fix: propagate curl failures in install pipeline (#1241)

installClaudeCode() pipes `curl -fsSL | bash -s --`. Bash exits with
the status of the last command, so when curl fails (429 rate limit,
403, or connection error) `bash -s` still exits 0 on empty stdin and
the action logs "Claude Code installed successfully". The 3-attempt
retry loop never triggers because the first attempt looks successful,
and the run later dies with "Executable not found in $PATH: claude".

Prefix the pipeline with `set -o pipefail;` so curl's non-zero exit
propagates through the pipe and the retry loop can actually kick in.
Extracted into buildInstallCommand() with regression tests covering
both the old buggy shape and the fixed one.

src/entrypoints/run.ts

@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ import { runClaude } from "../../base-action/src/run-claude";
 import type { ClaudeRunResult } from "../../base-action/src/run-claude-sdk";
 import { setExecutionFileOutputIfPresent } from "../../base-action/src/execution-file";
 
+// Exported for unit testing. `set -o pipefail` makes curl's non-zero exit
+// propagate through the pipe so the install retry logic actually triggers
+// on 429/403 instead of silently succeeding (see #1136).
+export function buildInstallCommand(version: string): string {
+  return `set -o pipefail; curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash -s -- ${version}`;
+}
+
 /**
  * Install Claude Code CLI, handling retry logic and custom executable paths.
  * Returns the absolute path to the claude executable.
@@ -77,10 +84,7 @@ async function installClaudeCode(): Promise<string> {
       await new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
         const child = spawn(
           "bash",
-          [
+          ["-c", buildInstallCommand(claudeCodeVersion)],
-            "-c",
-            `curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash -s -- ${claudeCodeVersion}`,
-          ],
           { stdio: "inherit" },
         );
         child.on("close", (code) => {

test/install-pipefail.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "bun:test";
+import { spawnSync } from "child_process";
+import { buildInstallCommand } from "../src/entrypoints/run";
+
+describe("buildInstallCommand (regression for #1136)", () => {
+  it("includes the pinned claude version in the bash -s args", () => {
+    const cmd = buildInstallCommand("2.1.114");
+    expect(cmd).toContain("bash -s -- 2.1.114");
+  });
+
+  it("prefixes the pipeline with `set -o pipefail`", () => {
+    const cmd = buildInstallCommand("2.1.114");
+    expect(cmd.startsWith("set -o pipefail;")).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the curl -fsSL flags so the script is fetched, not inlined", () => {
+    const cmd = buildInstallCommand("2.1.114");
+    expect(cmd).toContain(
+      "curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash -s --",
+    );
+  });
+});
+
+describe("pipefail semantics (proves the bug shape and the fix)", () => {
+  // Mirrors the real install invocation: a curl that returns non-zero
+  // feeding into `bash -s --`. Without pipefail, the pipeline exits 0
+  // because bash -s receives an empty stdin and does nothing. With
+  // pipefail, curl's exit code wins and the retry loop in run.ts triggers.
+  //
+  // Uses port 1 (reserved/unused) so curl fails deterministically with no
+  // network access. No shell-escaping traps here: the version argument is
+  // a numeric literal.
+  const unreachable = "http://127.0.0.1:1/nope";
+  const version = "2.1.114";
+
+  it("BEFORE FIX: pipeline without pipefail swallows curl failure (exit 0)", () => {
+    const buggy = `curl -fsSL ${unreachable} | bash -s -- ${version}`;
+    const result = spawnSync("bash", ["-c", buggy], { stdio: "pipe" });
+    expect(result.status).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("AFTER FIX: buildInstallCommand (against unreachable host) exits non-zero", () => {
+    const fixed = buildInstallCommand(version).replace(
+      "https://claude.ai/install.sh",
+      unreachable,
+    );
+    const result = spawnSync("bash", ["-c", fixed], { stdio: "pipe" });
+    expect(result.status).not.toBe(0);
+  });
+});