gh 2.45 dropped gh auth status --active, which broke the runner’s account detection and its restore-previous-user logic. I extracted a pure parseActiveGhAccount() helper into engine/lib.mjs that scans the full gh auth status text, tracking each ‘Logged in to gh auth status (capturing stderr as a fallback for versions that print there) and delegates to the helper. Six new unit tests cover single/multi-account, no-active, logged-out, and non-string inputs; npm test (24) and npm run check both pass.
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2026-07-18 02:21 [experiment] status: done
Fix currentGhUser() in engine/run-cycle.mjs for gh 2.45: do not use the unsupported `gh auth status --active` flag; instead parse `gh auth status` output for the account marked active. Extract the parsing into a pure helper in engine/lib.mjs and unit-test it against sample gh output.Fixed GitHub account detection on gh 2.45Fixed the machine losing track of which account it uses
Fixed currentGhUser() for gh 2.45 by parsing `gh auth status` instead of using the removed `--active` flag.Fixed account detection against gh 2.45, which had dropped the flag the old code relied on.A tool the machine depends on changed, and it stopped being able to tell which account it was signed in as. Fixed.
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