort signals, wait classification, telemetry flushing, and exit handling. Active operations terminate with SIGINT semantics and exit code 130, while browser-login, prompt, and editor waits exit cleanly. Requests and timers propagate interruption. Deploy and webhook commands preserve cleanup and reporting behavior. Prompt-exit classification now uses UserAbortError only. Tests cover signal state, subprocess exits, requests, telemetry, deployment, and webhook shutdown.

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This PR changes Ctrl-C handling across CLI operations, but an unresolved signal-handler restoration issue may cause later interrupts to be handled incorrectly, while a documentation example is not valid JSON. The runtime concern should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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Preserve once semantics for restored SIGINT listeners.

Use process.rawListeners("SIGINT") before removing outer listeners. Restore these raw listeners with process.on() so once wrappers retain one-shot behavior.

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In `@packages/extras/src/clerk-bird/flap.ts` around lines 1210 - 1223, Update the
SIGINT listener capture in the teardown setup to use
process.rawListeners("SIGINT") instead of process.listeners("SIGINT"), then
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In `@packages/cli-core/src/commands/users/README.md`:
- Line 79: Update the JSON example’s data field in the README to use valid JSON,
replacing the inline comment placeholder with either a concrete user object or
an empty array; keep the surrounding example unchanged.

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- Around line 1210-1223: Update the SIGINT listener capture in the teardown
setup to use process.rawListeners("SIGINT") instead of
process.listeners("SIGINT"), then restore those captured raw listeners with
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Comment thread packages/cli-core/src/commands/users/README.md
- Treat `UserAbortError` as a successful prompt cancellation
- Make interrupted deploys exit with status 0
- Restore SIGINT listeners when the Clerk Bird game exits
- Exit interrupted operations via SIGINT with status 130
- Treat auth and timer waits as clean exits
- Abort in-flight requests and flush interrupt telemetry
The wait/work split classified a timer as idle, but every sleep in the
CLI is a step inside an operation. `clerk deploy status --wait` spends
~93s of a ~95s run asleep between polls, so Ctrl-C almost always landed
in that window and exited 0 — which is exactly what that command's exit
code means to a script: "the deploy is complete". In a non-TTY run, where
clack is not there to absorb the interrupt, `clerk deploy status --wait
&& ./promote.sh` promoted a deploy the user had just interrupted, and it
printed nothing on the way out.

Narrow the clean exit to waiting on a human — browser sign-in and the
$EDITOR round-trip — and rename the seam to `whileAwaitingUser` so the
next poll loop does not reach for it. Everything else is work: requests,
timers, poll intervals, the decorative shine, and the bookkeeping tail.

Dropping `markCommandComplete` means Ctrl-C during the tail now exits
130 too. That is deliberate: a Ctrl-C is a Ctrl-C and the exit code says
so. The cost is a ~2s window per successful command (1500ms update check
plus ~450ms of animation) where interrupting halts a wrapping script even
though the command itself finished.

`deploy`'s resumable pause goes back to 130 for the same reason — a
production instance exists but DNS or OAuth does not, so `clerk deploy &&
cutover` must stop either way. That removes the only zero-exit CliError,
so the special cases it needed in `reportError` and
`telemetryResultForError` go with it.

Because `runProgram` returns early once an interrupt is latched, a thrown
error's message never reaches the terminal on this path. `deploy` now
prints its resume hint, and `deploy status` its partial report, as side
effects from their own catch blocks.

Also route `webhooks listen`'s drain through a shared
`reportAndExitInterrupted`. It handles its own Ctrl-C so it can drain
in-flight forwards, and it was exiting without telling telemetry
anything — leaving the command most likely to actually receive a SIGINT
as the one that never reported it.
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* immediately.
*/
export const CLI_SIGINT_HANDLER = async (): Promise<void> => {
if (interrupted !== null) exitInterrupted(interrupted);

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This guard calls exitInterrupted without return, which is the exact pattern the new interrupts.md rule warns about ("Call it as return exitInterrupted(...) at call sites too"). Under a no-op process.exit stub, the same stub listen.test.ts installs, a second Ctrl-C falls through into beginInterrupt(), the raw-mode and cursor writes, and a second reportAndExitInterrupted, so telemetry flushes twice. The existing test only passes because its stub throws instead of no-op'ing.

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if (interrupted !== null) exitInterrupted(interrupted);
if (interrupted !== null) return exitInterrupted(interrupted);

// under test would otherwise fall through and start a second drain.
return exitInterrupted(EXIT_CODE.SIGINT);
}
void (async () => {

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The drain is a fire-and-forget void (async () => ...)() with no .catch. If anything in it rejects (the dynamic telemetry import inside reportAndExitInterrupted, or client?.stop() throwing), the rejection is unobserved and the process never reaches the signal-death exit this PR exists to guarantee. A .catch that falls back to exitInterrupted keeps the contract even on an unexpected error.

    (async () => {
      beginInterrupt();
      shuttingDown = true;
      resolveSetupGate();
      client?.stop();
      const pending = [...inFlight, ...(tokenRotationTask ? [tokenRotationTask] : [])];
      await Promise.race([
        Promise.allSettled(pending),
        new Promise<void>((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 2_000)),
      ]);
      await reportAndExitInterrupted(EXIT_CODE.SIGINT);
    })().catch(() => exitInterrupted(EXIT_CODE.SIGINT));

ignoreInterrupt: boolean | undefined,
): RequestInit["signal"] {
if (ignoreInterrupt) return own;
return own ? AbortSignal.any([own, interruptSignal()]) : interruptSignal();

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AbortSignal.any([own, interruptSignal()]) registers an abort listener on the shared process-lifetime signal for every request that brings its own signal, and the listener is only released when the derived signal is garbage collected. webhooks/forward.ts passes AbortSignal.timeout(30_000) per delivery and deliveries run concurrently, so a burst can pile enough listeners on the shared signal to trip the default max-listeners warning. Raising the ceiling on the shared signal documents that it is intentionally observed by unbounded concurrent requests.

// in signals.ts
import { setMaxListeners } from "node:events";

let controller = new AbortController();
setMaxListeners(0, controller.signal);

export function _resetInterruptState(): void {
  controller = new AbortController();
  setMaxListeners(0, controller.signal);
  waits = 0;
  interrupted = null;
}

// nothing below this frame runs and the command would otherwise print
// nothing at all. Emit what the last completed poll established; the exit
// code stays 130, so no script reads this as a finished deploy.
emitReport(buildDeployStatusReport(state, null));

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The comment says this emits "what the last completed poll established", but state here is the snapshot resolved before runWait started, and waitForDeployStatus never writes its polled status back into it. If DNS turned valid on the last poll before Ctrl-C, the report still shows the pre-wait pending status. Either thread the latest polled status out of the wait loop, or reword the comment to say the report reflects the pre-wait state.

let lastKnownStatus: DeployComponentStatus | undefined;
try {
  outcome = await runWait(state, {
    triggerCheck: !preflightTriggered,
    onProgress: (status) => { lastKnownStatus = status; },
  });
} catch (error) {
  if (interruptedExitCode() === null) throw error;
  const partialState = lastKnownStatus
    ? { ...state, snapshot: { ...state.snapshot, componentStatus: lastKnownStatus } }
    : state;
  emitReport(buildDeployStatusReport(partialState, null));
  throw error;
}

}
} catch (error) {
closeStatus = error instanceof UserAbortError || isPromptExitError(error) ? "paused" : "failed";
closeStatus = error instanceof UserAbortError ? "paused" : "failed";

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This exact ternary now appears verbatim in five files this PR edits (here, apps/create.ts, apps/list.ts, config/push.ts, users/list.ts). Since every call site was already open in the diff, a shared helper next to UserAbortError would keep the classification in one place.

// errors.ts
export function closeStatusForError(error: unknown): "paused" | "failed" {
  return error instanceof UserAbortError ? "paused" : "failed";
}

// each call site
closeStatus = closeStatusForError(error);

// the moment an interrupt is latched — so nothing below would ever print.
// A half-finished deploy is exactly when the resume hint matters, so emit it
// here as a side effect rather than relying on the thrown error's message.
if (interruptedExitCode() !== null && isInsideGutter()) {

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This catch calls isInsideGutter() three times and pausedOutro(pausedOperationNotice()) twice across three sequential ifs, which reads as three independent conditions when there are really two outcomes. Hoisting the gutter check and collapsing the duplicate paused call makes the branching visible.

} catch (error) {
  const insideGutter = isInsideGutter();
  if (interruptedExitCode() !== null) {
    if (insideGutter) pausedOutro(pausedOperationNotice());
    throw error;
  }
  if (error instanceof DeployPausedError) {
    if (insideGutter) outro("Paused");
  } else if (error instanceof UserAbortError) {
    if (insideGutter) pausedOutro(pausedOperationNotice());
    throw new UserAbortError();
  }
  throw error;
}

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